With a bold, cartoony vibe and parkour gameplay inspired by the original Mirror’s Edge, Hover: Revolt of Gamers won over the gaming community in May 2014. As such, it raised a whopping $116,398 through Kickstarter. Although it draws upon the free-running and vaulting concept of…
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Visual novels tend to be little more than a glorified “choose your own adventure” story, but sometimes one comes along that tries its best to break the mold. In the case of Max’s Big Bust it certainly works hard to blur the line between visual…
Fringe Theory, developed by LionRoar games, has cancelled its Kickstarter campaign. It accumulated only $2698 of the $50,000 it was asking for, but the developers are going to use their personal funds in the next month or so to continue working on the sandbox alpha….
Point and click adventure game Memoranda received $25,625 CAD ($19,712) in pledges back in November 2015 but in the five months since developer Bit Byterz had posted zero updates. That’s now been rectified in April 2016 even if the update is only to apologise, point…
Gamekicker is a new crowdfunding website on the scene with grand ambitions. According to them, they want to become the place to go for crowdfunding indie game developer projects exclusively. Their grand plan reaches far further than that – offering up customized and personal support on each…
Kickstarter reserves the right to cancel (or “suspend” as they diplomatically call it) any campaign that fails to follow their guidelines. However, Kickstarter is lax with their enforcement, taking action only in the most extreme cases. But what makes these suspensions so troubling is that…
Are you a developer, journalist, PR hack, or just a Kickstarter videogame campaign data junkie? Then welcome! Cliqist is happy to provide you with some free Kickstarter campaign data to fill all of your needs. What’s the catch? Do not charge others for the data That’s…
The two-man team behind Pauldron Games just added a woman to the mix with their latest update. In the video update, Luke Farinella apologizes for the update free previous month before explaining that he’d been forced to spend the time job hunting. Since he handles…
Way back in the long-ago yesteryear of 1993, Japanese game publisher, Kaneko obtained the rights to create a video game based on the presidential pet, Socks the cat. Remember, the 90’s were a strange time and games existed for almost every IP imaginable (and then…
Did you notice that we at Cliqist finally went forward with a plan that has been in the works for a long while now? After much consideration, we finally shared a massive Excel spreadsheet of Kickstarter video game data which is free for anybody and…
Kickstarted video games overshooting their forecast release dates occurs so often it’s actually a shock when a game is actually released on time. So it’s a particularly nice surprise to see that Learn Japanese to Survive! Hiragana Battle from developer Sleepy Duck has been released…
With its fast-paced, explosive gameplay and dark, futuristic setting Nelo may not initially appear to be the most original premise but it immediately sets itself apart from 99% of the usual Kickstarter campaigns merely by looking so good. Primarily a third person action shooter, the…
Hello there all you beautiful readers of this awesome gaming blog thingy. Just your friendly neighborhood Deadpool here and I’ve got a problem. You see, there’s this guy that thinks he can build an open-world game based on yours truly and it’s blatantly obvious to…
EmergeNYC has re-emerged after almost nine months without an update. While the developers were active on their Facebook page, backers were starting to get restless, having not had a Kickstarter update since May, 2015. EmergeNYC originally hit Kickstarter in 2014 and quietly raised over $13,000…
Can you believe it? 2015 is over, and with it, I have managed to gather data on Kickstarter video game campaigns for almost the entirety of the year. If you’ve been reading these analyses posts since the very start, then you’ll know that for whatever…
Hello, I’m Gary. I’ve been writing for Cliqist for several months, covering a diverse range of crowdfunding campaigns and bringing them to a wider audience. I have a confession to make. As you’ve probably already gathered from the title of this article: I’ve never backed…