System Shock Remastered Edition

System Shock reboot put on hiatus as developers 'reassess our path'

The project earned $1.35 million on Kickstarter, but the funds have already been depleted.

"Maybe we were too successful. Maybe we lost our focus. The vision began to change," Kick wrote. "We moved from a Remaster to a completely new game. We shifted engines from Unity to Unreal, a choice that we don’t regret and one that has worked out for us. With the switch we began envisioning doing more, but straying from the core concepts of the original title."

"As our concept grew and as our team changed, so did the scope of what we were doing and with that the budget for the game. As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners. The more that we worked on the game, the more that we wanted to do, and the further we got from the original concepts that made System Shock so great."

Nightdive's director of business development confirmed with Polygon that "mission creep" had depleted the Kickstarter funds, and that efforts to pitch the game to publishers in order to secure more funding fell through because the studio's vision didn't align with the market.

Link: www.pcgamer.com