War of Rights People Answer Historical Accuracy Questions

We were approached by War of Rights from Danish developer Campfire Games, which wants to be “the most historically accurate game about the American Civil War to date,” to ask a few questions. This project, currently being made in the CryEngine for a Steam release on PC, is currently seeking £70,000 in funds on Kickstarter, of which it has amassed almost a third with still 26 days to go. The team includes people who have previously worked on titles like Verdun and Space Hulk, both competent, strategically focused PC games.

War of Rights plans to release in certain phases, which includes an Early Access release, of course. Money from the Kickstarter campaign will be spent on embellishing the game with the necessary programming, animations, characters and weapons. There is a whole mess of information on the weaponry used in the game on the project’s page.

Here are some of the questions we asked:

1) Could you elaborate on the importance of "states’ rights" in the campaign? Where it stems from, what it means and what it means in terms of slavery, which was of vital importance in the American Civil War.

(sic) The State's rights has got nothing to do with our Kickstarter campaign. The short description of the term’s basically less centralized power in Washington and more power for the individual state, which did include the right to continue to use slavery, as there were Southerners back then who claimed the war had nothing to do with slaves but only state's rights and there were northerners who claimed that the only reason the south fought for those rights were so they could keep having slaves. Our game title, War of Rights is an attempt to look at both sides of the conflict – the southerners fighting for state's rights and the northerners fighting for human rights (of the slaves).

2) What is your process to make sure of the historical accuracy in War of Rights? What sources, institutions or other resources do you use and how many people on staff are responsible for that particular planning?

Usually everything goes through our historical advisor Clark Morningstar, we do have quite a few other team members, myself included, who are very knowledgeable about the American Civil war. Lastly, we have a great community who are quick to point out errors or provide us with ideas on how to achieve a higher level of authenticity and realism.

We weren’t answered as to who “myself” in this answer is, but you can assume it’s someone from the development team.

A copy of War of Rights starts as low as a £8 donation, though for limited quantities. A normal £10 contribution is possible as well. Handy, converted prices in US dollars can be seen on the Kickstarter page as well, under the “pledges” section.

Daav Valentaten, NoobFeed (@Daavpuke)