The Fifth Expedition is a new Post-Apocalyptic game on Kickstarter. The concept of the apocalypse is always something that draws me in because game developers and storytellers of every kind approach the subject in such a variety of ways. We can have the grim inevitable…
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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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Nebula: Sole Survivor is a sci-fi shooter action rpg that recently launched on Kickstarter, and as I’ve previously mentioned, Sci-fi is one of my favourite genres so naturally I wanted to take a look. Now, Nebula: Sole Survivor doesn’t really strike me as a stand-out game…
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So Knights and Bikes is a Kickstarter with some fairly big names behind it. It’s a small team, but among its ranks are Moo Yu, a developer who worked on Little Big Planet and Ratchet and Clank as well as Rex Crowle, The creative lead for…
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Sci-Fi time! So this week’s Kickstarter eye-candy, in my opinion, is Quantum Suicide. So this little visual novel has me feeling a little mixed, but I decided to throw in my dollars. In just one day Quantum Suicide was over 50% funded and currently only…
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Tower of Samara is a pixel-art adventure game that is scheduled to hit Kickstarter on the 3rd of May this year. To me, the game comes off as a little artsy and pretentious from what I see, but I’m hoping that when the Kickstarter launches there…
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A Kickstarter for a Psychological Horror game called Visage caught my eye today. It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of horror games, however, I recently fell out of love with them. These days horror games have become rather action packed and while that’s not…
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InSomnia’s backer’s are mad as hell at the latest update, but is it unwarranted? InSomnia’s developers released an update recently detailing everything they’ve added to the game. They have increased the gameplay time to 40 hours, transferred all their data to Unreal Engine 4 and…
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Fox Rogers is the creative mind behind the Kickstarter game Refuge that I am pretty excited about. There are only a few days left in the Kickstarter, I decided to pick Fox’s brain in this little interview. Cliqist : How big do you plan to…
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2 years ago a Kickstarter for a puzzle-RPG called Bob’s Game appeared. It managed to raise over $10,000 toward its development and was scheduled expected to be delivered at the end of last year. Well, I doubt it was expected, the Kickstarter was only updated…
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Shadows of Adam is a cool little indie JRPG that popped up on Kickstarter. Clearly I’m not the only one who thinks so since already it has over $1,100 of its $20k goal funded. Reading through the Kickstarter, I’m quite liking how the developers are dealing…
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Kickstarter is all about community involvement. People love seeing a game created from the ground up and being there every step of the way. It is that pull that allows big projects like Ever, Jane to raise over $100,000 in funding. It’s pretty much an unspoken…
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An interesting little Platformer popped up on Kickstarter recently. It’s called One Dog Story and it’s an action adventure platformer with RPG elements. The basic premise of the game seems to be that you are some sort of experiment (who happens to be a humanoid dog)…
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As you all know from our previous coverage, the Midora Kickstarter hit hard times. It seems obvious now that the Zelda-esque action-adventure game set its sights too low in terms of funding. Despite meeting its goal and raising $70,000 dollars, Epic Minds soon realized that…
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If you read my last article about Refuge, then you already know how desperately excited I am about this atmospheric PvP adventure. Since I last wrote about it, it has gained a lot of attention, some of the screens were on the front page of…
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I’m predicting lots of ‘aww…’s from our readers when they take a look at the latest shaggy dog story on Kickstarter. Leonard Saves The City tells the serious story of the modern day housing crisis through the eyes of a puppy. I find this rather…
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It’s been a long winter since the dog sled racing sim Dog Sled Saga was released on Steam Early Access, but the developers haven’t been hibernating. It’s been over a year since the last update on Dog Sled Saga’s Kickstarter page which rightly has some backers feeling…