The Ratatan Kickstarter was funded inside an hour, so it was clear that it was going to hit a ton of its stretch objectives. And now that the marketing campaign has closed, Ratatan has are available in at over 10 occasions its preliminary objective.
Ratatan raised a complete of $1,504,439
This whole has allowed the undertaking to hit 22 stretch objectives, one thing the staff thanked backers for on Twitter. These objectives, a few of which aren’t completely defined, embody:
- an internet mode
- ports for PS4, PS5, Nintendo Change, and Xbox Sequence X|S
- minigames
- a collaboration with famed Uncommon composer David Clever
- chiptunes
- help for French, Italian, German, and Spanish
- an extra rarity degree
- the involvement of Blico, the voice of the Patapon in Patapon
- a secret ending
- orchestrated music
- the power to customise Fortrun, the ship that follows characters
- a tough mode
- “fireworks”
- a “collectopedia”
- Chinese language and Korean languages
- customizable Cobuns (the little eyeball characters) and Ratata (the named major models)
- Darkish Ratatans
- a “backer vote”
- a collaboration with Tsutomu Kouno, the one that designed LocoRoco
- a collaboration with Keiichiro Toyama, identified for guiding Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush
- base and room customization
- playable Darkish Ratatans
It didn’t hit its objective to have Darkish Ratatan pets, because it completed simply shy of the $1,543,442 wanted. Ratata Arts additionally gave no replace on its launch window, because the staff nonetheless aiming for an April 2025 launch.
Nevertheless, it did put out a roadmap detailing the journey to 2025. Most of it’s behind-the-scenes work, but it surely does present what Ratata Arts might be to date that the Ratatan Kickstarter has wrapped up.
This profitable marketing campaign stands in stark distinction with Undertaking Rap Rabbit, which hit Kickstarter in Could 2017 and was designed to be a contemporary model of fellow Sony franchise PaRappa the Rapper. It even featured among the creators of PaRappa, in addition to Gitaroo Man. Nevertheless, not like Ratatan, its marketing campaign failed and solely raised $207,605 of its $1,098,700 objective.