It’s not uncommon for Kickstarters to fail, and when a Kickstarter fails, a passionate developer will, naturally, give it another go. Well, after two Kickstarters – a successful one for a prequel comic and an unsuccessful one for an RPG – After Reset, a Black…
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Nathaniel Liles is a freelance writer, writing major, and indie musician based in Southern Indiana. While procrastinating or avoiding real-world responsibility, Nathaniel enjoys playing rhythm games, action RPGs, and very colorful games with many bright, flashing lights. You can listen to Nathaniel sing songs or download his music for free at http://nathanielliles.bandcamp.com/.
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As you may already know, I am easily entertained. I like satisfying, flashy, colorful games that dole out tons of progression in small, rapid doses. I’m also a fan of the “runner” genre that’s dominated the mobile gaming culture for ages. They’re quick little bite-sized…
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There are quite a few games out there nowadays that make an attempt at conveying the basic logic behind low-level coding. I’m not complaining at all, in fact I’m currently working on an initiative to bring that kind of knowledge to kids on a grander…
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It seems like yesterday that Long Night, a survival horror game in the classic tradition of Resident Evil, was funded. Developers Trickster Face raised $12,507 (CAD) for their episodic spooky-spooky adventure, ending their Kickstarter on January 15th. Development cycles for things like this usually take…
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Days of Dawn, an RPG that received a very warm welcome when its Kickstarter launched, has fallen from its original high graces. On the 4th of July, a day usually meant as a joyous, drunken declaration of… Not being British anymore, backers received a private update….
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Angry Birds took off in a big way when it debuted on iOS way back in the olden days of 2009. Since then, it’s exploded into a stunningly large franchise. Just… Stunning. While that may be a bleak statement on today’s culture, it never sat…
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If you’re a gamer, you’ve almost definitely played a side-scrolling shooter. In fact, most of us spent our earliest days playing these, myself included. These were fun when we were kids, and they still are, but many of us are looking for something a little…
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As someone who has managed to stay consistently afraid of the dark since my childhood, I’m often really grabbed by the idea of darkness being the enemy or some sort of force. When the darkness is more than an absence of light, it lets people…
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The concept of a Robot Apocalypse isn’t anything new. It’s been done for decades, and we know exactly how it usually goes. Scientist makes super-intelligent AI in the years preceding the singularity, and the AI creates a robot army to kill the not-robot army. Allow…
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A big part of why people back a game on Kickstarter is to get access to the many perks associated with helping a game come full circle. One of the perks people look the most forward too (and often give the most money for) is…
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Organic Panic – Early Access Review By Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]O[/dropcap]kay, so, Organic Panic. If you’re a regular to the site, you may have already seen our video review of this quirky action-puzzle-platformer, but as is the way of video reviews, there were a few things…
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We wrote a bit about DieselStormers not too long ago, and while it’s been a little while since we’ve gotten any news about it (backers and non-backers alike), the biggest news we could’ve gotten has been released. We got a release date! It’s still a…
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Ever wonder that 1940s-era Europe would be like without all those dreadful Nazis running about, making things generally gloomy? Well, wonder no longer, because Errant Heart, an upcoming visual novel from the two-man team of Van Von Hunter, takes place in exactly the Nazi-free utopia…
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RPGs are good fun, and they’re even more fun when you get one to three friends involved in the experience. In addition to that, everything is irrefutably better in the Wild West. Guns? They got em. Hookers? Literally thousands of them. Drinking water? Screw water,…
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Prepare to hop on your fire breathing chicken, drink some mead, and get into some sweet local co-op for the upcoming Dungeons: Eye of Draconus, and get the hype train all stoked up and ready to go, because a new trailer has been released that…
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There are a ton of things that can go wrong during the development of a game, and although smaller teams mean less moving parts in the machine of development, it also means that more responsibilities are designated entirely to a single person; such is the…