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Two Point Studios considered selffunding, but “shied away a little bit” from it later, Carr says. Why? “Because I’m a coward!” he laughs. Hymers explains: “it was the original plan, because there had been a whole bunch of retro-game reboots that had smashed through their targets. But we spoke to some people we know – Gav [Price] at Playtonic, Debbie Bestwick at Team17 – and they both said, ‘Actually, Kickstarter is probably on the way out.’” Crowdfunding functions almost like an auction house valuation, and it’s a risk. “You’ve always got to put this slightly made-up budget and hope to blow through it,” Hymers says. “Otherwise, you just end up having a way smaller budget.”