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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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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!

Video Review: Dungeon Hearts

Posted on by Daniel Campbell in PC, PC Reviews, Reviews | Leave a comment

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Armless Octopus puts yet another match-three game through the wringer to see if anything decent will come out the other side. This time it’s Dungeon Hearts for the PC via Steam. The game only costs $3, but is it worth your TIME? You’ll just have to watch and see.

PAX East Preview: Delvers Drop just can’t stop at one play

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

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Fresh off a widely successful Kickstarter campaign, developer Pixelscopic brought their success to PAX East as part of the Indie Megabooth to demonstrate that Delver’s Drop is more than just an excellent pitch. So after seeing it in person and finally getting my hands on it, I can assure you that it not only looks good on paper, but it’s also an adventure you should be anticipating the arrival of.

Assuming you are unfamiliar with Delver’s Drop, the style is akin to the dungeons of The Legend of Zelda, or maybe more closely to the SNES’ A Link to the Past more specifically, which has you you following one of the chosen/jailed adventurers/miscreants thrown down the “drop”. As you descend further, each room is varied by through a combination of pre-generated floor layouts mixed with randomized content. This helps to create a unique experience every time. Even in our time with the PAX demo, as well as watching others play, we were hard pressed to find the same room layout, with variations between puzzles, traps, battle royals, or an interesting mix of the three. I unfortunately didn’t reach any bosses due to the the difficulty of the demo, but it would also appear that there are larger foes to tackle. Fortunately though, the adversity I faced was not due to the controls, which are extremely fluid and responsive, but instead just due to my own inability to adapt to the constantly changing environment.

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Armless Octopus Plays Organ Trail

Posted on by Mike Wall in PC, PC Reviews | 2 Comments

Mike Wall and Alex Esten get their tentacles on Organ Trail, the new zombie-themed Oregon Trail parody available for PC and iPad.

GDC 2013: Deponia wishes you the best, final chapter in the adventure trilogy coming in November

Posted on by Dave Voyles in PC, PC Previews | Leave a comment
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The brash, self-involved yet lovable protagonist has been a sought after character troupe in modern stories since Han Solo took control of the Millenium Falcon across the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. German developer Daedalic has managed to grab lightning in a bottle and seems to have found what made that archetype so popular oh so long ago with Rufus, the main character featured in their adventure game trilogy Deponia.In the game’s current state, Rufus, who has long sought to escape this wretched planet, had a fate encounter with the beautiful Goal, an Elysian from the city floating in the skies above who fell from grace. Since their initial meeting in the first game they’ve come across a plethora of sarcastic and charismatic characters on this junk filled planet; a relic of a time long gone by.

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PAX East Preview: Dropchord causing people to point fingers

Posted on by Anthony Swinnich in Mobile, Mobile Previews, PC, PC Previews, Previews | Leave a comment

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It’s often said that it’s rude to point. But Double Fine Productions doesn’t care. They want you to point the entire time you’re playing Dropchord, their “music-driven score challenge game” that uses the Leap Motion controller. We had a chance to give the game a spin at PAX East 2013 and found ourselves wanting to be pointed in the direction of a full version — the game was a ton of fun.

The Leap Motion controller took a couple of minutes to get used to, but the learning curve was pretty soft. It can track your hands and the way they move right down to the five individual appendages on each one. Luckily for the player, Double Fine has seen fit to use only the pointer fingers. You hold both of them out above the controller and direct the cursors to two specific points to start the game. Like all free-motion gaming devices (Sony’s EyeToy, Microsoft’s Kinect) it’s possible to lose your orientation in regards to where the device is due to a lack of physical feedback, but because it seemed to be less of an issue due to the relatively small motions required to play.
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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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