When Driven Arts was able to relaunch and fund a scaled-down campaign for Days of War it seemed like their struggle for visibility in the WW2 shooter market was behind them. With a new campaign and a focus on early access, they easily surpassed their $20,000…
Crowdfunding is rife with projects that, for one reason or another, won’t get funded. A personal pet peeve is developers who launch a campaign to raise money for a project they haven’t fully worked out. Even when the idea is good, it’s still missing so much that most…
Ice-Pick Lodge raised $333,127 on Kickstarter to remake the 2005 story-driven survival adventure title, Pathologic. Originally released to critical acclaim in Russia, the game went on to gain an international fanbase despite some serious flaws. With a fall release on the horizon, Ice-Pick has opened up the…
Lunar Wings Games wanted to make a yuri visual novel that stood apart from the typical tropes. In their 2016 Kickstarter they promised an interesting story with body positive LGBT themes. Recently, they posted a Reach for the Stars update, that makes good on that…
Community is the heart of crowdfunding. Developers who figure out how to utilize and grow an enthusiastic following are more likely to succeed with their campaigns. Indie newcomer, Twirlbound is hoping to utilize their growing backer community to fund their new action adventure title, Pine….
Last week, we wrote about Lobodestroyo and the virtue of being patient. Well, that patience has been rewarded recently with a slew of new screenshots and information. The new screenshots show how far the game has come from its initial Kickstarter prototype. The world is…
PolyKnight Games has just revealed that backers can expect even more from their professional debut, InnerSpace. Thanks to a partnership with Aspyr Media, the team was able nearly double the size of the game from the initial crowdfunding campaign. Now they are working towards a multi-platform…
As long as mankind has existed we’ve loved a good fight. From gore covered coliseums to sanctioned face punching competitions, few things get the blood pumping (and spilling) like combat. When the folks at Triternion decided to turn their passion for melee into a game…
With some backers of the original Grisaia Trilogy still waiting for their physical copies, Frontwing has taken to Kickstarter for their own Grisaia project. The first two volumes of the visual novel series, Grisaia: Phantom Trigger are releasing worldwide on Steam, April 28, 2017. Their $80,000…
The fact Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter is a game for the SNES, a 25-year old console, isn’t big news. After all there have been several Kickstarter campaigns for retired consoles in recent memory. What is a little stranger is that this retro fighting game…
Brightly Studios has taken to Kickstarter to raise money for their next installment of the Bounce Series, Booty Bounce. They are hoping to raise $3,647 to begin production of the new, stand-alone visual novel. They also aren’t shy about the projects real draw, bouncy anime…
PitterPot is the latest 3D Platformer to grace Kickstarter, and normally I’d gush over that fact for a few hundred words. Not today though. Glancing at its Kickstarter page shows how rough PitterPot currently is. Judging by the lack of funding and attention it’s received…
In the Spring of 2016, Playwood Projects brought their highly polished, tabletop inspired RTS to Kickstarter. Lead by Founder/Creative Director, Michael Rud Jakobsen, The team hoped to raise £55,000 to develop Wartile for PC and MAC. Despite a strong start and a small, but supportive…
Once a project hits pre-alpha testing, the developers have pretty much finalized its core design. The devs continue to fix game-breaking bugs and make minor improvements, but major design overhauls are frowned upon. Such changes are often considered too costly to make at that point. Soulbound Studios doesn’t want to wait until…
Less than a month on Steam Early Access and the multiplayer ship combat FPS, Blackwake has already amassed a huge following. It’s not surprising really. Over 4,000 backers helped raise AU$ 171,422 during the 2015 Kickstarter campaign. The game is already riding high on Steam’s weekly top…
Two days prior to the launch of their $58,000 Indiegogo campaign, developer STiCLi Games released Airport Master on Steam Early Access. Presumably they wanted to bring more attention to their airport management sim. In that case they were quite successful. YouTube’s favorite son, Jim Sterling, produced a…