Mobile App Developers Creating Game, With Kickstarter Help

Updated: April 23, 10 a.m.

Happy Badger Studio, a group of mobile app developers, hopes to raise $18,000 through Kickstarter to help them design a poetic game puzzle called “Something Fragile.”

What's it about?

"In Something Fragile, you are a creature created for the sole purpose of protecting the heart that you were given. As this creature, you must progress through the levels and overcome the puzzles in order to carry the heart past the obstacles and through the environmental threats. The challenge of the game is to keep the heart safe throughout all of the puzzles, which will require the heart to be placed in harm's way in order to get it through each level safely. The moment the heart is placed on the ground, it is immediately vulnerable to the environment, and similarly, the moment the creature gets too far away from the heart, both it and the heart perish," according to the Kickstarter page.

"The idea behind Something Fragile is that you are this creature fighting through challenges and overcoming obstacles to protect a heart that does not belong to you — this represents the challenges we face every day with love and relationships."

Happy Badger Studio is just one of the businesses in St. Louis County using crowdfunding to bring a project to fruition. Maplewood's soon-to-open Strange Donuts toward the purchase of kitchen equipment. A Clayton pizzeria owner will be expanding her artisan cooking to a second restaurant in Rock Hill with the help of Kickstarter, while a downtown Clayton toy store was able to keep its doors open through Crowdtilt contributions.

As of April 23, Happy Badger Studio was nearly halfway to their fundraising goal, with $8,500. The fundraiser ends April 25. They need to raise the full $18,000 to receive any funding. 

"At the rate we are currently able to manage with this project without funding, it could take years. If we reach our Kickstarter goal, however, we can decrease that timeframe to just a couple of hard-working months," according to the Kickstarter page.

If the Kickstarter is successful, Dana Huth (who you may recognize as one of the minds behind Rampant Creative Group) said Tiny Little Monster and Gene Del Printing will help produce the backers' rewards--including hand-made patches, t-shirts, posters and digital soundtrack to the game. 

"The game development community in Saint Louis is growing rapidly and we are really excited to be a part of it," Huth said via email. 

Check out the Kickstarter page for "Something Fragile" to make a contrubtion.