Category: Kickstarter

B2B-Poster

‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ is a two hour feature length documentary film telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present day and how the creativity and vision of a relatively small number of individuals allowed the UK to play a key, pioneering role in the shaping of the billion dollar video games industry, which today dominates the modern world’s entertainment landscape.
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Mages_Shot1

In recent years, the humble point and click adventure has undergone something of a resurgence.
For far too long, the genre was consigned to the memories of gamers of a certain age, who wistfully remembered a time when Lucasarts and Sierra were cranking out cracking games as if there was no tomorrow.
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mages initiation (3)
This morning Himalaya Studios launched a $65k crowd-funding campaign for Mage’s Initiation, an adventure/RPG hybrid that combines old-school nostalgia with kick-ass indie ingenuity: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2112639455/mages-initiation-a-classic-sierra-style-adventure This is the same team that has released four high-quality freeware remakes of classic Sierra games over the past decade, under the moniker “Anonymous Game Developers.” Read on for details about Mage’s Initiation and the Kickstarter campaign.

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During that most awesome of times known as the eighties and nineties (AKA the ‘Before Bieber’ times), Ocean Software was a dominant force in development and publishing of, what seemed like at the time, an endless amount of titles spanning a wide variety of home computers and consoles. Mostly-faithful ports of arcade classics and prominent movie license tie-ins were the order of the day, and back then barely a month went by without an Ocean title or two hitting the shelves for fervent young gamers to spend their pocket money on.
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Legend of Dungeon is about looking for treasure in a dungeon full to the brim with monsters. Legend has it there is a massive treasure all the way down on the 26th floor. Your quest is to go down there, get the treasure, and make it back to the surface alive.
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