Anyone you know planning on missing a rent payment this month? It might be that they’ve invested all their cash into the Hyper Light Drifter Kickstarter campaign. Heart Machine’s pixellated action RPG has been tearing it up since it launched on September 12th, reaching it’s…
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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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“It’s like Myst!” That’s not a statement you hear every day, at least not as a positive, but that’s one game the developers of Project Monolith are comparing theirs too. They’re also quick to throw in Portal, and Lost. But hopefully just the first season…
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Over The Moon has posted a new update to their Kickstarter page. Normally we wouldn’t post every time a campaign’s page gets an update, otherwise it would be nothing but Mighty No. 9 news every day. However, when there’s a significant information dump we’ll post…
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Voxcore’s survival horror game, Lucid, completed it’s Kickstarter campaign earlier today. Congratulations to the team for successfully hitting their $2,000 funding target, and surpassing it by a few hundred bucks. This means they can submit their title to the Indie Games Festival, as well as continue…
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Just halfway through their Kickstarter funding campaign for Battle Isle : Threshold Run, Stratotainment has officially cancelled the campaign. Here’s the announcement : Thank you for your interest in Battle Isle: Threshold Run. We have made a tough decision to cancel the campaign and continue…
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There can’t be many jobs more depressing than crime scene cleaner, regardless of what Amy Adams tells you. A new project from, its-not-a-typo, Hurmit Games puts you in that depressingly grimy world of crime scene custodial engineering. Night Job is a top-down RPG with NES…
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Seth is a 13 year old from Canada looking for a couple grand to make his first game. While IndieGoGo is chock full of “Help my 13 year old child make their first game!” funding campaigns, they’re much less common on Kickstarter. That in itself…
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In the case of Terminus, the world ends with a bang, not a whimper. A cataclysmic level solar event means that everyone on Earth has packed up and moved on in hopes of finding a better place to call home. As the man in charge…
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Not beautiful Sacramento, Ca., but River City Ransom! If the team at Conatus Creative can put $180,000 together then we’ll all be taking a trip to the rowdiest place around. As you, hopefully, know River City Ransom was a fantastic side scrolling fighting game for…
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There’s something about a dark and creepy screenshot that get’s people buzzing. The buzzing online now is about The Fall, a side scrolling action platforming that has as much in common with Limbo as it does Metroid. If you ask the developer at Over The…
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Game development is a lot of work, so getting help from your friends can help. Getting help from thousands of friends? Even better, hopefully. That’s the thinking behind Neo’s Land, a fantasy MMO being developed by Neojac that’s currently looking for some additional funding through…
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“A love letter to Mega Man X, Super Metroid and a powerful adventure for my daughter.” How do you not take a closer look at a Kickstarter campaign with an opening line like that? Whether you buy into the heart string pulling of the daughter…
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Nibelungen Saga. Doesn’t really roll off the tongue does it? Don’t let that stop you from checking out The Games Foundation’s Kickstarter campaign to make this tongue twister a reality. So, what is Nibelungen Saga? It’s described as an action adventure in the vein of…
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Old school gamers should have an idea of what’s going on already. Game Refuge is looking to go back to the glory days and rework their classic Genesis action title, General Chaos. The new game, General Chaos II : Sons of Chaos doesn’t stray too…
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Sad news today for backers of the deep space sandbox game Hadron’s Forge. Arcane Logic updated their Kickstarter campaign with news that they were cancelling the funding for Hadron’s Forge. Here’s the update : Hello fans of Hadron’s Forge! We really appreciate your interest and…
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What exactly is a Neo-Victorian Skirmish Squad? Who cares? Games don’t need to make sense to be fun. Enter Neo-Victorian Skirmish Squad from Terncraft Games, makers of Thieving Tower. NVSS is an RPG battle dice game set in John Brummel University, an institution that prides…