I'll admit it, usually I'm wary of participating in any sort of crowdsourcing project on kickstater despite the fact that I spent some time after graduating college doing some indie game development myself. Will the project ever get completed? What kind of guarantee will I have that even if the goals are met that the project won't fall flat on its face? Those are the types of questions that have made me very wary about backing any type of project. However, when I saw that there was someone out there who had the same amount of ambition that I had fresh out of college before I entered the professional workplace, I just knew that I had to support his project- in this case Mike Gale's kickstarter JRPG project Soul Saga.

Designed as "a love letter to JRPG classics from the PlayStation era like Final Fantasy, Breath of Fire, Suikoden, and Persona," Soul Saga creator Mike Gale cites his JRPG-inspirations from other such classic games including Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy X. He has been handling most of the production work for the game up until now in a multitude of roles including as a technical artist, programmer and game designer.

He is currently worked with a wide range of impressive talents including freelance video game composer Aivi Tran and voice actors Todd Haberkorn (Fairy Tail, Fullmetal Alchemist, Sergeant Frog) and Kira Buckland (Skullgirls, Mugen Souls, Accel World).

He's currently looking to release his game on STEAM for Windows/Linux/Mac and needs your help funding his ambitious project. For more details, including a breakdown on gameplay mechanics, visit his Kickstarter page.

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/disastercake/soul-saga-a-j-rpg-inspired-by-playstation-classics