Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen to Continue Development with Volunteer Team

Earlier this year, EverQuest designer Brad McQuaid started a KickStarter project to fund his MMORPG project Pantheon: Rise of the fallen, the fund raiser fell short of his $800,000 dollar goal and despite independent crowdfunding raising funds in February, money for the project ran out in April.

In an announcement on the game's blog McQuaid announced that development on Pantheon would continue, but with a volunteer team working on the project. McQuaid expressed his hopes that by producing content with this development team the project would become more presentable to potential investors.

We are looking for volunteers who can help us during this phase and, if everything works out as planned, we hope that some of the volunteers will be part of this new team going forward.  So development continues, that development will be shown to the community, and one of our goals (along with continuing to make the game of course) is more to show potential investors in the next 1-2 months.

Whilst a physical development space is an eventual aim, McQuaid has stated that during this current phase of development he intends to manage a remote team and when the time comes to create a team development staff will be drawn from volunteers.

When we do bring in funding and restart that campaign to reach out to Angel Investors, Publishers, and the like, and when we can have an office and paid employees, we will then look at the volunteer force and, on a case by case basis, determine if that person wants to and should become a contractor or, if they can re-locate, possibly a full employee.  But, in the meantime, I think this is a very exciting start.  So many people have contacted me wanting to help with this project, and I remain very humbled by it.  And some of those people have the talent we are looking for as we re-build the development team.

Despite financial issues Pantheon currently has an active community and it is mainly from there that volunteers are being drawn. For more information regarding the game's development, visit the official site.