What We Need
Arkh needs a lot of money to succeed. The goal is a shippable quality 3D RPG, and that is fairly costly. However, it is NECESSARY for us to get up to the quality of mainstream gaming. That is what will draw the eyes of these companies. That is what will get them to realize that there is money in our markets and they should give us what we've been demanding for years.
How much money do we need?
Character concepts
A good game has numerous concepts completed to give the 3-D character artists the exact idea of what they need to model, and what that character should look like.
Each character concept of high quality, which includes a full body design and 3 headshot designs, costs $300. There are 8 characters and a small animal.
Ain needs 3 concepts.
Haruka, Romero and Neelu need 2 each.
The remaining 4 characters need 1 concept.
That's 13 character concepts in all. That will cost $3900.
Environmental concepts
Environmental concepts help the 3D environment artists design the space the characters will roam around in. They create the entire ambience of the game!
There are 13 levels in the game. Each one will need 3 drawings; a closeup of the general look, and an inside and outside model.
11 of them will cost $700. The last two will run cheaper at about $400-500 for both. That is about $8200 in all.
Monster concepts
There will be approximately 25 unique monsters in the game, so that is 25 concepts. Each concept will run approximately $150-200. That is a total of approximately $5000.
In all, concepts will run $17,100 for top quality work.
Programming
Programming costs $4000 a month, with an estimated 8-10 months of programming. That is with a small studio, so there will be more than one programmer working on the project. That's a total of $32,000 to $40,000 in all.
3D Character work
Each main character will run $700-900 for the most expensive game-ready models, and this is a discounted price given to us by an amazing, top-level modeler who sides with our work. Minor characters will run closer to $300 a model. In all, we plan for there to be about 15 different models done, some of which will be generic models for NPCs.
That will run us approximately $6900.
In addition to that, the 25 monster concepts will run about the same price, and that will cost $10,000.
As far as animation, we are currently receiving volunteer animation work, so we will not include that until the time comes that we need to gain more animators.
In all, that will cost $12,000.
UI design
UIs make games simple to navigate and play.
A simple 2-D UI design will run approximately $1000-2000 in all.
Environmental design
Environmental design is one of those really costly areas of any game.
We have right now, plans for 50 different building designs, 27 different wall and floor sets, and 250 items. That will run us approximately $16,000 in all.
Item design
We have gotten a great price at $40 per simple item model for the game. Assuming approximately 150-200 weapon items, armor items, and healing items, this will run us approximately $8000 in all.
That would run this game approximately $100,000, accounting for the wonderful volunteers who are helping us create this. Depending on volunteer work, we may need as much as $250,000 to provide quality work.
As you can see, the game needs a lot of money and a lot of support to get off the ground. But it will be worth it to show these companies that people are willing to put this out there. The coordinators of this project make no money. ALL money goes to support professional artists and programmers who are queer and/or of color.
Don't worry if we don't reach our goal. We will continue fundraising until we make it.
What You Get
The most important part, of course, what YOU get!
If you donate $10, you will receive a free 11x17 poster of choice from our concept art of the main characters of Arkh!
If you donate $25, you will receive TWO free posters of choice from our character concept art!
If you donate $100, you will receive ALL FOUR character art posters!
If you donate $250, you will receive an official, full color booklet of all of the concept art in the game, beta privileges, plus the four posters!
If you donate $500, you will receive all of the above, beta privileges for Arkh, a limited edition print, as well as a limited edition, free, signed hard copy of the game!
If you donate $1000, you will receive all of the above, beta privileges, a free signed hard copy of the game, and a full cosplay for your Arkh character of choice!
Perks will be given out once we reach the full goal of 100,000 dollars.
The sketch will be in the style of the headshots, in B&W, and must be headshots or a single body.
