Alvorn - The Kickstarter money was amazing as it helped us at a desperate time when we needed that money so badly and it helped us get to Steam's Early Access and we are so grateful to our backers. Breaking the numbers down further, nearly half of what we raised needs to be spent on fulfilling the rewards from the Kickstarter! Even the Tax man took his slice, that left us with about half of what we collected to throw at development, which just got us to Early Access and Early Access has just been enough to cover the basic rent for the team, software licenses, basic accounting and legal expenses. Most of the crew are still working for sweat equity (profit share), on part pay, or living off other money we've raised from grants such as Film Victoria and Screen Australia or even savings! Letting you know a project of our size can pretty easily cost more than a million dollars (AUD) to make and we've just recently crossed that line without paying most of the team for all their hard work! We make sure that every dollar counts and we really do run on a shoe string budget, there's just a whole heap of expenses that we can't avoid and that just keep coming!
Our wild dreams here at LoG is that Armello does well enough at full launch that we can keep supporting it with new Heroes and expansions AND create another amazing game in a new universe 
we never know maybe Starmello becomes a reality!
Hey Blake,
As always thanks for jumping in and shining some light around
First off sorry if the post before came off a bit abrupt. I think its fantastic news, I have been cheering for the successes of Armello and LoG for a very long time now, you may recall my bleeding heart post when the flaming arrows started over the whole Bandit Clan and that the reason I support you guys so much is cause I want to see an Australian Indi Dev team with as much talent as you guys have succeed.
So yes AWESOME
AWESOME new for both Armello and LoG long term.
I think what irked me a little this morning when I read the Indi Fund sight was the quote I gave before where it said "and we are proud to announce the new expanded Indie Fund is now funding Armello". You could read that two ways, one being "we are now helping to fund Armello" and the second being "we are the only ones funding Armello".
When I read it this morning the second interpretation came to mind first and I thought, well No the Kickstarter and the 3000 odd backers funded Armello. In the article there was no single mention of Kickstarter having already helped to fund it to get it to where it is today. Re-reading it tonight i realised it could also be read the first way as well.
So yeah I was a bit touchy which probably came across in my questions, sorry if that was the case. Speaking of which...
So Secondly in regards to the answers to the questions, again thanks ! I had suspected what you outlined may have been the case. In fact I was fairly certain of it. So kudos to you for being willing to share that info publicly. But even bigger kudos to the dedicated team who are willing to take two jobs, do work on the basis of a promise and an idea, work extra hours after their real job, just so we can all play this really cool game.
And finally once again, Congrats ! Its a huge opportunity and I am very happy for you all down their in LoG land.
Alvorn
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