It was a few weeks ago we told you about Takedown, a tactical shooter from a new studio called Serellan that was being crowd source funded via Kickstarter.  Sadly though, the project is only about halfway to its potential funding with five days to go.  With several other high profile titles doing very well with Kickstarter lately like Double Fine's Adventure Game and Wasteland 2, something seems to have gone wrong.  Luckily studio head Chris Allen has seen the error of his ways.

"KickStarting" is all the rage these days in game development.  It's the idea that you can connect directly to your potential customers while a product is in it's earliest phases of design and conception.  These users invest in your project, which in turn, you use the money to fund creation.  As an incentive, you give these people perks, much like people who buy collector's editions of games get, but on a whole new level.