Kickstarter-Funded Cthulhu Mythos Board Game Cancelled, And The $122,874 Raised Is Gone!

I have tried a few times to raise money for movies I wanted to film and my company Cthutube with Kickstarter. Did not ask for a lot. My History Of The Necronomicon movie was only going to cost $5,000.00. Never Raised a damn cent. Never let these failures hold me back. Dusted myself off and pushed on. This guy needed $35,000.00. Got $120,000.00. And he is just walking away with it. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

From the Kickstarter Page-

Once people came to Atlantic City to seek their fortune, to construct fine hotels and establish powerful monopolies. But you’re not here to build, you’ve come to destroy!

You’re one of the Great Old Ones – beings of ancient and eldritch power. Cosmic forces have held you at bay for untold aeons, but at last the stars are right and your maniacal cult has called you to this benighted place. Once you regain your full powers, you will unleash your Doom upon the world!

There’s only one problem: you’re not alone. The other Great Old Ones are here as well, and your rivals are determined to steal your cultists and snatch victory from your flabby claws! It’s a race to the ultimate finish as you crush houses, smash holes in reality, and fight to call down The Doom That Came To Atlantic City!

Well, the money was raised. The game was pushed back over and over again. Then, it was announced the game was cancelled.

From the Kickstarter update page for the game-

The short version: The project is over, the game is canceled.

After much deliberation I've had to make this decision. I've informed Keith and Lee and neither at all happy with this situation. Every possible mistake was made, some due to my inexperience in board game publishing, others due to ego conflicts, legal issues and technical complications. No matter the cause though these could all have been avoided by someone more experienced and I apparently was not that person.

From the beginning the intention was to launch a new board game company with the Kickstarted funds, with The Doom that Came to Atlantic City as only our first of hopefully many projects. Everyone involved agreed on this. Since then rifts have formed and every error compounded the growing frustration, causing only more issues. After paying to form the company, for the miniature statues, moving back to Portland, getting software licenses and hiring artists to do things like rule book design and art conforming the money was approaching a point of no return. We had to print at that point or never. Unfortunately that wasn't in the cards for a variety of reasons.

Unfortunately I can't give any type of schedule for the repayment as I left my job to do this project and must find work again. I'll create a separate bank account to place anything beyond my basic costs of living.

Well, needless to say, backers are pissed off. Mostly because it looks like a lot of the money was not spent on the game.

Here are a few more links where you can read more about this asshat.

I'm gonna go find a bottle to crawl into-

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/forkingpath/the-doom-that-came-to-atlantic-city/posts

http://www.geekosystem.com/keith-baker-kickstarter/

http://valleywag.gawker.com/kickstarter-project-canceled-after-dude-spends-all-the-912176282

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