It’s Superhero Week here at Geek Native. As well as looking back at some superhero classics, and looking at some contemporary superheroic projects like Turbulance, this week is also looking forward to possible superhero successes of tomorrow. Let’s take a look at 8, currently active, pitches on Kickstarter from the superhero genre. We’ve everything here […]
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For a taste of what's inside, Andrew Girdwood published a piece on 16th May 2012 noting: "Tentacle Bento raised more than $30,000 in half the time set aside for a $13,000 request total. The project was...". It also was tagged with Anime.
The Kickstarters archive continues with the articles below.
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising spawns a Pathfinder Kickstarter
The Gamers is a basement budget film, a friendly spoof, on gaming from Matt Vancil and Dead Gentlemen Productions. The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a sequel, set in the same gaming world, but focuses on a different playing group. So, what’s Gamers: Dorkness Rising like? Wikipedia notes, in the style section, that Gary plays a […]
Interview with RPG designer James Desborough
James Desborough runs Postmortem Studios and is a self-employed games designer. This month Desborough finds himself in a whirlwind of attention when a petition against him urged Mongoose Publishing to drop his work. That petition used to be available here but now redirects here and has transformed into a petition to Steve Jackson Games to […]
Frog God buys Necromancer Games
Frog God Games, the RPG company behind The Northlands Saga, Fane of the Fallen and One Nights Stands has bought Necromancer Games. Necromancer Games was very active during the 3e era and promised 3e (and later 4e) games with an 1e feel. Their products included the likes of Necropolis, Rappan Athuk, City of Brass, Tomb […]
Kickstarter project Tabletop Forge booms on Google+
Tabletop Forge is a Kickstarter project to build a Google Hangout app. It’s a very good sign that the campaign has exploded on Google+ with the interest. As adland says; “It’s gone viral”. At the time of posting this blog post Google+ comments about Tabletop Forge. It’s interesting to note that only a small percentage […]
Traveller 5 will Kickstart
Traveller 5 has, at the time of this post, a full 27 days to go to collect its goal of $24,000 on Kickstarter. No surprises here – but Traveller 5 will become another runaway RPG success on the crowdsourcing platform. As I write this introduction, the game has 305 backers and is fast approaching $41,000 […]
It will happen: The Doom That Came To Atlantic City
The last time Geek Native reported on a Kickstarter that featured tentacles and girls – it was to report that the crowd funding king had cancelled Tentacle Bento. Why? The hentai was too strong. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the icon for The Doom That Came to Atlantic City. Ah […]
Kickstarter cancels funding for anime tentacle game Tentacle Bento
Tentacle Bento raised more than $30,000 in half the time set aside for a $13,000 request total. The project was set up by Soda Pop, the copany behind Super Dungeon Explore and Relic Knights. The concern? Kickstarter hasn’t said publicly but the implication is the funding site wasn’t happy with a game based around hentai […]
Wall Street Journal reporter hacks RPG projects on Kickstarter
A Wall Street Journal reporter or a programmer working for him/her has exploited a bug in Kickstarter’s API. The result was some 70,000 unlaunched Kickstarter projects were exposed. The good news? Only 48 of these unlaunched projects were actually accessed by the Wall Street Journal. It is highly likely that many RPG and game projects […]
Goblinworks turns to Kickstarter: Pathfinder Online faces investor objections
The headline news is that you can now get a piece of Pathfinder Online fame by being a backer at Kickstarter. At the time of posting, 463 gamers had done just that, raising more than $33,000 and with one of the three $5,000 top tier pledges already gone. We’re a day into the project. However, […]
