Last zombie post of the day, promise! This one comes courtesy of Undeadz, a top down zombie shooter that just hit Kickstarter. This pixilated open world game promises lots of freedom; including the ability to enter buildings, a ton of environmental interactivity, vehicles, and customization…
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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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Everyone knows that Myst was a major reason people bought CD Rom drives for their computers back in the day. Dropping a few hundred bucks on a peripheral of limited use was worth it when you saw it in action. However, the other game that…
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The team that brought us the thoroughly enjoyable Walking Dead Chronicles game, along with several other TV licenses, has hit Kickstarter in the hopes of funding their own original IP. The Incredible Corpse takes place in a world where aliens have invaded and stolen everyone’s…
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Alone In The Dark, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil. All are classic fixed camera horror games that scared gamers with creepy atmosphere, claustrophobic surroundings, and frightening visuals. The team at Creazn Studio is hoping to bring a bit of that feeling back to modern horror…
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DuCiel Spitzfaden, lead writer and concept artist for Project Swordsmith, took some time out of her schedule to answer some questions from us about her upcoming RPG graphic adventure that’s currently seeking funding through Kickstarter. As we covered previously, Project Swordsmith is a dieselpunk RPG…
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Diablo meets Pipe Mania. Whoever wrote the ad copy for Dwarven Delve deserves some kind of award for the most succinctly accurate description of a game ever. At first glance the game looks like nothing more than another top down dungeon crawler; not an ugly…
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Sometimes on Kickstarter you’ll run into some strange campaigns, then there’s The Scratching Post. Described as an animated interactive (intercative?) Choose Your Own Adventure style experience, The Scratching Post follows the adventures three cats as they just try to get by. But it’s not as…
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Mad Otter posted an update today stating that they’re cancelling the Red Baron Kickstarter campaign. A week into the campaign the team had only managed to raise about $33,000 of their $250,000 goal, which put them on track to get halfway to their target. All…
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Joe Pietruch is a gamer, developer, and an educator, and he’d like you to back his game that features a controversial element of our criminal justice system; chain gangs. Chain Gang Chase has you and up to 7 friends guiding your tethered cons through maze…
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What we have here is an MMO inspired by the writings of Jane Austen. Haven’t seen that before, have you? Currently in development at 3 Turn Productions, Ever, Jane is exactly what it sounds like; an MMORPG that puts you into Jane Austen’s world, complete…
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The guy that brought us the very addicting Pocket Ninjas is back with another game, this time it’s got zombies. Wait! Stay there for just a couple minutes. I know you’re getting tired of zombie games, we all are; they’re the WW2 games of the…
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Remember DragonStrike? It had a great feeling of flying through the air on your trusty dragon steed attacking enemies with a variety of abilities. No? Ok, maybe that was too long ago. How about Drakan? While the platforming portions of both games in the series…
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The guy that brought you the cute side scroller, Spuds Quest, has decided to go a completely different direction with his next game. The Escapists is about escaping from prison. As far as elevator pitches go, it’s a brief one. The Escapists features a cutesy…
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Infinite Fall’s Kickstarter campaign for the very Wes Anderson meets Where The Wild Things Are adventure game, Night In The Woods, has obviously made a connection with people. Who knows whether it’s the teams’ prestigious background, the unique concept, the beautiful trailer, or all of…
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John Master Lee is a guy that’s been in the video game world for going on twenty years, having worked for former powerhouses such as Hudson and Sega, he’s seen a lot. Eventually he decided to leave the corporate world and start doing his own…
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Paul Rudd and Gary Oldman made a surprising joint announcement earlier this week regarding their professional future as a newly formed team called SeaCliff Interactive. Forgoing the usual trappings of golden toilets and diamond encrusted Ferrari’s, the pair announced that they’re working on computer game! …