Crowd-funded Role-playing Game Round-up, Continued

It seems that nobody’s wallet is safe from crowd-funding influences these days, as just about every role-playing project you can think of is permeating both Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Here are some more that are calling for your pledges:

HEX MMO Trading Card Game
From the team that brings you the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, HEX combines the compelling collectible and strategic game play of a trading card game (TCG) with the amazing community and storytelling aspects of a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) to create an entirely new gaming experience: the MMO/TCG. We’ve come so far in pairing these two genres together, and we’re asking for your help to take us across the finish line.

OVA: The Anime Role-playing Game
OVA: The Anime Role-Playing Game is exactly what it says in the title, a tabletop RPG lovingly crafted to capture the diverse worlds of Japanese animation. Save the princess (or prince!) from a fire-breathing dragon, tackle invading squadrons of giant robots, or find true love amid campus hijinks everything you need is inside!

Arcana Rising
Arcana Rising is a modern-day urban fantasy role-playing game that posits a world where magic and the supernatural have awakened once more after millennia of slumber beneath the frozen ice of the Antarctic.

TinyKeep
TinyKeep is a 3D dungeon crawler for Windows and Mac, currently under development by programmer Phi Dinh. The game was originally inspired by classic roguelikes and RPGs such as Rogue, NetHack, Ultima IV, and boardgames like Hero Quest. Since it’s inception, the game has taken on a life of it’s own, dragged kicking and screaming into a new age – where terrifyingly intelligent monsters haunt the beautifully lit corridors of TinyKeep’s dungeons.

Holdfast: A Gamebook of Dwarven Vengeance
Holdfast is an adventure gamebook for Print, Android, Mac and PC, following in the tradition of the old ’80s and ’90s greats: Lone Wolf, Fighting Fantasy, Tolkien Quest and Fabled Lands. Taking up your ancestral weapons, you’ll choose your path to reclaim your homeland through orc-legions, hidden grudges, and nameless horrors from the Deeps. You will delve, expand your fortress and confront a mighty army, if you have the mettle it takes to hold the realms of old.

C-Wars: Roguelike Pixel Art PC Game
What happens when Cyberpunk apocalypse roguelike meets RTS in pixel art? C-Wars! C-Wars is a roguelike game. Its gameplay allows you to explore this cyberpunk apocalypse in your own way. Roguelike is retro but not old fashioned, especially when embedded with an original combat system.

Stonehearth
Stonehearth is a game about exploration and survival in an epic fantasy setting. Your job is to help a small group of settlers survive and carve out a place for themselves in a hostile land. You’ll need to establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

TUG
TUG sits at the crossroads where survival sandbox and multiplayer RPG’s meet, offering both elegant simplicity and a world of complex secrets for those who desire to seek them out. From freezing snow capped mountains to dark dreary caves, TUG offers a massive procedurally-generated world to explore, full of mystery and danger — but what makes TUG truly unique is its ability to help us learn what you as players enjoy about the game, and to use your interactions to make an amazing world even better.

Ghost of a Tale
Among the inspirations I could quote Disney’s “Robin Hood”, the fables of La Fontaine, “Redwall”, “Winnie the Pooh”, “The Secret of Nimh”, “The Dark Crystal”, the paintings of Alan Lee, John Howe, Paul Bonner, John Bauer, and many, many others… Game-wise the inspirations could be found in the early “Zelda” games, “Ico”, the “Gothic” series and “Dark Souls”. Of course those are mere inspirations; this project can obviously not expect to compete on equal footing with those amazing games.

Face of Mankind: Fall of the Dominion
Ten years ago, Duplex Systems created a game meant to challenge the status quo, redefining what an MMO should and should not be. It was a game built around the concept of player interaction and freedom, owing its limitless potential to the imaginations and passions of the players. Now, Nexeon Technologies aims to take this to the next level, creating something even greater. We have come to Kickstarter in hope that all of you will be able to help us create a game unlike any other.

Lex Laser Saves the Galaxy, Again
A tactical puzzle RPG designed for busy people. We’re building a team of MIT Game Lab alums to turn this prototype into a game worth your precious time. With your help, we will release Lex Laser Saves The Galaxy, Again on Linux, Mac, and Windows in the first half of 2014.