Hero's Song Kickstarter Canceled

The game is still coming though.

John Smedley has canceled the Kickstarter campaign for Hero's Song, it will now be fully funded from private investors.

"After looking at our funding levels and the reality that we aren't going to reach our funding goals, we've decided that the best thing to do is to end the Kickstarter," Smedley said in an update to backers.

The Hero's Song crowdfunding effort raised $136,849 from 3,037 backers before it was canceled.

"We sincerely appreciate all of the support we got from the backers and the Kickstarter community. This was our first Kickstarter and we made mistakes along the way," Smedley said. "I want to acknowledge that right up front. We put a lot of time and effort into the Kickstarter, but it's obvious missing things like physical goods hampered our efforts. It's also fair to say because we're early that we didn't have enough gameplay to show the game off enough to get people over the hump."

Even though the Kickstarter campaign was canceled, Pixelmage will launch the game, with the help of private investors.

"Our Investors are backing us all the way and we're going to get Hero's Song done exactly when we said we would," Smedley said. "I'm also happy to say that we've been able to do this without having to take money from publishers, something that was of key importance to us so that we could remain in creative control."

To keep players in the loop, Pixelmage said it will hold regular development livestreams on Twitch as part of the developer's effort to be "completely transparent with our development process."