Kickstarter lists 10 successfully kickstarted games that are out now

10 Kickstarter-funded Video Games you can play right now (in no particular order)

• FTL (Faster than Light) (2013 IGF Finalist), a space simulator aimed at recreating the feeling of cruising through the galaxy in a spaceship.                             
• Kentucky Route Zero (2013 IGF Finalist), a magical realist adventure game set on a secret highway in Kentucky.                                                                                                          
• Organ Trail (at PAX in the Indie Megabooth), a zombie apocalypse parody of the classic Oregon Trail.                                                                                              
• Blindside (2012 IndieCade Finalist), a survival/horror adventure game with no graphics at all.
• Guns of Icarus (at PAX in the Indie Megabooth). You are the captain of a steampunk airship in this post-apocalyptic MMO.
• God of Blades (at Kickstarter Arcade), a sword-and-sorcery saga RPG for iOS.
• Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the 25th anniversary edition of this classic where you jump, dash and twist through a warped dimension. 
• Strike Suit Zero (at Kickstarter Arcade), a fast and frantic space combat game for PC.
• Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller,  a supernatural adventure game where you play an FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer.
• Zombies Run, an immersive mobile game where you help rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse.
• Sidius Nova, a combination of turn-based and real-time space strategy.

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Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

10 Kickstarter-funded Video Games you can play right now (in no particular order)

• FTL (Faster than Light) (2013 IGF Finalist), a space simulator aimed at recreating the feeling of cruising through the galaxy in a spaceship.                             
• Kentucky Route Zero (2013 IGF Finalist), a magical realist adventure game set on a secret highway in Kentucky.                                                                                                          
• Organ Trail (at PAX in the Indie Megabooth), a zombie apocalypse parody of the classic Oregon Trail.                                                                                              
• Blindside (2012 IndieCade Finalist), a survival/horror adventure game with no graphics at all.
• Guns of Icarus (at PAX in the Indie Megabooth). You are the captain of a steampunk airship in this post-apocalyptic MMO.
• God of Blades (at Kickstarter Arcade), a sword-and-sorcery saga RPG for iOS.
• Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the 25th anniversary edition of this classic where you jump, dash and twist through a warped dimension. 
• Strike Suit Zero (at Kickstarter Arcade), a fast and frantic space combat game for PC.
• Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller,  a supernatural adventure game where you play an FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer.
• Zombies Run, an immersive mobile game where you help rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse.
• Sidius Nova, a combination of turn-based and real-time space strategy.

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rilpas

OMG I love giana sisters artstyle. Watched some totalbiscuit gameplay , great concept, great musics as well.

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

TheEroica

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now.  Which is the normal "pop" or typical "hip-hop/rap" ordeals.  Seriously the actual radio is redundant these days, in technology, and in the crap it plays.  

I too am a musician.

I agree it is so much better for the end user to have more control. Less middle man, the better.  Musicians now-a-days don't even need to spend money in a studio to record, they can build one theirselves for a fraction of the cost, and digital audio has evolved to the point where most listener's won't be able to tell if it came from a multi-million dollar studio, or a decent bedroom studio (as long as the engineer knows what he is doing)

I love the idea of kickstarter, matter of fact, one of the games I am looking forward to most this year is Planetary Annihilation (which was a kickstarter project that easily got all its funding)

 

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now. 

Lach0121

Everyone go buy FTL. It's great. If you don't like it you're from now on considered to be a bag of farts.charlesdarwin55

[QUOTE="TheEroica"]

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

Lach0121

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now.  Which is the normal "pop" or typical "hip-hop/rap" ordeals.  Seriously the actual radio is redundant these days, in technology, and in the crap it plays.  

I too am a musician.

I agree it is so much better for the end user to have more control. Less middle man, the better.  Musicians now-a-days don't even need to spend money in a studio to record, they can build one theirselves for a fraction of the cost, and digital audio has evolved to the point where most listener's won't be able to tell if it came from a multi-million dollar studio, or a decent bedroom studio (as long as the engineer knows what he is doing)

I love the idea of kickstarter, matter of fact, one of the games I am looking forward to most this year is Planetary Annihilation (which was a kickstarter project that easily got all its funding)

[QUOTE="Lach0121"]

 

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now. 

heretrix

And all of them could be had now for a fraction of what they asked backers to pledge.

Don't get me wrong, I think the idea of directly supporting games is noble, but I've had people push the "getting a bargain" angle on me and that's just full of crap.

Here Here... good post. My only concern with this industry is that I know musicians make their money from performing and other revenue streams... The album is a dead art unfortunately and we've spiraled even further down the crap shoot in terms of mainstream talent. With games, I dont know if I could thief... There is no other revenue stream for them. Either way, Its always a win when we figure out how to communicate our desires without the need for the suits to even be involved....TheEroica

I am more of a studio artist, that does my own engineering, (and recently all my own guitar maintenance) so Live performing for me isn't what I am shooting for.

