Terrible Old Games You Probably Never Heard Of is the kind of name I wouldn’t hesitate to make fun of if I weren’t the guy who came up with Crowdfunding Analysis Time. Nevertheless, the video series of the same name by Youtuber Stuart Ashen is…
Josh Griffiths
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Josh Griffiths is a writer and amateur historian. He has a passion for 3D platformers, narrative-driven games, and books. Josh is also Cliqist’s video producer. He’s currently working on his first novel, and will be doing so on and off for the next decade.
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Recently we posted an article detailing the return of InSomnia to Kickstarter. It was successfully funded back in July 2014 to the tune of $92,268 dollars. Now Studio MONO is back hoping to raise an additional $80,000 to finish production of their Fallout inspired RPG….
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Safe Zone is a zombie survival game that was successfully funded in July 2011. It raised north of $6,000, and promised to be Oregon Trail game but with zombies. The original release date was Fall 2011, but now five years on, there’s no end in…
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Lobodestroyo has completely eluded our attention here on Cliqist, getting only a brief mention in a Yooka-Laylee article a year ago. Fitting, since like that game, Lobodestroyo sells itself on being just like Banjo-Kazooie. Unlike Yooka-Laylee though, Lobodestroyo is influenced by other games, like Mega…
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If you’re a regular Kickstarter user, you might have forgotten that sports video games are a thing. You know, those athletic events that usually involve balls and sticks? Big, sweaty, burly men and women smashing into each other and pretending like it’s not homo-erotic? Those…
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3D mascot platformers, retroactively re-named “collect-a-thons” as of late, are a lot like Invader Zim. All the kids were doing it, the internet was abuzz with talk of the latest installments, until one day all that was taken away from us. Video game publishers decided…
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Developer 8 Points released a pre-alpha demo for The Wild Eight recently, which means I decided to fire it up and give it a go. Billed as an “eerie survival adventure,” I’ve heard a lot of good things about the survival game from various websites…
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InSomnia is a “brutal dieselpunk” RPG heavily inspired by the original Fallout games and Wasteland 2. It takes cues from other RPG’s and more modern gaming, but if you didn’t know better you’d think you were playing Fallout 4 as designed by its original developers,…
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Slug Disco Studios has been anything but antsy in their wait to bring Empires of the Undergrowth back to Kickstarter. Their first campaign launched in November 2015, but failed to meet its £15,000 goal by nearly half. Now Slug Disco is back on Kickstarter with…
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What were to happen if you mixed Papers, Please, This War of Mine and Fallout Shelter? You’d probably get a random pile of broken code and ill-fitting assets. But if someone were to take ideas and inspiration from those games, they might end up with…
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We’ve talked about Seymour Butts, once called The Black Hound, before. We’ve tried to figure out the rationale behind this meltdown, if it wasn’t a prank from the beginning. In videos we examined what The Black Hound was before it became a punchline. That’s what…
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Anyone who woke up this morning and checked Twitter might have been in for a surprise. Or they might not have been. Mighty No. 9 was (and still is at time of writing) trending in the top 3, and with that game, it can only…
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[Update 4/27 3:41 AM] The Dolls Kickstarter campaign has been canceled by Hush Interactive. There was only a single, backer only update on the Kickstarter explaining why it was canceled. Luckily Cliqist Editor-In-Chief and butterfly collector Greg Micek backed the campaign to keep an eye…
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Home is behind you, while the world is ahead. The past, with the benefit of hindsight, is never as glorious as we thought. Tomorrow, however, will always remain murky. All that leaves us with is today, full of disappointment created by the past and the…
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In our first let’s play in about a month, we take a look at City of the Shroud. Now fully funded on Kickstarter, we’ve been keeping an eye on this ambitious game for some time. Promising an epic combination of Street Fighter and Final Fantasy…
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“Be careful with the other lot. They owe a lot of people lots of money. Numerous Kickstarter’s, failing to deliver to backers, failing to pay for PR services, art work, sounds and more. They’ve done this to me and five others.” It was a warm…