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Kickstart This! Fabled Vale

Posted on by Wayne Kubiak in News, PC, PC News | Leave a comment

Kickstarter has revolutionized the way indie games are financed, but with hundreds of games begging for your precious shillings, we’re highlighting the most promising games whose very development may hinge upon you opening up your pocketbook. 

Okay, this installment of Kickstart This! isn’t exactly a Kickstarter campaign but instead focuses on Indiegogo, a close cousin of Kickstarter that follows a similar concept and essentially functions the same way. Enough words about the slight campaign differences though, let us talk about Fabled Vale. Beginning as a dream project of designer Jennifer Dawe who is known for her work on Aspereta and Illutia, and has been conceptualizing and producing assets for the past 5 years while searching for the right partner for the project. Now she’s teamed up with Cerulean Games, and they are seeking funding through the aforementioned Indiegogo campaign to get the project in motion.
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Monaco can be yours this Friday on XBLA

Posted on by Mike Wall in News, XBLA News | Leave a comment


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After a last-minute snafu delayed its XBLA release 2 weeks ago, Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine has a brand new release date. Pocketwatch Games stomped on all the bugs, and the game is set to be released this Friday. The 4-player heist game has been highly anticipated since stealing the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 2010 GDC Independent Games Festival. It’s also available on Steam.

Source: Pocketwatch Games

Kickstart This! Realm

Posted on by Gil Almogi in News, PC, PC News | Leave a comment

Kickstarter has revolutionized the way indie games are financed, but with hundreds of games begging for your precious shillings, we’re highlighting the most promising games whose very development may hinge upon you opening up your pocketbook. 

Coming fresh off the steam of the successful Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey campaign, another beautiful fantasy adventure game starring a heroine appears! Realm’s vision comes from the art studio, Atomhawk Designs, who have contributed art assets and designs to games, such as Enslaved, Dead Island, and Mortal Kombat (9). This time, they’re looking to make their own adventure game to the tune of £195,000 (~$302,000 USD).

The story follows the adventure of a young girl, Sarina, and a golem, Toru, as they search for a cure for Sarina’s mother’s sickness. Although the time period is the far future, instead of highly advanced technology, players will be treated to lush landscapes of cities buried in natural foliage and strange wild creatures. They must utilize each protagonist’s abilities, including those derived from working together, to solve puzzles and traverse the dangerous world.

With less than two weeks to go, and about £54,000 pledged, the situation seems desperate, but we’ve witnessed Kickstarter miracles before. Atomhawk Designs are offering numerous rewards for each fantastically named tier, such as digital downloads, the game’s soundtrack, and T-shirts, art books, and more. For under the typical price of a AAA release, $53 (Digital Deluxe Elder), you can obtain all the digital pieces, things that normally come with a more expensive preorder. And the studio is now allowing backers to pledge a little extra to get specific items from higher tiers.

If you’re looking for a promising adventure game from a studio with the right pedigree, go pledge your love now!

Stinky Footboard gaming pedal funded through Kickstarter

Posted on by Dave Voyles in News, PC News | Leave a comment

In today’s competitive gaming landscape gamers are constantly looking for an advantage. Whether it’s using a modded gamepad to improve your firing speed or lowering your graphic fidelity to a minimum in order to improve your FPS, there’s very little a gamer isn’t willing to do to get that edge.

Well, a recently funded Kickstarter project, the Stinky Footboard gaming pedal, promises to offer you that edge. The pedal finished slightly over its goal of $75,000 with a grand total of $79,562 pledged overall.

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Kickstart This! Rex Rocket

Posted on by Wayne Kubiak in News, PC News | Leave a comment

I do not care for the term Metroidvania as a genre, let us call them exploration platformers or something to that effect. Naming a genre by mashing together names of the games in the category is akin to calling every first person shooter a “Doom of Duty”. However despite the terminology that irks me, I absolutely adore this type of game and I am always excited to see a new one spring up with Rex Rocket by Rob Maher and Tyler Bud being no exception.

I originally picked up on Rex Rocket over at the Pixel Art section of Reddit, where artist Rob Maher was showcasing a small set of eye catching WIP shots of his pixel art. This eventually led to a trailer fully selling me on the concept featuring some neat looking combat tricks, stunning lighting effects, and one of my favorites wall jumping! To add to the package the duo brought on the talented chiptune artist Saskrotch to pull together a fitting soundtrack and from the sounds of the trailer it’s going to be excellent.

If you get an excited feeling inside thinking about metroi…exploration platformers move your eyes over to the Kickstarter page for the game and float them a vote over on Steam Greenlight.

Retro mash-up A.N.N.E. gets a new trailer and Kickstarter

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The retro mash-up, A.N.N.E., was one of the biggest surprises on the PAX East show floor, and now developer Gamesbymo has released a new trailer for their Metroidvania-shooter-RPG hybrid. The trailer shows off most of what was playable at PAX East, but also includes our first look at the ship-based combat that was absent from that build.

Gamesbybo has also launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund development. They’re looking for $70,000 to finish up the project on PC, but stretch goals could bring it to Mac, Linux, PSN, Vita, Ouya and WiiU.

Backers will be rewarded with a digital copy of the game for $10, an SNES box and cartridge for $75 or an adorable figurine for $250. Those with an extra five grand to toss around can look forward to a home cooked meal with Mo himself, along with the opportunity to play the game and suggest changes.

You can view all of the details over on the Kickstarter page, and make sure you check our our preview of the game from PAX East.

Kickstart This! Chasm

Posted on by Mike Wall in News, PC News | Leave a comment

Kickstarter has revolutionized the way indie games are financed, but with hundreds of games begging for your precious shillings, we’re highlighting the most promising games whose very development may hinge upon you opening up your pocketbook. 

We at Armless Octopus are firm believers that there can never be too many Metroidvania games with retro pixelated graphics, and if you share a similar mindset, you might want to throw some money at Chasm. Discord Games, who previously released Take Arms on Xbox Live Indie Games as part of the second Uprising, is looking to spice up its adventure with the procedurally generated dungeons and loot drops of Diablo.

The game is already looking pretty impressive, and you can even download a playable demo.

Discord Games is looking for $150,000, but they’re already more than halfway to their goal and the Kickstarter doesn’t expire until May 12.

So what kind of sweet loot can you nab for your pledges? Fifteen bucks nets you a copy of the game when it’s released for Windows, Mac, and Linux, plus an exclusive sword. Twenty-five bucks gets you two copies of the game, early access to the beta and a digital copy of the soundtrack. If you’ve got a cool grand to spend, you can become an NPC in the game. For a mere five G’s, your NPC will sit on a golden throne and have multiple lines of customizable dialogue.

Click here to check out their Kickstarter.

The new Moebius trailer is weird…but then again, so was Gabriel Knight

Posted on by Mike Wall in Mobile News, News, PC, PC News | Leave a comment

So we just watched the trailer for Moebius, the first game directed by Jane Jensen since Gabriel Knight 3, and there is just one thing that stands about above all else: Did he just say his name was Malachi Rectum?

He said Rector? Really? Okay, well Rector is an antiques export who is approached by a secret organization called F.I.S.T….

Wait, are you sure it’s Rector? For realsies? Okay, well he’s tasked with investigating the death of a politician’s wife, and that’s where you take over with lots of pointing and clicking and puzzle solving. Oh, and apparently it co-stars Sub Zero as everyone’s favorite photographer.

Moebius is being developed by Pinkteron Road coming to PC, Mac, iPad and Linux. A public demo will be available in June, and an alpha build is currently playable for those who donated to it’s massively successful Kickstarter last year.

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