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.
For fantasy buffs of a certain age, there's a series of books dearer to our hearts than Lord of the Rings or…
Who knew you could get so emotional from watching a Kickstarter video? I certainly didn't. But then I looked at the…
It's been a year since the game's Kickstarter campaign, and to celebrate, Larian Studios has revealed the official release date of their turn-based PC RPG, Divinity: Original Sin: June 20. The announcement came in a special anniversary-video-slash-gameplay-trailer, which you can see above.
One of the first video games I ever played was 1986's The Great Escape. It's nice to see a more modern return to the…
For all the toy lovers out there, yesterday was all about the new Skylanders game. But let's not forget about Prodigy…
Meet Andrew Groen. He's a veteran freelance reporter who's written for the likes of Wired and Ars Technica, and now…
Super-early gameplay footage from the Outcast HD reboot. And I do mean super early—it's basically the old game models in the new engine, with zero special effects. Still, looks promising! The Kickstarter campaign is currently 37% funded with just under two weeks to go.
Isometric party-based RPG. Real-time with pause. Fantasy. Platform: PC. Yep, that sounds a lot like Baldur's Gate.…
Last year, film-maker Travis Beauchamp released a fascinating documentary about the world of competitive Super…
Well, that didn't take long. Action-RPG Heart Forth, Alicia got Kickstarter-funded in less than two days, and it also managed to get Greenlit on Steam like, almost immediately. It is currently steadily heading towards the $110,000 stretch goal, which will net the game a PS4 port. Bright future indeed.
We all hear lots of stories about Kickstarters turning out all wrong and not going according to the promised plan.…
Its creator started working on Platformer/RPG Heart Forth, Alicia in 2007. The result is an aesthetically beautiful…
Consumer tech products are often imbued with a pristine, ornamental quality in our current design-crazed age. In…
It's full of those little moments that make you go "ooooh." Like that one up there, when the little guy jumps over.…
The Seed is a post-apocalyptic Choose Your Own Adventure-style interactive novel that will be playable on PC, Linux,…
If you're one of the (many) people who's overjoyed by Kickstarter's impressive ability to revive underappreciated…
This is Mark of the Old Ones, a physics adventure-platformer with a Lovecraftian twist in which you're some sort of a tentacled abomination. Watching the trailer I'm reminded more of Gish than anything. A really pretty, horror-themed Gish. It has an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, if you're interested.
Outcast is one of the best games ever made for the PC. It is also, sadly, one of the most underrated, meaning that…
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