KickTraq

Race the Sun is a fast paced, tactical game relying on the player’s attentiveness and quick thinking to veer around obstacles and avoid collisions. The main objective is to soar through the five different regions in time to greet the sunset, hence the title, Race the Sun. The groundwork of the gameplay is simplistic: for the love of all that is holy, do not crash. The more you prolong your gameplay, the higher score you will achieve. (Read More)

A year of crowdfunding can go a really long way, and much has happened since May last year. Let's then review what has exactly happened! (Read More)

Matt takes a look back at the year that was on Kickstarter: what got funded, what missed out, what was released, and what ran out of cash. (Read More)

Some small projects have made their way into player’s hands, and proven that crowdfunded games can be a hit. (Read More)

Good Friday! A quick update on the last couple of weeks... Aaron is working on the backend tech to allow players to login and submit their high-scores - lots of good progress there! This is also the same system that will make the portals and... (Read More)

Hi Friends! Over the last few days we invested serious time into organization and planning. We know that we will need to make every day count, so we wanted to craft a solid plan. Here is a brief overview of the Race the Sun roadmap: 1: Order Physical... (Read More)

The winners’ podium is crowded this week, and by those that have been funded rather than the crowds wot have funded them. Hopefully, when the games are actually released, we’ll all be winners though. There are so many success stories this week that I didn’t even make room for the most ridiculous victory of all time. The spiritual successor to Torment took a mere seven hours to reach its total. Lord British, with over half a million in a few days, dreams of success like that. (Read More)

Wow - what a ride! If you had asked us a week ago how our Kickstarter was going we would have said "well....Okay..." We could never have guessed what was about to happen. Our backers took to the internet, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Everywhere and... (Read More)

It’s a famous computer RPG extravaganza this week! First, we have a spiritual sequel to Planescape: Torment with Torment: Tides of Numenera. It’s not an actual sequel to Planescape: Torment since they couldn’t get the rights, but it has many of the same staff members and takes place in a similar but original setting (intersection between various planes). The kickstarter set a new record for fastest kickstarter to reach $1 million in around 8 hours. It’s currently at $2.1 million so it has a good shot at breaking the all-time record for most money raised in a game software kickstarter (currently held by Project Eternity with just under $4 million). (Read More)

Just 3 more things :) Thing 1: In last few hours of this Kickstarter we had one more idea for a backer reward. This one will allow someone to create an object that will become part of the main game. This could be a deadly obstacle, an... (Read More)

Lots of crazy things are happing all at once, but I wanted to share a few: Thing 1: We had a blast yesterday taking requests and making things with the World Creator. The power of this tool is even surprising us :) Checkout the latest creations here:... (Read More)

Hello Friends! Just a super short update to let you know that we will be live on-air with the Simplex World Creator at 9:30AM (Central Time US) at this address: http://www.twitch.tv/aeornflippout Aaron will attempt to make Paul, Dermott,... (Read More)

Hi Everyone! We just added a new backer reward called "THE DEADLY OBJECT". We thought it'd be cool to let our backers name one of the deadly objects in Race the Sun. The names you give will become part of each player's epitaph when they die by your... (Read More)

Aaron San Filippo is an indie game developer. More importantly, he’s a nice guy. He gives a lot back to the community, writing articles and doing interviews, and he’s always been polite and positive in Twitter or email conversation. We’d all be better off with more people like him. He and his brother are making a game. This game is called Race The Sun, which takes the endless action of games like Cube Runner and cranks the speed up to a ridiculous degree. And yet, their Kickstarter is failing. (Read More)

There haven’t been any ‘losers’ in the Katchup for a while, partly because projects that are moving very slowly tend to be removed before they run out of time, and partly because there haven’t been quite as many small projects to cover. The list of ‘players’ is increasing rapidly though and even though the first comment will undoubtedly be from somebody reminded me of a game that I’ve missed, there are plenty of things to see. However, the influx of new entrants is balanced somewhat by this week’s losers. One is a small, surreal project, the other is a grander and more direct proposition. The creators of both have vowed to continue their work in some form. (Read More)

Hi Friends! Just a quick update to let you know that we've added SamCube's beautiful poster as an À la carte option. If you would like to add that to your rewards just increase your pledge amount by $25 to cover the poster and add shipping: $0... (Read More)

Ever since we updated our Kickstarter video we have seen a huge upswing in backing support and interest - this thing is blowing up! Thank you all for tweeting and "liking" us. Kickstarter stats are showing that social media has become our biggest... (Read More)

Several projects are either on the brink of the precipice of funding failure, or in a prolonged mid-term slump. It’s enough to make a man pre-emptively proclaim the Kickstarter craze dead and buried, but if that same man then casts an eye over the promising new projects and remembers successes and shortfalls of the past, he may well decide to cancel the obituaries, at least for now, and simply play some prototypes instead. (Read More)

Two contrasting success stories this week. Dreamfall Chapters didn’t need a full week to reach its target and come the morning, the first stretch goal will almost certainly have been reached, adding Mac and Linux support. Unwritten needed almost every second to reach its goal but did cross the finishing line with a tremendous amount of support in its final days. (Read More)

In terms of anticipation and dollars pledged, this has been the week of Dreamfall Chapters but you already knew about that one, right? The Katchup concerns itself with all Kreatures, great and small, and there are plenty of newcomers this week, including Tom Hall’s keen platforming tools, Projects Awakened and Cornerstone, the mad and possibly brilliant Ritual Dementia and gorgeous light-speed drifter, Race The Sun. Some projects are teetering on the brink of failure but, as we have seen with the adventure game in the past, any news reports of Kickstarter’s death are entirely premature. (Read More)

Race The Sun could be described as a mashup of Star Fox and Temple Run - an arcade-style endless Racer for PC/Mac. Now Flippfly is looking for some Kickstarter support to add some deeper community-oriented features. (Read More)