The sentiment among many people who follow Xbox Live Indie Games is that they’ve grown tired with the over saturation of Minecraft-type games. Fortunately, Exato Games has listened to your complaints and put their own twist on the genre in the form of Guncraft. Self described as a “first person shooter utilizing voxel (cube-based) based levels and graphics as well as construction elements,” Guncraft is looking to blend “the best features of a voxel, Minecraft-style engine,” with the “a mainstream first person shooter experience.”

You can voice your opinion on the matter with the power of your dollar, as they’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign of their own. For the right price, you can live forever in digital form as one of the game’s characters! The project currently has 67 backers for a total of $2,053 of its $16,000 goal with 27 days to go.

One of the main selling points is the fact that their engine is not only fully destructible, but allows for complete environment construction as well by utilizing the numerous blocks included with the game. Not to be outdone by Call of Duty, kill-streak rewards are included too, including those which  ”allow you to build turrets, SAM sites, tanks, helicopters, drones, and much, much more.”

So when can you expect to get your hands on this voxel spin of the fps genre? Exato Games is expecting a launch no later than June for the PC, but a beta is expected to begin in March. Although it is made in XNA, the XBLIG version is still up in the air at the moment, but we can keep our fingers crossed.

Source: Kickstarter