Video games have been a vehicle for all types of storytelling. Ethereal by Thomas Finch looks to explore a very different sort of storyline – one based off his own father. In the game, players control a small spirit which must relieve a series of…
Stuart Ryall on Surviving The Frozen Wasteland of Impact Winter with Ahmad Khan [divider] Impact Winter is a post-apocalyptic survival RPG in the vein of Fallout that tasks players with surviving a frozen hellscape that’s overcome much of the planet thanks to a stray asteroid. Unlike…
Holden Boyles on Qora, And the Future with Julie Morley [divider] In the past, Cliqist has covered Qora several times (including when it was called Spirit) and has kept up with the games’ development. Now, after months of waiting and tedious development, Qora is finally here. But, new…
Welcome to Mistland – Lost Souls Home Another View of Knite & The Ghost Lights by Julie Morley [divider] They say the ghost lights are the souls of the abandoned, hurt, and lost – indefinitely stuck in a void of nothingness. Many years ago, ghost pipers…
A Look Back at Gabriel Knight by Mitchell “Moe” Long To help celebrate October, the upcoming Halloween holiday, and the impending release of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition the very adventurous Moe Long decided to play through all Jane Jensen’s classic…
Border: Remembrance is a hand-drawn top-down lowbit/pixelized action RPG Metroidvania developed solely by Istvan Gal and currently raising funds on Kickstarter. In Border: Remembrance, players are thrown into fast paced gameplay complimented by differentiating storylines and map content separated by respective playable characters with diverse…
Kickstarter Videogames Dying? Not So Fast, a Chat With Thomas Bidaux with Greg Micek [divider] A couple weeks ago a blog post on the ICO Partners website started making the crowdfunding rounds, and then proceeded to pop up on nearly every gaming site around. The innocently…
John Comes Discusses Human Resources with Greg Micek Human Resources from Uber Entertainment is something we’ve been talking about quite a bit lately, it’s an intriguing game from from an experienced studio staffed by that have brought us some fantastic games. Hot off the final…
First – Prev – Next – Last Stay tuned every Sunday for a new edition of Under Development! [divider] [author image=”http://cliqist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/julie.jpg” ]Julie Morley is a freelance writer and comic artist from Spring, Texas. She attended the Academy of Art University for two years, studying Animation and Illustration. Whilst…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
It’s always fun to watch how video games go through waves of genre interest. While we’re still seeing a sustained push toward crafting or roguelike titles, Metroidvanias are also coming up. Golden Hour is a brand new game of the genre which offers some unique…
Starwhal: Just the Tip, Out of Early Access, and Still Awesome by Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]N[/dropcap]ow, it’s entirely possible that you guys read my original article about Starwhal: Just the Tip, and you may have even been around when they added an ice cream outfit, but today,…
If you’re a fan of space games then you might have heard of (or even enjoyed playing!) Lifeless Planet. Back in 2011, designer David Board sucessfully funded his story-driven sci-fi game on Kickstarter. With so many people intriguied it ended up raising 200% of the…
If you’re visiting our site then it’s very likely you play video games. So, how would you feel if your video gaming “addiction” could actually be utilized to make important discoveries? That concept is the basis of a new project on Kickstarter called Afterimage. You…
If you ask a whole generation of gamers what their first game was many will say The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System. That top-down action adventure experience has informed and influenced many game developers of today. Case in point, developer Still Games…
First – Prev – Next – Last Under Development: Human Resources Read more of “Under Development” by Julie Morley in right here. [divider] With the Under Development crew dealing with their own Human Resources drama, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the Human Resources…