Do the words “Red Dead Redemption” get you excited? If you’re anything like me – or 90% of the gaming population – then of course they do. And although developer 612 Games wants the 90% to quit comparing their upcoming western MMORPG Wild West Online…
Felix Wong
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Felix spent a large chunk of his youth behind a 24 inch monitor and intends to do the same with the rest of his adult life. For reasons still unbeknownst to friends and family, he decided to eschew a more conventional career path to instead become a guy who writes about video games for cash and coin.
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Look no further than New York-based developer Mighty Morgan if you’re on a quest to unleash your inner lawman. Their new crowdfunded game places you front and center as two digitized cops looking to rid the land of scumbags and the like. Police Stories, a…
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In Hypernova, you play as the Scynthians, an alien race that is fleeing its crumbling home planet in search of a new spot in the galaxy to call home. But as you already know, there are no roads or bridges connecting various planets beyond the…
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Game developer Robotic Potato is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for their feline twin-stick shooter, Spacecats in Space!. Set in—you guessed it—space, you play as Crown Princess Angelina “Angel” Contessa III, the leader of a catty rebellion against a “tyrannical canine empire.” This solo and…
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Vulpine, an open-world survival game developed by Clockwork Giant Games, is running a Kickstarter campaign to the tune of $30,000 over the course of 42 days. It’s not just another open-world game where you grind for resources and worry incessantly about food and shelter; you…
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Ambassador of Sieubia is an episodic fantasy visual novel revolving around “an ambitious diplomat and mage” by the name of Nisha Ellanor. Visual novels are choice-based games where you simply follow the story and make decisions along the way that affect the plot in ways little…
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Lightspeed Frontier is a sandbox ship-builder currently on Kickstarter with a goal of $2,500. In many ways, it looks like a pared-down version of another sandbox ship-builder set in outer space I covered two months ago, by the name of Avorion. Both of these games…
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The Adventure Pals is an adventure platformer set in a world populated by giraffes, screaming hot dogs, red blobs, and other such strange creatures (well, the giraffes not so much). The gameplay featured in the Kickstarter trailer and the colorful art style make the game…
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Your ordinary Kickstarter game campaign usually doesn’t tackle modern issues head-on with finesse and gravitas, but That Day We Left may just turn out to be an exception to the rule. Developed by Inner Void Interactive, a team based in Rome, Italy, That Day We Left…
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TDZ Games is asking for $18,000 to crowdfund their game Eliosi’s Hunt, a top-down sci-fi shooter in the vein of retro games like Crash Bandicoot and Metal Slug. Playing as a young bounty hunter by the name of Eliosi, you’ll face off against hordes of…
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Over the course of the last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing dozens of talented guys and gals with a vivid passion for the art of video game creation. Some of these game developers did not only share a common interest in all…
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The funniest comment on the Kickstarter page of The Mandate, a sci-fi RPG that raised a whopping $700K via Kickstarter back in 2013, was written by a guy who posted a Youtube link to the Pocket God update song. For those unfamiliar with this hilarious…
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It’s not always easy being a game developer raising funds through Kickstarter—especially a ton of funds, like how Darkseas Games managed to back in May 2013 for their motorcycle combat-racer Road Redemption. If you don’t deliver on your campaign promises or deliver a shabby product,…
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Best Buds vs Bad Guys is a run ‘n’ gun shoot ‘em up currently being developed by Richard Hill-Whitall and his eleven-year-old son, Lucas. With the help of Claire Hill-Whittall, who is in charge of business and marketing, and Steve Howard, the “coding genius” behind…
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“Liars” is what Kickstarter backer Will O’Neill called the devs behind Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians, the tactical diverse RPG “envisioned” by the renowned Yasumi Matsuno. In February 2014, the game raised a whopping $660,127 through their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, backed by roughly 15000…
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Anybody itching for a throwback to the good ol’ days of the 16-bit platformer? Head on over to Fox n Forests’ Kickstarter page, where developer Bonus Level Entertainment is running a crowdfunding campaign for their “shoot, slash, switch and snatch” action game. Aside from the…
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