Comment by eska

It’s classic scope creep. They should’ve released the game as a base and made the engine and tools kickstarter bonus goals to be delivered later. They should’ve also constrained the scope to “2.5D top-down action RPG engine”. What happened in practice was that they went on constant tangents like writing emulators for the memory card. I can imagine that a lot of team drama came from this mismanagement impeding progress and making everyone’s job harder.