It’s appropriate that the US election is just days after Halloween. This election has been a hell on earth, scarier than anything you’ll see today. So to celebrate today’s Halloween spookiness, we’ve decided to dedicate an entire episode of Kicked! to games about this here…
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There are so many interesting looking projects seeking crowdfunding that inevitably some fall through the cracks. Usually the developers promise to see the game through to completion anyway, but considering how many funded games just disappear, it’s easy to dismiss these claims. At least, until…
Megatokyo is an iconic web comic that has spawned several graphic novels and plenty of merchandise. In 2013, co-creator Fred Gallager launched a Kickstarter to transform Megatokyo into a visual novel. The other creator, Rodney Caston, left the project before the Kickstarter began. By the…
Very rarely does the average gamer get to see development first-hand. Thanks to crowdfunding, more and more developers are pulling back the curtain. Double Fine’s documentary on the making of Broken Age is the most extensive behind the scenes look at “how the sausage is…
Another Monday means another episode of the award winning Cliqist series – Kicked! This week’s episode is all about Kingdom Come Deliverance, an RPG with a unique twist. Well, it shouldn’t be unique at all, but in the world of video games it’s about as…
This is Cliqist’s fifth post on Chronicles of Elyria, and if you’ve gotten around to reading our previous articles on the massively hyped MMORPG, you’re probably still trying to wrap your head around the ambitiousness and scale of Soulbound Studio’s upcoming project. We know now…
If you are a fan of flight simulators and aerial dogfights, then chances are you’ve heard of Oleg Maddox and Ilya Shevchenko. Two names, not so much spoken by the community, but spat out by all but their fans. However, it wasn’t always this way….
An animated, wise old man once cryptically stated that “you can’t rush art“. However, when you’re a backer, you typically fall into one of two camps: The Investor or The Customer. Where The Investor will gladly back the campaign with an amount that they’re comfortable…
“Be careful with the other lot. They owe a lot of people lots of money. Numerous Kickstarter’s, failing to deliver to backers, failing to pay for PR services, art work, sounds and more. They’ve done this to me and five others.” It was a warm…
The Long Dark is a wilderness survival game that was funded on Kickstarter way back in 2013 and many backers have been waiting for the story mode for some time now. Originally the game was intended to be released in early 2014, however, The Long Dark…
Gunkatana has the most adrenalin-rush-inducing trailer I have ever come across on Kickstarter. It’s a super fast slice and dice game where you have to fight to survive in a futuristic dystopian cyberpunk world. The future is bleak and the only way to survive is…
The three day streaming event for the card game and strategy game hybrid Labyrinth has come and gone and while I didn’t stream it I was given a key nonetheless. And with Free Range Games’ blessing I wanted to show off what has been done with the game…
On December 25th 2011 indie developer, and self proclaimed hacker mentor, Alex Peake launched the Code Hero Kickstarter campaign in hopes of raising $100,000 to create a game that would teach people how to code. After a 60 day campaign that featured an inconsistent update…
Earlier this year visual novel Over the Hills and Far Away failed to get funding on Kickstarter, landing at just around a third of their asking goal. However, undeterred WarGirl Games went to Patreon to get the game funded and it was finally released in…
As I’ve mentioned before I’m not one to tell you who to give your backer money to, but every now and then a project comes along that’s worth a closer look, and 12 is Better Than 6 is definitely one of those projects. The game…
You might be asking yourself right now what a post about Kerbal Space Program is doing on Cliqist as the game never hit Kickstater. While that may be true, it sure did receive a heck of a lot of pre-release funding in other ways… but…