A Kickstarter from the UK with free shipping to the US and the EU. Publisher 3DTotal has raised thousands on their first day on Kickstarter with 404: Law Not Found and are halfway to making their goal.
Ubunto Edge: World’s fastest crowdfunding effort avoids Kickstarter
Ubunto want to bring their OS style to the world of mobile. So they should. As Mark Shuttleworth points out in the opening seconds of the pitch video; convergence is the future of computing. I wish I could just plug my smartphone into my bank of screens and get on with work. [Back the Campaign] […]
Will Little Witch Academia 2 awaken anime studios across Japan?
This isn’t yet another Kicktarter. For a start, this is a Kickstarter to do the wonderful Little Witch Academia a free anime from Studio Trigger. Also, this is the Kickstarter that introduced the Japanese anime studios to crowd funding. Here’s the original. If the promise of a sequel feels like a “shut up and take […]
Will Space 1889 see a new English edition?
Space: 1889 dates back to 1988 when it was published by Game Designers Workshop. It’s a steampunk RPG set in a world that might have been created by Jules Verne or H.G. Wells. Right now – the Germans have it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/440453703/space-1889-sf-role-playing-in-a-more-civilized-tim/ [Support this Campaign] Uhrwek Verlag (Clockwork Publishing) is one of the larger German games […]
White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter
Stewart Wieck co-founded White Wolf and co-created the original World of Darkness. It was Wieck who was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of White Wolf with his brother Steve. It was in 1990 that the company merged with Lion Rampant, publisher of Ars Magica and he and Lion Rampant’s Mark Rein*Hagen became co-owners of the White […]
Cthulhu Wars Kicktarter races past $1,000,000 with hours to go
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars [Back this Campaign] The creator of Call of Cthulhu has seen his Kickstarter race through the one million dollar mark. With less than a day on the clock the pledge fund is at $1,224,958 and rising. Backers are supporting efforts to create a combination of a strategy board game with the Cthulhu mythos from […]
Kickstart the Ningyo
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1371460348/the-ningyo/ [Back this project] Geek Native’s featured The Green Ruby Pumpkin already. The short movie wowed geeks last year and picked up, with ease, a staff pick at Vimeo. It’s certainly very interesting to see what these movie makers will be doing next. I don’t know much about the Japanese legend of the Ningyo but […]
The Realmsound Project: Making the pitch for RPG audio
Do you think audio has a place in tabletop RPGs? That’s to say; should the GM be able to enhance the game by playing sound at the right point in time? Would that improve the atmosphere or does it ruin the sense of imagination? There’s been some Kickstarter success. Wes Otis asked for $1,000 and […]
Gamer network Pixwoo expands into mobile
Pixwoo is billed as a video gamer’s social network and press releases suggest it is a place you chat about Call of Duty without looking at photos of cats. Is that right? This Geek Native blogger had a chance to talk to founder Pascal Vielhescaze on a trip to London and I’d suggest that Pixwoo […]
Narr8 expands to the Amazon Appstore
At the start of the year Geek Native noticed Narr8’s growing range. Narr8 is an interactive story platform that takes the concept of motion comics and takes it up a level. The platform has seen success and this week launched on Amazon’s Appstore. Alexandr Vashchenko, who founded the company, said; “We are very excited to […]