I am basically just wanting to distribute music that I make. (its more of a passionate hobby) Most of which I will give away, with an option to donate.

I also have goals of having some of my music in some of these games we play. 

Pretty much any money I make off of music I will be putting towards studio gear and such. (unless I get that covered, and for some reason still have more money coming in, but that is highly unlikely)

[QUOTE="Lach0121"]

 

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now. 

heretrix

Hell yeah some of them were.

John Petrucci

Randy Rhoads

Eddie Van Halen

Joe Satriani

Steve Vai

Yngwie Malmsteen

The Def Leapard guitarists

Just to name a few, and some of them are still rocking it!

Oops well seems I managed to help derail this topic, sorry op :P

But since it's semi relevant....  One of the midi controllers I will be acquiring soon was a kickstarter project. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kmi/quneo-multi-touch-open-source-midi-and-usb-pad-con

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

TheEroica

[QUOTE="rilpas"]

10 Kickstarter-funded Video Games you can play right now (in no particular order)

• FTL (Faster than Light) (2013 IGF Finalist), a space simulator aimed at recreating the feeling of cruising through the galaxy in a spaceship.                             
• Kentucky Route Zero (2013 IGF Finalist), a magical realist adventure game set on a secret highway in Kentucky.                                                                                                          
• Organ Trail (at PAX in the Indie Megabooth), a zombie apocalypse parody of the classic Oregon Trail.                                                                                              
• Blindside (2012 IndieCade Finalist), a survival/horror adventure game with no graphics at all.
• Guns of Icarus (at PAX in the Indie Megabooth). You are the captain of a steampunk airship in this post-apocalyptic MMO.
• God of Blades (at Kickstarter Arcade), a sword-and-sorcery saga RPG for iOS.
• Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the 25th anniversary edition of this classic where you jump, dash and twist through a warped dimension. 
• Strike Suit Zero (at Kickstarter Arcade), a fast and frantic space combat game for PC.
• Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller,  a supernatural adventure game where you play an FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer.
• Zombies Run, an immersive mobile game where you help rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse.
• Sidius Nova, a combination of turn-based and real-time space strategy.

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blackace

funny you should mention that, the website for Moebius went up today

The only one i have on that list is Giana Sisters, and i love it..Their is a few more on that list (Strike Suit Zero, Cognition) that i need to pick up aswell.FinalFighters

Dam I need to get more of them. FTL is the only I have and it's incredible.locopatho

Lovin this game!

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

 

TheEroica

I like your soapbox speech. I was thinking about consumer distribution vs capitalist distribution of media for a while now (just in video games).

It's an interesting topic of conversation, bro!

[QUOTE="TheEroica"]

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

Lach0121

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now.  Which is the normal "pop" or typical "hip-hop/rap" ordeals.  Seriously the actual radio is redundant these days, in technology, and in the crap it plays.  

I too am a musician.

I agree it is so much better for the end user to have more control. Less middle man, the better.  Musicians now-a-days don't even need to spend money in a studio to record, they can build one theirselves for a fraction of the cost, and digital audio has evolved to the point where most listener's won't be able to tell if it came from a multi-million dollar studio, or a decent bedroom studio (as long as the engineer knows what he is doing)

I love the idea of kickstarter, matter of fact, one of the games I am looking forward to most this year is Planetary Annihilation (which was a kickstarter project that easily got all its funding)

Couldn't agree more with this. I am a musician as well, and what is happening in our music industry today makes me sick. The normal pop stuff these days is terrible. Atleast music like Katy Perry's can be catchy, look at Nicki Minaj's music, the lyrics are nonsense, it sounds terrible. Then with rock/alternative you have Nickleback and all 27 of its dopplegangers. Literally half the bands on any rock station sound like Nickleback, it really is terrible. What happened to bands like Led Zeppelin ? When is the last time you heard something like Hotel California. 

Anyways though, back to the topic at hand. Isn't Star Citizen a kickstarter ?

FTL is one of the best games this gen. Only on PC.

[QUOTE="Lach0121"]

[QUOTE="TheEroica"]

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

SentientMind

Except Disco and 80's hair rock, isn't near as bad as what the suits try to bottleneck force feed us now.  Which is the normal "pop" or typical "hip-hop/rap" ordeals.  Seriously the actual radio is redundant these days, in technology, and in the crap it plays.  

I too am a musician.

