The Long Dark is one of those games that keep’s showing up on everyone’s “Most Anticipated Games” list, even though we’ve seen relatively little of it since it was funded on Kickstarter last year. However, all of that changed in September when the game was…
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Greg Micek has been writing on and off about games since the late nineties, always with a focus on indie games. He started DIYGames.com in 2000, which was one of the earliest gaming sites to focus exclusively on indie games.
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Old West JRPG Boot Hill Heroes Released; Let’s Talk to the Developer with Greg Micek [divider] [dropcap]B[/dropcap]oot Hill Heroes is a game we’ve covered several times here on Cliqist, including a glowing review from Mitchell. The development has had it’s share of ups and down,…
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A few weeks ago we posted a news article about Seldon Crisis, an Isaac Asimov inspired MMO that the developers claimed would be “…the largest sandbox universe ever created.” For a mere £250,000 the developers were going to create an epic game that would put…
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If you look at the history of Kickstarter you’ll find a few game types that tend to do well on the platform. Roguelikes, Metroidvanias, and Survival games seem to do disproportionately well on the platform; especially compared to the likes of first person shooters and…
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Lets Talk High Flying Strategy title, Highlands with Jonathan Ortega Every day we see new Kickstarter campaigns launch; it’s a seemingly endless sea of games to back out there. After a while though, things start blending together, title images start looking the same when you’re…
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Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
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Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
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We’ve talked about Comosmochoria a fair amount since its Kickstarter campaign launched back in March. The games’ cartoonish visuals, adorable protagonist, and planet saving gameplay has always been intriguing to us. Since the game was funded to the tune of nearly $30,000 the developer has been…
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Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
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A brief non-gaming bit before we get back to our regularly scheduled news. Earlier this week my fantastically amazing mother Charlotte lost one of her sons to suicide. Details and such are obviously not important, just that a caring, funny, and fantastic man is no…
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We here at Cliqist love crowdfunded games, but we are gamers just like you guys, and that means we play, well, everything. The “Not Crowdfunded, But…” series will be a regular dose of non-crowdfunded magic from us to you, covering everything from the latest Gears of…
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Texel Raptor Discusses Amusement Park Sim, Parkitect with Greg Micek [divider] Cliqist : Can you start off by telling us a bit about yourself? Garret : We’re 3 developers, 2 from Vancouver and 1 from Germany, working on Parkitect. We’ve all had some kind of…
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Max Hall on Outpost 13, Killer Dogs, and Sci-Fi with Greg Micek [divider] Cliqist : Who are you, and why are we talking? Max Hall : My name is Max, I’m an Independent game developer working on a game called Outpost 13. I’ve been running…
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Game, Code, Game Some More. Lindsey Handley on CodeSpells with Greg Micek [divider] If there’s been one type of game that I’ve grown used to seeing on Kickstarter it’s the ones that promise to gamify the act of learning to code. While some of these…
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Welcome to our weekly feature, “Question Of The Week.” As you can tell from that entirely original title each week we pose a question to our panel and they chime in with their opinions. No one sees one another’s responses until the story is posted,…
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Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…