Chris Avellone was lead designer on Planescape: Torment. He may now join Torment: Tides of Numenera if the Kickstarter can break $3.5m. As of posting the project has raised $2,949,768 from 53,956 backers. That’s a huge total and smashes the $900,000 asking price. However, the $3.5m will be a tough ask; there are 13 days […]
The Spark RPG will Kickstart and challenge us all
[Back this Campaign] This Kickstarter campaign from Jason Pitre and Genesis of Legend has raised $5,300 with 24 days to go (at the time of publishing). That’s enough to push beyond the $4,000 campaign goal. Unless there’s a wave of cancellations this game will Kickstart. This means there’s a bunch of savvy gamers who’ll now […]
The Reward could spawn even more fantasy action
I had all sorts of praise for The Reward. This is a short animation about two people, rivals at first, friends in the end, who find themselves on a long and dangerous journey. The animation appealed to many RPG classics with action, adventure and mystery. The team behind the Vimeo success have now turned to […]
Savage Worlds RPG setting, campaign or novel? What is the Twilight Continuum?
Mystical Throne Entertainment produce the Savage Worlds magazine Savage Insider and are a platinum publishers at RPGNow. They know their Savage Worlds games and this month Geek Native is giving away their Mercenary Breed setting. In this interview, however, we’re neither talking about Mercenary Breed nor Savage Insider but the Kickstarter project Twilight Continuum. It […]
Kobolds Ate My Baby … the musical
Did you think someone would take Kobolds At My Baby and turn it into a musical? Into a loud, cheese rock, style musical? Well, for better or for worse, it has happened. The fact that there’s a Kickstarter, by 9th Level Games, for Kobolds Ate My Baby in Colour might have something to do with […]
Assault on the Mountains of Madness
The Achtung! Cthulhu – The WW2 Keeper’s & Investigator’s Guides is stomring it. It made its target in just 26 hours and has gone on to smash stretch goal after stretch goal. In response the British publisher Modiphius has announced a whole new campaign. If it’s full funded via the stretch goals then it’ll be […]
Reasons to support The Wild Places
[Support this Campaign] Geek Native has featured Anna Fischer photographs before. One of the reason cosplay pops up as often as it does on this blog is that experts like Fischer keep the quality so high. This Kickstarter is likely to fund. At the time of writing Fischer has collected over $2,300 of the $3,000 […]
Ultima creator attempts RPG return with Shroud of the Avatar
This week has been a busy one for cRPG news on Kickstarter. We’ve had Torment: Tides of Numenera race to $1,000,000 in just 7 hours on Kickstarter already. Now there’s another big name cRPG franchise asking for a fresh million with Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues. Even if you’re out of juice for any […]
Torment: Tides of Numenera breaks Ouya’s $1m record
Brian Fargo and Monte Cook’s Torment: Tides of Numenera has raised more than $1,000,000 and it took less than 7 hours. It funded, hitting the $900,000 mark, in about six hours. Back in July Kickstarter published top 10 quickest campaigns to hit $1m and it is closer than you might think. The Ouya, the tiny […]
What does one life matter? Torment: Tides of Numenera kickstarts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/ [Back this Campaign] Planescape: Torment was awesome. The buzz when “Numenera: Torment” was announced was very loud indeed. Today the inevitable has happened the team up Brian Fargo and Monte Cook has launched on Kickstarter. The game is called Torment: Tides of Numenera and it’s asking for $900,000. $900,000 is a lot. While I […]
