Update: Shortly afer this article was published, the developer contacted me to provide the following statement. I am willing to take them at their word for now, and once a further Kickstarter update is published I will be putting togethera follow-up article. However I would like…
Let’s be honest, most survival games are boring. They’re usually always the same thing: survive in a big, open, empty world against a horde of zombies. But every so often a developer comes along with a unique idea for a survival game. Enter Solar Powered…
Traintopia is a game on Kickstarter we covered a little bit ago. The campaign was going well, but last week, some bizarre things happened. First, between November 28 and November 29, the game’s funding dropped from $29,373 to $3,012. Per kicktraq, 169 people had revoked…
ChaosForge’s new turn-based sci-fi roguelike, Jupiter Hell, has been doing pretty well for itself over on Kickstarter. Maybe, even a little too well as it has drawn the attention of ZeniMax Media. The company has slapped developer Kornel Kisielewicz with an order to remove all…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not exactly known for being a feel good romantic comedy. Characters are more likely to meet quick and grisly deaths than be adequately wooed into a relationship. This hasn’t stopped Golden Glitch Studios from making conscientious decisions regarding consent in their upcoming…
Back in the mystical yesteryear of 2012, Divergent Games launched a Kickstarter Campaign for their 16-bit inspired RPG, Hiro Fodder: A Blue Hope. Despite campaign assurances that the game was already well into production and expected to be completed in 8 months, nothing has ever been…
Visual novel Anime Studio Simulator may have only been released on November 3rd, but it’s already seen two updates. The good news is that the updates weren’t to fix bugs. Instead the developer has listened to early comments and made changes in order to improve the…
Elysian Shadows raised $185,322 with the help of 2,282 Kickstarter backers in 2014. This 2D pixel art/3D environment fusion RPG featured dynamic lighting, shadows, physics, and positional audio. Basically, it was a really ambitious project being created by a relatively small development team. As such,…
Typically the goal of a crowdfunding campaign is the raise the minimum necessary funding to complete a project. We’re talking bare necessities, no frills or extras. So when The Station managed to hit 100% of its $7,439 funding goal on Sunday, backers were curious about…
After a troll cost them their first campaign, 2Awesome Studio immediately bounced back with another Kickstarter for their comic-style space adventure, Dimension Drive. In an update, the dev’s showed off some of the newly added options and features before hinting at a release date early next…
Raven Sword Industries began as part of the game development program at Algonquin College in Canada. After working on Project Orion for a year and a half, the newly graduated devs decided to continue development. They took to Kickstarter to secure the funds needed to complete their…
Think about every decision you’ve ever made. If you could go back and change any of these choices, would you? This concept fuels the Many-Worlds Theory, which states that every time you make a decision, another “you” from a different universe makes the opposite choice. Dämmerlicht,…
It’s been an interesting couple of months for the developers at Arcade Distillery. They made their Kickstarter debut in October with Sideshow’s Court of the Dead: Underworld Rising. The massively ambitious project ultimately failed to reach its $250,000 funding goal. After taking a month to let the…
When it comes to comedic adventure games, the stranger the better. If you toss in a heaping dose of Monty Python-like silliness you’re sure to have a great experience. With Lancelot’s Hangover, the pitch showed a lot of promise. The beta build at the time was…
Last month, Dual Universe‘s player-driven open world gained a lot of attention among fans of gigantic worlds set in deep space. Promising emergent gameplay in a seamless, fully editable universe, the game smashed through its Kickstarter goal by amassing a little over half a million euros….
On November 15th 2016 Kickstarter announced that for the first time they would be officially welcoming Kickstarter projects from Mexico. (Previously creators and artists could still use the crowdfunding platform, but only by joining with partners in other countries). This news comes a week after…
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