If you keep a regular eye on Kickstarter then you’ve no doubt come across Fortis Rex: Rise of the King. Having gone through 5 funding campaigns it seems like you could select a random campaign and come across one of Fortis Rexs’. It’s great that…
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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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Salvage Trader, which was Kickstarted back in July 2013 has been released for all of you Mac heads out there. The open universe strategy game that lets players gather resources, upgrade their ships, fight space pirates, and trade goods is meant to be played through…
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Good news for anyone that’s been wondering what happened to Shadowgate since it was Kickstarted back in November 2012. Zojoi, the team behind the prettier-than-the-original first person RPG, have announced that their creation has hit the Alpha milestone. What’s that mean exactly? As detailed in…
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Pathea Games has released a trio of new screenshots from their open world voxelfied RPG, Planet Explorers. Since raising over $130,000 a year ago on Kickstarter the team has been showing off improvements on a regular basis. While it’s not ready for prime time quite…
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There’s a variety of Minecraftian games out there, and by that I mean games that use boxy voxel graphics. Some are better than others, with the better games being the ones that do the most to move beyond their Minecraft roots. Planets³ from Cubical Drift…
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We recently posted an announcement about Oscar, a 2D platformer from Team Sharkeye that’s currently seeking $40,000 worth of funding on Kickstarter. At first blush Oscar is just another 2D platformer in an already crowded market. However, the team has gone out of their way…
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One of the things that I enjoyed most as a teenager was going to the annual DefCon hacker convention. It mostly involved hanging out with friends, learning new things, and meeting some of my heroes. As time went on something happened, the convention got bigger…
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Yes, The Land of Eyas is a 2D platformer; yes there are way too many 2D platformers out there, but hang in there with me. In The Land of Eyas you play Eyas, a boy in a cat costume. No, the cat costume isn’t Eyas’…
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Graphite Lab has released some fancy new screenshots, and a gameplay video, from their currently Kickstarting action game, Hive Jump. The footage and screens show off a small selection of the weapons players will get to choose from. In addition to that, there are some…
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One of the things that always bothered me about “artistic games” is that they tend to rely too heavily on childhood. Using retro graphics and gameplay styles to bring me back to an emotionally simpler time then introducing a vulnerable character and placing them in…
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When you’re launching a new Kickstarter campaign there are lots of things you should do. Do make an engaging video. Do give lots of game information. There’s even more things you should make sure you avoid; the most important of which is to not use…
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Pantheon, the ambitious MMO from famed Everquest designer Brad McQuaid may not have been as successful as planned raising funds on Kickstarter, but that doesn’t mean it was a flop, it raised almost half a million dollars. After raising $460,000 it must have been a…
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Causual Bit Games has sent out word that their low-fi action platformer Insanity’s Blade: The Arcade Experience has been delayed. The good news is that as of now the delay only pushes the game back a few months to May 18th. Citing the desire to…
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It’s unusual to see a funding campaign for an existing game that’s been on sale for almost a year, but that’s what we have with the Dysfunctional Systems Kickstarter campaign. The team over at Dischan Media released the first episode of their Dysfuntional Systems visual…
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Depth Test is one of those games I want to see happen so badly so that it can be expanded upon to its fullest potential, even if that potential only exists in my head. The Depth Test and Kerbal Space Program comparison isn’t just simple…
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Jane Jensen, famed designer of the Gabriel Knight series and goth game developer extraordinaire, is just about ready to unleash her latest title to the world. Moebius: Empire Rising will be released for Windows and Mac on April 15th according to a recent press release…