{"id":40432,"date":"2018-08-15T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/324556"},"modified":"2018-08-15T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T21:00:00","slug":"treasure-hunters-fanclub-is-funding-five-new-indie-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/treasure-hunters-fanclub-is-funding-five-new-indie-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Hunters Fanclub is funding five new indie games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasure Hunters Fanclub, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/308113\/Treasure_Hunters_FanClub_wants_to_make_indiefriendly_funding_a_reality.php\">an indie investment group<\/a> founded by Australian indie label Fellow Traveller (previously known as Surprise Attack Games), has\u00a0announced\u00a0it&#8217;s investing\u00a0in five new independent games, bringing its overall total committed funding to $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a press release, Treasure Hunters Fanclub\u00a0is adding\u00a0two new members to its roster, including the developer of <em>Fez<\/em>, Phil Fish and Twitter founding team member Britt Selvitelle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new games\u00a0to be funded include noir adventure <em>Genesis Noir<\/em>, planet exploration game <em>In Other Waters<\/em>, survival game <em>Neo Cab<\/em>, asymmetrical VR multiplayer game <em>Panoptic<\/em>, and solitary farm sim <em>The Stillness of the Wind.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The investment group works\u00a0to find interesting projects in need of funding,\u00a0and after deciding which projects to back, provide\u00a0mentorship from experienced\u00a0members of the industry\u00a0and marketing support via a publishing deal with Fellow Traveller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud to be helping these amazing and diverse teams to bring their visions to life,\u201d said Chris Wright, managing director at The Treasure Hunters FanClub. \u201cDevelopers have responded very positively to our model as an alternative to traditional publishing terms and we hope to grow the group of members to be able to meet the demand from the studios we are talking with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Treasure Hunters FanClub is also\u00a0accepting pitches from developers with unique and original projects, and more information on how to pitch and the kinds of games that are\u00a0suitable can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/treasurehuntersfanclub.com\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasure Hunters Fanclub, an indie investment group founded by Australian indie label Fellow Traveller (previously known as Surprise Attack Games), has\u00a0announced\u00a0it&#8217;s investing\u00a0in five new independent games, bringing its overall total committed funding to $500,000. As detailed in a press release, Treasure Hunters Fanclub\u00a0is adding\u00a0two new members to its roster, including the developer of Fez, Phil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}