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After Kickstarter failure, Axis Game Factory returns with pro game creation tools (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Earlier this year, San Diego, Calif.-based game studio Heavy Water tried crowdfunding to raise money for a set of consumer-oriented game world-building tools called the Axis Game Factory. But the Kickstarter campaign failed, raising only $25,209 of a goal of $400,000.

Heavy Water foundersBut undeterred, the persistent founders Matt and Tammy McDonald (pictured) are back with a new company, Axis Game Factory, and they managed to stretch their resources. They created their professional game creation tool, dubbed AGF PRO, on their own. While the original Kickstarter was aimed at ordinary gamers, this one is aimed at indie game developers and bigger game studios who could use better, more automated game creation tools.

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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.