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Episode 56 – Kickstart this! …and that and all of these ones

Be well!

James gets his Fire Emblem on, Paul plays The Swapper and Ben needs to talk more.  There is the amazing Crypt of the NecroDancer to chat about, PS4 remote play, American McGee’s new projects and more crowd funding than you can point a stick at!  That is of course assuming you can’t point at more than 10 things with a stick.  This included a new project from Double Fine, a successor to The Neverhood and a gorgeous trip back to the 1930’s.

Listen to us talk.

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Episode 53 – I Give it a Year

We did it girls

It’s been one year since our little show started and everyone is celebrating with us! Darkwood launched its indiegogo campaign to honour us, Shadow Warrior is getting a reboot, Sony supporting experimental games and even EA is changing some of its business practices all for us!

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Top 5 Reasons your Kickstarter isn’t going anywhere

Your Kickstarter Sucks

Kickstarter and other crowd funding sites such as indiegogo are rapidly changing the landscape of gaming. As Triple A development slips, small development teams with low budget, niche projects are starting to gain more attention and often find success with crowd funding.  Many players view crowd funding as easy, risk-free money, but for developers it can be an emotional rollercoaster where they’ve bet their very livelihood on the public’s generosity.

We, the gaming public have the power. We shall decide who will survive to code another day and who will have to take that internship with Oracle after all.

So why does your Kickstarter suck?

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