Some games don't get finished because they weren't good enough. Some get finished and never find an audience. And then, very rarely, there's a game that was genuinely worth making, one that got shelved for reasons that had nothing to do with the game itself. Jungle Bots is that game. And after 29 years, we're finally finishing it. The Story Behind the Game In 1997, NEO Entertainment Group had an N64 first-person shooter nearly half-finished. The characters were built. The levels were...

Honestly, we were not expecting this. When we launched the Jungle Bots Kickstarter, we set an Early Bird deadline and figured that was that. But the response we got blew us away. Messages, shares, backers coming in from corners of the internet we did not even know were watching. People who remembered the N64 era like it was yesterday. People who had never heard of Jungle Bots until last week and were already all in. So we made a call. We are extending the Early Bird window to June 22nd. This...

In 1997, a small team of developers had a vision. They were building a first-person shooter for the Nintendo 64, a game unlike anything else on the platform. Robotic warriors. Dense jungle environments. Chaos, strategy, and a narrative that pushed the limits of what a cartridge-based game could tell. They called it Jungle Bots. Then, like so many projects from that era, it stopped. The reasons were the same ones that killed dozens of promising games in the late '90s: shifting budgets,...