KickTraq

Distance from Refract Studios easily surpassed its goal on Kickstarter at the end of 2012. Sometime later, it’s looking like a real game. (Read More)

Running a Kickstarter campaign is easy, right? All you have to do is make a quick video, toss in a few bullet points, make up some pricing tiers, and wait for the money train to reach the station. Not exactly. Executing a successful campaign is a full-time responsibility that demands constant input from the author(s). If you have ever considered launching one of your own, or are just curious about the process, consider these insights from five teams who have weathered the Kickstarter storm. (Read More)

With two days left on the clock Distance, the neon-themed driving game races over the finishing line in what could have turned into a bit of a car crash had the funding not received a nitrous injection of pledges. Onwards, to the stretch goals. (Read More)

The British are coming! Lock up your tea, crumpets, biscuits, mild sexual innuendo and depressing postcards of empty beaches, because the toodle-pipping rotters need all that and more to fuel their infernal game-machines. The beginning of the Britstarter era brings a great deal of tempting prospects for your perusal – for starters, we’ve got the spirit of Bullfrog, the sequel to The Ship, a martial arts masterclass, dark fantasies and a dash of tweedpunk robo-horror. Never change, fair isles of wonder, never change. (Read More)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the neon art styled racing game pool along comes Distance. Developed by three ex-Digipen students who worked on similarly neon art styled racing game Notronic Rush, Distance is setting itself apart in ways only the following video can explain. (Hint: cars can fly, worlds can rotate, and vehicles can jump of their own accord.) (Read More)

There are no losers and lots of new entries this week, which should make for more positive reading but the number of projects clinging to the edge of the abyss is alarming. (Read More)

It’s kind of a pessimistic read this week, I’m afraid. But don’t be put off – there’s fresh blood in there too, new hopefuls with sparks in their eyes and a youthful spring in their step. And a great big gaping hole in their wallets. (Read More)