KickStarter Indie Bundle
Last but not least, we have the KickStarter Indie Bundle, featuring nine games from nine different development teams around the world, who have pooled their games and resources in the hope of building a more attractive Kickstarter package. The games are:
Enola by The Domaginarium – A first-person perspective horror adventure game that stays away from zombies and monsters to instill a very eerie, human kind of fear. Donations will help them employ additional artists, cover legal costs, and register to develop for iOS.
Metagolf by Michaël Lievens – A platform action game where up to four players can navigate the physics puzzles while all playing with the same ball. Funds will be used to make the existing game more attractive and add more levels and puzzles.
Inner Dream by Sometimes You – Combining photography with haunting music and a mysterious story, the player is trapped in a dream and must solve the puzzles to awaken. Sometimes You is seeking donations to help finish the second, and possibly last, episode of the game.
Ensign-1 by Only Human Studios – A space combat game that hopes to offer players limitless freedom, and allows you to change vehicles from a lone fighter to a giant frigate! Still in development, Only Human is seeking donations to help push this ambitious project to fruition.
Christmas Magic by Anmoll Thakur and Satbir Singh – Imbuing a digital fantasy book with puzzle-solving sensibilities, the magic flows from your fingertips as you try and reunite a little elf with her family. The game is already available on iPad, but the developers need support in order to by the necessary licenses to port it to other platforms.
TRI by Rat King Entertainment – This freeform first-person perspective puzzler sees you building triangle shapes to construct platforms or surfaces to bounce laser beams off of as you seek hidden treasure in a dungeon. Donations will help Rat King work on the sound and music, additional graphics, and localise the game for other countries.
Silversword 2 by Mario J. Gaida – A sequel to the iOS title, the new entry will seek to further explore the world of Tarnak, but this time using the Unity3D engine to feature 3D art, and other features such as cloud save. Gaida is seeking funding to improve all aspects of the game.
The Host Holic by Lexington Alexander – A social sim game that sees you embody a foreign English Language teacher recently moved to Tokyo, Japan. The aim of the game is to manage both working life at the school as well as having a healthy social life through dating. Funding will help the creator replace stock art and music, create a better UI and also hire an editor for script improvements.
Y2163 by Dust.Bit.Games – Set in a future where humanity battles for scarce resources, this PvP real-time strategy game has some nice technopunk concept art, and will form the first in what Dust.Bit.Games hopes is a potential franchise, currently named Y-Series. The studio need funding in order to produce an alpha build of the game, and put up test servers.
Together, all nine development teams are seeking a total of $45,000, or $5,000 per game. Due to the number of games, the rewards are very diverse, and best looked at yourself, although, for $10,000 or more (limited to three donors), the group has simply said “no reasonable request refused,” a rather risque proposition.
Well, that was a rather epic edition of Kickstart This! Like many of these ambitious developers, we at Warp Zoned are hardcore gamers, and hope to see some, if not all of these projects achieve their goals. If we manage to help in some little way, then that is all we can ask for. So what do you think, readers? Are these projects worthy of your spare change? Or are there any new projects coming to Kickstarter that we should be aware of? If so, get in touch.
