As much as I love Kickstarter, and crowdfunding in general, I have to admit that it can be pretty scary at times. Scams, incompetence, emotional breakdowns, and general sketchiness seem to be just as common as starry eyed developers full of dreams. Given that we…
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Co-Op Horror Awaits in Contagion by Marcus Estrada [divider] [dropcap]M[/dropcap]onochrome is a developer that I was familiar with long before Contagion came into being. Before the Kickstarter, Early Access, and launch, I had been playing their Half-Life 2 mod Zombie Panic! Source (itself an upgrade…
Alien: Isolation In Space, No One Can Hear You Whimper by David Lins [divider] [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver 35 years ago, H.R. Giger sat down to design one of horror’s most iconic monsters. It took some time—there were quite a few “rough drafts”—but eventually he got it just…
Every week 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 them in one place…
Nubarron: The Adventure of an Unlucky Gnome seems to be quite the interesting Kickstarter proposal. The game begins with a little gnome living in a fairy tale forest. As long as he has his lucky hat, everything is just fine. Unfortunately, at the start…
Empyrion Takes Galactic Survival a Step Further by Julie Morley [divider] Space simulation games have been a popular bunch as of late though each has been bringing something new to the table. Eleon Games Studio’s Empyrion : Galactic Survival may just be the most unique…
Forrest Dowling on Survival Sim, The Flame in the Flood with Ahmad Khan [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s not unusual for there to be a glut of survival sims hit Kickstarter in the fall, but the quality of them this year has been impressive. Case in point, The Flame…
Holden Boyles on Qora, And the Future with Julie Morley [divider] In the past, Cliqist has covered Qora several times (including when it was called Spirit) and has kept up with the games’ development. Now, after months of waiting and tedious development, Qora is finally here. But, new…
Welcome to Mistland – Lost Souls Home Another View of Knite & The Ghost Lights by Julie Morley [divider] They say the ghost lights are the souls of the abandoned, hurt, and lost – indefinitely stuck in a void of nothingness. Many years ago, ghost pipers…
Every week 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 them in one place…
Buck Wild Over The Deer God Alpha by Julie Morley [divider] The power of deer puns shall entertain you! In the several months I’ve been writing about Crescent Games’ The Deer God, I may have suffocated you all with my continuous usage of horrible deer…
Hands on with Adorably Deadly Roguelike RPG, Rogue Wizards by Marcus Estrada [divider] Rogue Wizards took me by surprise. On its face, the game appears to be just another mobile RPG with cutesy cartoon visuals. This assumption was wrong – very wrong. As I booted…
Every week 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 them in one place…
Do you ever find it funny how so many books and films are about authors struggling through precipitous circumstances? It seems for these forms of media that authors know themselves best which is why this storyline is so prevalent. In Alius Insectum, a similar concept…
Eric Lucas Discusses Open Galaxy Space Adventure, Empyrion with Julie Morley [divider] Eleon Games Studio has a space survival adventure game in the works, Empyrion, that they will launch on Kickstarter in the near future. I was fortunate to interview Eric “Luke” Lucas, the co-founder…
Imagine Alice in Wonderland in Tokyo with a Japanese school girl fending off foes with a Katana, slashing them left and right? Many would swoon at the idea and greedily beg for the location to throw their money at. Look no further than Alice in…
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