Kickstarter for Superhot to Fund Steam Greenlight Project

The Polish studio behind Superhot, which last September became the quickest approved game ever on Steam Greenlight, has put up a Kickstarter for $100,000 to fund the game's development. 

Superhot is a time-warping first person shooter originally created during the first 7 Day FPS, a challenge for designers to create a FPS game during a week in mid August. The game takes a unique spin on the FPS genre: time only moves when you do, creating a game where strategy and careful planning are almost as important as reflex. The effect is "something like a game of real-time chess, except that all the pawns are out there to murder you." Players dodge bullets Matrix-style instead of taking cover, and taking a single hit means death.

The Superhot prototype which launched last fall won the Developer Showcase award at WGK, and was a finalist for the Most Amazing Game Award at A Maze. / Berlin. The developers have improved on their prototype in the intervening eight months, according to their Kickstarter statement, and are looking for public support to work on Superhot full time. Beyond that, the team plans to use funds to add levels and Oculus Rift support.

Already, the Superhot Kickstarter has reached over $37,000 in the space of a little over a day--over a third of their goal--and developers have promised that excess funds will go into improving the game further and advertising and publicity costs. There's no set release date for Superhot, but judging by the reward tier shipping dates, the full game will launch sometime this fall. Meanwhile you, can play the prototype over on the Superhot website.