There is an undeniable joy to playing through an action adventure RPG. Having amazing experiences and epic encounters is a large part of why people love games. At least until math comes along and ruins everything. Let’s face it, one of the most immersion breaking…
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Stranded in an unknown galaxy full of prison ship escapees, could you survive? This is the premise behind Mind Grown Software’s new action rogue-lite, Convicted Galaxy. Players will have to adapt quickly if they want to escape this 2.5D space based territorial game. Taking inspiration…
Northern Regiment: 1862 is bound to attract comparisons from The Long Dark. It’s a Kickstarter game based on survival in extremely realistic conditions in the Great White North. There are no zombies are monsters to kill, and no trees that require felling with your bare…
Early access in gaming is nothing new, but it blew up with Steam’s Early Access program. It allows developers to release their games as a beta, alpha, or even pre-alpha build before it’s completed. This release model affords developers the chance to earn money which they can…
How many Kickstarter-funded games make it to the PlayStation 4? Almost every Kickstarter campaign for a video game has PC as their target platform. It’s only an elite few who aim to bring their game to a console, and fewer still who manage it. Indeed,…
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…
If you look at the history of Kickstarter you’ll find a few game types that tend to do well on the platform. Roguelikes, Metroidvanias, and Survival games seem to do disproportionately well on the platform; especially compared to the likes of first person shooters and…
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 (starting now at least) 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…
Another survival game has hit Kickstarter in the wake of The Long Dark’s successful campaign. That’s not an insult, because while Raindrop appears to share some elements with The Long Dark, it appears to be taking things in a much different direction. Raindrop is being…
There’s an old saying that what you think about during the day will become what you dream about at night. At least this was Freud’s line of thinking. The psychoanalyst’s theories may be largely discredited today, but what if he was on to something? The…
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…
After appearing at PAX East and Day of the Devs during GDC, mutant soap opera Mutazione will be one of over 20 games exhibited at the digital convention LudoNarraCon hosted on Steam this weekend. Developed by Die Gute Fabrik, the game’s story begins when a meteor…
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…
Dedicated to making the sound of games, Chase Bethea interned at Mobotory games while studying music at Moorpark College. Besides earning his associate’s degree in Music Theory and Composition at Moorpark, he also went on to earn another associate’s in Audio Engineering from the Los…
EGX Rezzed, EGX‘s smaller, more indie-geared sibling, drew to a close this weekend after a three-day showcase of some of the most amazingly imaginative upcoming indie games due out over the next couple of years. With so many games out there on the show-floor, it’s…