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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Just...THANK YOU!We can't thank everyone enough, though we'll try! Truly, we've never seen such a heartfelt effort made by backers of any campaign to help a game succeed on Kickstarter. You are all simply incredible... (Read More)

Last weekend took on a life of its own, which is the sort of thing weekends should probably do more often, and I was stranded away from my trusty keyboard and therefore unable to type words about games that might exist at some point in the future. This was a sad thing. Fortunately, missing a week means that there are more winners than ever before and the bumper crop contains two games that I’ve played and enjoyed, at least three that I look forward to playing when they are released and a project that makes me realise how much I want to play with an Oculus Rift. (Read More)

The Gallery: Six Elements recently reached its $65,000 Kickstarter funding goal before its April 17 deadline. The project from CloudHead Games is a first-person adventure game designed with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in mind, though the developer notes that it will not be required to play the game. (Read More)

We made the Hydra stretch!!! Celebration time! Raise those Razer Hydras high! :)  Because of you, we can now take the time we need to properly integrate the Razer Hydra, both in terms of programming time and in terms of puzzle design. Our Razer... (Read More)

You'll have to forgive us...we're a bit speechless at the moment but WOW! Kickstarting a project is such an emotional roller coaster. You believe in what you're doing with every bit of your being, the challenge is in convincing others that the... (Read More)

The Ride So FarHi again supporters and curious onlookers! Its been quite the ride so far and we can honestly say that we are feeling very optimistic about the campaign. The outpouring of support has been incredible and at the time of this writing we... (Read More)

New Pledge Tier!We've recently added a new $75 pledge tier that gives you two digital copies of The Gallery: Six Elements amongst other rewards! Share it with a friend, double the joy :) And just a reminder to take note of the "and all previous... (Read More)

Welcome to the Kickstarter Compendium, a gathering of games and game-related projects that we’ve come across that deserve your attention. The crowd-funding model for video games has resulted in some interesting new game ideas, and new projects are going up on a weekly basis that deserve your attention. (Read More)

Hello backers and prospective backers! We've added a new exciting pledge tier! The “Exploration School”! You get fast-track, pre-Alpha access (June 2013) to "Exploration School", our virtual playground in an abandoned warehouse! Designed to teach... (Read More)

Hello again supporters and curious onlookers! A big thanks this week to Oculus VR for offering their kind support and the terrific endorsement on their Facebook and Twitter feeds! And to everyone at Sixense and Razer for their outreach and enthusiasm... (Read More)

I haven’t eaten a single chocolate egg in the last twenty four hours, which would normally be an acceptable dietary state, but with this being the extended weekend of confeggtionary rabbit worship, I’m a little bit upset that nobody bought me a big Smarties egg. (Read More)

Hello backers, friends and fellow explorers! First and foremost we'd like to once again thank you for your incredible and generous support! Its been an amazing, humbling experience interacting with people who are equally enthusiastic about what we're... (Read More)

ere at 1001-Up.com, we’ve been following The Gallery: Six Elements for the past week and have even become backers ourselves. In their promotional video, CloudHead Games’ Creative Director Denny Unger tempts by saying that the game is influenced by Myst (review coming soon) – one of our favourite games – with a heavy emphasis on environmental immersion, puzzle-solving and emotional depth. So how could we stop ourselves from getting involved? (Read More)

Update time!Before we get into updates we would like to offer all of you a HUGE thank you for your support so far! We're at 28% of our goal early in the campaign and with your continued word-of-mouth support we'll reach our goal! We know it will only... (Read More)

A few winners, a few losers and a heap of new entries. It’s a busy week and there are quite a few projects that people have contacted me about that aren’t included, even though I’m interested in them. I’ll do some individual posts on those over the next couple of days but, for now, feast your eyes on the contents of the Katchup at the breadth of gaming delights that it contains. Then feel a bit morose that Rogue System probably isn’t going to be on your computer for a long time. (Read More)

The reality for Myst lovers is that there just haven't been all that many solitary exploration games in recent years. But perhaps virtual reality will open up whole new worlds once again, this time in a way never experienced before. That's certainly the plan for The Gallery: Six Elements, which is is one of first adventures (if not THE first) to be designed for the Oculus Rift, the highly acclaimed upcoming VR device. (Read More)