inXile Head Calls Kickstarter the 'Ultimate Honor System'

"We were actually having fun making games again."

By Alex Osborn

Back in 2013, inXile Entertainment set the record for the highest-funded video game on Kickstarter with Torment: Tides of Numenera, and studio founder Brian Fargo has come forward to share his thoughts on the crowd-funding platform, describing it as the "ultimate honor system."

On the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered, Fargo spoke incredibly highly of Kickstarter and the freedom it has offered his studio, which received over $4 million in funding from backers for Torment: Tides of Numenera.

"As a creative person, there are two important factors to me. That you're doing what you want to do... but as important is that you're doing it the way you want to do it," Fargo said. He went on to note that when you have a publisher to answer to, you could be "made to do it in a way that isn't with your style."

So for Fargo, the best aspect of working through Kickstarter is having the liberty to make games the way he and his team want. "We were actually having fun making games again... We could be nimble and make adjustments of something that felt right or didn't feel right without fear of not being paid," he explained.

"It's the ultimate honor system. Our backers are like, 'Here you go. Go make the game, please deliver, don't let us down,'" Fargo added, noting that he and his team like this relationship and that so far it has worked out really well for them. Before Torment: Tides of Numenera, inXile had incredible success on Kickstarter with Wasteland 2.

Torment: Tides of Numenera released earlier this year for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Read IGN's Torment: Tides of Numenera review to find out why it "manages to live up to the legacy of Planescape: Torment by offering a fascinatingly weird and well-written tale."

While you're at it, be sure to check out the third and final part of our IGN Unfiltered interview for Fargo's thoughts on the future of the RPG genre and what lies ahead for inXile Entertainment.

Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his YouTube channel.

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