“To reach our target in just 13 days is incredible,” says Charles Cecil, managing director, Revolution Software. “The generosity of fans and supporters, both in terms of money pledged and the passion that they have displayed on the forums, is absolutely overwhelming. I would like to thank each and every person who has taken the time and trouble to pledge their support – and promise that the game we create will reward their faith.

“What’s so exciting is that we’ve still got 16 days to go. So we are in the fantastic position of being able to define ‘stretch goals’ which, if achieved, would allow us to realize our wildest ambitions. Stretch goals will include gameplay that had previously ended up on the cutting room floor, exotic new locations to explore, extra characters - some of which will be familiar - as well as a big surprise.

“Additionally, we are adding extra rewards to those originally defined. These include a free Android version to those who pledge over $25 and confirmation that we will voice in Spanish and Italian as well as English, German and French. We will be announcing more new rewards shortly."

But how much money can you spend on just one game? If they can make it for 400.000 it's already stretching it unreasonably to spend a million on it. The game won't get better by limitless adding characters and locations.

I'm hoping that they reach their dream target of 1 million (wishful thinking?) because they wrote in their email that they would then be able to realize a dream of doing Beneath a Steel Sky 2. That's another game I would like to see come to fruition.

They won't (and can't, per Kickstarter rules) use BS5 Kickstarter pledges for BASS2.

Any chance you could do a separate kick-starter for beneath a steel sky 2 as I feel that would also do very well and green light broken sword 6? I love all your games as do alot of your fans but I think it would be more rewarding to those who have pledged to aim for another broken sword game! and by doing steel sky 2 on it's own can get the money needed with it's own stretch goals to help make another awesome game, let me know what you think thank you.

Thanks for your comments. Totally accept your point. We didn't want to imply that money from the Broken Sword pledges would be going into BASS2 - they are quite separate. It was intended as a bonus rather than an integral part of the stretch goal.

I can accept that and would be quite happy if and when you start a kick-starter for BASS2 is on that games stretch goals on the million Mark you green light broken sword 6! I think that would be fair lol. Thank you for your reply, I truly cannot wait.

Yup. It is more about confidence than actually funding. You are right that we need to clarify - we are giving this some thought. Thanks for raising it :-)