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Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – Read Only Memories, Reset, Starwhal, Honored, RetroWorld

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – Read Only Memories, Reset, Starwhal, Honored, RetroWorld

You’ll have to forgive me for delivering this week’s crowdfunding selection a day later than usual – hopefully this week’s varied selection will be more than enough to excuse tripping up! Featured this week: first person puzzler Reset, GaymerX headed adventure game Read Only Memories, arena-jousting marine-life battler Starwhal and Honored, a service that aims to give you real badges for your achievements. Meanwhile, we prematurely call time on RetroWorld, an intriguing concept we can only hope will retool and return.

Democracy 3 – The verdict

Democracy 3 – The verdict

You sit there, watching Prime Minister’s Question time and you think, why the Dickens did he say that? I mean you know he’s opposed to that sort of policy and he’s strongly connected to this other group, so why throw a bone towards this marginal seat on a marginal issue?

Play Positech’s Democracy 3 for even ten minutes, and you’ll start to appreciate why. Politics. Politics is why, and it’s even more of a moral and intellectual quagmire than you ever feared…

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – Festival of Magic, Operation Squiddershins, Super World Karts, Interstellaria and Next Car Game

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – Festival of Magic, Operation Squiddershins, Super World Karts, Interstellaria and Next Car Game

This week in gaming crowdfunding: Festival of Magic brings a little JRPG style to Wii U and PC, Operation Squiddershins attempts to save a talented young man from pizza-related obscurity and Super World Karts GP concludes that mode 7 rendering wasn’t an evolutionary dead end. Meanwhile, there’s positive funding news for Interstellaria but more New Car Game fails to secure funding.

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – Raetikon, Dex, PAWS, Dyscourse, InSomnia

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – Raetikon, Dex, PAWS, Dyscourse, InSomnia

In this week’s roundup of kickstarter and indiegogo projects: the stylish triangular world of aerial exploration game Secrets of Raetikon, sidescrolling cyberpunk action RPG Dex, hyper-cute strategy battle game P.A.W.S. – Prime Alien Watch Squad and plane-crash survival game Dyscourse. Meanwhile, InSomnia has gone back the drawing board. Read on to find out more.

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – The Mandate, Bloom, Project Sen, Obduction, Night in the Woods, Raindrop

Gaming Crowdfunding Weekly – The Mandate, Bloom, Project Sen, Obduction, Night in the Woods, Raindrop

Gaming is one of the pillars of crowdfunding, so we’ve decided to start up a weekly roundup of crowdfunding projects to watch. This week: tactical RPG starship sim the Mandate, the optionally violent Bloom, Project Sen‘s thighs, Myst successor Obduction and funding outcomes good and bad for Night in the Woods and Raindrop respectively.

Forced – The Verdict

Forced – The Verdict

A pair of stabbing green daggers hold the horde at bay, as a flaming hammer swings around the heads of the soon-to-be vanquished. An arrow streaks from somewhere, felling the largest of the creatures and a frost-frosted shield sparks and clangs as it hurtles between man and beast. Forced is a co-op thing of beauty, that still, somehow, manages to squeeze extreme-frisbee into this scene of battle.

I’m not even kidding.

Prison Architect Reaches 250,000 Sales – Still In Alpha

Prison Architect Reaches 250,000 Sales – Still In Alpha

What names does your mind jump to when asked to pick the titles that shaped our current indie gaming landscape? I suspect Minecraft and Braid will be joined by a few personal favourites for most of you, but in my case the association is strongest with Darwinia: a game so entirely beautiful despite being so daringly lo-fi, that promised amazing new ideas could come from small, left-field teams and rank among a list of the best things you played that year.

Evoland Developers Tease New Game – Until Dark

Evoland Developers Tease New Game – Until Dark

There is a little game called Evoland which I dipped in and out of earlier this year, it is a fascinating little game where you travel through the various stages of RPG adventure games with ever evolving abilities and visual style, from 8-bit to a 3D world. It really is quite good, so I am intrigued by the idea of the developers Shiro GamesUntil Dark. The first concept art can be found after the break.

Eurogamer Expo – The Indies

Eurogamer Expo – The Indies

Indie developers are great, they are often so approachable and friendly. The games they make are part of the sea change that is sweeping through the industry. The old AA game space all has been all but obliterated and indie titles are taking up the mantle with growing support from the big boys, especially Sony as Shahid Ahmad talked about on day two of the Expo. I didn’t get to spend as much time in the indie section during my time at the Expo as I would have liked, but there were a few gems down there.