Bellum
Master Knight

Way back in the Stone Age I found stumbled onto a game, then almost unknown, called Mount&Blade. The game was very incomplete at the time. 714, I believe. The graphics were terrible, the water was green, I was lucky if it didn't crash, but it was one of the best damned games I'd ever played. So I bought it, at a discount, and I never regretted it.
At the time, I thought it was a novel idea to charge for a game before it was completed in order to fund it. Now, though, with games like Minecraft and one or two others, it seems to be slowly becoming an accepted method for an indie developer to acquire some venture capital, and I love it! Minecraft is also turning out to be one of my all time favorite games. It's great that these games that would have died long before completion before now have a chance to thrive.
Was Mount&Blade the first game to use this model? If it wasn't, does anybody know what was? Is there a snazzy PR term for it? It needs a snazzy PR term...
At the time, I thought it was a novel idea to charge for a game before it was completed in order to fund it. Now, though, with games like Minecraft and one or two others, it seems to be slowly becoming an accepted method for an indie developer to acquire some venture capital, and I love it! Minecraft is also turning out to be one of my all time favorite games. It's great that these games that would have died long before completion before now have a chance to thrive.
Was Mount&Blade the first game to use this model? If it wasn't, does anybody know what was? Is there a snazzy PR term for it? It needs a snazzy PR term...