If there’s one thing visual novel fans like me adore Kickstarter for, it’s that the platform is always home to cool new projects of the genre. This week WarGirlGames launched their campaign for Over The Hills And Far Away. Before we dig into that story,…
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Marcus is a fellow with a love for video games, horror, and Japanese food. When he’s not writing about games for a multitude of sites, he’s usually still playing one. Writing about video games is something he hopes to continue doing for many years to come.
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It’s always refreshing to see new point and click adventures emerge since the genre has so much to offer. Ira, currently on Kickstarter by developer Ore Creative, is the latest out there. It tells the story of a fellow named Ira who grew up on…
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It seems no one can keep Ynnis Interactive down. Since 2013 they’ve hit up Kickstarter with six different video game projects (most of which succeeded). So far two have launched, Mysterious Cities of Gold and Kill the Bad Guy. Their more recent campaigns for Shiness…
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[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]t’s that time again, time to look back and examine the Kickstarter videogame data from last month. We’ve already looked at the successful campaigns, as well as the failed campaigns, so now let’s dig into the data of failed campaigns now. 105 videogame campaigns were…
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[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]very month Kickstarter is full of wild successes, and depressing failures. While some are always going to have that massive fan push behind them to see hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding others barely make it to the finish line. Due to the…
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[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]arch was an interesting month in the world of crowdfunding. After the ridiculous successes of February, it seemed like 2015 was off to an absolute bang. This immense success led me to believe that there would be less campaigns in March. My opinion was that…
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FIGHT! Round 1 – A Female Fighting Character Zine has been on Kickstarter for about a week now and reached its goal of $9,500 CAD (or $7,562 USD) with little issue. But for many, this will be the first time they’ve ever even heard of…
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As a child I totally wanted to be a witch. Shows like Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage Witch just made the concept seem wildly fun. Of course, I grew up and did not spontaneously gain magical powers. With that said, thanks to games like Charmixy: Witch Academy…
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It’s really cool to see developers who are now on their third or fourth Kickstarter campaigns after having previous successes. Sean Young is one of these people. After crowdfunding his previous projects (Pixel Kingdom and Magicite) he has now returned with Roguelands, the latest and…
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[dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t’s safe to say that when Hotline Miami launched in 2012 there was nothing quite out there like it. Sure, stealth and puzzle games are available, but none featured this specific brand of style that Dennaton Games produced. The gritty, disturbing vibe paired with…
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[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]he inaugural season of Boss Fight Books was an excellent jaunt through a variety of video games. From the strange tale of Super Mario Bros. 2 to amazing game creation tool ZZT there was at least one book to suit a great deal of…
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Some folks grew up with the early days of video games, while some others were children of the 90s. Falling into this category myself, it’s very easy to lament the style of early 3D platformers which have mostly disappeared from the landscape. Instead, indie developers…
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[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ust a few years ago Kickstarter was bustling with huge names in the video game development scene. We’re starting to see that trend return, but in 2013 it was all about adventure games. Case in point, the Armikrog crowdfunding campaign by Pencil Test Studios,…
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With zillions of games out there, we’ve seen some resort to quite unusual names to stand out. One such recent example comes in the form of Blazefall Binalblades. When I saw this on Kickstarter I initially had no idea what type of game this was,…
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What things are popular in the current video game climate? Minecraft is still kicking it as a world-renowned game, and heck, zombies are still in vogue as well! As such, it seems any game with aspects of both is poised for easy attention. It’s hard…
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Although some folks have not yet warmed up to the idea, I’m a big fan of browser-based games. After all, times have changed since you required running various browser extensions to simply get a highly simplistic game to play on one. Nevergrind is a HTML5-based…
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