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New Mutant Football League Game Launches Kickstarter

11:40 AM - September 16, 2013 by RaychelSnr

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.

Game: Mutant Football LeagueReader Score: Vote Now
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Member Comments

# 21 jyoung @ 09/19/13 12:52 PM

So they've changed the platforms and pricing pretty significantly:

$13 -- PC version (STEAM)
$15 -- Mobile Version
$25 -- Xbox 360 or PS3 digital version

# 22 mestevo @ 09/19/13 01:10 PM

Backed it, but have no expectation that it will get funded. Those initial tiers should probably be like $30 and they'd do a bit better $-wise.

Should reduce the cost and focus on a certain product, this feels like it's being built around mobile and they've tacked on the others. They should do mobile this round and have a separate campaign for the other platforms after this one has knocked it out of the park.

Higher initial kickstarter is a big gamble and could result in them getting nothing.

# 23 Williekemp15 @ 09/23/13 08:59 PM

they have announced Xbox Live and PSN versions of the game now if it meets its goal of course

# 24 mestevo @ 09/26/13 01:04 AM

Had a couple pages in Game Informer, and they've been getting some press from other online places, but they're not even 10% to their goal 1/3 of their way through.

They addressed this in their latest update:

Quote:


	To the people out there. Look, I know I've done a million things wrong with this campaign and I also realize at this point it will take a miracle to hit our funding goal but I’m going to continue to fight for this project. For the detractors out there who are skeptical about me and this project, good for you. There have been a lot of projects on Kickstarter that promise things that can’t possibly be delivered. You have every reason to be skeptical of another “creator trying to build his dream.” There is no reason for you to believe anything I say because your trust has not been earned yet. Over time, whether this project makes it or not, I hope to prove myself to all of you. We’re moving forward humbly, cautiously and sincerely with a quiet but sure confidence that we can deliver what we say we can.

The update also covered news of using the Football Heroes engine for the game.

# 25 Tommyspud @ 09/27/13 02:59 AM

Honestly, there were some things worded wrong in the original kickstarter, I think a redo should be in order if it doesn't hit the goal. There were a lot of questions, which you know, resulted in not enough funding that it should've got that first and a half week.

I hope it can succeed despite that. I hope it can.

I also hope that if it doesn't, he'll try again.

# 26 GlennN @ 09/30/13 12:24 PM

I just had to make sure the game will track player and team stats (it will) - I'm in!

# 27 BCDX97 @ 10/14/13 10:19 PM

Well, looks like this one wasn't even close to being funded.

I would love a new Mutant League game, but all this Kickstarter stuff everywhere is just not for me. And seeing them focusing on the mobile market instead of consoles turned a lot of people off. So I am not surprised at all at their failure, but maybe someday they can figure out how to put out a cool game for us to enjoy.

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