Yeah 

Okay that explains it, not completely familiar with flags and standards from that period, but World War II Germany was known to take and re-use icons from the first and second German Empires. The flag is the same as a WWII German flag with the exception of of course the large symbol in the middle.

Dyack IS the developer!  That's the reason this game is going nowhere.  After the shit he pulled.  He deserves to be barred from the game industry.

They need to find a publisher to work with. The amount of money they're trying to raise is kind of ridiculous. Unless you have an absolutely stellar reputation (Double Fine for instance) you're not going to raise that on kickstarter. Personally, I'd like to see the project done, but I have a hard time justifying spending that money with no guarantee of quality.

It's certainly possible to get in the realm of that amount of money without any kind of reputation behind you:

Examples: 1; 2; 3.

But you have to be offering a project people want.  Not a lot of people seem to want this; or if they do, then not enough to open up their wallets.

The closest parallel to this that I can see is Planetary Annihilation.  Spiritual successor to a game made by the original devs.  But again, people seemed to want that project whereas they don't seem to have much interest in this one.

And I do suspect Dyak's presence in it has a large amount to do with that.

All that said, I do agree with you that they should try and find a publisher for this.

Come on Nintendo. Just buy the rights for this already!

They should have Nintendo publish it and make it Wii U exclusive and drop the whole crowd funding. Game looks extremely beautiful graphics wise, I want it.

Dyack is working as a developer for Precursor Games, but he's not running the show like he was before at Silicon Knights.  Shawn Jackson and Paul Caporicci are in charge of Precursor Games and its daily workings and operations. They put Dyack in the role of creative officer, a position in which he might actually be productive.

Thanks for the insight, I thought Dyack brought this to crowdsourcing himself with a few coders/artists.

Yea, they only have 7 days to come up with almost 500K. I doubt they will be able to pull it off. Their best bet is to just develop the game with what they have and just self publish it on the PS4.

Also, on Kickstarter, if you don't reach your goal, do you get to keep the money you have made up to that point? Or does it go back to the funders?