With so many games being funded over the last couple years it can be tough to keep track of the status of everything. If you’re a backer then there’s the daily flood of emails telling you what’s happening, and if you didn’t back then you…
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By Brad Jones [divider] Having played the first few levels of Forced earlier in the day, I thought I knew what to expect when I teamed up with sound designer Jesper Kristiansen to see what co-op had to offer. Playing alone, I liked the game…
Here’s another story about a Kickstarter game being delayed, but it’s not what you would expect. Usually when a developer posts to their games’ Kickstarter page that the game they got $50,000 to develop is going to be delayed they’re met with a mix of cynicism,…
From the never-ending pool of hopeful Kickstarted visual novels comes The Heart of Dorian Grey. In an attempt to blend influences and story elements from renowned American writer Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Grey” with Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness” but also make…
Remember After Reset? Think back a couple months, it was an RPG set in a post apocalyptic world that felt very Fallout-ish. When we last spoke of the game we said it had “…everything you could want; cool post apocalyptic setting, non-linear story, tons of…
Barely a week into its campaign and the team at “aheartfulofgames” has surpassed the 50% funding mark on Heart & Slash. The 3rd person roguelike brawler features an adorable robot named Heart that malfunctions and starts fighting against the powers of standardization in order to…
If you haven’t heard of Darkest Dungeon from Red Hook Studios yet then you must not pay attention to crowdfunding. Since launching on Kickstarter on February 10th with a total funding target of $75,000, the creepy looking RPG has gone on to get press everywhere…
By Marcus Estrada [divider] If you’re a fan of Kickstarter, IndieGogo, or other forms of crowdfunding then you’ve likely come across a handful of games describing themselves as “visual novels” or “dating sims”. Unfortunately, many gamers outside of Japan have never even heard of…
I’m pretty sure everyone loves Starship Troopers on some level, even if don’t get all the social commentary. I know for a fact that everyone loves Contra; and if they don’t then their opinion is wrong. If that’s the case, then why is the Starship Troopers…
Dead State, one of Kickstarter’s most funded projects to date, has been unleashed onto the world via Steam. Given that the Steam release is considered Early Access, expect the game to be a work in progress, complete with bugs, crashes, and gameplay issue. That being said,…
Not all crowdfunding projects are $200,000 funding behemoths from industry vets. Much of the time they’re smaller projects with much less aggressive funding goals from small teams; case in point, 39 Days to Mars. A new adventure project from indie developer Philip Buchanan, 39 Days…
I’m about to tell you the most depressing story you’ll likely hear all week. Sorry. I had a friend several years ago that grew up wanting to be a cop, it’s all he wanted to do in his life. He took the appropriate tests but…
By Nathaniel Liles [divider] I hate to be the guy. I really do. You know the one, you bring up a game franchise and he’s so enamored with it that he simply goes, “Ooooh, that game…” and gushes, but I have to be at least…
I’m no scientist, but it’s obvious that the scientific accuracy of 39 Days To Mars is questionable to say the least. Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t air for another month, and I haven’t heard talk of an episode covering space travel using steam powered engines. …
Pakka Pets and Tamogotchi, yes yes, the comparisons have been made. You have the life of an adorable creature in your hands, take care and love your Pakka Pet and they’ll thrive; don’t and you’ll have their digital blood on your hands. Last time we talked…
Sad news from American McGee’s Akaneiro: Demon Hunters Kickstarter campaign; things aren’t going well. First some history; the Akaneiro Kickstarter campaign ran during January of 2013 and raised $204,680 of a $200,000 goal. The game, an isometric action RPG that mixed Japanese themes into the…