The Kickstarter campaign for Stoic’s epic conclusion to the Banner Saga series quickly obliterated it’s $200,000 funding goal. With nearly 6,000 backers rallying behind them, Stoic took to Reddit on last week for an “Ask Me Anything” community interview. Participants included; Stoic Founders John Watson and…
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Joanna Mueller is a lifelong gamer who used to insist on having the Super Mario Bros manual read to her as a bedtime story. Now she's reading Fortnite books to her own kiddo while finally making use of her degree to write about games as Cliqist's EIC.
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The team at Spiritwalk Games are all members of the unique social landscape that is Twitch’s streaming community. For their new project, Shardbound, they knew they wanted to design something that would give Twitch Streamers and their viewers a way to experience the game together….
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By now those of you who’d been keeping tabs on Mobot Studios’ platformer, Knite & The Ghost Lights have already read the bad news. Nearly 4 years after successfully raising $43,768 on Kickstarter, Mobot Studios has officially shut down. Mobot Founder, James Fletcher has promised…
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Developer a2z(Interactive); has just kicked off another year working to deliver their FPS survival game, Survive the Nights. The open-world sandbox takes place on a collection of post-apocalyptic, zombie infested islands, like so many other games before it. What sets Survive the Nights apart, however…
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Back in 2014 when James Wearing of Elastic Games launched his Kickstarter campaign for multiplayer survival horror title Last Year, people were pretty excited. The concept was still fresh and interesting, a group of players teaming up to escape the grasp of an overpowered player-controlled…
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Back in March of 2015, Canada based Berzerk Studios secured CA$ 4,329 on Kickstarter. They were in the process of developing a horror inspired 8-bit ARPG called Infernax. After the campaign, the team realized they weren’t happy with the work they’d already completed. They decided to…
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Day in and day out the process repeats itself. You spend your life as just another cog in the corporate machine. Maybe you make it home to repeat the pattern all over again. That is, until the day you don’t. It’s not something you’d want…
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Last month we took a quick look at the Kickstarter updates for monster-raising RPG Toby’s Island. Noting that the project should have been over 3 years into production, I wasn’t particularly impressed by what was there. As it turns out the updates didn’t do much to…
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Sometimes you come across a crowdfunding campaign that you really want to like. Something about the aesthetic or concept speaks to you. Somehow though, the campaign page fails to live up to its promise. Such was the impression I came away with from the Indiegogo…
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Some people do not care about narrative in video games. These people are (of course) wrong, but nonetheless they do exist. Fortunately, developers are a sharp bunch. They’ve found ways to unobtrusively convey a game’s story with players none-the-wiser if they so choose. Such is…
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Michael Mendheim had a problem. For years he wanted to remake his 1993 classic Mutant League Football. The game had spawned a Saturday morning cartoon show, a toyline, comic series and even a spin-off game called Mutant League Hockey. Regardless, he was unable to find…
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Oftentimes when a game presents a player with choices it’s for the sole purpose of determining a specific story-outcome. You see this a lot in games with morality systems. The protagonist can struggle to do the right thing or have fun being a raging bag…
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Ever since VR really began to take off, horror fans have been waiting for more immersive scares. Outer Brain Studios is attempting to flex their indie horror muscles by calling back to the slow, methodical survival horror of the ‘90s with their new project, Organ Quarter….
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With the campaign for post-apocalyptic adventure, Beautiful Desolation nearing its funding goal, Nic and Chris Bischoff of The Brotherhood are pretty busy. Fortunately, the team behind Stasis isn’t too busy to impart useful knowledge to other developers wishing to follow their success. In an update on…
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Last month at PAX South I had the opportunity to speak with a plethora of indie developers about their crowdfunding experiences. Their stories were as diverse as their projects, but didn’t always have a happy ending. Failure to secure necessary crowdfunding dollars can be a…
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No, that title isn’t a typo. Developer 8 Points announced last month that it was changing its name to Fntastic. This is to express gratitude to all the team members who’ve come and gone during development of The Wild Eight. The original studio name will…