Kickstarter Shout-outs!: Cam's Eye View's Kickstarter Editorials.

I was trying to hold off on this as long as I could, but I can’t hold off anymore! I decided to do a sub-series of articles on Kickstarter Shout-out. These will cover a list of mediocre Kickstarters, explaining why they won’t get funded, and so this won’t be a totally negative experience, I will recommend some alternative Kickstarters that you should go fund. Fun fact, I actually wrote two articles for this idea, but scrapped them. I originally wanted to be critical, cynical, and throw in a humorous twist, but found the two articles not up to the quality I wanted them to be. Now then, let’s get started! Bello Magorum Why it won’t get funded : At first, the description is enticing, a game that will be similar to the tactical RPG classics of the past, like Ogre Battle and Final Fantasy Tactics . Then you realize that the page itself, while having a solid funding goal of $40K, has everything that bad Kickstarters have. First off, there is no trailer, concept art, no 3D models, or even a

Are you feeling down? Did you do something incredibly horrible that you wish to forget? Want to be eerily chipper while wearing a painted-on mask? I mean, you don’t want to be a downer, do you? Well, why not help back today’s Kickstarter Shout-out, We Happy Few , a first-person narrative survival game made by  Compulsion Games, the creators of Contrast . Now then, shall we take a trip and be happy? The game is set in a dystopian city in England in an alternate history of 1964 called Wellington Wells. Basically, something happened after the Germans took over a majority of England, and a lot of the city around you is in ruins. Everyone in the town was a part of this really bad event. However, you wouldn’t get that feeling since everyone in Wellington Wells, is, well, well. This is due to a miracle drug called Joy. The residents take it, and act like everything is Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. Unfortunately, you are not like them. You play as a downer, an individual that isn’t taking the Joy drug. I

I have said in the past that first-person games are not my favorite. Maybe it’s because I have played a majority of games that take place in the third-person, but I never found the controls, combat, and overall experience of a first-person game to be that spectacular. Even games that try and show off that you can play in third-person like Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises, they basically say, “this is what you get for wanting a third-person game. Now get back into that first-person view!” I mean, they probably don’t say that, but still. I don’t hate first-person games since I love Portal 2 , and Wolfenstein: The New Order , but it seems like not a whole lot of developers want to do something new with the games in the first-person. Luckily, Kickstarter has recently been kind to me, have given me three different Kickstarter projects that are games taking place in the first-person. We will start with the Kickstarter getting the most attention, since it has been all ove