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Wildman developer Chris Taylor lets the crowd vote: kill his Kickstarter now or keep it going

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chris Taylor has everything riding on his crowdfunding effort to raise money for his next game. On Jan. 14, Taylor kicked off a Kickstarter to raise $1.1 million for the real-time strategy/role-playing game Wildman. But just four days into the fundraising, he has had to lay off most of his team at studio Gas Powered Games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.