I spy with my eye : DwarfCorp

What do you get when you mix Dwarf Fortress,A hint of Minecraft and a smidge of Dungeon Keeper?

Well you get a game called DwarfCorp.

I spotted this classy looking project over at kickstarter a few days ago, and I almost immediately threw my wallet at the screen.

It looks rather promising, the concept of it all is:

You are the regional manager of a "DwarfCorp" your job is to build up your outpost and mine all the shiny stuff you can, on a Unexplored Continent.

That might sound like an easy task right? I mean it's just telling your Dwarfs to mine to their hearts content?

Well you have to look out for the locals, Goblins really don't like Dwarfs, and neither do MoleMen or small Devils.

Oh and other Dwarf Corporations don't take kindly to anyone else setting up shop in the vicinty, oh and since your the regional manager, well the bane of your existence is  as always: The suits. 

You need to keep the shareholders happy, as well as the "bigwigs".

You accomplish all this by simply mining for shiny stuff, and sending it back to the Dwarven motherland.

"Your" Dwarf Corp will send you quotas to match every now and then, and if you fill the quota, good the shareholders and bigwigs are pleased with your work, if you fail, well the stock price will fall, and if you fail to produce a profit and fill the quotas one to many times, the bigwigs will pull the plug.

I never liked shareholders

Now I mentioned Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft and Dungenon keeper at the start, well as they say, a picture says more than a thousand words.

Everyone needs to start out small, with just a mine entrance and a stockpile for the shinys.

The Dungeon master in me will probably want to slap the dwarfs around a bit.

 

You can find the Kickstarter over Here

They are looking for 20.000$ to get the project funded, and the first stretch goal at  25.000$ is a Linux+Mac version!

At the time of writing we are already at  14.204$ with 23 days left to go of the Campaign.

And before I forget to mention it, they have a pre-alpha prototype that's playable , which you can get without even backing a single gold lump. (But come on, you really should throw all your gold lumps at this) 

You can find the prototype over at the games homepage over Here

Now I shall scurry on over to the unexplored continent, and see which kind of shiny's I can find!

Satellite Reign is in the final stretch on Kickstarter

 The spiritual successor to Syndicate Wars, Satellite Reign needs a bump.

Somehow I'd managed to completley miss that this campaing was even going on.

Satellite Reign is quite literally the spiritual successor to the good old game Syndicate Wars 

The kickstarter campaing has about 5 days left, and at the time of writing, It's sitting at £318,253 out of the  £350,000 goal.

The game is being made by the creator of the old Syndicate Wars, Mike Diskett, who was, as many others, not so pleased when the new "Syndicate" got released last year.

Since they took a good old Top down tactical game, and made it into a Scfi FPS.

In my opinion EA did it for the usual reasons "Because of money" they probably wanted to try and cash in on the success of the new Deus Ex game

Either way Mike Diskett wants to make a true spiritual successor, and recently released a in-engine gameplay "visualization"  as can be seen below.

I'll try and throw my money at the screen as soon as my bills are paid, and hopefully Satellite Reign can meet it's goal in the 5 days that are left, and we can get a "new" and amazing game!

And here is the Kickstarter link for this amazing looking project.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-reign

The Mega-corporations of the future will gladly relive you of your funds