I’ve written about graveyard simulator Welcome to Boon Hill before, applauding developer Matthew Ritter’s hilarious and witty writing. If you’re a Steam user (also known as a ‘PC gamer’), you can now purchase Boon Hill through the service. The news was announced through an update…
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Gary Alexander Stott is a handsome young writer from Scotland absolutely brimming with talent, who feels his best feature is his modesty. When it comes to overthinking narrative and storytelling in games, his otherwise useless degree in English with Creative Writing comes in very handy indeed.
Offworld Industries’ Squad, the first-person shooter with a heavy emphasis on teamwork and commincation, has launched the second version of its closed alpha. An update posted to the game’s official Kickstarter page (which helped the project raise $434,805 CAD from 4,458 backers) details the features…
It’s been 8 months since The Song of Seven successfully achieved its funding goal through Kickstarter, raising $8,543 from 503 backers. To mark the occasion, developer Enlighted Games has released a shiny new trailer for the game’s first chapter, Overture, which also happens to showcase…
Halloween might be over, but that won’t stop Jason Voorhees. Gun Media’s Friday the 13th Kickstarter campaign has enjoyed tremendous interest and exposure since it launched, and with 10 days still remaining, the project has successfully managed to raise nearly $600,000+ of its huge $700,000…
Tangiers, the artistically-driven stealth project employing a 20th-century avant-garde aesthetic, is in trouble. In a recent update posted to the game’s Kickstarter page, developer Alex Harvey is perfectly transparent as he details the financial difficulties facing the project. Apparently, the additional funding necessitated by the…
Infinity: Battlescape sure has a lot of ambition for a first-time Kickstarter project, as well as a high goal – $300,000, to be precise. Pitched as a seamless, procedurally generated space sim with absolutely no loading screens, the fact that the game has earned a…
Fantasy MMORPG Stash has returned to Kickstarter with a rather interesting goal: to bring more players into its community, a somewhat alternative reason to seek crowdfunding. As a result, the funding goal is a low $1,000 – that hasn’t stopped interested backers from pledging close…
You might have heard the news recently that Scribblenauts developer 5THCELL was planning to crowdfund its next IP through the shiny new Fig platform. Well, now everything has been set in motion, and Anchors in the Drift has officially begun its public journey. Here’s what…
Seldom do Kickstarter projects look this good at the pitch stage. Doko Roko has immediately captured my attention. Allow me to explain why it deserves yours. Well, for a start, just look at this game! It’s beautiful, it’s smooth, and it has great art direction…
Remember Another World? I don’t – I was too young. I do, however, remember Heart of Darkness, and I certainly remember From Dust. The thread that ties these three games? French game designer Eric Chahi. From these three games alone, it’s plain to see that…
The whimsically-named Dusty Raging Fist seeks to mix up the Streets of Rage beat ’em up formula in a multitude of ways. Hopefully backers will like what they see enough to fund the second half of its development. Once you get past the fact that…
Mage Tower, the digital tower defense card game from Super Mega Games, has a long history with Kickstarter. This is technically the fifth campaign, having been initially successful in a 2012 tabletop project, which was followed up by a successful expansion in 2013. Then Super…
I covered Super Axe Boy when it was first announced that the project would be coming to Kickstarter. I was not impressed. Now that the campaign is underway, I decided to check things out and see whether it could change my mind. So how is…
You may have read my article the other day about a dispute behind the scenes of the Hello, Neighbor! campaign. If not, you should definitely check that out before reading this article. It’s kind of a weird situation. Too lazy? Here’s the short version: former…
Gun Media‘s Friday the 13th Kickstarter project certainly has momentum on its side. With 25 days to go, the asymmetric 1 versus 7 multiplayer game based on the classic film franchise has managed to raise a massive $440,824 of its $700,000 goal, and the number…
You may or may not be familiar with Hello, Neighbor!. If not, it’s an AI-centric first-person puzzler that has players trying to break into their mysterious neighbor’s basement in an attempt to uncover their darkest secrets. I think it looks as terrifying as it does unique,…