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Last week I detailed the sad, sorry state of the crowdfunded board game The Doom that Came to Atlantic City, which was cancelled 13 months into production after it raised a whopping $123K - about 3.5 times its initial goal. As it turns out, The Doom that Came to Atlantic City has been saved (sorry, Atlantic City) by board game and trading card publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment.Better yet, Kickstarter backers will still receive the game. "We were really shocked to hear the news about this last week," said Cryptozoic's chief operating officer Scott Gaeta in the announcement. "The game looked fantastic and I thought that we might be able to help, so I contacted Keith [Baker, game designer] right away. Keith and Lee [Moyer, artist] told me that taking care of the Kickstarter backers was the most important thing to them and I couldn't agree more. That's why we are going to be fulfilling all of the Kickstarter game orders ourselves."
Baker said of the Kickstarter kerfuffle - in which one-man publisher The Forking Path blew the budget without the rest of the team getting paid - "the worst part of this is that people who put their faith in our game have been hurt by it." He then added, "After the Kickstarter was cancelled, many people came forward with ideas to keep the game alive. But we didn't want to pursue an option that would save Doom unless it would also get the game into the hands of the people who first supported it."
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