Although Kickstarter’s been around for quite a few years, it’s only recently garnered widespread attention with the successes of the Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2 projects. As a result, there's been a crowd-funding "renaissance" of sorts. Indie gaming and hardware developers are seeing crowd-funding’s true potential and taking their projects to Kickstarter.
There’s been plenty of cool tech and gaming projects hitting Kickstarters as of late. We’ve taken the liberty of compiling a few Kickstarters that have caught our eyes and think are worthy of your attention and wallet. Keep in mind that Kickstarters only have a certain window of time to raise funds, so unfortunately, most of the projects you see featured here will only last through June.
Also, if you think there are more awesome Kickstarter projects out there that we haven't talked about yet, please let us know in the comments!
[Remember that when backing a Kickstarter project, you are taking a financial risk. We cannot guarantee that any of the projects featured here will come to their fruition.]
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaborvida/chameleon-a-better-home-screen-for-your-android-ta-0?ref=card
There are 6 hours left and we need support and need a monumental push. Exposure has been the largest struggle. There is an alpha demo available. As a huge fan of descent myself I want to see the genre reborn, not a single game made but many! Retrovirus is a step in that direction. What Retrovirus does is it introduce a concept of gaming (6DoF) that hasn't been around for years to a new generation of gamers. It is too early to tell if this game will be the 6DoF trendsetter for this new generation... but hell, lets get it started. There is precedent for a single studio calling enough attention to a genre to perk interest... lets start that now and here. An up vote for Retrovirus or Kickstarter pledge only heightens the interest in this type of game genre. If it is Minerwars or Retrovirus or some other studio, it doesn't matter, this genre will be reborn, lets bring Descent like games back into the spotlight.