[dropcap size=big]H[/dropcap]ave you ever wanted to romance with a dragon? Well, here´s your chance! One things I love about indie games is that they are limited only by the imagination and innovation of the people behind them. That is why fans love this sub-genre of…
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Ahmad Khan grew up playing video games. A fan of RPGs and Post-Apocalypse games, Khan instantly fell in love with crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGogo that made games like Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity a reality. He also ended up being sort of a whistle blower for suspicious crowd funding project, believing that the venue of crowdfunding should be reserved for the honest and the passionate, not for the dishonest and dubious. You can stalk Ahmad on both Twitter and Facebook if you feel so inclined.
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Stalker Apocalypse Update. North Korea, Spying, and Expulsion. by Ahmad Khan West Games is back to their same old tricks again, but this time they are aggravating more than just Stalker fans and crowdfunding enthusiasts. Here’s a quick recap of what the fine folks at…
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World Wide Funder Features Another Possible Scam by Ahmad Khan Cliqist is investigating the new crowdfunding site World Wide Funder due to number of sketchy projects that are relaunching over there, such as Stalker Apocalypse. I encourage current crowdfunding enthusiasts, as well as indie game fans,…
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Stalker Apocalypse. Worth The Risk? by Ahmad Khan [dropcap]B[/dropcap]ackers and S.T.A.L.K.E.R fans beware! One of the most infamous developers to ever launch a Kickstarter campaign are back to crowdfunding, and they are off to their old tricks again. Yes, West Games of Areal infamy is…
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Fira Soft Discusses Frozen Survival Horror, Kriophobia with Ahmad Khan [dropcap]G[/dropcap]iven that we’re in the December dog days of Kickstarter funding it’s unusual to find a campaign worth taking a closer look at. Case in point, the last few editions of our Kickstarter roundup Weekly Launchpad….
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The Crowdfunded Games of Indonesia by Ahmad Khan [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s possible that most of North-America doesn’t exactly equate Indonesia with crowdfunded indie games, let alone videogames. The good news is that Indonesia is starting to enter the market of indie games, and we’re seeing them show up…
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Areal Producer Returns to Kickstarter with Sketch Tales by Ahmad Khan [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he lead game designer of “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl” and “Survarium” has formed a new indie games company, 8D Studio, and has just launched a new Kickstarter project called Sketch Tales: Play & Draw RPG…
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2015 Kickstarter Video Game Predictions by Ahmad Khan [dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are have a number of articles circulating in the indie game-O-sphere regarding the near-future trends of Kickstarter and IndieGogo, including a piece done by our editor-in-chief with a crowdfunding expert. Personally I would neither pretend, nor claim,…
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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…
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Still Games on Open World Action Adventure, Animal Gods with Ahmad Khan. [divider] Animal Gods is a beautiful looking action adventure game from the developers at Still Games. In the game players must explore an ancient open world environment that’s been full of cursed creates. In addition…
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Stuart Ryall on Surviving The Frozen Wasteland of Impact Winter with Ahmad Khan [divider] Impact Winter is a post-apocalyptic survival RPG in the vein of Fallout that tasks players with surviving a frozen hellscape that’s overcome much of the planet thanks to a stray asteroid. Unlike…
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Planetary Annihilation Haunts Human Resources Kickstarter by Ahmad Khan Uber Entertainment, the creators of Monday Night Combat and the Kickstarter funded Planetary Annihilation have started a new Kickstarter for a monster strategy game called Human Resources. According it’s Kickstarter page, Human Resources is a is a…
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Ice-Pick Lodge Discusses the Pathologic Remake with Ahmad Khan [divider] Pathologic is one of those games that when mentioned to a group of gamers will cause at least one person to yelp with excitement, berate everyone else for not playing it, and lead to…
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Veteran Japanese Gave Dev IndieGogo Campaign Draws Suspicions by Ahmad Khan [divider] X-tactics, by Tokyo based Gamkin, is an “Episodic Urban Tactical RPG by veterans of Square-Enix, Capcom and SEGA. With co-op and location-based treasure hunting” according to its IndieGogo page. The creators of the…
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Idle killer is an idle clicker browser game in the vein of Cookie Clicker, except you won’t be baking cookies for your magical grandmother. It takes place in a very dark world, inspired by brutal civil conflicts around the globe that make for shocking newspaper…
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Sienna Storm Kickstarter Off to a Shaky Start By Ahmad Khan [divider] When you read that the lead writer of Dues Ex is coming together with the game-designer of Star Wars: Kotor 2, and the guy who worked on the Magic card series to launch…