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

I’ll be honest with you all; I have not been very proficient with Kickstarter Shout-outs covering game projects from the crowd-funding site Indiegogo. It isn’t that there haven’t been interesting projects there, but the way they categorize video games on that site has left me a little confused. A majority of projects there seemed to be people wanting an Xbox One or wanting to start their own YouTube page. Luckily, I was able to find out about this awesome crowd-funding project called Cross Code . This project is being developed by Radical Fish Games. The developer was recently at the Austin-based media event SXSW, and I got a chance to play their game. After the event, the developers contacted me about writing an article about their game, and emailed me the demo they had at SXSW. First off, I want to thank Radical Fish Games for this opportunity, and secondly, this was one of the most polished experiences from SXSW, so you know you are in for something great!  Now then, let’s see why C...

(Originally posted: March 18th, 2015) As I promised, I have been able to talk to the developers behind the Kickstarter Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire, and ask them a few questions. If you haven’t checked this Kickstarter out yet, go to tahiragame.com. If you love games like The Banner Saga or the upcoming Bedlam, then you should definitely check this game out! The game only has a few days left on Kickstarter, but it has been greenlit by the community on Steam. Below are the questions I asked, and the answers I received. Let’s do it! Me: What were the inspirations behind the overall concept of Tahira? WHG: When we started working on Tahira, I'd just spent five months trekking in Nepal and travelling in India. Those experiences were fresh in my mind, and I wanted to create a game that captured some of the sense of adventure I'd felt journeying across those amazing landscapes. The first inkling of what Tahira would be was an image that became lodged in my brain. It was of a p...

Here is a fun fact about these Kickstarter Shout-out articles. The origin of these articles was a game called Clive and the Stones back in 2014. Unfortunately, the original Kickstarter did not make its funding goal by a long shot. I also wasn’t proud of the article, so I never published it on my own website. That means that the first official Kickstarter Shout-out went to Popup Dungeon. Well, more than a year later, Clive and the Stones is back as Clive ‘N’ Wrench. If you are into 3D platformers like Jak & Daxter, the two main Banjo Kazooie games, or the upcoming A Hat in Time and Spooky Poo’s HAPPY HELL, then this is the Kickstarter for you! The story is about, who else, but Clive and his buddy Wrench. They must stop an evil scientist bunny named Dr. Daucus, who is traveling through time to find these ancient stone tablets. Can Clive and his monkey buddy Wrench stop this evil scientist from reaching his goal? Well, you will have to make sure this game gets funded to find out. Cliv...

For a short while, 3D platformers were popping up all over Kickstarter. You have the famous A Hat in Time, which is doing well in its development time and is a crowd favorite in terms of indie games. We also have the upcoming Lobodestroyo, a 3D platformer about a luchadore mask-wearing wolf. It’s a bummer that we don’t see more of these kinds of games, because during the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Original Xbox days, we had a multitude of 3D platformers. These days, it seems like all we are ever getting are 2D platformers. Luckily, Kickstarter has recently brought us two different Kickstarters that happen to be 3D platformers. The first one we will talk about is Spooky Poo’s HAPPY HELL. If you love 3D platformers, and love the art style seen in the very old Fleischer cartoons of the 20s and 30s, then this Kickstarter is up your alley. Here’s the premise. Spooky Poo, a cat with a Jimmy Durante-style nose wants to make a wish. Through common logic, he goes to ...

In 2014, we got the surprise Kickstarter hit, The Banner Saga. It was praised for its challenging combat, engrossing story, and downright beautiful art style. In fact, this art style was loved so much, that another Kickstarter project, Bedlam, is using the same engine that The Banner Saga used. 2D animation is just a delight to see since so much of the animation industry is fixated on using CG or flash animation for different products. Sure, you can make both CG and flash animation look nice, but nothing captures that magical feeling of watching 2D animation on a big/small screen. Don’t get me wrong! I love films like “How to Train your Dragon.” In fact, “How to Train your Dragon” has recently become one of my all-time favorite films, but there is a certain kind of feeling you get from watching something like “Ernest and Celestine” that you won’t get with “How to Train your Dragon.” Now, what does The Banner Saga, and the talk about the different experiences you get between 2D and CG f...

With the popularity of the RPG genre from Kickstarter, I am not really surprised that I am about to talk about another RPG. First off, let’s get some history out of the way. If the title Edge of Eternity sounds familiar, then it’s because this project has appeared on Kickstarter before. Sadly, the project was unsuccessfully funded. The team behind the game, Midgar Studio, then went to help out the team behind the popular Kickstarter game, Hover: Revolt of Gamers, which is being developed by Fusty Games. Recently, Edge of Eternity has appeared on sites like Siliconera.com, and they have now relaunched their Kickstarter. So, on top of being a 3D old-fashioned JRPG, this Kickstarter also has the stretch goal of having Chrono Trigger/Cross composer Yasunori Mitsuda, but there is a playable PC demo for any curious/potential backers if they want to check it out! Basically, this Kickstarter does a lot of things I want to see Kickstarters do. Let’s jump in and give Edge of Eternity a Kickstart...

Due to a few unfortunate Kickstarter horror stories and failures, people like to think that Kickstarter is a terrible thing since you are backing a game that may or may not be good or even finished. Granted, it doesn’t help when you have the examples of such failures like Yogventures and The Stomping Lands . Well, while we do get those horror stories, you should really see the popularity of a lot of games from last year. Most of them were Kickstarter games. Honestly, due to the huge disappointment of last year that was the Triple A gaming scene, a lot of the more well-received receptions and reviews went to these crowd-funded products. Think about it. The more interesting note, at least for me, is that the most well-received Kickstarter games were RPGs. You had The Banner Saga , Divinity: Original Sin , and Wasteland 2 . Even the recently released Hand of Fate (review coming soon) is getting an incredible amount of positive reviews. That isn’t even counting the Kickstarter games that ...