When I saw Mineral Cities’ latest update I expected its backers to be baying for blood. Just looking at the fact the game was funded in 2013 and has only had 8 updates since then, is shady enough for me, the actual update is the…
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Stephanie Smith is an English Teacher in Mianyang China with a passion for gaming. Stephanie is dedicated to Edutainment and wants to bring video games into the classroom and help other teachers do the same. She's a little too overly enthusiastic about collecting Steam badges and fairly grumpy if she doesn't get her daily dose of Markiplier and Game Grumps.
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As a serial backer on Kickstarter, I know the platform has some flaws as well as anyone. One of those flaws is its unregulated nature that results in some campaigns not delivering. Anyone can start a campaign and there is very little backers can do if someone…
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Bear Simulator is a highly-rated Kickstarter-funded FPB (First Person Bear) game created to bring bears into the gaming industry. As we all know, bears are a highly under-represented minority in the gaming industry. When they do appear they are objectified as enemies to be slaughtered…
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Fig’s latest update is an example of something I call ‘being economical with the truth’. To be clear, I hadn’t heard much about Fig until fairly recently, but it made my spider senses tingle. Fig is a relatively new crowdfunding website that markets itself as…
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I am genuinely sad that Failure, the cyber-futuristic strategy game canceled its Kickstarter campaign. I was very excited to back this one and I don’t think I have ever been so sad to get £12 back. I suppose it wasn’t a surprise, it had become…
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Open-World Action-RPG game Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem (Formerly Umbra) is set to release on Early Access on March 24th. Wolcen is also well on target for its planned official release in October 2016 for PC and Linux. On top of all this good news, backers will…
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To Light: Ex Umbra is about halfway through its Kickstarter funding period and nearly halfway funded. However, I doubt that To Light: Ex Umbra will meet its Kickstarter goal of $7,500 without divine intervention. While the game does have a unique art style it is…
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The sequel to Dark Quest is now on Kickstarter. The previous game sold nearly 40,000 copies across multiple platforms including the PS Vita and Android. This iteration is headed for Steam and iOS, but it is too early to say whether it will also come…
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I don’t think I’ve ever backed a project faster than I did Ludoria. Ludoria is a sandbox game that takes a blocky procedurally-generated world like that of Minecraft and throws catchable monsters into the mix. Ludoria was released on the Steam Greenlight back in August…
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We all know Kickstarter is a way to help people try to create something. Whenever you back a project you are told in plain English that you are not guaranteed to get the product at the end of it. Dr McNinja was one of those…
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A new promising looking Kickstarter launched recently called Failure, which I really hope it isn’t. From the moment I clapped my eyes on the Kickstarter page, I knew I was in for a treat with this one. You can tell the developers have really invested…
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The developers of Combat Core released another update after nearly three months of silence. However, this brief update shows a bit of promise with new Alpha builds on the horizon along with a few other bit and pieces worth mentioning. Considering this Kickstarter was only…
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The Seed really has had a rough time during the course of its development. It was due out in 2014 but didn’t hit that target, but kept working. If nothing else The Seed is an example of the tenacity of developers on Kickstarter. Despite overshooting…
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Beastmaster And Prince (猛獣使いと王子様) is a famous Otome visual novel released in Japan back in 2010. It gained quite the fan following over there and was even re-released for the PlayStation Vita in the summer of 2015. Unfortunately for those in the west, the game…
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I think Blackwake is a great example of a Kickstarter done right. Blackwake’s developers are skipping this month’s update as they baton down the hatches and focus on getting the Alpha build ready. That may not sound great, but hear me out. Blackwake was funded…
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I think Relapse is a hilarious name for a horror game in an asylum, but the Relapse Kickstarter itself looks far from comedy gold, labeling itself instead as a First Person Adventure Puzzle Horror. Personally, I am not of fan of first person games and…