I agree it is so much better for the end user to have more control. Less middle man, the better.  Musicians now-a-days don't even need to spend money in a studio to record, they can build one theirselves for a fraction of the cost, and digital audio has evolved to the point where most listener's won't be able to tell if it came from a multi-million dollar studio, or a decent bedroom studio (as long as the engineer knows what he is doing)

I love the idea of kickstarter, matter of fact, one of the games I am looking forward to most this year is Planetary Annihilation (which was a kickstarter project that easily got all its funding)

Couldn't agree more with this. I am a musician as well, and what is happening in our music industry today makes me sick. The normal pop stuff these days is terrible. Atleast music like Katy Perry's can be catchy, look at Nicki Minaj's music, the lyrics are nonsense, it sounds terrible. Then with rock/alternative you have Nickleback and all 27 of its dopplegangers. Literally half the bands on any rock station sound like Nickleback, it really is terrible. What happened to bands like Led Zeppelin ? When is the last time you heard something like Hotel California. 

Anyways though, back to the topic at hand. Isn't Star Citizen a kickstarter ?

 There is still wonderful music being made today, that is if you know how to look for it.

You can't however rely on the ways of the old like Radio, or TVs, or Music videos. (for far too long its been getting worse, and worse)  But with Youtube, soundcloud, and even amazon.com you can explore so much music so convienently these days.

I still find wonderful music, a good amount of which is in these games we play. 

Just recently (in Feb) I went to see Devin Townsend (amazing musician, on multiple levels) and Gojira LIVE as an example.   Both of which are refreshingly awesome, and niether of which you will see on MTV, or hear on the radio.

Also, I think Star Citizen was a kickstarter, one of the earlier ones if I remember correctly.

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

TheEroica

Most of those are good, I think so far Kickstarter has been a success. Now we just have to wait for like the top 5 most funded games to be released and see how things are looking.tagyhag

My thoughts exactly.

I would shake your hand if I could, sir.

[QUOTE="TheEroica"]

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

Midnightshade29

now, as for music since the splinter...

This took me some time to swallow, like you.  I wrestled with the idea that there would NEVER again be a dominant genre of pop music based on the fact that people control music tighter than the laughing stock of a music industry... and I didnt like it. Like you I struggled with the idea that genres will someday be a thing of the past.  But... then I started asking why shouldn't it be this way?  What is the point of being a musician? is it to create, express and reveal? or is it to copy, conform and feed a monster?  Fact is that with every great band or musician that leaves a mark in music, starts a genre or tweaks the formula with success, there are millions of followers riding his coat tails... Music to serve whats popular.

Now we exist in bubble of history more akin to 200 years ago where musics great artists are almost always known through word of mouth and posess extremely passionate followings... The great musicians are there, still writing great music... except no one stands over our head overexposing us to it, burning it and trashing it...  Music is now more unique and far more diverse.  

When you think about it... not through the eyes of what you've always known, but from the idea behind creating music, our generation is celebrating a renaissance of epic preportions...

Sorry about the TL;DR wall of words, but I think if people really think about it, they'd agree...

Disco is underrated. It actually inspired a lot of the good music being made today.

And thank God we had disco to cut the relentless boredom of 70s prog rock.

[QUOTE="TheEroica"]

Fantastic!!! Whenever people control their entertainment, good things will always follow.

Edit: It may be blasphemy to say this, given Im a musician, but the destruction of the music industry at the hands of the common person has been highly enjoyable to watch... They continue to fight and scramble to send out these "one and done" artists and manufacture the next 15 minutes of fame and money, while we sit back and choose every ounce of what we listen to because its readily available everywhere and in some places for free...  I know its not cool to root for theft, but in all things entertainment, when the suits bottleneck the art and only allow what THEY think is the next thing, we get 80's hair rock and disco... when we control it we get a splintered web of pure interesting and personal music experiences....  The message is, resist their forceful schlepping of over run IP's  as much as possible by supporting only the games and developers that dare bring you what YOU want....

And that ends my soapbox speech.

WilliamRLBaker

Yeah, this... And for the record, while I only own a few disco standards I love 80's rock and metal...

I was merely citing two genres that were heavily oversaturated and as much as I too have favorites from the genre, Both of those genres were raped twice over... 

Sad thats all you took from it...

Kickstarter was a brilliant idea. With the right security in place, allowing the people to decide what is made, is absolutely brilliant.

Disco is underrated. It actually inspired a lot of the good music being made today.

And thank God we had disco to cut the relentless boredom of 70s prog rock.

Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Disco is underrated. It actually inspired a lot of the good music being made today.

And thank God we had disco to cut the relentless boredom of 70s prog rock.

TheEroica

[QUOTE="TheEroica"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Disco is underrated. It actually inspired a lot of the good music being made today.

And thank God we had disco to cut the relentless boredom of 70s prog rock.

Cherokee_Jack

I just bought Cognition episode 1.  Can't wait.

I just bought Cognition episode 1.  Can't wait.

MLBknights58

Nice, what is that the old school original Castlevania game cover/box art?