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Project Rap Rabbit Fails To Kickstart
Project Rap Rabbit, the story-based rhythm-action music title with branching verses, has failed to meet its Kickstarter goal of £855,000. The title, from makers with experience on titles like PaRappa The Rapper, Vib-Ribbon, and Gitaroo Man, raised only £162,057 and will not continue on the crowd-funding platform.
"We sadly are not in the position to be able to fund further production for a future crowd-funding relaunch involving a title deeper in development," read the game's latest update, "and wouldn't want to scale back our vision. As a result, work on Project Rap Rabbit cannot continue at this time."
Still, the update further says that the creators (at both iNiS J and NanaOn-Sha) took meetings about the game at E3 last week, and hope to be able to continue working on it in the future.
[Source: Kickstarter]
Our Take
Best of luck to the developers, and while it's a disappointing situation, kudos to them to not watering-down their vision.
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