Are gamers becoming a bunch of caring individuals? Or is the desire to relive their childhood a driving force behind this project? The Tecmo MMO needed $7,500 to meet it’s goal on funding source Kickstarter. It was 2 days away from the deadline with only half the funding needed to succeed. After the developers asked Kotaku and Epic Games to make a reminder tweet, the project hit it’s goal. It went $163 over so now this startup can do what it wanted to thanks to the generosity of the gaming community.

Kickstarter is a website that lets people put their project ideas up and allows people to donate money. If the goal amount isn’t met, then the project gets no money at all. There have been a few notable projects lately like Code Heroes and Tim Schafers new project