Hello beautiful Gamers, Today I'm coming to bring you my first issue of Kickstart Round-up. Don't worry I can already hear your shouts and screams of excitement at this novel and completely original idea. Anyway without much further ado, here is my first line-up of games to take a look over. First off we have The Realm. http://www.therealmgame.com/ This beautiful game is the love child of several different video game companies meeting and then coming back together in this piece of art. The game consists of guiding a little girl by the name of Sarina, through the jungles of an abandoned, overgrown city. Humans still exist, but they have moved out of the city into more rural, tribal communities. Sarina is in search of a mysterious flower that has magical healing properties for her Mother that has fallen ill. On her path she finds a legendary creature, known as Toru, which is basically a Rock Giant. Together on their journey they bond and become heart-warmingly close. The game is basically a point-and-click adventure title, that utilizes innovative and experimental ways of interacting with the environment, instead of the classic "Pick up, Use, Talk to" icons, the game actually gives you different actions depending on context and which character you currently control. The game is currently on a Kickstarter Plan, So go check it out! [URL=http://www.therealmgame.com/media/07.jpg] [/URL] [URL=http://www.therealmgame.com/media/05.jpg] [/URL] [URL=http://www.therealmgame.com/media/08.jpg] [/URL] Next up is Past Away. http://scindomedia.com/blog/ Now Past Away is a pretty interesting looking project. It consists of Zombies, yes. The Future, yes. Comics, yes. Game...Yes. The whole thing is an interactive comic, allowing you to influence the story at certain points. Players of Heavy Rain, Walking Dead and the ilk should be familiar with the concept. The whole thing is more or less based around your player (a pizza delivery guy) surviving and handling a zombie apocalypse in the not-so-distant future. The game really does look gorgeous and as the whole thing was illustrated, conceived and produced by one guy, my hat really comes off to this one. I'm not sure how deep the story is going to be, or how much of an impact a player will have on the actual outcome of the game. All I know is that the game's art style, the animation and from what I've heard of the soundtrack feels pretty much flawless. Even if you're not too much of a Zombie fan or a Interactive Movie/Comic fan, it's still worth a look over. Past Away is aiming to be funded by the 25th of May. Lastly here's Chasm. http://discordgames.com/?page_id=1947 Now if you've been floating round the indie scene, you might possibly have seen this name come up a few times. Chasm is causing a fair amount of hype. It's clear inspiration from Zelda is pulling a lot of attention and it's solid gameplay, charming graphics and well designed soundtrack just sets the attraction in stone. The upcoming Action-Roleplaying Game is one of those procedurally-generated games, meaning the game actually builds itself as you play, bringing a very different game through different playthroughs. The game revolves around your character being trapped in a mining town, on his way back from fighting in a war. With your battle-trained hero ready to go he starts to pummel every monster in every mine/dungeon/castle in sight, in the true ARPG fashion. The village that your character is resting at has a stash, item shop and plenty of villagers for you to go round and chat to. The game is in Kickstarter til the 12th of May and the lovely people at Discord even released a Demo for us, check it out here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/chasm/downloads/chasm-105-windows