Archive for the ‘Kickstart’ Category

Flagship: Command a Fleet from the Bridge of your Starship By Adam Solo on September 29th, 2014 at 10:36 am Urban Logic Games is on Kickstarter for Flagship, a first-person real-time space strategy game where you command a fleet from the bridge of your starship. Category: Kickstart 21 comments

A New Kick for MORE: IdeaLcenter Launches 2nd Kickstarter By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2014 at 9:13 am IdeaLcenter, the indie studio behind M.O.R.E., a turn-based space 4X strategy game that was kickstarted in 2012, have turned to Kickstarter once more. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 153 comments

Contact Vector: A “Fight With What You Have” Space RTS By Adam Solo on June 10th, 2014 at 9:41 am Contact Vector is a space RTS currently on Kickstarter where "how you use your units is more important than how fast you can produce them". Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 24 comments

Chaos Reborn: The Battle of Wizards Classic is Back By Adam Solo on April 10th, 2014 at 11:22 am Julian Gollop is on Kickstarter for Chaos Reborn, a remake of his classic fantasy turn-based tactics game for the ZX Spectrum, Chaos: The Battle of Wizards. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 21 comments

Wayward Terran Frontier: Kind of an MMO Space ARPG By Adam Solo on January 29th, 2014 at 2:48 pm Wayward Terran Frontier is a free roam action-RPG where you design your ships, manage your crew and do your fight battles looking for loot. And, if you played Escape Velocity or Star Control you may find something of interest here. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 8 comments

Predestination in March – 3D Ship Designer on Kickstarter By Adam Solo on January 6th, 2014 at 11:57 am Space 4X game Predestination is approaching final release. But, there's still room to improve their 3D ship designer feature for which the devs have opened a second Kickstarter. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 30 comments

Maia Available on Steam Early Access And First Impressions By Keith Turner on December 5th, 2013 at 8:27 am It has been just over a year since Maia reached not only its funding goal, but also a few of its stretch goals. On Tuesday, Maia was made available on Steam as an early access title. Here's my first impressions. Category: Game First Impressions, Kickstart, News & Announcements 15 comments

Checking up on Predestination: About 1 Year After Kickstarter By Adam Solo on November 12th, 2013 at 9:43 am "How's the Kickstarted turn-based space 4X game Predestination doing?", you may be asking at this point. That's been in my mind for a while now. So, I reached for Brain and Nerd for an update. Category: Interviews, Kickstart 21 comments

Worlds of Magic – New Demo Battle Scenarios By Keith Turner on October 31st, 2013 at 6:00 am As their 2nd kickstarter campaign winds closer to a successful close, Wastelands Interactive has released an updated free demo for Worlds of Magic featuring a few new battle scenarios. Category: Kickstart 5 comments

The Mandate: A Sandbox Sci-Fi RPG on Kickstarter By Adam Solo on October 18th, 2013 at 9:24 am Would you like to play the role of a spaceship captain, responsible for the lives of the crew and explore the galaxy, defend your ship from boarding operations and fight ship to ship battles, possibly in co-op with 6 friends? Category: Kickstart 21 comments

Legions of Steel: The Video Game – The Kickstarter By Adam Solo on October 10th, 2013 at 1:01 pm Studio Nyx is on Kickstarter looking for funds to adapt the sci-fi board game Legions of Steel to Android, iOS and PC platforms. Category: Kickstart 6 comments

RimWorld – Sci-Fi Colonization with an AI Storyteller By Keith Turner on October 7th, 2013 at 11:36 am Are you interested in a Firefly, Dune, and Warhammer 40k inspired sci-fi colonization and survival game? If so, Tynan Sylvester and his Ludeon Studios have just the game for you. Category: Kickstart 12 comments

Worlds of Magic – 2nd Kickstarter Campaign By Keith Turner on October 4th, 2013 at 6:07 am Wastelands Interactive has announced a second Kickstarter for their upcoming title, Worlds of Magic. They're offering a playable demo of their alpha battle board this time around. Category: Kickstart 0 comments

Terminus: City Building in Space – Now on Kickstarter By Keith Turner on September 25th, 2013 at 9:32 am Back in January of 2013, we reported that Harbourgames was attempting to acquire funds for Terminus through Indiegogo. Now, the real-time "classic city-builder" in space re-launches on Kickstarter. Category: Kickstart 16 comments

Elite: Dangerous Video – Only If The Game Was Like This… By Adam Solo on September 18th, 2013 at 10:12 am Frontier Developments has released a video on Elite: Dangerous featuring capital ships and star fighter action. The video was used as part of the composer selection process for the game. Category: Kickstart, Videos 22 comments

Timothy Zahn’s Parallax – A Community Driven 4X Kickstarter By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2013 at 10:55 am Abram Jablonski, the owner/founder of Prototype X Software and sci-fi writer Timothy Zahn are on Kickstarter for a retro-style turn-based space 4X game. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 18 comments

Ground Pounders: Hex TBS in the Sword of the Stars Universe By Adam Solo on August 30th, 2013 at 12:19 pm The creators of the space 4X games Sword of the Stars I and II are now on Kickstarter for Ground Pounders, a hex-based sci-fi strategy game set in the Sword of the Stars' universe. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 39 comments