Back in May, Black Forest Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for DieselStörmers to make it to Steam Early Access. Last month, they met their deadline and released the Early Access version of the game on Steam. I was able to interview Mario Ragusa from Black…
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Stories of legendary heroes have fascinated us for hundreds of years. An honorable knight embarking on a life changing journey to save his kingdom’s captured princess. Fight heroically, destroy the monster or evil fiend, save the day, and win the girl – we follow the…
A lot of us were excited about InSomnia’s debut on Kickstarter and learning it’s not only funded, but knocked out a stretch goal is nothing less than fantastic. $70K was a huge funding goal to reach but I’m thinking the playable prototype is what really…
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,…
On a massive spaceship, floating through space, our character awakens from a cryogenic sleep very confused about what’s going on with the state of humanity. For 400 years, this ship has been roaming through space, in search of a new planet to inhabit with many…
Philip Buchanan has been hard at work on the upcoming survival-puzzle game 39 Days to Mars, complete with a specialized engine and plenty of work to show off for the past couple months. Most recently, we got to take a look inside some new artwork…
Not all crowdfunding projects are $200,000 funding behemoths from industry vets. Much of the time they’re smaller projects with much less aggressive funding goals from small teams; case in point, 39 Days to Mars. A new adventure project from indie developer Philip Buchanan, 39 Days…
Let’s be real. MMORPGs tend to do poorly on crowdfunding platforms. Such massive undertakings by their very nature necessitate huge teams and budgets. Something most indie devs simply don’t have. Enter newcomers Zosky Games and their campaign for Apocalypse Dawn, “the first Zombie MMORPG with…
The Big List of Discounted Crowdfunded Games in the 2014 Steam Holiday Sale by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he annual Steam Holiday Sale is now upon us! No matter what you may or may not celebrate personally, it’s incredibly hard for PC gamers to ignore this event….
Kickstarter’s Top 50: How Good Are They? by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite being around for many years, it wasn’t until a few massive projects landed on the site that most video game players earnestly began to back projects. It’s fitting that the project that started this…
Hand-drawn puzzle game, LUNA: The Shadow Dust, has had quite the journey since it came to Kickstarter in 2016. Developed by four-person team, Lantern Studio, the point-and-click adventure was first conceived as a student animation film. After completing a successful campaign and releasing a demo,…
Morphies Law developers Cosmoscope GmbH have gone back to the drawing board on their team-based shooter to bring a reworked version to PC and Switch. The game re-released just a few days ago on July 30, under the new name Morphies Law: Remorphed. The Return…
Only a few months after releasing The World Next Door, Rose City Games’ first game made in partnership with VIZ Media, the Portland-based studio is already gearing up for their second title with VIZ: Cat Lady. A top-down roguelike featured on Game Informer’s list of…
Cyberpunk investigation game Tales of the Neon Sea is neon noir given a bright, cartoonish re-imagining. There are also some cats thrown in, for good measure. Developed by Palm Pioneer and published by Beijing-based Zodiac Interactive, Tales of the Neon Sea released this month to…
LudoNarraCon, indie label Fellow Traveller’s first digital convention celebrating narrative video games, will have several games exhibiting this weekend on May 10-13. Among them is Failbetter Games’ Sunless Skies, a gothic horror RPG and the sequel to their 2015 release Sunless Sea. The 2018 Develop…
Playable for the first time at GDC 2019, Creature in the Well is Flight School Studio’s newest project. It was part of the Indie MEGABOOTH at GDC, providing a chance for players to try it out. When I first laid eyes on it, the title…