Kickstarter campaign for Mega Man successor gets $837,923 in one day

Legendary game developer Keiji Inafune (well known as the co-designer of the revered Mega Man series) is teaming up with studio Comcept for a Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is for a game, dubbed Mighty No. 9, which is set to be a spiritual successor to the Mega Man series. So far, the campaign has been wildly successful, almost hitting its $900,000 goal with $837,923 in the first day. It still has 29 more days to go.

Mighty looks a lot like Mega Man

In the game, players take on the role of Beck, 9th in a line of powerful robots and the only one to not get infected by a mysterious computer virus that has been causing other robots to go berserk. Much like the classic Mega Man, players will get to run, jump, blast and transform their way through six levels, which can be tackled in any order. More levels will likely be added through stretch goals. Beck, being the robot that he is, has the ability to get new weapons from defeated foes and transform his body in a number of ways, which in turn allow for new skills and abilities.

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The whole studio is more-or-less filled with veteran Japanese game developers who have previously worked on 8-bit and 16-bit sidescrollers back in the NES and SNES days. The game is being developed for the PC, and will be made available through Steam as well as DRM-free digital distribution methods. It might even make it to Mac and Linux if stretch goals are met. The game is expected to be available in Spring 2015.