Director Seeks Funding for Video Game Music Documentary
A Kickstarter campaign launched by Karen Collins, a researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada, seeks to give video game sound the attention it deserves. The campaign seeks to…
OUYA Gives Back With its #FreeTheGames Program
In 2012, a Kickstarter campaign was started to fund the creation of OUYA, a microconsole utilizing a version of the Android operating system. Earning $8.5 million, the campaign became Kickstarter's…
Kickstarter Campaign to Re-Release the Controversial Game Night Trap
Night Trap, the first full-motion video game ever released, is being remastered and released more than 20 years after its initial debut. Night Trap was designed in 1986 and released…
Interview: Grave Creator Credits Kickstarter Success to Solid Plan & Press
When crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter first emerged on the scene many indie developers thought it was their path to success. However, anyone who has experienced the disappointment of an unfulfilled…
Kickstarter Highlights
It's already been well over a year since Double Fine Adventure first appeared on Kickstarter and arguably paved the way for all the successful video game crowd funding campaigns that…
SCALE Preview
SCALE is a first person action puzzler in which the player must manipulate the size of objects in the world…
Burak Tezateşer Interview: Monochroma Preview
If I were to rank all the countries in the world based on their game development prowess, it would be a while before I got to Turkey. Nowhere Studios is…
OUYA to offer $1M matching funds to developers on Kickstarter
OUYA, the game console that got its start on Kickstarter by raising over $8.5 million, is now going to launch its own Kickstarter campaign with $1 million to help Android…
Warmachine: Tactics announced, Kickstarter coming soon
Fans of the tabletop miniatures game Warmachine by Privateer Press have been asking for a video game adaptation for a long time. Years back, indie developer WhiteMoon Dreams announced that…
Final Days for Among the Sleep Kickstarter
Remember when you were two years old? Everything looked larger than life and the world was full of wonder and amazement? Then, when the sun went down, the world became…
Greenlight Spotlight: Concept Games Edition
My previous article focused on Greenlight games with active Kickstarters. Three of those Kickstarters have since ended, and I'm happy to report that C-Wars, Chasm, and Worlds of Magic were…
Ouya delays retail launch — fixing sticky controller
For those of you anxiously awaiting the Ouya’s arrival to stores on June 4th, you’ll have to wait another 21 days until Tuesday, June 25th. The original drop date has been delayed by the startup game company, giving Ouya a chance to manufacture more units but also to fix a sticky controller issue Kickstarter backers have complained about. The problem, apparently, was due to the size of the hole the button sits in under the faceplate (exactly which button(s) not specified). Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman told JoyStiq, “we’ve increased the size just a little bit, so now the buttons don’t stick under it.” Ouya backers can request replacement controllers from the company’s customer service. (more…)
