Kickstarter

The guys who brought you a card game adaptation of Moby Dick are back with another tabletop literary adaption, this one about Beowulf. King Post is following last year's successful Kickstarter campaign with another crowdfunding drive to make their nerdy dreams come true. If you like the sound of playing a Grendel… Read more

Remember The Universim, that gorgeous-looking god game I wrote about late in April? If its early development is any indication, it looks like everything I want out of a good god game. Read more

Remember Pixel Press, the beautiful sounding app that promises to let you create your own video games by simply drawing them? Well, the thing has successfully completed its metamorphosis from an idealistic Kickstarter project into an actual thing that people can use. Huzzah! Now wouldn't it be great it that happened… Read more

Loading Human, the motion-controlled VR dream simulator for PC, is now on Kickstarter. Untold Games aims to collect $30,000 for their game, which has transitioned from Unity to Unreal Engine 4 (with pretty results, as seen in the vid above) and is now also approved for release on the PS4. Check out the campaign here.

Announcing a new contender in the category of games with names that are difficult to pronounce, Zenzizenzic is a old-school bullet-hell style shmup that looks about as crazy as a game with that name should. Check it out on Kickstarter.

Today in Crazy, Bizarre, Fascinating Kickstarter Projects, here's Billionaire Banshee, a game designed to see what kind of weird fantasy creatures your friends will date. It's developed by Razlo Bailey, a designer who used to work at Harmonix.

This is Codemancer, AKA Programming 101: The Game. Basically, it's a turn-based fantasy game designed to teach how programming works to kids or, well, pretty much anyone, with a combat system based on writing simple programs. It's on Kickstarter, but it's already funded, so expect to see it on PC in July next year.