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

(If you like what you see, go to camseyeview.biz to see the rest of my work. If you want to, consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com/camseyeview. Thanks for checking out my work and I hope you enjoy the review) Yup, we are back again with another Top Kickstarters to Check out! I had a lot of fun writing about video game Kickstarters again, and a crop of new ones popped up. I decided to do what I did with the last article and talk about multiple Kickstarters that are worth your time as of when this article goes out. However, I will be putting a few honorable mentions first since they just got fully funded, but should still be mentioned. Let’s get started with the Honorable Mentions! Pinstripe : Pinstripe is a 2D atmospheric exploration game with a heavy emphasis on horror as you play a dad trying to find his daughter who was kidnapped. You probably saw this game on the Game Grumps series, Steam Train, where they played what was essentially a demo. It has a charming artstyle,...

(If you like what you see, go to camseyeview.biz to see the rest of my work. If you want to, consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com/camseyeview. Thanks for checking out my work and I hope you enjoy the review) Well, it’s been an entire month into 2016, and I haven’t talked about Kickstarters that are worth your time. I guess I was still on the high of the Psychonauts 2 Fig campaign, but most of the time, I don’t talk about Kickstarters that I don’t have a lot of faith in. I cherry-pick them since I feel like some of them stand out more than the others in terms of how much effort was put into the individual projects. So, since there are so many projects right now that are worth your time, here is a list of the Kickstarters/Indiegogo projects that you should consider backing. This will also not be in any kind of order since they all are pretty good-looking and are worth your time. Knights and Bikes To be quite frank, Knights and Bikes is a super sexy game to me. Not in a s...

(If you like what you see, go to camseyeview.biz to see the rest of my work. If you want to, consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com/camseyeview. Thanks for reading!) If this was a perfect world, Kickstarters would go off without a hitch. They would launch on time, and they would all be good games. Unfortunately, nothing is ever perfect. Kickstarter projects will always have problems, and sometimes, the product in question won’t even come out. There are always a couple of reasons why Kickstarters fail, and I am going to talk about a few that come to mind. If any other good examples of what to avoid come to me in the future, I’ll write another article. Rule 1: Make sure, and I mean, make sure you have the entire budget down! Why?: This should be pretty obvious. We have seen so many Kickstarters tank because the budget was not properly calculated and the Kickstarter ends up running out of money. You need to take into consideration how big your team is or how big you want it to...

(If you like what you see, go to camseyeview.biz to see my other work. If you want to, consider supporting my Patreon at patreon.com/camseyeview) With the Indiegogo campaign Them’s Fightin Herds getting funded, it made me realize that, like I said in my last Kickstarter Shout-out, that Indiegogo is not really that good with having quality video game projects. Not only do they clump in board games, but many of the projects are just mediocre. There is an obvious issue with quality control, and I feel like a lot of indie developers would do better by going to Kickstarter instead, or try out that new crowd-funding platform, Fig. The reason I say this is because of one of the best Indiegogo campaigns going on right now, Indivisible . It’s being developed by the same team that made the indie fighter hit, Skullgirls . Unfortunately, either due to bad timing or a combination of things, the slow pace that it’s getting funded is raising some concerns. Then again, this is Kickstarter Shout-out,...

(For part 1, go to this link! ) Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan This Kickstarter comes from a developer all the way from Cameroon, Africa. This is a beat ‘em up that has heavy influences from African folklore and mythology. You are put in the shoes of either Enzo Kori-Odan or his wife Erine Evou as they fight to reclaim their throne of Planet Auriona from the hands of Erine’s brother. Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan is a beat ‘em up with fast-paced combat, lovely 2D animation, and proclaims to have an immersive story.  The main gimmick of the beat ‘em up action is, like I mentioned, for it to be fast-paced, and for the player to be able to combine these elements known as Aurions to unlock more devastating combos. One of the best elements that this Kickstarter has is the hand-drawn graphics. They are beautiful and fluid. I like that this developer is taking a risk on a graphical style that requires a lot of hard work to make it look good. I’m glad they didn’t go the route of pixels or...

Well, Kickstarter put up a slew of great Kickstarters, including the fully funded and promising Battle Chasers: Nightwar game. I decided to do a special two-part Kickstarter Shout-out covering the newest and most promising projects up on the site. Let’s get started because this two-part article is huge! Oh, and Allison Road will not be on this list. Not because it isn’t a great Kickstarter or a promising game, but I want to get an interview with the developers about the game. Plus, you should already back it if you love horror games! For the King Developed by Iron Oak Games, this game is gameplay oriented. you have a group of three heroes as you send them on a quest on a hex-based world to destroy the evil that has taken over the land after the king has died. Yeah, not a whole lot of plot there. For the King is an interesting, turn-based RPG with some roguelike elements thrown in for good measure. You can control each of your three characters, a wizard, archer, and blacksmith indivi...

Welcome back to Kickstarter Flops Volume 2! I am going to be frank with you all, and if you want, you can still be Garth. I had trouble writing up Kickstarter Flops Volume 2. I did find Kickstarters that were horribly made, and Kickstarters that were more worthwhile to back, but I felt like I should do something different for this one. Plus, it did help that most of the Kickstarters were released in July, a month that is notoriously known to be a bad month for Kickstarters. Instead, due to the recent trainwreck of Red Ash , the cancellation of Mooncrest , and the successful release of the Divinity: Original Sin II Kickstarter, I wanted to finally come up with a list of rules that you should follow and execute if you plan on making a Kickstarter. This will be focused on video game Kickstarters, but you can pretty much take these rules and put them into any kind of Kickstarter. Now then, let’s begin with the golden rules everyone should follow! Rule #1: Have actual gameplay to show off ...