In June of last year, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers book project received 140% of its required funds and a legion of excited fans. As the project wore on things got a bit messy but the promise to provide a finished book never…
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Red Baron Kickstarter Postmortem By Brad Jones [divider] [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ate last year, flight simulator legend Damon Slye returned to the genre with a Kickstarter campaign intended resurrect the dormant Red Baron series. The first game in the series, released in 1990, was widely regarded as one…
Every week (starting now at least) we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of…
GaymerX2 Panel Report: Gender and Sexuality in Interactive Fiction By Marcus Estrada [divider] Panelists: Dan Fabulich, Christine Love, Porpentine, Aaron Reed, Zachary Sergei, Squinky [dropcap]I[/dropcap]nteractive fiction may very well be one of my favorite genres in video games. In case the title seems a bit…
Dreams Turn To Nightmares in Back to Bed By Julie Morley [divider] Have you ever looked at a painting by Salvador Dali and wondered what it would be like to exist in that surrealistic world? Why are these clocks melting? This dreamy place looks so…
LearnDistrict Inc. has had a lot on their plate for the last year with PENGUEMIC – World Domination, an educational game in which penguins dominate the world, and their latest project designed to inspire more girls to get involved with playing games and developing them,…
I was approached by our Editor in Chief today about an article surrounding the latest “scam” Kickstarter had to offer. Articles like this are great. They certainly don’t exist to shame Kickstarter as a whole, they just help create a community of backers that know…
Last week a Kickstarter campaign was launched for a game called Knuckle Club; a side scrolling brawler featuring some impressive pixel graphics. Normally Knuckle Club would be a high point in a week filled with people begging for money to start a YouTube channel, but that…
We here at Cliqist.com are completely excited about The Long Dark since the beginning, and why wouldn’t we be? It’s a stylized, survival game that takes place in a post-disaster Northern wilderness. You must be strategic and careful as you explore giant environments, controlling you…
GaymerX2. How Was The Show? By Marcus Estrada [divider] GaymerX was a convention born of crowdfunding. Thanks to Kickstarter, and many wonderful backers, this new gaming convention was able to take over San Francisco for a weekend in 2013. GaymerX2 also saw crowdfunding success but…
Stasis is a work of interactive art that’s been in the making for over 4 years. The brain child of Christopher Bischoff, Stasis has been at a steady rate of growth since its Kickstarter closed up shop in December of last year. Basically, what’s been…
Days of Dawn, an RPG that received a very warm welcome when its Kickstarter launched, has fallen from its original high graces. On the 4th of July, a day usually meant as a joyous, drunken declaration of… Not being British anymore, backers received a private update….
Take a Trip Back to Ancient India In Unrest Unrest Previewed By Marcus Estrada [divider] [dropcap]H[/dropcap]ave you been looking for a RPG with a more unique vibe? Unrest hailed itself as “an unconventional RPG” back when it was crowdfunded last year. Many people were intrigued…
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers DVD – Reviewed By Marcus Estrada Last year The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers was Kickstarted to the tune of around 70,000 British pounds (nearly $120,000). This project promised a book filled with interviews with Japanese developers….
Colonisation: Moonbase is a construction and micromanagement simulator in which you build yourself a self-sustaining colony on the moon, and after squeaking by its funding goals last year, it looks like Colonisation is making a bit of distribution headway. After approaching Desura as a means…
E3 ’14 – Where Were the Crowdfunded Games? By Marcus Estrada [divider] [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver the past few years indie games have been increasing their floor space at E3. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all recognize that they must allow creative new games onto their platform which lends…
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