Tag Archives: Kickstarter

The turn-based action “reset” from Denmark’s Full Control has passed it’s Kickstarter goal. For a while it wasn’t looking like the campaign would succeed but in the last two days funding picked up and finished $18,614 over the goal at $368,614 with 7,167 backers. Courtesy of Evil Avatar.

Point-and-click adventure game, Realm, failed to hit its Kickstarter funding goal today. Not wanting to concede, the creators plan to return to Kickstarter later in the year to try again.
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Heavy Gear Assault developer Stompy Bot Productions has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a free and pay-what-you-want take on the series. It’s a chunky shooter, and it’s riddled with dynamic destruction.

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A video clip from Video Games: The Movie, currently on Kickstarter is below, and features various industry folks such as Randy Pitchford, Chris Hardwick, Karl Stewart, and Cliff Bleszinski discussing next-gen. Give it a watch, and then head over to its funding page. So far, with 31 days left, the project has earned $25,762 in funding towards its $60,000 goal from 250 backers.

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Jagged Alliance: Flashback developer Full Control has six days of Kickstarter funding left, and has released a neat Unity-powered diorama, letting you scroll around a scene from the turn-based game’s actual gameplay.

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Independent developer Pixelbionic has announced David Jaffe has joined the company’s advisory board as a creative advisor for its vehicular combat game Autoduel.

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Unusual, toddler-centric horror adventure Among the Sleep has been successfully funded on Kickstarter, managing to raise its $200,000 goal with time left on the clock. Things had been looking a little hairy, but Krillbite recently made an alpha version of the game available to all comers, rewarding existing backers with access to a new version and the eventual beta. Visit the project’s Kickstarter to check it out. If you’re keen to chip in, you have about two and a half days remaining at time of writing.

Video Games: The Movie is a feature length documentary from Mediajuice Studios on the video game industry and the culture it’s created, and it needs your help on Kickstarter.

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With just days left on the Kickstarter clock, an early build of unusual horror adventure Among the Sleep will be made available to the public, perhaps tempting you to part with your cash at the last minute.

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Like Star Citizen before it, Shadow of the Eternals has opened a Kickstarter campaign in addition to its self-managed crowdfunding platform.

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When in comes to next-gen systems, Cliff Bleszinski feels Sony’s really embraced the indie and sharing scenes, and he’s really interested in what Microsoft has to show on May 21.

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With 40 hours left on the clock, DarkSeas Games’ Road Redemption Kickstarter has been funded. The initial funding goal was $160,000, and 3,929 backers funded it with $163,315 in pledges. You can find out more on the game which is currently slated for a PC, Mac and Linux in July, and Wii U some time this year, through the link.

Replay Games has a new release date for Leisure Suity Larry Reloaded, and for once it’s earlier than anticipated.

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Olympus Games CEO Skylar Kreisher has issued a statement addressing Garry’s Mod creator Garry Newman’s willingness to go to court over the question of who can use the term “GMOD”. The developer expressed regret that it has come to daggers drawn, swearing it had no intention to “attack” another developer and vowing only friendly intentions.

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Let’s make this clear; Son of Nor‘s protagonist is not a Jedi and does not use the power of the Force. That would be a copyright infringement. That said, see him throw shit around with telekinesis in the trailer through the break.

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American McGee, the developer behind Alice and Alice: Madness Returns, has been revealed to be working with his studio Spicy Horse on Kickstarters for a new Alice title and a title based on The Wizard of Oz.

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GTFO: A Film About Women in Gaming, a film by Shannon Sun-Higginson exposing the harassment of women in video games, has met its $20,000 Kickstarter goal. The documentary promises to contain “gamers, bloggers, scholars, developers, and other experts,” discussing and revealing the experiences of women in the gaming world, both good and bad. The project has another 60 hours to go. You can find out more on the film through the page, a write up on Kotaku and and interview with Higginsonon Forbes.

With 10 days left on its Kickstarter, Krillbite Studio has added Oculus Rift support to Among the Sleep.

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Project Awakened developer Phosphor Games recently axed its crowd-funding drive, in light of “alternative funding options”. Studio CEO Justin Corcoran has now explained why it decided to nuke its campaign.

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Gmod developer Olympus Games launched a Kickstarter for its mod library, tracking and creation platform back in April, but we’ve only just stumbled across it. It is not to be confused with Garry Newman’s ‘Garry’s Mod’ tool. Newman has discussed the conflicts and similarities between both platforms with VG247.

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