Less than a year out from a successful Kickstarter campaign, Lightspeed Frontier is nearly ready to make its Steam Early Access debut. The project managed to surpass its extremely conservative $2,500 funding goal, but just barely. In our initial coverage we’d wondered how such a…
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Apocalypse Now: The Game. Yes, that is officially a thing that wants to exist. As of January 24th a Kickstarter campaign to adapt Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 psychological Vietnam War drama into the videogame format is underway. Do we get a scene where we press…
I love comedy adventure games, so backing Paradigm was a no-brainer back when it ran on Kickstarter. That was nearly two-and-a-half years ago. While far from the most outstanding game I backed, it’s still been in development for a while. However, I’m always willing to wait…
Momentum can make or break a crowdfunding campaign. That’s why most successful developers say that running and promoting their campaigns was pretty much a full time job. So what happens if, through no fault of the developer, a campaign is abruptly suspended? After a rough week, Shadow…
You know, we get a lot of scams on Kickstarter. It’s bound to happen on a platform where you can ask people to pay for your product before you’ve even made it. But sometimes we get some truly magical attempts. Enter Alien: Terraforma. Just check…
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of adventure games, just as it’s no secret that I love text adventures. I grew up on the classics from Infocom, so when I found out that Bob Bates was back with a comedy adventure called Thaumistry…
Even if you love strategy games to death, you probably hate waiting for your turn. Sure, you can watch the enemy’s moves and calculate a solid plan to counter, but sometimes you play with one of those guys that really mulls over their every decision….
History can be boring. It’s important to learn about and study, but it can just be so… dry, sometimes. Luckily(?), Wayward Studios is working on Countryballs, which seeks to make history more fun. Countryballs is a 2D platformer beat-em-up. The campaign revolves around the world’s…
Through crowdfunding, backers are able to share in the joys and sorrows of game development. Unfortunately, some developers have taken advantage of their “close-knit” funding communities, using project updates as more of a personal blog while development languishes in the background. Such has increasingly become…
Arnie Jorgensen and John Watson took a risk leaving Bioware to found their own studio, Stoic. As indie developers, success and failure hinged on being able to fund their next project. Imagine their surprise when their studio’s debut title, The Banner Saga managed to raise over 700%…
With a focus on story-telling over leet skills and grinding, visual novels are getting deeper and darker than ever before. Instead of sticking exclusively to romance, many have begun to blend genres in new and exciting ways. Studio Theophilus is hoping a mixture of fantasy elements…
I love an interesting take on interactive fiction, or text adventures as they were once called. While it’s not quite my style of story, I do love the idea behind Southern Monsters. It’s what I would call a text/graphic hybrid that started to get popular…
In Keen, speed is the name of the game. Unless of course, you prefer more tactical turn-based combat. Then feel free to swap out its speedy hack’n’slash gameplay for something more methodical. In Cat Nigiri’s new Indiegogo project, everyone can find something to enjoy. Seeking a flexible…
Let’s be real. MMORPGs tend to do poorly on crowdfunding platforms. Such massive undertakings by their very nature necessitate huge teams and budgets. Something most indie devs simply don’t have. Enter newcomers Zosky Games and their campaign for Apocalypse Dawn, “the first Zombie MMORPG with…
With Yooka-Laylee’s April 11th release date coming up fast, developer Playtonic has unveiled the 3D platformer’s new multiplayer mode. Set in “Rextro’s Radical Arcade,” the mode adds 8 competitive arcade style games. Designed for up to four in local multiplayer, the games can also be completed…
Aeon Dream Studios has been hard at work on their debut otome visual novel, Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons. While the project was successfully funded on Kickstarter, it did not raise enough to unlock its stretch goal sequel. With the first game nearly complete, Aeon…
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