[dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]ack in February 2013, an online co-op post-apocalyptic zombie game by the name of ROAM was funded to the tune of $102,518 by 3,526 backers on Kickstarter. After the campaign’s end, updates were released every month up until March 2014. It’s a small hiccup that…
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Amanda French first cut her gaming teeth by playing such classics as Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Super Mario World at the ripe age of four. From there spawned a lifelong love of video games, particularly narrative heavy adventures and open world games. A creative writing graduate of Full Sail University, Amanda writes fiction novels in her spare time. You can find her work at the Independent Author Network under the pseudonym, Illise Montoya. Amanda’s all-time favorite games include Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 2, and Tekken 5. She lives on the California coast with her husband and young baby son.
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On April 21st, Razzart Visual started their campaign for Starlight Vega, an urban fantasy visual novel that exclusively featured lesbian relationships. Its modest funding goal was $3,550. 31 days later, on May 22nd, Starlight Vega’s campaign closed out with exactly $22,264 thanks to 988 backers!…
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In their latest update on Kickstarter, SolarFall Games released a short video (which you can see below) showcasing Umbra‘s housing system. It’s only a minute and twenty-five seconds long, but it shows a lot of enticing features for the module. Players will be able to place…
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In just a little under two days, Tokyo Dark achieved its $40k CAD funding goal, and since then it has just been raking in the dough. So far it’s over $120k CAD (or $99k USD) and June 10th, the campaign’s end date, seems a long way…
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Do you wish there were more apocalyptic games with an existential examination of society and climate change? Then you should check out The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human, a metroidvania-like action/adventure game by indie game studio, YCJY, who are based in Sweden. The story goes that…
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[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]s I mentioned to my editor, I am by no means a music connoisseur. Still, when I was presented the opportunity to review Sunless Sea’s soundtrack, I knew I had to do it. After reviewing the game and writing a game guide for it,…
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SolarFall Games has a big project on their hands with Umbra, the open world hack n’ slash game. The title has hit Kickstarter, seeking a whopping $225k in funds. To be perfectly honest, any project asking for more than $20k these days has me doubtful of…
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While I can understand the need for a market to grow and change, I have to say, I find it disappointing that slower paced, atmospheric survival horror has fallen to the wayside. These days, people want the quick scares of Five Nights at Freddy’s, or…
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[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hile some might think that Mystic Searches is somehow a new game project (I certainly did at a glance) this is actually the second crowdfunding campaign for a singular project that began in September of 2014, The New 8-Bit Heroes. That campaign was successfully funded for…
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Adventure games appear to be cropping up on Kickstarter almost faster than we can keep up with these days. One of the latest point and click adventures is called The Mystery of Oak Island, and it’s based on a real life mystery surrounding treasure beneath…
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On the first day of its campaign, Tokyo Dark was a success with backers and nailed its $33,000 funding goal. This 2D mystery point-and click adventure game is the latest from the Square Enix Collective, a platform that has certain similarities to Steam’s Greenlight in that…
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[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…
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This dubious Kickstarter campaign for the Child’s Play franchise was launched recently by one Donna Howland. In their bio they write that they are a game developer who is inspired by “games PewDiePie, Jacksepticeye, etc play” and whose experience comprises “mostly […] MMO or Maze games like the games…
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On April 5th, developer Jason M. Appleton announced that he had signed away the rights to Greed Monger due to exhaustion and a lack of funds. The IP is now in the possession of James Proctor and Joel Hager, the former being the project’s lead programmer in…
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[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…
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[dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]loodborne is said to have less weapons than the Dark Souls series, but the arsenal is fairly interesting because of its use of two different modes for each weapon. Some of the more intriguing Bloodborne weapons are the Beast Claw, the Threaded Cane, and the Reiterpallasch. For…
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