Hi - I'm Patrick Buckland, the MD of Stainless Games Ltd, and a user of this site since it was called PetrolHeads in the 90s. Back then, we produced the classic PC and Mac game Carmageddon, which I was personally lead programmer on. I got a right b*llocking from Ben Samuelson at TVR for including my Cerbera in Carma II without licensing it from them ;-)

Anyway, we're still around as a completely independent developer, and recently bought back the rights to Carmageddon. We've just launched a Kickstarter campaign to try to get it funded without involvement from any big corporations or interfering publishers:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames...

Do what you can to help! Please pledge some money if you can, and send this link to all your mates. Tweet it, Facebook it, blog it, spray it in gold paint down the side of your Veyron, do anything to help us bring Carmageddon back to greatness!

And I'll put the Tuscan 2S that I'm restoring in it this time. Those front splitters look like blades anyway...

Thanks!

Batwick2, best of luck raising the money. I was a big Carmageddon fan when it was originally released, in fact it was ahead of it's time in several areas such as vehicle damage and an open world in driving game. I'm just very surprised that the brand hasn't been more successful since!

I definitely would love to see this make a comeback. The originals were so addictive, although I feel that in this day and age, with the increase in political bullstcorrectness, isn't it going to be quite the same as the free-for-all massacre it once was. I really hope you do it justice.

Just a quick question, as I haven't had the time to read through the site in detail, but what happens to the funding already received, should you not manage to obtain the level of funding you need by June 6th?

It's nice to see this game back, it would be great fun to work on, hopefully it can have some of the originals charm and still stand up to modern game standards.

How big a scope does the project have? it just appears that the money being raised is a relativly small amount. Especially considering you have 50 people working on it.

I'd ask for a job but I'm just about to make an exciting switch to another developer.

Although we're just over 50 people, they won't all be working on Carma. Regarding the amount, yes of course you're right, but firstly we're hoping to get over $400k, and secondly this is actually just part of the funding - we're ploughing in all our profits from our other work into Carmageddon as well.

Kickstarter will help swell the coffers and get the game done quicker. We've been skunkworksing (good word...) it anyway you see. But the more money we can get in, the quicker it'll get done, plus we can get straight onto consoles as well, if we get enough in.

Cheers! Yes, I co-founded the company and wrote a lot of the code in Carma 1 and 2, plus the design was a joint effort between my twisted mind and the equally twisted one of my co-founder, Nobby. He drove 911s though, silly man.

Loved the games, especially fox and hounds.

Were you guys in the Rangie at Le Mans last year. Had a chat with you at the ferry port.

You are an absolute legend.

I loved C1 and 2, cannot wait for the new one to come out. I'll be making a donation this evening.

As I said before, awesome.

HERO!

I LOVED Carmageddon (being one of the people who always used to drive the wrong way round the track) and spent many a happy hour causing mayhem!

Happy to donate, on condition that "I was in the war" soundbite makes it in.

Good luck!