Holden Boyles Discusses Spirit By Julie Morley [divider] Recently, I have had the pleasure to talk to Holden Boyles about the details of Spirit and the details of its successful Kickstarter campaign. Spirit is a platformer game working off of the player’s curiosity and need…
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Mercenary Kings Reviewed By Nathaniel Liles [divider] Mercenary Kings is a game that slipped past my radar in a big way back when it was originally brought to Kickstarter, and I honestly hadn’t even heard the name until it was released. Even then, I…
Point and click games have been a great story telling medium since the days of DOS, and that hasn’t changed much over the years. Kickstarter is just full of these things, and for good reason: anyone can put one together. What makes an adventure game…
It’s another birthday here at the Cliqist world headquarters. Today Suzanne Verras celebrated the anniversary of her birth. Years of destroying her vision in front of a TV playing videogames has brought her to us, and we’re happy to have her! Suzanne has brought us…
Australian game programming collective League of Geeks has started work on Armello, a digital board game that hopes to truly bring the fun and excitement of tabletop gaming to the masses in a polished, highly functional, and well-made package with Armello. From artwork to programming…
By David Lins [divider] So you’ve read up a bit on Star Citizen and you want in. Now the question is: where do you start? Heading to the main website, you’ll find a plethora of information about the game: what kinds of ships there are,…
Treachery in Beatdown City has returned to Kickstarter after an unsuccessful campaign last month. Its refreshing take on brawlers didn’t attract quite the attention it needed to at the time, but since it’s back for round two, so are we. Does Treachery in Beatdown City…
Campaign Postmortem: Wasteland 2 By Brad Jones (Click here for our Early Access review of Wasteland 2 the game.) [divider] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the Kickstarter for Wasteland 2 began, it seemed to many that the lofty funding goal of $900,000 to make a sequel to a…
Recently, I have had the pleasure to speak to Allison Huynh, the CEO of MyDream Interactive about the details of MyDream and its Kickstarter Campaign. The game has already exceeding its funding and now it working its way to some stretch goals. The campaign is…
Kickstarter, while often a breeding ground for great ideas, can also be a risky place. In a case of “Kickstarter gone wrong”, the successfully funded RAiN appears to be completely dead in the water, and developer Joseph Nix has begun issuing refunds via PayPal to…
Escape Hatch Entertainment has announced some release dates for their “rebellious stepchild of Wing Commander, X-wing, and Freespace 2” space shooter, Starlight Inception. Given that it’s been exactly two years since the Kickstarter launched it’s understandable if people are anxious to get their hands on…
There’s Bloom Enough for the Both of Us By Brad Jones [divider] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he arduous development of Studio Fawn’s Bloom has met yet another hurdle in the form of a similarly titled project by students on a game design program at the University of Southern California….
By now you’ve at least heard of the Chaos Reborn Kickstarter campaign. It was put together by famed designed Julian Gollop – of X-Com and Laser Squad fame to name but two of his classics – to bring the world an updated version of his…
Many of us have been excited about the upcoming release of Project Maiden, “a Zeldalike in reverse”, but unfortunately for us, there’s not a ton of media coverage on this unique but low-profile game. Successfully funded last July, Kevin B. Cole’s brainchild has revealed quite…
After months of silence from developers Stone Blade Entertainment, backers and hopefuls alike have finally heard word from the company. Many were worried that the successfully funded Kickstarter for Ascension Online wasn’t going to deliver on its promises, but a recent update from developers confirms…
For a while, backers hadn’t heard much of anything from game developer Zac Ayles and his project, Lioness, since October and were starting to wonder whether they were going to for some time. Out of nowhere, at the beginning of this month Zac began posting…