As the Kickstarter reached more and more of its stretch goals, more and more features which were promised had to be added, which equated to more time, and more money needed to pay staff. Looking at the game's Steam and Kickstarter pages, it's hard to believe that a small indie developer's first title was going to be a huge open-world MMORPG with "1.5m possible combinations" of animals to tame, PvP, breeding mechanics, dungeons and raids, a dynamic weather system and new islands constantly appearing, and a physical book series. Grant admitted that the amount of funding needed was "massively underestimated". The money gained through the Kickstarter covered about two months' worth of wages for the team working on Untamed Isles. One of the problems which has led to the current state of Untamed Isles is its ever-widening scope and costs, Grant said, who claimed that weekly wages for the team were around $100k NZD (£50k) a week. Despite raising almost $1m from backers, this barely scratches the surface of the costs and investments that Untamed Isles has been sinking whilst in development. The project raised $841k NZD (around £420k) through Kickstarter, more than four times the original goal of $200k NZD.
More than 70 people were brought on, all of whom will be let go in under two weeks. At the time, Grant called the game and his studio "his dream", the latter of which grew hugely to work on Untamed Isles. Watch on YouTube Untamed Isles teaser trailer, released on 18th July.ĭevelopment on Untamed Isles started over two years ago at New Zealand-based indie Company Phat Loot Studios.
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