In June of last year, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers book project received 140% of its required funds and a legion of excited fans. As the project wore on things got a bit messy but the promise to provide a finished book never…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Fine Young Capitalists project recently launched an IndieGogo campaign that’s received a lot of attention, both good and bad. The project’s aim is to help give minorities more of a presence in the media industries. Currently, they are teamed up with Autobótika for their IndieGogo campaign…
GaymerX2 Panel Report: Designing Inclusive Videogames By Marcus Estrada [divider] Panelists: Christine Love, David Rosen, Elizabeth Zelle Video games are not born out of a vacuum but created by one to hundreds of people. Although all types of people have been driven to create games…
Representation Matters: The Blind and Visually Impaired By Charlotte “Charlie” Humphries [divider] The world of video game development is a tricky place, even when a studio has millions – if not billions – of dollars to work with. So it really isn’t surprising that there…
Matt Raithel Discusses Alien Shooter Orgy Hive Jump with Greg Micek [divider] Hive Jump, the over the top multiplayer platformer from Graphite Lab, has had an up and down relationship with Kickstarter. The first campaign was an unfortunate dud for a variety of reasons. However, a…
Transistor’s Music as an Added Layer of Story By Marcus Estrada [divider] Transistor is our August 2014 “Not Crowdfunded, But…” title. For more Transistor content head over here. Note: This post includes heavy story spoilers for Transistor. Transistor is a beautiful game in many ways. Players will outright recognize…
What’s Going on With The Fine Young Capitalists? By Julie Morley [divider] At Cliqist we tend to pay attention strictly to the facts circulating around a crowdfunded project and we never have an interest in reporting the personal drama surrounding developers or projects. However, with…
Alexandre Fiset Discusses Survival Story, Kôna By Greg Micek [divider] Cliqist : Who are you, and why are we talking? Alexandre Fiset : My name is Alexandre Fiset, I’m a former Activision (Beenox) associate producer with more than six years of experience in interactive media development….
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 is 1992 and the world is covered in darkness. The sun is gone. Resources are practically gone. Humanity is just barely scraping by, especially with a horrible sickness going around, known as The Midnights. Welcome to The Midnights, the game, a point and click horror explorative…
I was flat out addicted to Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a kid. I was a devious son of a gun that always left my roller coasters incomplete just to watch my attendees die in a comical fashion. Why was this funny? Not sure….
Everything was swell on Trestella until political turmoil surfaced. A resistance movement, by the name of TREST, is formed in an effort to prevent social collapse on Trestella. Equipped with a toaster (a very sassy toaster, might I add), Samson becomes the lead recruiter of…
Welcome back to Cliqist’s Weekenders Sunday News! This week, we’ll be talking about all kinds of things from launches, demos, alphas, and most importantly, a free game you can download right the heck now. In addition to that, we’ll be cutting to the chase a…
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…
Welcome to our weekly feature, “Question Of The Week.” As you can tell from that entirely original title each week we pose a question to our panel and they chime in with their opinions. No one sees one another’s responses until the story is posted,…
The partnership between the player and his computer-controlled sidekick is a dynamic that has sadly been featured less and less over the years. Spyro had Sparks the Dragonfly. Jak had Daxter. The boy had his blob. This seems to be a dying theme, though, even…