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Day 1: Discover Trainz - Original Edition Day 2: Discover Ultimate Trainz Collection Day 3: Discover Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 Day 4: Discover the Future of Trainz (2004) Day 5: Discover Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006 Day 6: Discover Trainz Classics 1 & 2 Day 7: Discover Trainz Classics 3 Day 8: Discover Trainz Simulator 2009 Day 9: Discover Trainz Simulator 2010 Day 10: Discover Trainz Simulator 10th Anniversary Edition Day 11: Discover Trainz Kickstarter Day 12 - 15: ?
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In November 2013 N3V Games announced a "Kickstarter" campaign. Kickstarter is the world's most popular crowd funding website and operates on the principle of people pledging funds to support a project that would probably not happen without their support.
Here's the "Short Brief" version of the Kickstarter pitch:
N3V Games ran this Kickstarter for two main reasons. The first was obviously for funding assistance to help bridge the gap between the cashflow at the time and the expected outlay to upgrade the underlying technology to bring Trainz into the "next generation" of technology. The other reason was to gauge the size of the community who would be prepared to support Trainz during a lengthy development phase.
As it turned out, 1791 individuals contributed an average of just over $100 each and without their support, Trainz would probably not exist today. We don't it before and we don't mind saying it again - thanks to every one of our supporters for helping make TANE possible.
One of the big parts of a Kickstarter campaign is community involvement. The Updates Page provided information to supporters throughout the funding period and afterwards as we continued development work.
Here's a quote from the post two weeks prior to release day in May 2015:
To celebrate the "dawning of a new era" in train simulation, here's a sneak peek at the awesome new "sun" post-processing effects
Check back tomorrow for the next update in our 15th Anniversary Celebration