Heyworks have launched a Kickstarter campaign for Pocket Troops, their cartoonishly cute multiplayer military combat game. Players choose their team from a variety of recruits, use various facilities to train them, and then send them on to the field of battle. Rather than having direct…
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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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Tim Schafer and his minions over at Double Fine have announced some changes to the way their pointy-clicky adventure game Broken Age will be released. Last summer Tim gave some people the vapors when he lamented how fast money can get spent, especially when you…
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Over The Moon posted a backer update to The Fall’s Kickstarter page showing off some slick new screenshots. This creepy side scroller is looking better and better every time we see it. Learn more about The Fall from our previous coverage, or through it’s Kickstarter…
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It’s been exactly two months since Kickstarter started accepting projects from the land down under, namely Australia and New Zealand. The last time we checked there were 12 projects across a wide variety of genres that launched in the first 24 hours. Funding targets ranged…
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During our unfortunate hibernation there were remarkably few noteworthy projects to come and go on Kickstarter. Maybe some developers realized that asking for money on December 24th isn’t a surefire plan to a successful campaign, or maybe developers just didn’t want the hassle of managing…
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Someone describing their game as a mix of Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online makes me hold my wallet a little tighter while thinking about who I can punch. Both games have an extended history of frustration, failure, and more frustration, so why should I…
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The good folks at Steam recently announced a new round of Steam Greenlight graduates, games that have been approved for sale on Steam, provided they are ever completed. Of the 100 titles approved in this latest round, 26 of them involved either Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. That’s…
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Futurepoly’s Jason Stokes recently took some time out of his hectic work schedule to speak with us. Why would we want to talk to him? Jason isn’t just the guy behind a great looking school for game artists, he’s also the creator of Bullet Bros,…
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Star Control in an infinite procedurally generated universe. That’s the point where designer Bob Saunders could drop the mic and walk off the stage when describing his upcoming game, Approaching Infinity. Of course when asking for money it’s usually a good idea to provide a…
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After a brief holiday break how about we get things rolling again with a small pixellated platformer? Super 16 is the brain child of Ben Anderson, a guy that’s been making 2D games as a hobby for nearly 10 years. We had some trouble tracking…
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It’s never fun to see a game struggle through its Kickstarter campaign, especially one as promising as After Reset. This Fallout inspired hard-core RPG has everything you could want; cool post apocalyptic setting, non-linear story, tons of character customization, an enormous game world, solid graphics,…
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You see all kinds of games when trolling through Kickstarter projects, take Talk ‘Em Down for example. It’s a game where you have to try and talk people down from the ledge of a building so they don’t commit suicide. Isn’t that positively cheery? Did…
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Mr. Alex Schwartz of Owlchemy Labs was kind enough to answer some of our questions recently. Who exactly is Alex Schwartz? He’s one of guys behind the upcoming survival game Dyscourse, of course! If you’re not already familiar with Dyscourse then shame on you; you…
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What do you get when you mix the classic board game Clue with some Kairosoft style graphics and gameplay? You get Mansion Lord, a role playing business sim from Golgom Games that’s currently on Kickstarter in an effort to raise some money. In Mansion Lord…
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Blobs have a long illustrious history in videogames; from A Boy & His Blob, to Chronic Logic’s fantastic Gish, there’s something gamers love about a character we would be repulsed by in real life. And now Extend Studios are Kickstarting their own entry into the…
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Judy L. Tyrer recently took some time out of her busy schedule to talk to us about the MMO she’s currently seeking funds for on Kickstarter, Ever, Jane. This unique online RPG tosses much of what we’ve come to expect from MMO’s; namely killing, looting,…