Here is the current SPEED UP "story" without the visuals or details put in. Mainly just the bulk goals, and some ballpark figures to achieve them. The "kick" aspect is: We have the base tech, how complex of a game do you want with it? kickstarter indiegamedev ue5 (Grammar will be worked on, I am mainly asking about goals and $ amount below) TWITTER HIDDEN DETAILS: Additional help estimate is $70k a head, contract work, looking for some of YOU FREELANCERS and solodevs, shoot me a DM so I know you are interested. Additional staff is the only way to get more hours, and the games out faster. Kickstarter Body: Speed Up Destruction with Unreal Engine 5 and GameDevMicah Berninghausen! I started 6 years ago as a Full Time IndieGameDev with the most ambitious self-funded goals I could think of, Multiplayer Survival Sandbox Metaverse (ROADLESS.) I then scoped down those goals to something more achievable over the years of execution (SPEED UP.) We now have the first Demo of SPEEDUP, an Unreal Engine 5 Single Player Total Destruction Experience. It is time to expose the entire plan for support and acceleration. This Kickstarter is your introduction to my work, myself, and my goals as a GameDeveloper over the next two years. Support will help to polish SPEED UP and Market its release. Stretch goals provide options into other experiences via Super Heros and Giant Monster based destruction. Each of the 3 possible games funded, will re-use the same core destruction framework, levels, and assets with different characters (Car/Hero/Monster) controlled in the action. BASIC Marketing (10%) via outreach with a media packet, and paid ads, scales based on achievement. Marketing social outreach continues for at least a year post release for each game. SPEED UP - BASE GAME : $0 Funded (not funded) This is the cheapest implementation of destruction, the current Demo to be released post Kickstarter.  You drive a Bus, the fuel cell is over charged, and you need to bleed off fuel by maintaining a high speed or explode. This takes place in a city, on a small island. Repeat for the longest survival time, and least collateral damage.  Free Play "Arcade" mode and a Time Challenge mode with select-able "explosion" trigger speeds are the two game types. 1-2 month development time, solodev. SPEED UP - Polish : The 100% $69,000 Funded Kickstarter will additional polish to the existing game features, additional time to smooth out animations of crowd characters, update and polish UI and store connectivity, and paid marketing. This also includes time to meet rewards requirements of pledges. Total 3 months of additional development time, solodev. SPEED UP - Stretch Goal 1 : 200% $138,000 Additional funding to add various specific add-on items to the core gameplay. Such as unlocking other vehicles to drive/achieve times with, special vehicle customization (skins/wraps/colors.) Total 6 months of additional development time, solodev + Contractor/Marketing Support. SPEED UP - Stretch Goal 2 : 300% $207,000 Human Player Character, to allow for getting in/out of vehicles in the world. This would be the start of a hero's addition to the core gameplay, and would add some type of story to the start of the game... such as "gain access to a runway bus" by driving your car to intercept it, then jumping onto it, along with character customization.  Total 9 months of additional development time, plus 1 support staff, + Marketing Contracting. SPEED UP - Stretch Goal 3 : $400,000 Increased Story Content for Single Player and Contact Disney about Licensing for "SPEED" IP with a polished DEMO. This Stretch goal would include Animations, Character Voice Acting and additional music work, to add character and life to the core SPEED UP game. However, it would not be a clone of the movie "SPEED," unless IP rights are obtained. Without IP rights, a peer-story will be created to provide additional depth around the gameplay.  Total 12+ months of additional development time, plus 2 support staff, and Marketing Contracting. SPEED UP - Stretch Goal 4: $600,000 TEAR UP GOD DEMO - Seed Funding to create another Kickstarter & Playable Demo for a Single Player Game "TEAR UP GOD" a Monster based destruction game using this core SPEED UP Base Engine tech. You start out as a medium sized sea life creature in leaking nuclear waste pit off the coast of our city. As you grow by eating mutated creatures, you become something bigger... over time you mutate (player controlled mutations) to become larger in response to taking damage. The core gameplay, is to survive as long as you can, and do the most damage, before you die/killed by the navy/army.  Total 12 months development time for a demo, plus 2 staff support. SPEED UP Stretch Goal 5 : $900,000 SUPER HERO TEARUP DEMO - Seed Funding to Create another KickStarter & Playable Single Player Demo for "SUPER HERO TEARUP" where we will use Human characters, to battle across the same core tech, to include a later-release multiplayer support (coop/<4player.) The core story is that aliens are teleporting into the city to destroy it, and you fight them off. This happens in waves over time, and you recover between waves and grow your skilltree/powers. Ending in the city being destroyed (failure) or the alien world being destroyed instead.  Total 12 months development time for a demo, plus 2 staff support. Risks and challenges Marketing and Gameplay are two major ones, will this be fun, and will we be able to show others that fun. To address this, we have split the development time to produce lower scope games, on the way to higher scope games, stacked on the same core code/levels/tech. Finding and staffing support is always time consuming as well.