Another month, another visual novel published by Sekai Project is now on Kickstarter! This time it is The Human Reignition Project by Alienworks. Those with a taste for games from the English visual novel scene have probably already heard of it, too. After all, this…
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[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]ince the hype for platformer titles died off in the early 2000s we’ve been anxiously awaiting a title that would bring back the excitement we felt in the late ‘90s. With flagship titles like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 showing us unique and imaginative…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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 them…
When it comes to crowdfunding you’ve got the good, the bad, and the ugly. In the case of Super Action Squad (formerly Super Retro Squad) the controversy surrounding the title falls squarely in the latter category. This Kickstarter has been one of the most poorly managed…
Back in September of 2013 Project Phoenix, a mix of real-time strategy and JRPG gameplay, got funded to the tune of just over one million dollars (roughly 1000% funded). This campaign brought together several talented game developers from both Western and Eastern nations to work…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here is a love-hate relationship towards adventure games that focus heavily on puzzles. While it can certainly be a polarizing concept the popularity of this type of game cannot be denied. Microids’ Subject 13 was successfully funded on Kickstarter nearly a year ago and…
[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]o far this year, Kickstarter has shown that getting successfully funded has been getting tougher. In April, only 17 campaigns found success while 100 failed. If nothing changed it seemed that this was the new normal for crowdfunding, and quite an unfortunate turn for…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very 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…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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 them…
Note: This review is for a game that is suitable for audiences 18 and older. Starfighter is an online sci-fi comic series which I got into thanks to a friend a few years back. Although I’ve not kept up recently, it was certainly an interesting…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here’s little doubt that inXile has dominated the Kickstarter scene lately in recent years. 2014’s Wasteland 2 arrived as a much lauded sequel to the 1988 classic, and Torment: Tides of Numenera is currently the most funded videogame on Kickstarter. Now, with The Bard’s Tale IV set continue…
Disclosure: I follow Fantastic Boyfriend’s English translator on Twitter and interact with her on a semi-regular basis. All sorts of people play video games – and they honestly always have. However, it has only been in the last few years that companies have explicitly stated their desire…
[dropcap size=big]2[/dropcap]Awesome Studio were simply trying to make their dream shoot ‘em up. It looked pretty darn good, too. However, this Kickstarter failed to see a strong momentum push during the majority of its campaign. That, despite the fact they had a pretty strong press…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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 them…
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hile some might think that Mystic Searches is somehow a new game project (I certainly did at a glance) this is actually the second crowdfunding campaign for a singular project that began in September of 2014, The New 8-Bit Heroes. That campaign was successfully funded for…
[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]loudrunner Studios is getting down to the tail end of their Kickstarter campaign for Melancholy Republic, so they’re making the rounds wrangling up the last of the pledges needed to make their $11,071 funding goal. As we’ve mentioned before the game draws much of its stylistic influence…
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