I’m a big card game nut. I’ve been a fan of CCGs ever since I cracked open my first starter deck of Magic: the Gathering (and subsequently Decipher’s Star Trek CCG) and I still enjoy a good match every now and then. When it comes…
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Serena has been a gamer since an early age and was brought up with the classic adventure games by Sierra On-Line, LucasArts, and Infocom. She's been an active member on Kickstarter since early 2012 and has backed a large number of crowdfunded games, mostly adventures. You can also find her writing for Kickstart Ventures and evn.moe.
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I always find it a bit sad whenever I see a project that I back not make funding by the time the clock ticks down to zero. In the case of Nadia Was Here they managed to get just under halfway to their goal before…
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Greetings, fellow explorators. It’s time for an update on everyone’s favorite Victorian personality Bertram Fiddle. As of the latest update we have been treated with a “pre-trailer” trailer, as they’re calling it, for The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle part two. And it looks simply stunning…
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I had known of The Longest Journey and Dreamfall for quite some time but it wasn’t until the Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters that I finally took the time to play both games. And, it should come as to no surprise that I instantly fell in…
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Ever since I first played the survival horror adventure game Stasis I’ve been hooked on the Brotherhood Games initial outing. Then I heard about their DLC known only as CAYNE was in development as an extension of the universe housing the shadowy corporation and it’s…
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Back in early 2013 a Myst clone launched on Kickstarter simply called XING. At the time I knew little about it beyond a short tech demo but I was blown away by the quality at the time that it was enough to put a few…
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I am a die-hard fan of dystopian tales in the vein of 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. That’s why I desperately want to like Anomie, a visual novel that takes some of the tropes that make this dark genre engaging and interesting. Unfortunately,…
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As a fan of the Myst series, when I saw The Eyes of Ara launch on Kickstarter I instantly knew that I had to back it. In addition to paying homage to the classic first person adventure game it also deals with some rather interesting…
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In a recent blog post on Kickstarter, David Gallagher announced that the games slice of the proverbial pie has finally breached half a billion dollars in pledges. Which is actually pretty impressive considering the platform has only been in existence for a handful of years. But,…
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I’m a fan of adventurey type games that take something else that I love and wrap it into a gaming genre that I love. In the case of The Captain, its tagline of “This is not just a regular point-and-click adventure game” made me want…
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I’ll admit that even though I’m a huge adventure game fan that I almost passed on the first person sci-fi game Deliver Us the Moon. The pitch wasn’t that great and the closest thing to a demo at the time was essentially a walk-through museum…
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There is something to say about a child’s imagination and the whimsical adventures that they go on before being hindered by the “real world” of adulthood. Not yet constrained by physics and such anything can become real for them, no matter what they can think…
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I’ve been known on several occasions to back a Kickstarter project purely on nostalgia, and in the case of Cyan’s latest opus Obduction, this is certainly no exception. We’ve covered development before, but haven’t really delved that deep into the years-long cycle. With the latest…
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The Kickstarter Primer video series aims to give those new to crowdfunding a look at what to know when backing your first campaign, we also want to give potential first-time campaign runners a glimpse into what makes a project successful or not. In this installment…
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I’m probably going to get lynched for saying this, but I have never played a Fable game. Sure, I know what it is and I’ve been meaning to check it out, but it’s not high on my list. Now, before you go grabbing your torches…
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Visual novels have been a passion of mine almost as long as I’ve been into anime, and I’ve enjoyed plenty of both Eastern and Western style stories. That is why I decided to give Corona Blossom a closer look when I noticed that it launched…