Totally agree, Metacritic = Metash¡t

Seems to be a lull in exciting KS games ...again :). *thank u says my wallet*

Can I entice you with some fine tabletop games? :D

LOL ill pass although im sure there are many who will appreciate it :). Btw thanks for your effort on maintaining the thread :)

2D isometric RPG with turn-based combat:
Lords of Xulima

Combat looks kinda like this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yhYiii99Sg

Another old school RPG (we never have too much of those right?) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1603318909/the-rescue-of-amberlina-rpg-game

I like the look of it. I'm more comfortable with Kickstarter but might throw a little something their way. For now I'm just following.

Another tabletop wargame being converted to PC:
Legions of Steel: The Video Game

A new Mutant League game from the original creator:
Mutant Football League

Not related to kickstarter, but something people in this thread might appreciate:

The JSMESS Triumph

edit, related this time:
lol @ ouya
I'm so glad ouya's "pay 50% more for a prettier color" made me back off.

The Long Dark, a first-person post-disaster survival simulation set in the Northern wilderness.

Official description:
Flying a routine mail delivery in the Northern wilderness, bush pilot William Mackenzie witnesses mysterious lights flaring across the sky. Suddenly, his trusty DeHavilland Beaver loses power and crashes into the dense mountain forest below.

Stranded far from the closest human habitation -- lost, wounded, alone, and with wolves circling -- Mackenzie will have to quickly master basic wilderness survival skills if he's to last long enough to understand what he just witnessed, and how his world has just changed.

And that's only the beginning.

Welcome to The Long Dark, the inaugural title from Hinterland, a new independent game studio comprised of veteran developers from the triple-A game industry.

I am unsure about the first person aspect but I like the original idea.

"Double Our Fun(ds)! We're participating in OUYA's #FreeTheGames Fund, created by OUYA to support developers making new and creative console games. OUYA will match your pledge dollar-for-dollar if we raise a minimum of $50,000, so help us get there and make a great game for everyone! To be eligible for this match, we commit that this game will be an OUYA exclusive for six months—no matter what. To learn more about OUYA, go to www.OUYA.tv."

What a bunch of toss bags. Exclusive to Ouya for 6 months . Isnt this sort of against the spirit of crowdsourcing?

HUEG UPDATE

So it turns out Julie didn't actually lie for once. FTGF is massively overhauled, and Gridiron Thunder apparently shown the door (they voluntarily withdrew their entry, hur hur hur).

Now they require:
a min of $10k (down from $50k)
100 backers per each $10k
1 month of ouya exclusivity per $10k received from ouya
more money upfront: 50% when they see a playable beta (up from 25%)
"we reserve the right to ban your greedy ass for gaming the system" (paraphrased)
and they only match the kickstarter goal, capped at $250k

Translation: we fucked up so much that Rose and Time, selling a copy per day, was the best and best-selling game on the console, and we had to listen to the dev to maybe keep the lights in our office for a little while longer.

Most importantly: And that means a kickstarter. Bah, I don't need a second kidney.

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As the supreme expert on the ethics of crowdsourcing, this sort of exclusivity is fine all other things equal; presumably, the game won't get made without ouya's 50k+ investment, and lesser backers have to live with that. Letting top-tier backers influence development is an established kickstarter practice, and kickstarter basically defines game crowdsourcing. So money talks, and ouya's exclusivity deal is not too different from you having to wait for a Windows version because more than half of the backers turned out to be Mac gamers.

But the blatant self-funding creators engage in, kickstarter turning a blind eye to that shit, and ouya hemorrhaging $$ and trying too hard to save face - that is unethical. Recall that kickstarter banned bulk preorders, insisting that in the True Spirit Of Crowdfunding the money has to come from small individual contributors genuinely interested in what you're doing. But shit-eater Andrew Won just has "some very generous friends in the industry", and it's fine by Yancey. Hilariously, ouya actually delisted Draconus, which makes it even worse - only ouya-approved scammers can scam the FTGF. I mean, embezzling is Russia's second-most popular national sport (after litreball), but even I am surprised at how easy that shit flies in the normally pr-conscious videogame business.

Sophie Houlden (the "fuck steam" lady) on FTGF.

Sunless Sea is almost at 100%. Here is an interview with the creators, Failbetter Games: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/09/19/of-london-and-the-sunless-sea-failbetter-interview-pt-2/

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/in-verbis-virtus

In Verbis Virtus is a first person video game that mixes action and puzzle elements in a fantasy setting.

You play as a wizard who can cast spells pronouncing magic formulas. The innovation of this game resides in the control system: the player must use a microphone to perform spells by actually saying the magic words. In fact the title could be translated from Latin as "Power is in Words".