[Kickstarter] Sentinel Games - Battle for Karnak - Backers abandoned.

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**edlowe**

Hi guys though you all maybe able to help the backers of this kickstarter by Sentinel games.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sentinelgames/total-extinction-battle-for-karnak/comments

The kickstarter was funded last year in December and is currently running 4 months late.

Recent updates have been sporadic and the backers have not heard anything from the project's creator since september the 4th.

In a recent update personal problems were cited as the cause of the delay, however since then nobody has been able to get in touch with Sentinel games. The projects creator has not responded to any kickstarter messages or facebook messages.

I hoping somebody maybe able to get in touch with the creator Salvador Uranga Ballestrasse and establish his situation and the progress towards fulfillment of the kickstarter.

Obviously everybody suffers personal problems from time to time that can affect there ability to work and nobody in the ks comments is unsympathetic to such issues, however we are looking for information which can put people at ease and hopefully lead to the fulfillment of the pledges.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

**edlowe**

A bit of an update here. One of the backers contacted Warmill to see if they could help.

Warmill response:

"Hi Pete
I’m afraid the last time we were in contact with them was back when the campaign finished and we were shipping out the terrain. I hope they shipped it on to backers afterwards!
Cheers
Harry"

So no luck there :( Although I wouldn't really expect them to know too much after sale.

Another backer says he has hold of Salvadors phone number and was going to contact him on the 6th oct. So far we've heard nothing back.

update:

Oscar's phone call.

Hi Guys!

I´m worried, very worried. I tried to call Salvador today (another time) and sounds the next message: This telephone number dos not exists.

I Have sent many mails to many people who knows him explain them our problem. As soon as somebody answer I will inform you.

Oscar

The last time the project creator logged on to kickstarter was 7th september.

So we're still in the dark as to progress and fulfilment.

**edlowe**

Some news from Oscar one of the backers.

Hi Guys!!!

Very Good news!

Five minutes ago, Lesya Naumenko (playtester, and translator to Russian and English and Sarvador´s wife) contacted with me. Salvador have a very important personal probem. He can´t answer here or by facebook.

Battle for Karnak continues go on (this morning Lesya was packaging glorlons), and a few days as soos as Savador can, we will have an update.

Sorry but I can´t tell you the Salvador´s problem (Believeme, is very personal)

See you!!!

Oscar

Sounds like were still on track.

**edlowe**

Hi guys,

Bit of an update here, the backers are still in the dark over completion of this ks.

Salvador has not been in contact for some time and all attempts at contacting him have failled.

At the moment it looks like another failed ks.

**edlowe**

It appears now that this ks has completely ground to a halt, there has been no word from the creator for sometime and many backers are now seeking their money back through their banks.

Until anything is heard from Salvador Uranga Ballestrasse I would warn the community of his activities and advise not to purchase anything from the sentinel games webstore.

Backers have bought third party items through this ks which were shipped to Salvador Uranga Ballestrasse many months ago and have not been dispatched, some backers have recieved part pledges, with reports of incorrect items and missing parts.

**edlowe**

MkultraStudios wrote:
Hi!

(sorry for my engrish!)

This is Daniel Melendez, Jefe of Questron, and also, from MkUltra Studios. That extinct studios (now we've united all our departments under a one only branch) collabored in the production of "Total Extinction: Battle for Karnak". We made all the sculpts for that project long time ago, and now we are very sad seeing what's the present situation of the project.

Well, I know we don't have any fault on that, nobody is blaming anything on us... We were contracted to do a project, we were paid for it, and that's all. We aren't anything of Sentinel, not associated, not anything, we just did a freelance work almost three years ago.

The reason of this post is just that, as I said, we feel bad. Our sculpts were a good "bait" for that KS... We did a really cool job and it possible lured a lot of backers to it. So that only for that reason, we don't feel "clean" seeing that all the backers can't even play the game, because the cards and tokens for that aren't available, and seeing Sentinel's movement in the last 4 months... I don't know if it will...

Trying to make that situation more "easy" for the backers, we've resolved one procedure...

We were also contracted to do the cards, tokens and markers for the game. The illustrator was also from our studio, so the color work, and the layout work. The same for the tokens and the markers...
We have the spanish and the english version of all the cards ready to get printed, in JPG. We've decided to upload those PDFs free for everybody, but the most, for the backers of the game.

I've just wrote to Salvador (Sentinel games' GM) telling our decision, and waiting a response from him just in case he wants to stop it for any reason. Yes, I know some people wouldn't see that as a sensible movement, but after all, this stuff is property of Sentinel Games. Althought we made it, we've payed for it long time ago, we don't have the right to share it, but I think that this is a very special situation, and I want to hear of him (althought I tryed to contact him 4 times in the past 4 months, without any result) But I'm affraid he won't send any response... In that case, the PDF will be uploaded and shared THIS SATURDAY.

Please, in the meanwhile, spread the word... We'll try to contact one or two backers of the KS, making know of this...

Saludos,

Daniel

Hi Daniel, ive posted this over in the ks comments, to get the news out.

I'd like to thank you for taking this action and helping out the backers, we really have been left in the dark regarding this kickstarter.

Could you post your website address for your business?