Kickstarter crowd funding of games.

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For those who haven't heard about it yet, this site allows for fans to fund a developer of different projects including video games. It made headlines in gaming community when Double Fine (the maker of Psychonauts, Stacking and other adventures) whose founder Tim Schafer created for his previous company (LucasArts) such games as Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and (half of) Day of the Tentacle raised $3,336,371 for their next game when they were only asking for $400,000. It shows that fans of adventure games are underserved by game publishers who are unwilling to fund certain less popular genres.

The way the site works is that people can choose to donate with a credit card to a project. If the project meets its funding goal by its set deadline, then it is fully funded. But if it does not meet its goal, noone is charged. Depending on how much you donate, you can received the finished game when it's completed, or other items or limited edition products as well.

Here's some current projects that still need your support and their status as of June 19:

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260 ... f=category
62% funded
$310,351 pledged
19 days to go (CLANG - scifi author Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games)

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cad ... f=category
9% funded
$7,433 pledged
17 days to go (Retrovirus - retro, Descent-inspired six-axis shooter)

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/707 ... f=category
90% funded
$136,007 pledged
15 days to go (Dead State: The Zombie Survival RPG)

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/935 ... f=category
17% funded
$12,811 pledged
20 days to go (HeXit - point and click sci-fi adventure game)

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/670 ... f=category
13% funded
$57,175 pledged
16 days to go (Ground Branch by BlackFoot Studios - Mature Classic Tactical FPS)

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dig ... f=category
32% funded
$65,791 pledged
33 days to go (Skyjacker - open-world, full-throttle space combat game)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178 ... f=category
2% funded
$12,817 pledged
25 days to go (Sam Suede based upon an original game design by Ken Wegrzyn & Al Lowe - creator of Leisure Suit Larry)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/187 ... f=category
48% funded
$7,204 pledged
23 days to go (retail game of Reincarnation series of flash games)

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Here's list of adventure games already funded on that site:
*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/199 ... f=category
127% funded
$31,761 pledged
16 days to go (Quest For Infamy - from Infamous Quests, creators remakes of King’s Quest III and Space Quest 2)
*RECENTLY FUNDED* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spa ... f=category
107% funded
$539,767 pledged
Jun 12, 2012 (from creators of Space Quest)
*RECENTLY FUNDED* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tex ... f=category
132% funded
$598,104 pledged
Jun 16, 2012 (another Tex Murphy game)
*RECENTLY FUNDED* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/516 ... f=category
145% funded
$26,159 pledged
11 days to go (Lilly Looking Through - there's a playable demo available already at http://geetagames.com/ )
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou ... e?ref=card
834% funded
$3,336,371 pledged
Mar 13, 2012 (Double Fine adventure)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lei ... f=category
131% funded
$655,182 pledged
May 02, 2012 (new Leisure Suit Larry game from Al Lowe)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/win ... f=category
227% funded
$567,665 pledged
May 06, 2012 (Yogventures! an open world sandbox multiplayer game based on The Yogscast)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/486 ... f=category
111% funded
$555,662 pledged
May 11, 2012 (Republique - a AAA mobile title which was funded on a promise for a PC version as well)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cra ... f=category
191% funded
$537,515 pledged
May 18, 2012 (Grim Dawn an open world fantasy rpg from makers of Titan Quest)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/100 ... f=category
145% funded
$435,316 pledged
May 19, 2012 (Moebius - Jane Jensen's, maker of Gabriel Knight's, next sci-fi adventure)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos ... f=category
136% funded
$34,247 pledged
Dec 11, 2011 (Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - retail adventure from makers of the free Silver Lining games)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/143 ... f=category
121% funded
$24,320 pledged
Aug 10, 2011 (Octodad 2, sequel to the free game)

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Some FPS/Action games already funded:

*NEW* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mas ... f=category
111% funded
$111,943 pledged
6 days to go (Zombie Playground (#zpg) - 3D Action, Online Battle RPG)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta ... f=category
129% funded
$519,310 pledged
3 days to go (Carmageddon Reincarnation...a new game in the series)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/355 ... f=category
110% funded
$221,833 pledged
Apr 01, 2012 (Takedown - spiritual successor to Rainbow Six and SWAT series)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/san ... f=category
258% funded
$154,968 pledged
Apr 29, 2012 (The Dead Linger - first-person zombie survival sandbox )
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2da ... f=category
258% funded
$38,767 pledged
May 20, 2012 (Ravaged - post-apocalyptic vehicular first-person shooter)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus ... f=category
352% funded
$35,237 pledged
Feb 21, 2012 (Guns Of Icarus Online - sequel to steampunk team-based, first-person multiplayer airship combat )
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/807 ... f=category
143% funded
$21,457 pledged
May 01, 2012 (Bionite Origins - open world FPS/RTS)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/590 ... f=category
176% funded
$17,686 pledged
Feb 17, 2011 (Orion Prelude - scifi FPS with jetpacks, dinosaurs and vehicular combat)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/630 ... f=category
103% funded
$16,487 pledged
Mar 25, 2012 (Guncraft - voxel based FPS)

[Scaryfun]

I updated status of projects since two weeks ago. Congrats to the five recently funded interesting games.

[basetta]

Ones I want (already funded):

Wasteland 2
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
- Post-apocalypse RPG (mix of Fallout + Fallout Tactics)

Dreamfall Chapters - TLJ (2014 schedule) (**)
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/red ... sts/422425
- Basically TLJ3, adventure; hopefully much expanded

Torment - Tides of Numenera (****)
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inx ... f-numenera
- Spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment (RPG)
- "What does one life matter?'
(Correction: Spiritual --successor--, not sequel)

[Scaryfun]

Yeah, there's plenty of nice projects that got funded which will be released this year or next. Stuff that publishers wouldn't have invested in but fans want.
This site does a nice weekly roundup of the status of kickstarter projects -
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03 ... arch-2013/

[stiv_ntouzos]

Some cool projects i found.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/17 ... /last-life

and

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ou ... d?ref=live

The second one is a reboot of a nice old action game called outcast.

[Scaryfun]

It seems kickstarter projects are getting less notice than in the past. Maybe because media doesn't report on the latest thing unless it's shiny and new.
Rock Paper Shotgun doesn't seem to do Kickstarter weekly summaries anymore but I looked around and found this instead - http://boardgamegeek.com/blog/3021