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Book of Unwritten Tales 2 rates well, but has there been enough discussion on how women are treated by its story? Cliqist gets its hands dirty! (Read More)

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 is the second installment in KING Art Game's acclaimed adventure series. Is it all a laugh, or a dismal horror tale? Find out! (Read More)

Attack of the Fanboy was recently lucky enough to get to talk with Jan Theysen, Creative Director at KING Art; the company behind the Kickstarter success and recently released The Book of Unwritten Tales 2. Theysen was able to provide us with insight into how the design process was changed by turning to Kickstarter, how puzzles were designed and other decisions made throughout the development process of the title. (Read More)

The Kickstarter is almost behind us, a lot of work is ahead of us! Thanks to your support “The Book of Unwritten Tales 2” will be bigger & better… which means more work for us! Nonetheless we want to release BoUT2 in early 2015. To be able... (Read More)

What do you get when you take a gnome mage, an elf princess, a dashing rogue (he actually made me say it), and a…whatever and put them together in a fantasy setting? No, it’s not another boring fantasy MMO. Yep, you guessed it. It’s another adventure game, courtesy of the good folks at King Art Games, and the Kickstarter campaign is nearing the end of its run. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should point your browser to the sequel to The Book of Unwritten Tales. The original never took itself seriously, and the follow-up looks to continue the trend of breaking the fourth wall. (Read More)

The much-anticipated sequel to The Book of Unwritten Tales was recently announced via Kickstarter – it is therefore with great pleasure that AMO presents an exclusive online interview with Marco Rosenberg, Narrative Designer at KING Art Games! (Read More)

The last five days!Hallo everyone! The final five days of the „The Book of Unwritten Tales 2“ Kickstarter are here. Every dollar counts, because every dollar will go directly into the project – regardless of whether we reach the third stretch... (Read More)

You have just five days left if you want to back King Art Games' The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 on Kickstarter as the game enters its final week of seeking crowdfunding. (Read More)

Details about some of the rewardsSome of you wanted to know details on the Critter plushie and hand puppet.The plushie is about 25 cm high (about 9.8 inches) and the hand puppet is about 35 cm high (about 13.7 inches). They are manufactured in... (Read More)

Six month paid internship in Bremen, Germany! Visit Berlin, London, Vienna, Cologne and other cities, produce “behind-the-scenes” videos, report about nerd & gaming culture and your life in Germany! ) What?We’re the German game developer... (Read More)

BoUT2 will now feature projection mapping – and it's all your fault! ;)Thanks to your support we can now use the cool „Projection Mapping“ technology for BoUT2. If you want to see why we are so excited about this, just take a look at this... (Read More)

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 has already managed to stand out amongst the pack of crowdfunding prospects across the Internet. After reaching its $65,000 goal in 30 hours, it became instantly clear that people want to play this upcoming point-and-click adventure game. (Read More)

10 things we try to honor in BoUT2Before we started development of BoUT2 we thought a lot about adventure games in general and what made BoUT1 the success it was. These are the rules we wrote down for The Book of Unwritten Tales 2: 1. Clear... (Read More)

Second stretch goal reached! On our way to the third!Combined with the Paypal payments we’ve reached the second stretch goal! Wo-hoo! Thank you very much! That means some of Benny’s music will be recorded by a live orchestra. If we reach the... (Read More)

$145,000 raised to finance projection mapping, Kickstarter-Editions, optional side quests and outfits, blog, making-of videos and partial orchestral soundtrack (Read More)

Open source is something we, as Linux users, care about greatly. So gather round while we shine the spotlight on Shattered Time. Here's an isometric RPG inspired by the Infinity Engine games of yore (e.g. Baldur's Gate or Planescape Torment) which aims to be completely open source on release! The author, Daniel J. Swiger, is a new developer who is boldly trying to make his living from an open source project. Which begs the question, how do you do so? How do you make money on something you intend will be completely free when it's finished? (Read More)

Next stretch goal in sight!Including Paypal payments we’ve almost reached the 135.000 Dollar mark! That means we have only about 10k to go to reach the next stretch-goal! Please keep telling others about this campaign! New Video: Life of a video... (Read More)

Way back in the mists of 2011, when the world was newly formed and virgin to such ideas as “crowd funding” “early access” and “XBOX One”, our very own John Walker gave his honest thoughts on The Book of Unwritten Tales. Despite translation flaws, his younger self enjoyed it, summing up with “An adventure this long is such a rare treat. One this enjoyable at the same time is almost unheard of.” (Read More)

Get 12 amazing adventure games from The Adventure Company and friends in the Humble Weekly Sale. Name your price and help support charity! (Read More)

The backstory of BoUT2Here’s a video with early info on the story: What would you do if your harsh and rugged fantasy world was slowly changing into a dream (or rather nightmare) of pink pony plushieness? On our website www.unwritten-tales.com we... (Read More)

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 is going to happen. Whether you've finished the tale's first portion or not, the point-and-click adventure will continue in the beginning of 2015 on PC, Mac and Linux. However, KING Art Games has launched a Kickstarter for fans interested in making the project a bigger, more expansive venture than it already is, and this campaign has surpassed its first two funding goals. (Read More)

Payment without a credit cardIf you want to support us without a credit card, e.g. via PayPal, you can now do so in the shop on our website: http://www.unwritten-tales.com/ New RewardsThere were suggestions in the comments to add new reward tiers for... (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. The only problem is keeping track of it all – what’s worth watching, and what are these different projects about? (Read More)

That was… unexpected 65.000 dollars in no more than 30 hours?! Are you nuts?! Thanks to our character artist and cartoonist Marvin for the unexpected night shift ;-) Many many thanks from the whole team for the support of all you backers! Here’s... (Read More)

Nordic Games and KING Art have just announced that they have reached their funding goal of $65,000 for The Book of Unwritten Tales 2; just 30 hours since the Kickstarter campaign launched. (Read More)

Say what you like about Unity and the relevance of adventure games in a world dominated by AAA console ports and bro-shooters, but since the public execution of LucasArts people have had a little time to reflect on that growing niche of discerning gamer; the gamer who grew up on interactive storytelling, where guide books were angrily creased in anticipation for the internet. This is beautiful, and this will never age. Adventure gaming is even lucidly sliding into the virtual reality world. (Read More)

Generally speaking we try and post about noteworthy crowdfunding campaigns within a few days of their launch, we want you to be able to get in early and decide whether to jump on any early bird specials and such. However, sometimes no matter how quickly we get on something it seems like the world already knows about it. Take The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 for example. (Read More)

After launching a Kickstarter campaign for the follow-up to adventure game The Book of Unwritten Tales, developer King Art Games has successfully acquired the necessary funding in just over one day. (Read More)

Fans of The Book of Unwritten Tales will probably be excited by this one. King Art Games have put up The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 on Kickstarter and it got funded in just over a day! (Read More)