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Bust’em Bandits

• Goal: €11,000
• Platforms: iOS, Android

From the Indiegogo page:

Buffalo Bill’s Great Show is coming up soon!

And Buffalo Bill himself is out to recruit only the greatest names he can find. Those who are famous – or infamous – for their outstanding abilities and achievements.

You are dreaming to be a part of the show since you were a little boy. Now a feeling in your guts is telling you – this is the time to finally put your name on the top of the list.

You can’t wait to show that you are the best shooter and gambler, to win the ladies’ hearts, find gold and treasures, and become rich and famous.

Game Basics
Bust’em Bandits is an HTML5 based pinball game for mobile devices. It has a 2D game engine and a top down pseudo 3D view.

The theme of the game is the old wild west. The story starts in the streets of a small old west town. From there it will lead the player to various scenarios on different subtables.

GOAL 2014 Football Manager

• Goal: $30,000
• Platforms: iOS, Android

From the Indiegogo page:

GOAL 2014 Football Manager is a completely free football (soccer) management game, with no in-app purchases or pay-to-win options for iOS and Android operating systems. It was developed by the creative minds of the staff at Goal Games in just over six months. We are now able to provide daily entertainment to over 10,000 users! GOAL 2014 Football Manager has become a mindset for those who engage in it. It is a community. It is a game. And it is ever evolving.

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GOAL Football Manager is the only mobile football manager simulation in the industry with no in-game purchases or pay-to-win options. We want to be able to keep it this way but at the same time give you the improvements and features that you ask for and expect. We are a small company, with games and football fans, and as such, we like to be part of this community and take good care of our users.

So we started gathering all the requests and suggestions from all of the football managers. We evaluated which ones are most wanted, how much time it would take us to implement and decided that it was too long! We want to do them all, and we want to do them much faster than what our current capabilities allow us to do. So we need your help so that you can enjoy all of the features that you can see here!

Paint Wizards

• Goal: $2,000
• Platform: PC

From the Indiegogo page:

I have always enjoyed gaming with friends and have always wanted to create simple fun and competitive games. This game started out as a simple project by myself to create a great game with the simplest tools available. As more and more work was put in I wanted to share it with everyone.

All the work on the game was done by me, though I have had plenty of friends and family play test the game since the first day it was playable to make suggestions on gameplay and characters.

Simple and fun is the goal.

It will be released completely free only weeks following this campaigns completion.

INITIAL GOAL REACHED

fault milestone one

• Goal: $5,000
• Platforms: Steam, Windows, Mac OS, Linux

From the Kickstarter page:

A visual novel by ALICE IN DISSONANCE combining western storytelling with eastern art. Please join us on the journey.

Why are we using Kickstarter?

ALICE IN DISSONANCE is a small doujin circle made up of a handful of people who are working on fault during their free time. The funding from Kickstarter will not only get the game translated in English but also allow the circle to add extra cutscenes and improve character sprites. The initial goal set for this campaign is the minimum level of improvements AiD is willing to make for the English release. If the goal is surpassed the circle is planning to publish the artbook and bring fault milestone one to mobile platforms.

What is fault milestone one about?

fault milestone one is the first of a series of visual novels created by the Japanese doujin circle ALICE IN DISSONANCE. The story revolves around a princess and her royal guard who have been accidentally teleported to the other side of the planet while trying to escape a brutal attack that has devastated their homeland of Rughzenhaide. The “milestone series” tells the tale of their journey home. fault milestone one will be released on Steam for PC, OSX, and Linux.

SUNSET

• Goal: $25,000
• Platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Steam

From the Kickstarter page:

Sunset is a first person exploration game in the vein of Gone Home and Dear Esther. As in those, playing centers on the discovery of story clues. In Sunset, however, you play while the events unfold (rather than uncovering a story that happened in the past).

The other inspiration for Sunset is military action games. We always wondered what life would be like for the extras in such games, the people who are not the heroes, the ones on the sidelines – like most of us. How does it feel to be one of the many victims of war, instead of the hero? How does it feel when war is the backdrop for your day-to-day life?

Sunset is divided into play sessions that each take a fictional hour: until the sun sets. Each time you are presented with a list of housekeeping tasks, as that is your job. However, there will be other activities, such as going through the owner’s possessions in search of information for the revolutionaries! Or simply making your presence felt in his life by changing his radio station or having your own fun interacting with his 1970s-era high-tech gadgets.

Next to the story progression, you have the opportunity to develop your relationship with the absent Gabriel Ortega. For each task in the apartment there is more than one way of performing it: a neutral way or a naughty, funny way or flirty way. Gabriel will respond through small notes and other actions. It is up to you to decide how intimate or antagonistic this relationship becomes.

Through the Shadows

• Goal: $1,500
• Platform: Windows

From the Kickstarter page:

“Through The Shadows” is an episodic adventure game for Windows PC. It takes place in a stunning 3D environment utilizing suspense, survival, investigation, and discovery with a deep story-line. It has an inspiring message that integrates the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, historical information, and modern research, created for Adventure Enthusiasts and serious Core Gamers.

“Through The Shadows” is going to be released in Chapter format, meaning that it is an ongoing story that unfolds one chapter at a time.

The first Episode, “The Darkness Revealed” is the gaming equivalent of the first novel in a series. Chapter One, Episode One, is scheduled for release at the end of the Summer, 2014. This Kickstarter Project is for Chapter One’s release.

You can check out the tech demo on their Kickstarter page.

And those are the projects that are finishing up their crowdfunding campaigns.