It’s a bit of a tradition that whenever I interview someone for Cliqist I ask them to put together a brief haiku to describe them, their company, or their game. Since we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of Cliqist this week I figure it would be as good a time as any to look back at some of them. All the haiku’s were written by the person being interviewed, and are listed in the order in which they appeared on the site. Some are great, some not so much, but each is interesting in its own right.
Game : General Chaos 2: Sons of Chaos
Interviewee : Brian Colin
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
Chaos Grunts Advance
Battlefields strewn with Wounded
Thinking: “War is Fun”
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Game : Spark Rising
Interviewee : John Master Lee
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Bring forth your armies
Pew pew pew with cubes cubes cubes
The Spark Bot shall reign
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Game : Chain Gang Chase
Interviewee : Joe Pietruch
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
clink clank clunk clenk clonk
in the mystery of life
we are each one link
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Game : Project Swordsmith
Interviewee : DuCiel Spitzfaden
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
The tree’s falling leaf
is no different than you
Here for a moment
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Game : Super Roman Conquest
Interviewee : Matt Boland
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : .
A game set in Rome
Choice, Strategy, Unique Troops?
I’d back that game, man!
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Game : Beeswing
Interviewee : Jack King-Spooner
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
All we know of life
Are the songs it falls among
Songs of kith and kin
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Game : Alone
Interviewee : Dan Wallace
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
Alone in your home
Unsuspecting eyes watch you
Nowhere to run to
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Game : Churbles
Interviewee : Barrett Brooks
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Journey through darkness
Swords, spells, boomerangs ready
Fight on brave Churbles
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Game : Confederate Express
Interviewee : Maksym Pashanin
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : Maksym declined to write a haiku for our interview; although his behavior since our first interview has a certain poetry to it.
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Game : Dropsy the Clown
Interviewee : .Jat Tholen
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Do not be afraid
He only wants to love you
A warm sweaty hug
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Game : Ever, Jane
Interviewee : .Judt L Tyrer
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : .
The Authoress could
never dream such a future
as we provide her
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Game : Dyscourse
Interviewee : Alex Schwartz
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Plane crash in the wild,
Rita’s work is never done.
Frying pan that snake!
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Game : Bullet Bros
Interviewee : Jason Stokes
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
A stale battlefield
the volcher’s circle ellipsed
a fresh canvas primed
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Game : Nature Hater
Interviewee : Adam Cromisky
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Beauty is nature
Platypus does not agree
So give him a hug
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Game : Pocket Troops
Interviewee : Aleksey Yarmolik
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
Among the winter battlefield
A lonely Trooper stand in numb
Campaign in progress
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Game : Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
Interviewee : Brad McQuaid
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
The Vision embraced. . .
Epic adventure awaits
The fallen will rise.
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Game : Pakka Pets
Interviewee : Thomas Uster
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : Not quite a haiku, but some poetry none-the-less.
We’re creating something special just for you.
A void it will fill like a special coffee brew.
So back Pakka Pets now, be sure to recommend it
It’ll be the cool game that you knew before your friend did.
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Game : Hot Rod Hustle
Interviewee : Tyler Thomas
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
Hot Rod Hustle is
Unlimited potential
If realized now
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Game : Savage: The Shard of Gosen
Interviewee : Matt Fitzgerald
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Barbarian cloth…
of the loins. Battle Cry!
Game Genie won’t work.
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Game : Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Interviewee : Dan Vávra
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : Dan didn’t give us a haiku, but he did share his personal motto
Blessed are those who break the rules!
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Game : Horse World Online
Interviewee : Larissa Rintjema
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : Larissa didn’t give us a haiku, but she did give us a joke!
Question: What did the horse say when it fell?
Answer: I’ve fallen and I can’t giddyup!
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Game : La-Mulana 2
Interviewee : Takumi Naramura
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
La-Mulana 2
Having fun making it fun
Working or playing?
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Game : 39 Days to Mars
Interviewee : Philip Buchanan
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku : .
first steampunk spaceship
crashes into mars because
they forgot to brake
Or!
A wondrous voyage,
an engineering feat wrecked
when Baxter slept in
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Game : Darkest Dungeon
Interviewee : Chris Bourassa
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
At the rotten gate
we ventured into the dark
it was our last act
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Game : Adrift
Interviewee : Seth Howell
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
I Awoke Alone,
But Something Wasn’t Quite Right.
Me, Or The Island?
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Game : Oscar
Interviewee : Joshua Long
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Children without voice
Speak to no one at all but
the Oscar in us
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Game : Frog Fractions 2
Interviewee : Jim Crawford
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
rs thirty phones
they make loud bursts of static
if you move your head
you should not purchase
sennheiser wireless headphones
because they are bad
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Game : PeriAreion
Interviewee : Erica Holcomb
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Looked at rocks too long;
now I’m running out of air!
Red dust storm rolls in.
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Game : The Seed
Interviewee : Nicolai Aaroe
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Rotten flesh
Still a meal?
Would integrity be cut?
A stomach would not
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Game : Duelyst
Interviewee : Keith Lee
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
As Blooming started
Duelysts take long journey
to Grand Tournament
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Game : Planets³
Interviewee : Michel Thomazeau
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
With dreams big enough
The tadpole become a frog
Space will soon be our
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Game : Chaos Reborn
Interviewee : Julian Gollop
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
The Summoner cries
Chaos rises, beasts descend
Laying waste his foes
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Game : Dancers of War
Interviewee : Van Partible
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
Dancers of War is a game you should play
But let’s fund it first, what do you say?
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Game : Serpent in the Staglands
Interviewee : Joe Williams
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Two points in Woodwise
I can talk to wolves and cats
But not the Serpent
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Game : Warrior Battleground
Interviewee : Stephen Chow
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
I swear on my sword
until death do us apart
I will have your back
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Game : Choice Chamber
Interviewee : Michael Molinari
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Into the chambers
A thousand eyes watching me
I’m just their play thing
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Game : The Breakout
Interviewee : Adam Jeffcoat
Kickstarter Outcome : Failed
Haiku :
A ruthless POW camp,
an ingenious escape plan,
one mans will to be free.
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Game : Four Sided Fantasy
Interviewee : Logan Fieth
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
Go out the right side
We call this process screen wrap
Come out on the left
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Game : Habitat
Interviewee : Charles Cox
Kickstarter Outcome : Successful
Haiku :
star-soaked night above
can’t find the space toilet flush
oops airlock button
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Game : Kona
Interviewee : Alexandre Fiset
Kickstarter Outcome : Ongoing
Haiku :
a cold white blizzard
ruthlessly travels the north,
unstoppable.
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Game : Hive Jump
Interviewee : Matt Raithel
Kickstarter Outcome : Ongoing
Haiku :
Jump into the hive!
We must all nuke the hive queen, for
the good of mankind!
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Game : Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler!
Interviewee : Bill Tiller
Kickstarter Outcome : Ongoing
Haiku :
Duke, red with fury
Terrifies men and women
No one sees his heart
Me Duke, Proud Pirate!
Soon me be Swashbuckler
Help make me Captain!
Me mustache tingles
More backers on Kickstarter!
Thank you, me hearties!
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Game : Hard West
Interviewee : Kacper Szymczak
Kickstarter Outcome : Ongoing
Haiku :
Midnight antichrist
blind guns spill poison carnage
– land thirsts suffering.
[divider]Thanks to everyone that participated in the past year, your creativity in game design, and poetry, is greatly appreciated! Hopefully we’ll have even more next year!
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