Tag: Kickstarter
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Unsung Story Kickstarter Reveals “Spiritual Successor” to Final Fantasy Tactics
The title, a proposed collaboration between Yasumi Matsuno (the mastermind behind Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story) and developer Playdek, promises the same sort of “complex and rich game worlds” and “inspiring class based tactics game play” as their past projects. Target platforms for the project currently include PC, Mac, iOS and Android. In an interesting…
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Starbound Enters Open Paid Beta State
Just like its inspiration, Terraria, Starbound is a side-scrolling role-playing experience with elements of world-building and Castlevania-esque platforming. Unlike Terraria, however, the procedural generation of the world extends beyond the terrain and items; Starbound will randomly generate entire planets full of unique races and dungeon areas, which players can travel between once they have enough…
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Pixelhunter – Obduction
The creators of Myst are making a welcome come back with Obduction
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Ex-1313 Developers Pitch Super Roman Conquest
Tim Temmerman and Matt Boland, formerly of LucasArts, founded SeaCliff Interactive to develop original non-Star Wars ideas after their employer was shuttered by Disney. Set in ancient Rome, Super Roman Conquest looks to be a new spin on RTS-tropes, as players command centurions, archers and even elephants across Europe. Other units, such as the engineer,…
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Star Command Debuts on Android in Humble Mobile Bundle 2
Star Command, which began life as a Kickstarter project, gained popularity earlier this year for promising (and mostly delivering) a Star Trek-like crew management experience on the go. The only problem was that it was limited to the iOS platform. That’s not longer an issue as the latest Humble Mobile Bundle includes Star Command and…
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23-Old British Studio Blitz Games Closes its Doors
Founded by the legendary Oliver Twins, the studio was today forced to wind-down operations after more than 23 years in the British games industry. If you’re not familiar with Blitz Games Studios’ recent output, you might instead recognise their Dizzy game series. A popular mascot in the 1980’s, he starred in a number of tough-as-nails…
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Metroid Homage Ghost Song Triples Kickstarter Goal
Under development for the last year, Ghost Song promises a large, open-world to explore filled with upgradable power-ups and tough boss-battles. While obviously heavily inspired by Metroid, developer Matt White also cited Dark Souls as an influence on difficulty and balancing. Like Super Metroid, the game makes use of some gorgeous 2D artwork to help…
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Deep Silver will now publish Kickstarted Wasteland 2
InXile Entertainment, the developer behind the very successful Wasteland 2 Kickstarter that raised just under $3,000,000, has announced it is partnering with publisher Deep Silver to distribute the physical copy of the game and the physical Kickstarter backer perks. “This is a perfect opportunity for inXile: it allows us to continue to focus all of…
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Broken Age to be Broken into Two Pieces
With the game outgrowing its original ambitions, the new plan is to release the first part of the Broken Age saga early next year, and use “Early Access” Steam sales to help push the development of the second episode forward. The news – which Tim broke in a “Backers of Adventure” update – seemed initially…
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Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded
After a very successful Kickstarter campaign, Replay Games have released the Beta version of Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded. A re-remake of the classic retro game Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards. From the beginning of the game the art style stands out: hand drawn and in high resolution it is beautiful…