The Day Before developer cancels Kickstarter with only $2,200 in funding and immediately announces a third title.

The Day Before developers, in what I can only call a display a biblical hubris have announced a game, instead of going quiet into that goodnight.

If you don't know, Fntastic is the studio that shipped a game in four days, which led to the temporary closure of its studio (as this article suggests). The studio is the one that created a game that no one on the team understood during development. They only discovered it was an MMO through their own trailers. These are the absolute wunderkinds that blamed all of this on a "hate campaign" created by "bloggers". They're the ones.

Fntastic, after promising its fans that they had turned a new page in September, launched a Kickstarter to fund a game called Escape Factory. It was a "physics based multiplayer co-op" escape game that we will never see. The Kickstarter was a flop. It raised a staggering 3,000 SGD, or roughly $2,270 out of its 20,000 SGD target. Fntastic’s public, chaotic, and meandering debacle seems to have worked directly against its "transparency" policy. The public is still unconvinced.

The studio announced the cancellation of the game on X, and shockingly, proceeded to announce a new game in the same post. This new project, which Fntastic claims is "exactly what [you] have been waiting for", is an action-horror game called ITEMS --fwee. This was the saddest party sound in the world. I'd also like to point out that before The Day Before, Fntastic actually had a prop hunt called Propnight which it closed down. It's never too late for a fresh start. Here's the complete statement:

Okay, look. Fntastic, to be fair, hasn't launched a new Kickstarter yet. It's promised its community that they'll "get the chance" to "play and test the game ahead of time". It's possible that the studio has realized that Kickstarters will never work. This shows a certain level of self-awareness. Fntastic is also making mobile games in the meantime to help it shore up its coffers.

The court of public opinion, having successfully waded into the town stocks to place its head and wrists there, has arrived to throw tomatoes at our studio with such fury that it almost makes me feel sorry for it. The responses are mostly pointing and laughter. "Put those fries in the bag, bro," writes a frustrated gamer. Brutal.

I want to believe anyone can change. Who knows? Asmongold recently cleaned his kitchen, anything is possible. But Fntastic needs to walk the walk before it returns to Kickstarter. I'm at least impressed by your tenacity. This is like the Tower of Babel builders who came back to build a second one, only to be struck down after three bricks, and then decide to start laying plans for a new one. Let's wait and see what happens.