In November of last year, St. Lous-based video production company Forever an Astronaut announced that they’d been creepily following around developer Butterscotch Shenanigans with cameras and microphones and would be creating a short documentary series based around the development of their epic action RPG Crashlands ($6.99) as well as Bscotch’s Sam Coster and his battle with cancer. Then last month it was announced that these harrowing tales would not fit into a short documentary series, and instead the entire thing would be turned into a feature-length documentary called ‘Brace for Impact: The Crashlands Story’. Forever an Astronaut started a small Kickstarter campaign to come up with the funding for the post-production of the film, and with less than two weeks to go in the campaign and only being just under a third of the way to their goal, they’ve put together this lengthy new sneak peek video to give people an idea of what the full documentary will be like and hopefully get them excited enough to pop open their wallets for the campaign.

I have been excited for this documentary since it was first announced, and it only seems to be getting better each time I see a new preview. Just getting a glimpse into how a tiny 3-person studio can get off the ground making games in the crazy digital games market is interesting on its own, but toss in a story of struggle and survival in the face of cancer and everything just takes on a whole new meaning. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the Bscotch brothers all have infectious personalities full of positivity and humor, and that the games they make are genuinely kick ass and fun. It’s not hard to root for these guys, and I don’t think it will be hard to watch them for an entire feature-length movie. ‘Brace for Impact: The Crashlands Story’ is shooting for release sometime in 2016, and if you want to contribute to their current crowdfunding campaign you can hit it up here.