Can you believe it? 2015 is over, and with it, I have managed to gather data on Kickstarter video game campaigns for almost the entirety of the year. If you’ve been reading these analyses posts since the very start, then you’ll know that for whatever…
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You might have seen the drama over Twitter last week. Need a refresher? Here’s what happened: a tweet was posted from the account of prominent industry figure, Peter Molyneux, announcing not only the cancellation of his latest, crowdfunded endeavour, Godus, but the developer’s retirement from…
Yandere Simulator is easily classified as one of the more ambitious crowdfunded projects I’ve come across in some time. Raising nearly $4,800 dollars per month, its sole developer goes by the moniker of YandereDev and works on it full time. That’s 24/7/365. YandereDev describes his project…
This has been a crazy road,” waxes Truceful Entertainment after their failed Kickstarter campaign for Fritz. It sounds like either the start of a high school graduation speech or the beginning of a Kickstarter update. You can’t blame them though; the campaign for Fritz might…
Endica VII The Dream King is an up-to-four player side-scrolling rpg that takes cues from retro games like Megaman, Castlevania, Metroid and more. After over two and a half years and two fundraising campaigns on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter, it was released on January 13….
Kickstarter is all about community involvement. People love seeing a game created from the ground up and being there every step of the way. It is that pull that allows big projects like Ever, Jane to raise over $100,000 in funding. It’s pretty much an unspoken…
From title alone, it’s easy to tell that Orion Trail intentionally evokes the memory of past games. Calling it “Oregon Trail, but in SPACE” could accurately sum up the appeal of Orion Trail, but thankfully it has much more going on that just a cosmic…
I’m a huge Ron Paul fan (more for the memes than the politics), but today we won’t be discussing politics. Instead, we’ll be discussing Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution, a 2D side-scroller that gathered $11,073 USD for a 2012 release and never saw the light of day….
I am a huge adventure game fan. One of the companies that I grew up with and have fallen in love with was Sierra On-Line. You know, the people behind the classic King’s Quest and other quest titles. Which should come as to no surprise…
If you’ve played Orion Trail, you’ll know that it’s kind of a weird game. Warp Weasels, Spacesquatches, gasoline powered spaceships – you name it, and we’ve probably got it. Or, at least an approximated (or misunderstood) version of it. It seems fitting that the journey…
Every month Kickstarter is full of wild successes, and depressing failures. While some are always going to have that massive fan push behind them to see hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding others barely make it to the finish line. Due to the nature…
Lately it’s been getting harder to differentiate between someone on Kickstarter who’s just there to troll others and someone that’s genuinely in over their head that doesn’t know how crowdfunding (or even game design) works. A week ago we covered an open world Star Wars…
We haven’t heard much from the You Are Not The Hero Kickstarter of late. The last update was in October and was one of the few sporadic updates backers have received. The developer has come forward and basically admitted that he hasn’t been working as…
Oh, Oculus Rift, what a ride you’ve brought gamers on these past few years. Many of us first heard of this strange new virtual reality device when startup company Oculus launched a Kickstarter campaign back in 2012. The concept of VR had certainly been tried…
It’s hard to believe we last covered Parkitect back in 2014, with an interview with the developers. That’s now two years ago, kind of. Since then, the spiritual successor to Rollercoast Tycoon 2 has grown up, and is out exploring the world. For starters, the…
This is the Police, an interesting role-playing/strategy game, will finally be releasing early 2016. In a recent update, the team promised the game will be released sometime in “the first half of 2016,” and that we’ll be able to play the game even earlier in…
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