Lobster, otherwise known as Ian Kragh, is one of the most prolific miners of Kickstarter video game data around. Read almost any Kickstarter thread in a video game forum and you’ll most likely seem him chime in with a mind blowing amount of data, analysis,…
Sometimes a crowdfunding campaign comes along that hits all the right notes and really deserves some extra love and attention. This week we’ve picked Nick Gregory’s Kickstarter campaign for his pixel art platformer, Eagle Island. While the project itself doesn’t push many boundaries, it’s premise…
There are so many elements that need to come together to make an indie game successful. Occasionally, a project will try to circumvent one or more of these elements to its determent. Such is the case of the curious would-be game, In The World of…
At first glance the Kickstarter campaign for TarteUp’s game, Sandbox looks reasonably solid. It has a trailer, plenty of photos and information, and even a full budget breakdown. It’s the level of completeness more campaigns should strive towards. There’s just one problem, Sandbox isn’t actually…
When developers K Bros Games stumbled upon YouTube success with a quirky pooping game, it wasn’t the result of impressive marketing or big budget gameplay. There’s Poop In My Soup was ridiculous and gross in a way that viewers of popular YouTube channels ate up. Hoping…
Yacht Club games recently launched their second major piece of DLC for their beloved Shovel Knight – Specter of Torment. The follow-up to one of the most highly regarded Kickstarter-funded games of all time flew under the radar for some (read – us) but that…
With the release date for Friday the 13th The Game fast approaching, it’s time to pick favorites. Ever since its 2015 Kickstarter campaign, the teams at Gun Media and Illfonic have been teasing the best of horror’s classic victim stereotypes for players to take on. Are you…
Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games are by their own definition, massive. As such this has become one of the most challenging genres to fund through crowdfunding. For every Shroud of the Avatar that strikes it big, there are a hundred other projects that never see the…
Headed up by veteran X-COM designer, Julian Gollop and Gaming Insiders founder, David Kaye, Snapshot Games is the latest developer to get the Fig treatment. After successfully Kickstarting their previous game, Chaos Reborn the team has returned to crowfunding for their newest project, Phoenix Point….
Yooka-Laylee is not a very good game. Its creators, Playtonic, wrapped it (and themselves) up so firmly in nostalgia that it ended up choking them. This can’t be too surprising and not just because the Kickstarter sold itself on its similarities to Banjo-Kazooie. The people who created the…
In 2013, Jellyfish Games launched their first Kickstarter campaign for their sandbox base-building RPG, Astrobase Command. When they started, creators Adam Blahuta and Dave Williams, figured they’d be able to build a gameplay prototype and launch their crowdfunding campaign in 3 to 6 months. Things…
Gun Media and Illfonic have finally answered our prayers with a release date for Friday the 13th The Game. Camp is officially in session starting May 26th, 2017. The game will be available on Xbox One, PS4, and Steam as a digital download for $40….
One of the best things about Cosmic Star Heroine’s Kickstarter campaign is how it presents itself. Zeboyd’s RPG is takes inspiration from classics of the genre Chrono Trigger and Suikoden II. But it doesn’t sell itself as a spiritual successor or an unofficial remake like…
It’s been a few weeks now since Red Hook Studios unveiled Steam Workshop support for their Kickstarted, gothic roguelike, Darkest Dungeon. While the crowdfunding campaign was hugely successful it fell just shy of the $350,000 mod support stretch goal. Thanks to the success of early…
On the heels of Earth Day, Strange Loop Games Founder and Director John Krajewski posted a Kickstarter update on his Eco campaign. In it, Krajewski shares his hope that video games can play a role in saving the environment. Specifically, he’s hoping the interactive and…
Developer Nicholas Butera has spent the past 10 years working as an animator and producer. Two years ago he decided to try his hand at game development and now he’s ready to bring his efforts to Kickstarter. The resulting campaign for Soul’s Light may look…