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The Ballad Singer Goes Live On Kickstarter
The Ballad Singer, a completely Italian project, is now live on Kickstarter, as announced by Curtel Games, promising an across-the-board experience spanning the Visual Novel, RPG and game-book genres. TBS offers several distinguishing features: a complete narrative in both Italian and English, individual illustrations for each choice, hundreds of decision paths, and 40 different endings. The numbers for this project are noteworthy: the narrator will be reading about 400,000 words, the artist will be dealing with over 2,500 different illustrations. The structure of the game spreads like a huge tree, where every player’s choice doesn’t just affect the current storyline but also those of other playable characters and the gaming world altogether. But that’s not it, the concept of “...
Raji: An Ancient Epic – Indian Video Game Inspired By The Grand Medieval Architecture Of Rajasthan (Interview)
Nodding Heads Games is an independant games developer which aims to deliver breathtaking games based off stories and myths from the Indian subcontinent. The studio is currently working towards their first Kickstarter campaign for their action adventure game Raji: An Ancient Epic. Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action adventure game set in ancient India. Raji, a young girl is chosen by the gods, to stand against the demonic invasion of the human realm. Her destiny to rescue her younger brother and face the demon lord Mahabalasura. The development team was kind enough to take the time and give us an interview, and here’s what they had to say: Gaming Central: Hey guys, thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Tell us a bit about yourself. Nodding Heads Games: We are studio of 8 mem...
Ashes of Creation Gets Over $1 Million In Kickstarter Funding
Ashes Of Creation is an upcoming MMORPG by Intrepid Studios, who aim to build a massive online world with meaningful interactions. They have successfully funded their game on Kickstarter, and here’s what it is all about: Ashes of Creation is a new MMORPG that aims to bring the Massive back to Massively Multiplayer. It takes everything we love about the genre and brings it boldly into the future as a truly next generation title. We’ve all wanted a world that lives and breathes and reacts, where our decisions matter, where the world changes because of what we’ve done. Ashes of Creation is that game: The rebirth of the MMORPG. Choosing your class, race and gear is a good start, but while most MMOs stop there, Ashes of Creation is just getting started. All of civilization is the respo...
Can Ya Dig It, Sucka?! A Shovel Knight Review
An ode to the games of yesteryear, a beautiful love letter to 2D platforming genre and a mesmerizing 8-bit masterpiece that was made possible with the help of a community willing to take a risk. The game I’m talking about is the amazing “Shovel Knight”. The game that shines amongst its peers and makes it as one of the best 8-bit 2D platformers to have come out in recent times. Shovel Knight is a kickstarted 2D platformer with 8-bit visuals developed by Yacht Club Games. It took the gaming industry by surprise, because nobody expected it to do what it did; it provided a very solid gaming experience all-around. Taking inspiration from the best games of the NES era like Zelda II, Duck Tales, and Castlevania. Shovel Knight bundles these together to make a masterpiece that pays homage to its pr...
Might No.9 ‘Mega Man’ Successor Finally Gets a Release Date
Calling out all Might no. 9 and Mega man fans, strap your seat belts(or something like that) because Might no. 9, Keiji Inafune’s spiritual sequel to Mega Man is finally getting a release date! The game is now set to launch on June 21st in Asia as well as North America, while the rest of the world will get the game on June 24th. The early release is limited to PC and Console Players for now, while the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita users will have to wait a bit more. The Digital Copy while may be convenient for some of you, remember, the retail copy will include the Ray add-on. Mighty No. 9 was one of the most daring kickstarters back in 2013, it raised over 3.8 million from the fans who were excited to relive those mega man moments. However the delays made it go past the Initial ...
Nebula: Sole Survivor Is A Top-Down Shooter Done Right
It’s the story of engineers and astronauts on a deadly moon of Jupiter called Europa. Discover new creatures and weapons as you fight off levels of the “Infection,” to get off of the moon that was once going to become a second Earth for human life. Learn the layout and solve puzzles as you fight your way to an escape through the underground base, CICADA, fighting off anything that comes your way. Become the survivor and experience the fear of Europa’s creatures down every turn. The game takes place on an icy moon of Jupiter, Europa. In a not so distant future, the United Interstellar Administration has settled a top-notch scientific research station on Europa, called CICADA Biomass and Geology Ground Base. The CICADA Base spreads across many miles under the icy surface. It’s the larg...
Rain World Gameplay Shows Fantastic Artwork & Level Design
Rain World is a challenging survival platformer set in an abandoned industrial environment scourged by a shattered eco-system. Bone-crushing intense rain pounds the surface regularly, making life as we know it almost impossible. The creatures in this world hibernate most of the time, but in the few brief dry periods they go out searching for food. You are a lonely nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in this land. You must hunt enough food to survive another cycle of hibernation. Other – bigger – creatures have the same plan. Inspired by the aesthetics and simplicity of 16-bit classics, the gameplay consists of platforming and fast paced sneaking; both sneaking on your prey and sneaking in order to avoid larger creatures. A large focus of the development has been on enemy AI...
Perception: By Former BioShock and Dead Space Devs
After BioShock developer Irrational Games laid off most of its staff, many developers from the studio came together and formed The Deep End Games; a Boston-based game studio founded by award-winning level designer Bill Gardner of Irrational Games. For their first project, Gardner and his team went to Kickstarter to get funding for their debut Unreal Engine 4-powered horror title: “Perception.” In Perception, you play as a blind woman named Cassie who is able to “see” using echolocation. You will use this ability to solve puzzles and avoid enemies like a creature called “The Presence.” There seems to be an ongoing cat-and-mouse between Cassie and The Presence to maintain tension as the player explores, working similarly to Alien: Isolation. It sounds like the game will take place entirely a...
Yooka-Laylee becomes Kickstarter’s most funded UK video game campaign
Playtonic Games have been humbled by the support behind their Kickstarter campaign for Yooka-Laylee, touted as a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie. But even they were surprised to have smashed their initial £175,000 funding goal so quickly. It only took 40 minutes to surpass it, an achievement that has seen the crowdfunding website confirm that it has become the “Most Funded UK campaign ever for a video game.” It not only eclipsed Frontier Developments’ Elite: Dangerous, but can also claim to be the fastest game project to have reached $1 million. That was accomplished in 5 hours and 41 minutes, which has only been outpaced by four other projects. “The response to Yooka-Laylee has been incredible and from all of us here at Playtonic, we really want to say a huge, warm ‘thank you’ to eve...