Just how much control should backers of crowdfunding campaigns have over the projects they’ve backed? Maybe letting them design gameplay features isn’t a great idea, but frequent updates is all but mandatory now. The Wild Eight on Kickstarter adds an unexpected layer to that question…
Search results for: "the wild eight"
The Wild Eight made its way to Kickstarter on April 5, 2016 with developer 8 Points. Today, the game has been stuck on Steam Early Access for over a year with a different developer. Meanwhile its original creator has a new name and a new…
No, that title isn’t a typo. Developer 8 Points announced last month that it was changing its name to Fntastic. This is to express gratitude to all the team members who’ve come and gone during development of The Wild Eight. The original studio name will…
With the launch of The Wild Eight’s pre-alpha demo last week week, we reached out to developer 8pts to address some of the complaints and inquiries that have been previously brought up about the game on Cliqist. As of May 5th, 8pts has fully funded the…
Developer 8 Points released a pre-alpha demo for The Wild Eight recently, which means I decided to fire it up and give it a go. Billed as an “eerie survival adventure,” I’ve heard a lot of good things about the survival game from various websites…
I want a copy of The Wild Eight! On their Kickstarter page, anywhere from $10-30 guarantees a single digital copy of the game, but they’ve all been claimed so damn quickly… do I really have to shell out more than $30 to get in on early…
Want to play survival games, but too afraid to go it alone? Developer, 8 Points, new Kickstarter project, The Wild Eight, lets you bring eight of your closest co-op buddies along for the hellish ride. The game centers around a group of people unceremoniously dumped…
Kaze and the Wild Masks manages to hit a decent balance between old-school, nostalgia-driven platforming, and controls that feel more in-line with modern gaming. The developer Vox Game Studio claims to have combined their favourite childhood games to make the game, and the signs of…
What if Quake, but with cowboys? An interesting proposition and one which developer Lunar Rooster have set out to answer. Their upcoming action FPS, Sky Noon drops players into a reimagined, Wild West styled, floating frontier. Here they will fight it out with their fellow…
1921 Paris is a connotatively loaded setting for the Kickstarter funded Jennifer Wilde. Societal disillusionment and post-modernism inspired many artistic expats in Paris. This game, however, draws from that well but distills it into a more light-hearted point-and-click adventure and mystery game. The protagonist, Jennifer Chevalier,…
Do the words “Red Dead Redemption” get you excited? If you’re anything like me – or 90% of the gaming population – then of course they do. And although developer 612 Games wants the 90% to quit comparing their upcoming western MMORPG Wild West Online…
If there’s anything that can build excitement on Kickstarter, it’s the ambitious projects that leave you wondering, “Is this even possible?” Dual Universe, which just launched on Kickstarter, definitely fits into that category. Dual Universe is a sandbox Sci-Fi MMO that aims to support a…
On My Own has a new update, announcing the release date for the game. After a year in development, backers won’t have to wait too much longer to play the wilderness survival adventure. The new launch trailer was also included in the release announcement update…
Remember Outer Wilds? In case you forgot, it’s the very first campaign on the new crowdfunding site Fig. The campaign recently hit a milestone by attaining $100,000 in funding, though they’ve still got to reach that $125,000 goal within the next two weeks. In any…
You may have heard of Outer Wilds before. Not only did this game win a huge award at the Independent Games Festival, but an alpha build has also been floating around for quite some time. This completely free early release of the game has seen…
The dust blows gently in the wind, the sun beating down on the dry and cracked ground. A gruff looking man in a leather coat and hat struts through town with a swagger. His arm a glistening silver chrome. Wait, what? I bet you were…