It’s time for the weekly little catch-up on what cool stuff is going on in the world of gaming Kickstarters, and I will start with a summary of previous coverage.

Unfortunately Solar Hideout has seen funding cancelled because of the developer’s health issues, which made me sad as I’d backed this one myself. However the website for the game is still up with the demo version and the creator has said further updates will be posted up there so the game itself is not dead. Scribbled Arena is another campaign that has seen funding cancelled by the developer, owing to a lack of funding. Cold Blooded is also having a little trouble getting going with less than 200 euros of its goal having been made so far. Meanwhile Doko Roko has reached its target with 11 more days to go, GOAT ARMY has 13 days to go having reached its goal, and GOTY the card game has reached a halfway point with plenty more time to make up the rest. Wanderer is almost at its target but has less than 3 days to go to finish it off, but they seem at a point where it is going to be funded.

The games covered in the Round-up of Oct 24th are all also struggling to reach targets, with only Crematory Bot being in with any chance of reaching its goal before project end unless there is a serious push of traffic towards the projects. Of the games covered in the Oct 9th Round-Up, Bertram Fiddle and Wolf & Hound both made their targets, while NinjaFrog and Boom Chicka Meow Wow failed theirs.

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Game Over Remix

Starting this week with the card game, and its yet another based around video gaming.

Game Over borrows from gaming history to form a game that sees you using expies of known video game characters to fight for victory. Each character has their own method of winning though and as the player you need to guide them to victory together. As well as character cards, there are cards for attacks, blocks, items, crowbars and even a chance that as the game goes on longer the ‘game’ will fight back against your characters itself. This is actually a second version of the game as well, so you know that the maker has had some success with this game before.

Game Over Remix has 42 days to go and has made $3,383 of its $8,250 goal so far.

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Vanity’s Dawn

Vanity’s Dawn borrows from English history, and lore. History has always interested me so this game sounded good.

Vanity’s Dawn is set in 1604 in England, a time of change when Elizabeth the First had only recently passed away and people’s fears and worries were leading to more sightings of worrying evil creatures. You play as the Anglian Chapter of Vanity, an order of an unknown age that sends out those rejected by society to fight these evils. Whether they want to or not. You manage the people in your Chapter, keep up their faith in their religious beliefs and then send out people on Hunts to take down the evils that lurk in the shadows.

Vanity’s Dawn has made £306 of a £30,000 goal and has 18 days to go.

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A Princess To Save Me

A Princess To Save Me is a turn-based RPG that asks the question: what if the rescuer of the princess dies on their way back home and leaves the princess alone?

Play as the damsel in distress as you are left alone in the middle of nowhere and must learn to survive and travel back to your home, meeting and interacting with people along the way and having an effect on them as well. The game apparently has branching storylines and multiple endings which sounds pretty good to me. You’ll also pick up companions to join you in battle too.

If this sounds like your sort of thing the game has 24 days to go to make $10,000 of which it has already pulled in $1,042. So it’s already on its way to funded.

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Econia

I’ll admit, my eye was drawn to this one because the graphic style of the characters is clearly Powerpuff Girls-inspired. I was a child of the 90s, I loved that cartoon.

Econia is a mobile and browser casual game where you start as a sole farmer growing crops to survive and eventually grow your farm into a village, then town, and bring in a population. Eventually you get to a point where you are a city and laws are being passed, and you as a wealthy person can choose to use your financial sway to get your way. Which actually is the entire point that the developers are trying to make with this game – money is controlling democracy right now. The game will also be free and open-source upon release, and possibly might come to Android and Steam based on how well the campaign goes.

Econia has a $25,000 goal of which it has made $3,595 with 15 days to go.