While the indies are getting a lot of press in the video game industry, the advent of Kickstarter has created a surge of independent developers and publishers. Michael Coe is one of those people who has taken a chance and had a huge hit on Kickstarter with Dungeon Heroes. Now his publishing company Gamelyn Games has put his latest game, Fantasy Frontier, up on Kickstarter.
In Fantasy Frontier, 2 to 4 players take control of a crew of airship pioneers! Players manage the actions of these pioneers each turn in an effort to scout the land, gather resources, construct townships, and even battle it out in aerial combat. Creating geographic patterns via tile placement, the players will develop a new world each time they play. Players compete to be the first to score the required number of victory points to win the game.
This sounds a lot like piloting the air ships in some of the Final Fantasy games. Being able to set up the game differently each time will definitely help the replayability of it. After being up for less than a day, the game already has over $5K of the $25K goal. While some of the Kickstarter projects have turned out to have issues, I have no doubts that Michael will be able to deliver.
While not working as a Database Administrator, Keith Schleicher has been associated with Gaming Trend since 2003. While his love of video games started with the Telestar Alpha (a pong console with four different games), he trule started playing video games when he received the ill-fated TI-99/4A. While the Speech Synthesizer seemed to be the height of gaming, eventually a 286 AT computer running at 8/12 Hz and a CGA monitor would be his outlet for a while. Eventually he’d graduate to 386, 486, Pentium, and Athlon systems, building some of those systems while doing some hardware reviews and attending Comdex. With the release of the Dreamcast that started his conversion to the console world. Since then he has acquired an NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, PSP, GBA-SP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Gamecube, Wii, Switch, and Oculus Quest 2. While not playing video games he enjoys bowling, reading, playing board games, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. He originally hails from Wisconsin but is now living in Michigan with his wife and sons.
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