Kickstarter seems like an ideal place to fund an indie game. Unfortunately, many of these projects don’t go to plan. Vanishing games become a particularly messy subject once the money of the backers is involved. Together: Amna & Saif is a Kickstarter project still awaiting completion. With…
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Way back in the forgotten days of the year 2013, Taitale Studios launched a Kickstarter for their massive MMORTS, Novus AEterno. The devs were asking for $200,000, but despite interest from the community they were nowhere near achieving their goal. Fortunately, as time ticked down…
“As soon as we saw it we loved it and we knew we wanted to get involved in any way that we could,” said Tim Schafer in a promotional video. Schafer just announced Double Fine Presents, a new publishing arm of his (once?) beloved indie…
Chancler Harrison recalls his time working on Echoes of Eternea vividly. “My work involved 100’s of hours with the promise of getting paid once the project was released,” he wrote in a March 2016 Imgur post. “Stupid, I know,” Harrison later told me over email….
In September 2012, Studio Nasu managed to raise $33,643 USD through Kickstarter for their game Crisis Heart Brawlers: Clash at Otakon. It was billed as a “classic arcade style side scrolling beat ‘em up” in the style of other fighters like Castle Crashers and the…
Rarely does a single game get two successful Kickstarter campaigns. Rarer still is when the public’s reaction is not only positive, but better the second time around. Such was the case for Last Class Heroes, an RPG which started life as a small mobile game….
I’m a huge Ron Paul fan (more for the memes than the politics), but today we won’t be discussing politics. Instead, we’ll be discussing Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution, a 2D side-scroller that gathered $11,073 USD for a 2012 release and never saw the light of day….
Beast’s Fury is a 2d fighting game that had a successful Indiegogo campaign back in June 2013, raising over $21,000 of a $5000 flexible funding goal. In May 2014 the games developers launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise money to improve the games quality, ultimately…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here are games that go silent and there are games that go silent without anything real to show for itself. While some of the crowdfunded games that have gone dark have done so for a reason, and sometimes they finally give a reason for…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]hree years ago Aoineko Studios launched a Kickstarter for their Cyberpunk RPG Kitaru and managed to get funding to the tune of just over $35,500. The problem with this title, though, is that it still hasn’t seen the light of day. Which isn’t that…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]hree years ago Cyberpunk action-RPG Project Lodus launched on Kickstarter. The team behind the game, then known as Leviathan Interactive, sought funding to get a vertical slice demo to show off to potential publishers to pick up the title. A month later they managed…
[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]ode Hero was an educational game idea by Primer Labs meant to teach players how to code javascript. Its Kickstarter campaign ran from December 2011 to February 2012 for a total of 60 days. It raised over $170k. Alex Peake, the founder of Primer…
[dropcap size=big]U[/dropcap]nforgotten Quest was the game project and personal baby of YouTuber, BruceWillakers, also known as Robert Moran. The campaign ran from November 18th, 2012 to December 18th, 2012. It closed out with over $118k raised, a feat I think it achieved purely on salesmanship…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he Xeko campaign is a teensy bit on the controversial side, leaving about 973 backers without rewards, no game, and bent out of shape. With Xeko, there’s a lot of miscommunication, or a lack of communication altogether and some really in depth legal complications that…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]t is the classic case of an inexperienced but starry-eyed gaming enthusiast biting off more than they can chew, potentially learning a lesson at the price of thousands of dollars, and leaving many excited game lovers infuriated and with thinner wallets. Rainfall: The Sojourn…
Kickstarter MIA: What Happened to Unwritten? by Julie Morley [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been a long time since anything about Unwritten: That Which Happened has been talked about; so I figured it was time for a refresher on the campaign, and what the developers have been up to….