has there been any word on the anime intro or is that a bust?
Alrighty, to answer this once and for all.
It's not "a bust", but the situation is this:
Before we even started the campaign, we confirmed with The Mystery Studio that they would want to work with us. We even wrote a press release with their name and everything, and made sure they were okay with it.
Then we started the campaign.
A month-and-a-bit later when we reached the point where we unveiling the stretch goals, we contacted them one last time to ask if they were still okay with the press release...and it was only at
that point that they told us, "OH WAIT don't use our name! In fact don't say anything about us yet!"
>.<
We had put the animated opening stretch goal as early as we did (before the full VO goal and the secret dungeon) because we figured that as soon as we tell everyone which studio it is that would be INSTANTLY funded. Instead, we weren't able to do that, so stretch goals have languished. If we had known this was going to be the situation we'd have made that the last goal. I know I wish we had!
Since that point in the campaign (i.e. for like 9 months now) we have been trying to get them to let us say who they are. We pushed extra hard before AX because the panel would have been the
perfect time to y'know
finally reveal who they are...but nope.
We're working on the final agreement, the timeline, etc., but we still can't say who they are.
It's the MOST FRUSTRATING feeling.