Hey, enough of all these platformers, puzzlers, and adventure games – let’s get some other genres represented on Kickstarter! (Note: No, I actually don’t mind tons of similar genres seeking crowdfunding but could understand why some may be displeased by it). If you happen to…
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Buck Wild Over The Deer God Alpha by Julie Morley [divider] The power of deer puns shall entertain you! In the several months I’ve been writing about Crescent Games’ The Deer God, I may have suffocated you all with my continuous usage of horrible deer…
It’s not uncommon to see a game fail on Kickstarter and get rebooted. These second campaigns are usually an effort to get the game made, they usually have lower funding goals, and they’re usually the exact same campaign that failed in the past, but Parabole…
Fabian Rastorfer, Ben Miller, and their development team have hit Kickstarter, seeking $45K for their latest gaming project, The Wild Wild Pixel. The team hopes to work on The Wild Wild Pixel for at least a year and a half to make it the game…
That’s right. Let’s get together, fly some planes, and shoot at each other. Plane and simple (hah!). It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten my hands on an aerial combat game and for Wild Wings to make its way to Kickstarter is exciting to…
Few genres have been on the edge of extinction as consistenly as the flight sim. Sure, there’s always a number of titles out there to play, but when you compare the flights sim scene of the early 90’s, to the sims available today it’s easy…
How many Kickstarter-funded games make it to the PlayStation 4? Almost every Kickstarter campaign for a video game has PC as their target platform. It’s only an elite few who aim to bring their game to a console, and fewer still who manage it. Indeed,…
Described as a mix of Groundhog Day and Shakespeare, Elsinore is Golden Glitch Studios’ first game and a Kickstarter-funded project. It’s already won awards like “Most Unique Game” at Power of Play 2017, and caught the attention of WIRED. Nominated again for IndieCade, Elsinore returned…
After finding success with The World Next Door and Cat Lady, Rose City Games and publisher VIZ Media have a new project in the works. Described as a mix of adventure RPGs and social simulators, their newest collaboration, Garden Story follows Concord, an anthropomorphic grape on a…
Between her costume designs for BioShock Infinite and her historical Disney series, Claire Hummel is a prolific artist with an intricate and elegant style. While exhibiting at the first edition of LightBox Expo, an attendee admired her illustration of Medusa, praising the emotion and ideas…
PC gamers have grown accustomed to a unified digital platform over the past two decades. For better or worse, Steam has become the de facto game launcher. Most PC titles, since the platform’s debut in September of 2003, have released through Steam. The Epic Games…
Fourth quarter, up by 18 points, first down. You’ve got this in the bag, it’s a won game. Then your quarterback gets jumped by the offensive line. Now you have to forfeit because your last substitution just had his brain squished against the astroturf. Enemy…
This week’s latest Nindies Direct saw a few pleasant surprises, but none bigger than the announcement of a brand new Zelda game coming from an indie developer. The developers of Crypt of the Necrodancer approached Nintendo looking to make some tie in DLC for their title. They…
I remember playing the demo for Ape Out when it released back in 2017. Taking on the role of various apes, players would smash and grab their way through the flat, colorful worlds. Along the way, they were forced to evade and destroy hapless zoo…
The Kickstarter campaign for The Cow Game is probably the biggest concentration of cow puns ever in a crowd-funding page. If that’s not a reason to back it then nothing else is. However, if you still need more convincing The Cow Game is a promising arcade-like title….
The holiday season is supposed to be a time for relaxing. A time of year when people get time off to spend with family, friends and generally kick back and relax. Truly a chance to repair the mental damage that the rest of the year…