A Confirmed Flatline

[Xerodyne]

In case it was missed:

November 7, 2017
https://www.facebook.com/sketch.tales

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"Sketch Tales: freezing and restart

Hello everyone!

My name is Alexey Sityanov, I'm the project leader of Sketch Tales, and I’ve got two news for you.

1. We decided to freeze the Sketch Tales, and it seems there is no turning back.
2. We decided to restart the Sketch Tales, develop F2P version as an online world with the same history and possibilities.

Many times I postponed this letter and it didn’t come easily. Sketch Tales is an essential project for me, and I do not want to call it quits. However, in the current form, the Sketch Tales is impossible without serious funding. Also, the project has many difficulties with the technologies we have chosen. After a couple of years of searching and trying to negotiate with publishers we have to admit that there is no funding for the current version of the game.
Sketch Tales is an experimental and very innovative project. In it, we tried to do a lot of things, which no one else has done before us. A live RPG world that you can not only draw but also play in with friends. When we started, we could not imagine with what we will face. When we reached a certain point, our money just ran out. And as I wrote earlier, we did not find the new one. Also, we found ourself mired in a quagmire of technologies and we also missed all deadlines. What happened, happened. That’s why the project has to be frozen till better days.
But there is some good news - after all experiments and attempts to make everything work we’ve got an understanding of how to create a better version of Sketch Tales. One of the good variant is to make it more accessible by releasing the game in the form of an online F2P world. With the same history and possibilities.

Our future plan:
1. Frozen the first version of Sketch Tales, as it’s further development in the existing form is impossible
2. Find the funding and make the team for the F2P version of the game
3. Develop and release new Sketch Tales
4. For everyone who bought the game, we want to give cool individual awards and bonuses in the new version of a game. Also to provide access to the closed Beta of the new F2P Sketch Tales
5. Keep developing Sketch Tales

And now, it’s very important to us hear your opinion about this changes. Please write in comments your opinion about restarting Sketch Tales? What are your expectations from the new version of Sketch Tales?

I wanted to thank all who was with us all this time! To people who bought and played our game, left reviews and wrote comments. Even criticism! All this inspires us not to leave behind the project and to move on. Maybe in a new way. We want to make Sketch Tales better and more interesting than ever before.

Thanks to all of you!

Alexey Sityanov
8D studio, project lead"

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[Sayuri]

I'm sad to see this go. But remaking it as a F2P game? Ew, no. I know where this is going.... RNG loot boxes, premium currency bullsh*t, microtransactions, pay 2 win, cash shop upates rather than content updates. I won't fall into the "its free to play!"-trap any more. If F2P is what the game is headed to, then i have no interest in it any more.

[nahwt]

Originally posted by Sayuri:

I'm sad to see this go. But remaking it as a F2P game? Ew, no. I know where this is going.... RNG loot boxes, premium currency bullsh*t, microtransactions, pay 2 win, cash shop upates rather than content updates. I won't fall into the "its free to play!"-trap any more. If F2P is what the game is headed to, then i have no interest in it any more.

But there are F2P games that are alright and balanced, see Dirty Bomb or Team fortress 2, I don't play DOTA2 but I think that's also balanced(?). It's all about how that business model is executed.

[GeoPin]

You guy have something special and it is shame you cannot pick up funding, I will keep my fingers crossed.

[martialbertin]

They totally abandoned