Earlier this year Valve announced that they were discontinuing their Steam Greenlight distribution method. From an indie perspective this could make it more difficult for developers to get their games on Steam. Whether or not this is a good thing depends mostly on your perception…
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The story of The Long Dark stretches back to 2013 when the project was first pitched on Kickstarter. Since then the title has enjoyed considerable success on Steam’s Early Access program. Or, more accurately, part of the project has enjoyed success. When The Long Dark…
Earlier this week we introduced the staggeringly popular Kickstarter campaign for upcoming MMORPG, Ashes of Creation. The project has won the hearts and dollars of over 7K backers. It had already raised roughly $1,296,200 when I wrote this article. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should…
There’s nothing like cracking open a new book. You get that fresh smell of paper, the pages rubbing between your fingertips, and a nice memento to put on your shelf that makes you look smart. Plus, books are retro. With the advent of e-books on…
When BillyGoat Entertainment Kickstarted their shamelessly British point and click adventure game, Her Majesty’s SPIFFING, they already had plans to make it episodic. Clearly, it would take several games to do justice to their burly protagonist, Captain Frank Lee English. They used the campaign to fund development for…
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…
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…
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…
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