Some Kickstarter campaigns are so infuriating you feel like you have no choice but to scream at the top of your lungs every complaint you have in the hope the creator will hear you. Unfortunately, the 10% of the internet that isn’t comprised of cat…
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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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Over the last week, I’ve written David Hayter’s name more times than Hayter himself probably has in his entire life. Whether it be writing the script for CAT: Bloodstained, it’s follow-up article, the script for today’s video, and now this follow-up, I feel I could…
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Ghost Theory first spooked Kickstarter back in January, but for whatever reason the ghostly campaign failed. Now, after going back to the scary drawing board, developer Dreadlocks are back on Kickstarter with their haunting tale. Okay, I’ll stop that now. I don’t want to give…
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Do you remember Fear Effect? It was that old PS1 game that had the Resident Evil style camera angle. Yeah, that one with that’s remembered as a classic thanks to it’s marketing campaign? Well, that franchise is back with Fear Effect Sedna on Kickstarter. This…
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After publishing that massive list detailing every suspended Kickstarter campaign, I noticed a few patterns. The first was between 2012 and about mid-2014, most of the bad campaigns were just that, bad campaigns. Developers not giving enough information about their game, terrible reward tiers, stuff…
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After less than a week since it’s relaunch, City of the Shroud has already earned over $12,000 of its $14,000 goal. It’s a far cry from their campaign in February, which fizzled out after the first week or so. The second campaign is much more streamlined,…
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When we last wrote about Parkitect in January, we talked about how developer Texel Raptor was doing a great job keeping backers informed. Those updates have continued, and recently the team announced the game is coming to Steam in Early Access on May 5th. This…
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It looks like we’re about to have a new entry in our list of suspended Kickstarters. All the hallmarks are there. Adolph Christ, despite what the name suggests, is definitely not trying to offend you or make money based solely off its name. Instead, it’s…
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is one of the most successful videogame crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter – anywhere, really. Despite the myriad of updates over the last few months, we at Cliqist haven’t talked about it since June 2015. Deciding to remedy that, I chose…
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Warbands: Bushido is a “tactical, turn-based, tabletop-style wargame series.” It’s a videogame, but it’s also a tabletop inspired game. There’s a hexagonal board on which you play on, you move figures around the board, and you collect cards that act as special events or power-ups….
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It was supposed to be a fun, light-hearted online shooter. Instead, Super Dwarf Madness has turned into yet another dead and forgotten Kickstarter game. Receiving its last update in April 2015, many backers (at least, those that even remembered donating) assumed the project was dead….
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Kickstarter reserves the right to cancel (or “suspend” as they diplomatically call it) any campaign that fails to follow their guidelines. However, Kickstarter is lax with their enforcement, taking action only in the most extreme cases. But what makes these suspensions so troubling is that…
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What if somebody combined one of those typing tutor programs you used back in school with Guitar Hero? Luckily developers Open Steno Project and For All To Play are here to answer that very, very specific question. They’re also here to remind us that Crowd…
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When we wrote about Invisible Apartment 3 last November, we were pretty optimistic it would get meet its €2,500 funding goal. That wasn’t the case however. Developer Vysoko Anime Production walked away with nothing, and fans of the series were left wondering what was going…
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April Fools is a time to gather all your friends together and lie to them. Or maybe you’d prefer to lie to people on the internet. I don’t know, I never really understood it myself, but maybe that’s because I’m boring. Trust me, I’d never…
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Kickstarter is a great way to receive an injection of funds for anyone with a creative endeavor. With the platform’s rise in popularity, it’s coverage across the internet has expanded. The go-to platform for crowdfunding independent projects is as much an online shop for publishers…