KickTraq

In Dungeons & Dragons, players can experience a wonderful wish-fulfillment fantasy. Slaying powerful monsters. Accruing fortune and status. Getting reliable restful sleep. Meeting a special someone to settle down with. The latter is explored in the Kickstarter campaign for Dungeons & Datemates, a new fantasy supplement by Fiona Shade Stories. (Read More)

Embark on dark and daring adventure where death and destruction lurks around every corner. Free League Publishing and Benjamin Tobitt today announced a publishing partnership for the grim-dark fantasy RPG Black Powder and Brimstone that will be launched at Kickstarter by Benjamin Tobitt on April 25. (Read More)

Pistol Shrimp™ Games — an independent studio founded by Toys for Bob veterans — recently launched the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Free Stars: Children of Infinity, a direct sequel to the award-winning science-fiction action-adventure game, Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters®. After only three hours, the project was fully funded! (Read More)

Optional supplemental rules for S&W (and other OSR games), a book of new monsters, an adventure, and much more! I'm a HUGE fan of Swords & Wizardry. Of all of the early sets of OSR rules, Swords & Wizardry Complete felt like AD&D 1e without the baggage. (Read More)

Mythmere Games is in the midst of a successful Kickstarter to bring more Swords & Wizardry OSR roleplaying content to the masses. Swords & Wizardry: Expansions, Monsters, and More! contains new game and character options, creatures, adventures, and more. The project is over 800% funded and you can reserve physical copies of all five releases (with PDFs) for a $115.00 pledge or just grab the PDFs for a $40.00 pledge through May 7th. Expected delivery on the digital files is July with physical releases slated for this November. (Read More)

Jace is joined by actor, author and film maker Luke Arnold and TV/Animation writer/producer Chris “Doc” Wyatt to talk all about their Kickstarter Campaign for ESSENTIALS. This is a wildly imaginative book that takes a very strange and somewhat elaborate premise and makes it imminently relatable. Also, the co-main leads of the story are so vastly different, but somehow still remain relatable as the represent different aspects of humanity we all have within us. When you add in the huge roster of talented artist you have an incredible title that deserves your attention. Check out the campaign and be sure to share it with your fellow comic readers. (Read More)

Earlier this week, Wandering Planet Toys launched the Kickstarter campaign for The Prisoner Wave No2 retro action figures. Unsurprisingly, given the dedicated fanbase for the cult classic British television series, the crowdfunding campaign reached its goal and was fully funded in less than 24 hours. The independent toy company is now three for three with successful Kickstarter campaigns. (Read More)

The camera, which promises to “capture beyond the horizon with your smartphone,” has shattered its modest $20,000 funding goal. At the time of writing, it had just eclipsed $372,000 in support, and it is rapidly increasing by the hour. There are still 57 days left in the campaign, which has earned Kickstarter’s “Project We Love” sticker, adding more legitimacy to the Excope DT1. (Read More)

Adevelopment team took to Kickstarter on Tuesday (April 16) with the aim of fundraising €45,000 (the equivalent of just under $48,000 in USD) and smashed that goal in just 18 hours. A total of just over $52,000 has now been donated. (Read More)

The Kickstarter campaign has only been up for just over a day and it's already managed to pull in over $240,000 in funding. This means the $220,000 stretch goal for Linux and macOS support has been achieved as confirmed by the developer. Since it also passed $240K, it will also now see a DRM-free PC release as well so that's double good news. It's not confirmed what DRM-free stores they will put it on but their announcement mentioned possibilities being itch.io and GOG. (Read More)

The SkyNest combines a hammock, bug mesh net and rainfly in a single package that can be used all together or in its separate components. It's claimed to be roomier than other hammock tents, and easier to set up. (Read More)

AltDynamic has returned to Kickstarter for 1/22 time to launch its new Mobius Strip a CNC machined anodized work of mathematical art. Open your eyes to the endless possibilities that lie within the Möbius strip. As you hold this piece of infinity in your hands, (Read More)

Volla, the maker of the Volla Phone smartphones, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for their first tablet device, the Volla Tablet, which will also support the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS. (Read More)

In today’s edition of “nothing can possibly go wrong,” a company in Sweden is developing a new doorbell camera that is armed to automatically shoot paintballs at intruders approaching your home! (Read More)

One-Hit Heroes is a cooperative game for 1 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, and takes about 45 minutes to play. It’s currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, with a pledge level of $67CAD (about $49USD) for a copy of the game; there are additional tiers if you want to include the Epilogue episode or the big bundle that also includes all of Wiggles 3D’s other titles (5-Minute Dungeon and 5-Minute Mystery). (Read More)

Morgan Martinez’s Kickstarter campaign to fund the opening of Solar Intentions reached its goal April 7, with funders kicking in $47,000 for the planned sober bar with an astrology theme. Thanks to the successful campaign, Sober Intentions will look to bring a sober, LGBTQ+-friendly social space to the Logan Square area in late summer, Martinez said. (Read More)

Publisher Rogue Games and developer Nunchaku Games have launched a Kickstarter campaign for pixel art side-scrolling martial arts action adventure game Moon Samurai, which is planned for release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam in late 2025. (Read More)

Runa, an indie game "inspired by classic and modern JRPGs," is closing in on its $50,000 Kickstarter campaign target after just 16 hours. A gorgeous, open-world JRPG with shades of the Xenoblade series, Runa promises to fill out that world with turn-based battles, base-building, farming minigames, and a Persona-style social links system to help you befriend its substantial cast of 15 romanceable characters. (Read More)

The Prisoner is one of the most beloved sci-fi shows of all time, but it wasn't until 2021 that it finally received some long-overdue action figures. Now there's more good news for fans, as Wandering Planet Toys is back with a second wave of The Prisoner figures. As with the first wave, Wandering Planet Toys will be crowdfunding The Prisoner: Wave Number 2 on Kickstarter. IGN can exclusively reveal images of the single-carded figures in Wave Number 2. Check them out in the slideshow gallery below: (Read More)

The devs who founded Toys for Bob are going back to finally build a proper sequel to their beloved 1992 open-world space game, and while they no longer have the rights to the original game's name, the Kickstarter for this new title has smashed its $100,000 goal in less than three hours. (Read More)