New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

[RaychelSnr]

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The creator of Mutant League Football, originally released in 1993 and a cult hit amongst sports gamers has launched a Kickstarter to relaunch the game on both mobile platforms and consoles.

The game's core team includes Michael Mendheim, the original creator of the franchise. Dave Devries and Robomodo will be leading the art direction and design of the game. Dave Elliott, famous amongst comic book circles will be providing character and worlds work while Jay Lender, the original writer of SpongeBob Squarepants, will be providing writing for the game.

The game itself will feature 30 teams featuring a variety of customizable Monster and Mutant characters. The gameplay will be true to the Mutant League tradition, with maximum carnage, crazy stadiums with weapon wielding fans, dirty trick plays, and tons of 'tongue-through-cheek' humor. Simply put, it all sounds like incredibly chaotic fun if the vision is saw through.

The new Mutant Football League game is trying to reach $750,000 a very lofty goal -- but it has a lot of promise for sure. We are working on getting an interview with Michael about the game and it's vision. The possibility of new Mutant League Football is incredibly exciting news for sure!

Be sure to check out the game's Kickstarter page to pledge if you'd like to support the game.

[TDenverFan]

Definitely donating when I get home

[Profit89]

I remember this game.

Someone should come up with a Blitz Clone on PC/Steam that allows modding. That I would invest in heavily. Even if it had fake teams/names, because modders could do the rest.

[onac22]

USA USA USA!!!!

[ubernoob]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

I was onboard until I saw their ridiculous amount they are asking for.

Oh and they want to add on stretch goals for a 360/PS3/PC version. No mention of XBone/PS4.

Count me out for a while, which is sad... This (and MLHockey) are literally my favorite non-text-sim sports games ever.

[TDenverFan]

I was onboard until I saw their ridiculous amount they are asking for.

Oh and they want to add on stretch goals for a 360/PS3/PC version. No mention of XBone/PS4.

Count me out for a while, which is sad... This (and MLHockey) are literally my favorite non-text-sim sports games ever.

The stretch goals were for PS4 and XB1

[bwright25]

WOWOW!!! This is awesome news. Scary Ice! Bones Jackson!

[ubernoob]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

The stretch goals were for PS4 and XB1

Oops I stand corrected.

Still ridiculous that they want extra money to cone out on PC/consoles.

Until I see some gameplay and concrete plans for a PC version at the very least I'll keep my money and play the original Genesis version like I have been since it came out.

[mestevo]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

Some interesting stuff, waiting to see what more they reveal over the life of the Kickstarter though before backing. Otherwise interested in what makes it into a release.

[jyoung]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

I was onboard until I saw their ridiculous amount they are asking for.

Video games are expensive to make. $750K is actually a pretty modest amount for a brand new game on a modern system.

For comparison, Mighty No. 9, a new 2D sidescroller for the PC, needed $900K to become a reality.

Adding just one new character to the existing fighting game Skullgirls cost $150,000.

Mutant Football League is pretty modest in its financial goals for what the game is promising.

Still ridiculous that they want extra money to cone out on PC/consoles.

The Xbox 360 has completely different architecture than a PC. Porting any game from a modern console to a modern PC takes a ton of extra time and work.

Again referencing Mighty No. 9, the original goal was PC only, with stretch goals of $1.35 million for Mac/Linux versions and $2.2 million for 360/PS3/Wii U versions.

This is all common practice in the video game industry. You can't just magically put a game's code through a filter and have it work instantly on multiple platforms. It takes loads of additional work.

[Bull_Dozer]

Oh man! Do want!

[jhogan3132]

I would play this game for sure. It would be nice to show my boys this game too as I think they would get a kick out of it.

[FreAk47]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

I can only imagine how much more awesome this game will be now that I am old enough to drink while playing it. Will definitely donate when I get a chance.

[ubernoob]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

Video games are expensive to make. $750K is actually a pretty modest amount for a brand new game on a modern system.

For comparison, Mighty No. 9, a new 2D sidescroller for the PC, needed $900K to become a reality.

Adding just one new character to the existing fighting game Skullgirls cost $150,000.

Mutant Football League is pretty modest in its financial goals for what the game is promising.



The Xbox 360 has completely different architecture than a PC. Porting any game from a modern console to a modern PC takes a ton of extra time and work.

Again referencing Mighty No. 9, the original goal was PC only, with stretch goals of $1.35 million for Mac/Linux versions and $2.2 million for 360/PS3/Wii U versions.

This is all common practice in the video game industry. You can't just magically put a game's code through a filter and have it work instantly on multiple platforms. It takes loads of additional work.

I know how the process and costs involved, but they don't need to pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

They're making this game for mobile. A mobile game doesn't take 750k to make. That's asinine.

Look at the other games on kick starter. Heck, General Chaos 2 has a goal of 150k or so. If they aren't planning on PS3 and just planning on next-gen, the architecture point you raised is moot. Most kick starter games are under 250k. MLF doesn't need 750 to be made.

Anyways, this won't hit its goal. Sadly, because I love the series.

[jyoung]

Re: New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

They're making this game for mobile. A mobile game doesn't take 750k to make. That's asinine.

The $750K covers both the iOS/Android version and the Xbox 360 digital version.

They are two separate games, as the mobile version will include less content than the console version, per the kickstarter page.