Wreckreation developer resorts to Patreon for ongoing support

Following the wake of Wreckreation’s 10-person-strong Three Fields Entertainment team being placed on a redundancy notice, the outfit has opened a Patreon.

The open-world driving and racing game was released for PC, PlayStation and Xbox in October from the diminutive team led by former Burnout creators. Alongside a single-player campaign, it features Live Mix, where players can customise the map online in real-time.

Since launch, a series of updates have added further vehicles, tweaks and cross-platform multiplayer.

Patreon support, should the targets be hit, will be used to fund the team, with ideally “six months of runway”. The plan is to finish several modes and features.

These include a destruction-focused ‘Accident Black Spots’ mode (reminding us of Burnout’s Crash mode), a Tightrope mode (mixing Live Mix props for a tricky test that reminds us of a ‘90s inflatable gameshow), revised HUD, further vehicles and Live Mix buildings, a helicopter and a train.

A “steady stream of fixes and improvements” is also expected alongside the new additions.

“Wasn’t a decision we took lightly”

“Even while facing uncertainty, we’ve continued to update Wreckreation at our own cost, because that’s who we are,” says Three Fields Entertainment Co-founder Fiona Sperry in an impassioned Patreon post.

“This wasn’t a decision we took lightly.

“But throughout my career, some of the most important moments have come from choosing to act boldly rather than standing still, whether that was walking away from a project that wasn’t working and sketching out Burnout 3 in the car on the way home, redesigning a Burnout game late in development, or stepping away from an executive role to return to hands-on development on Burnout Paradise.

“If you choose to support us, you’re helping us keep the team together and keep updating Wreckreation with the speed and responsiveness we’ve shown so far.

You’ll have our loyalty, our transparency, and our absolute commitment to working as hard as we always have to make Wreckreation, and everything that follows, something that stands the test of time.”

In a 4th December post about possible redundancies, Sperry explained: “As an independent studio, we will not see revenue from game sales for the foreseeable future.” 

The Patroen is live now, with monthly contributions ranging from £2 to £19.50 per month, with bonus perks along the way.