I mentioned earlier this week that Runequesthas a videogame adaptation coming. Here's the trailer.
Steam page is here.
As Call of Cthulhu successfully made the medium jump years ago. Pathfinder has some well-regarded videogames. Paranoia has a game, and we all know that BattleTech (as "MechWarrior") has been in Vidya for decades. R. Talsorian used Cyberpunk for a videogame and single-handedly overturned decades of being the also-ran of cyberpunk gaming, going from Also-Ran to Winner.
More Tabletop losers need to go this route if they want to stay in the commercial end of things.
Legend of the Five Rings? Shadowfist? Ars Magica? All those Theater Kid products? All of them would do far better as videogame products than in tabletop, and videogame publishers are always on the lookout for new IP to exploit. It's long past time for most of the people wasting time and money in Tabletop to give up, go to Vidya, and make something that would actually get played.
And you'd actually make a real living by doing so. Just ask Warren Spector, Ree Soesbee, or Scott Harring.
Leave Tabletop to The Only Game(s) That Matter and the non-commercial hobbyists because there's no more fortunes to be had here for anyone else. That's why you have to beg on Kickstarter.
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