Let’s start this off with a word from Obsidian, directly. Several words, really, from Chris Avellone, in the form of a blog post about characterization and Project Eternity. He discusses several of the challenges and lessons learned that Obsidian has seen and noted over their many years and many games, and explains how this will factor into the creation of NPCs and party members in Eternity.

And oh my word, but there have been interviews! Project Serenity scored a two-part interview (here’s the second piece) with Feargus Urquhart, Forbes managed a short interview with Chris Avellone, RPGGamer and GamerReview posted interviews with Tim Cain, and Penny Arcade has an interview with Adam Brennecke, the “quiet man who sold Obsidian Entertainment on Project Eternity, and a $2M Kickstarter”.

Oh, and Feargus Urquhart also talked with Games Industry about how Kickstarter lets companies build a brand.

Oh, and from Chris Avellone comes this bit of information:

@pawelswiecki That’s not currently the plan, although we trade Kickstarter processes and advice frequently, which is cool.

— Chris Avellone (@ChrisAvellone) September 26, 2012

Now, I kind of regard this as unfortunate, but I say that as an outsider. From that perspective, it makes sense for these already close companies to share technology to what degree they are able, but I suppose it’s the case that said degree is fairly small anyhow. (Speaking of inXile Entertainment…Brian Fargo posted a short blog update to let everyone know how Wasteland 2 is progressing.)

Project Eternity itself has raised over $2.1 million so far, and still have over two weeks left in its campaign. It’s an impressive total, to be sure, but there are still stretch goals that Obsidian hasn’t yet met, including the localization and expanded world that will come at the $2.2 million mark, and the hardcore play modes that will come at the $2.3 million mark.

But does anyone really doubt that they’ll fail to reach either goal?