Ghost of a Tale: A film animator turns to Indiegogo to fund his first video game

Lionel Gallat was stuck.

The film animator-turned-indie game developer was using a graphics engine called CryEngine to create his first project, a third-person action-adventure game called Ghost of a Tale. But he was getting nowhere. He didn’t know how to program in C++. He often needed technical support. Although he’d long been a vocal supporter of CryEngine, he felt it was holding him back.