The Seed is a post-apocalyptic visual novel from Misery Dev, the team that created the highly regarded and punishly difficult Misery S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod. When it launched on Kickstarter in March 2014 The Seed was sold as a visual novel / RPG hybrid that tasked players…
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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 been just about a year since we’ve talked about Sentris, the visually and musically beautiful music puzzle game from Samantha Kalman and Timbre Interactive. For the past year it sat in a somewhat unfinished state on Steam Early Access where it garnered mostly positive…
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Have you checked out Fig yet? It’s the new video-game-only boutique crowdfunding platform with a number of heavyweights attached to it, including Tim Schafer and Brian Fargo. Fig is unique because there’s only one or two campaigns run at a time, each campaign requires approval…
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I gotta admit, I still haven’t bought into the whole E-Sports thing. It’s not that I have a problem calling competitive gaming a sport, because I can appreciate the amount of skill and training that must go into performing at a championship level. However, I’m…
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[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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…
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[dropcap size=big]P[/dropcap]roject Phoenix from Japan based indie devs CIA was one of the biggest Kickstarter video game campaigns to date when it collected over $1 million dollars back in the summer of 2013. The developers had nothing to show in exchange for the asking price,…
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As a love of the Sega Saturn, and the Panzer Dragoon series in particular, I was understandably excited to see a new game in the series launch on Kickstarter. Could this be the next mega campaign? The next Shenmue 3 if you will? (Queue sad…
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We post about a lot of visual novels here on Cliqist, it’s a genre that tends to do well on Kickstarter so there’s always plenty to choose from. But given that visual novels tend to have a much lower profile than the likes of Shenmue…
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Do you remember Mercenary Kings? The Metal Slug inspired platform shooter was successfully funded in September 2012 after 3,880 backers donated over $116k. When it was eventually released in 2014 the game met with mostly positive reviews, with much of the praise piled on the…
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Ever since it was funded to the tune of $13,000 in August 2013 updates from the developers of Revolution 60 have been fairly few and far between. However, the latest update from Brianna Wu and the gang at Giant Spacekat is a good one. What…
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[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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…
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Dear Voidrunner, I want to love you so much but you just won’t let me. There you sit, well short of a fairly reasonable Kickstarter goal; teasing me with how great you could be. Your funding video immediately draws me in with some breathtaking visuals, particularly…
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Some time ago I wrote a piece titled Fixing The Kickstarter Video Game Bubble. In it I contend that crowdfunding backers should be spreading their funding across more projects. Instead of dropping a hundred bucks on a single project, backers could better serve developers, themselves,…
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[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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…
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One of our most curiously popular search results last year was “horse sex.” In fact, there was a period of time during which we were in the top five Google search results for the term. I haven’t gone back to check for a while, but…
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If you’ve been a Cliqiteer for a while then you know that we’re fans of Nevermind, a psychological horror game that reacts to the player’s fear level using high-tech doo-dads. I was a bit cool on the game when it hit Kickstarter, but that was…