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AVS prequel may come this year, AVS sequel may come never 03 May, 2011 / 2 comments

By Jason

I sort of figured the U.S. would find Bin Laden before A Bat's Tale found funding. On Facebook, Bill Tiller volunteered status updates on A Vampyre Story 2: A Bat's Tale and A Vampyre Story: Year One, respectively. The prospects of the latter are way better than the former:

Currently A Vampyre Story 2 production is controlled by Crimson Cow and they don't plan to fund it anytime soon due to lack of investment in their company. The game is 40% done and just needs investment to be completed. I will make announcement when or if that happens.

A Vampyre Story: Year One we hope to have done this year, and I'll post here any new information on that here when we have some new news about it.

The reasons for AVS2's predicament would appear to be contractual. As they do with the first game, Crimson Cow owns the worldwide publishing rights to AVS2. While the Germany based publisher doesn't appear unwilling to fund the game, they are financially incapable of doing so (with their web site consisting entirely of this for years now), and since the rights remain theirs for however long the agreement states, Autumn Moon isn't free to shop elsewhere. The episodic Year One, which Autumn Moon is self-publishing, is apparently entrenched in no such red tape.

Source: AVS Facebook page

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    elTee on 03 May, 2011, 15:47…
    Yeah, I thought it was a fairly solid strategy too. I mean, if a game ends on a cliffhanger, the sequel is guaranteed to come out. That's business 101.

    Crazy Germans.
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    Ascovel on 03 May, 2011, 14:33…
    It's a shame the publishing rights are already sold - I see very little hope we'll ever see the entire series.

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