Kickstarter has brought new life to dormant game properties and ideas and everyone was excited to check headlines regarding Mutant Football League.
To be fair, the game did raise a large quantity of pledges — $141,821 — however that quantity fell way below its minimum funding goal of $750,000. The campaign was all over the place and the sticker shock did not help. Talking to a leading tabloid, the organizer and Mutant League creator Michael Mendheim aforesaid he led with mobile platforms because of feedback received from developers who had previous success with funding their games through Kickstarter however confirmed that “the backlash to [mobile] was simply unbelievable.”
Mendheim additionally told the outlet Mutant football league will come back to Kickstarter later this spring.