The Xeko team along with a group of endangered animals took to the San Francisco streets this past weekend to raise awareness. Join the effort and help spread the link. If you’re feeling giving, contribute! Just one week left to back on Kickstarter – pledge deadline: July 21, 10am EST.
Join paws and sign the petition: http://extinctionpetition.org
Great interview with Ripten and Amy. Read the full article here >>
Kickstarter offers an exciting avenue for getting “organic content” to market. Organic content being media that’s delicious, high quality, and enriching.
Below are a handful of “organic media” game projects, currently open on Kickstarter, that we love. If you know other great games looking for backers, please post a comment & we’ll add them to the list.
Open Kickstarter Game Projects (Listed alphabetically)
Alaska Predator Research Expedition
A scientific Alaskan expedition to study predators and other wildlife.
iZhongWen
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1443797378/izhongwen-making-learning-mandarin-chinese-fun?ref=li
Making learning Mandarin Chinese fun!
Kicked Out!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kicked-out/kicked-out?ref=live
Kicked Out is an addictive Facebook game that trains financial literacy skills!
Level 1 Science Kit
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1725516411/level-1-science-kit?ref=live
Excite more children about science at an early age to increase their likelihood of studying science or related fields in college or university.
The Numpties
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelgalvin/launching-the-numpties-game?ref=live
Help children learn in a fun and captivating way through games.
TIN
A dice and word board game. Meld elements. Refine words.
Xeko
http://kickstarter.com/projects/xeko/xeko
Hopefully you know this one! An award-winning endangered animal trading card game that’s re-launching for online, social and mobile media.
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Consider supporting all of these projects — every “like” + backer + dollar makes a difference. Know of other great projects on Kickstarter? Post a suggestion via comments. Have fun!
We have heard from sooooooo many players of Xeko Island that we have finally decided to bring back the island, if we meet these stretch goals!
If we can get to $350,000, then we will bring back a new version of the Virtual Endangered Animal adoption game. Players adopt an animal, take care of it, and release it into the virtual wild. The animals will be based on the beautiful animals from the Xeko TCG and the lost Xeko Island.
If we can get to $475,000, then we will bring back the entire Island! The technology needs updating, but so many players requested the Island’s return that we’re putting it out there: if we meet this goal, we’ll bring back the lost Xeko Island.
Click to learn more about the Xeko Kickstarter proejct & become backer!
Happy Friday!!!! Today we, along with Double Fine, received a SUPER LOVELY writeup on GamerPops (be sure to like, tweet and share the link!) which reminded me of another reason for making Xeko: the need for more organic entertainment (as in delicious, nutritious & high quality). Media is both BRAIN FOOD and SOUL FOOD and currently, we are in a JUNK FOOD world. Blech!
Confession: I enjoy the occasional People and Tatler (don’t tell — only when getting a hair cut, of course…) and Hob Nobs, Swedish fish and extra-crispy french fries. I GET the appeal. What is it they say about moderation, hmm?
Having just returned from E3, in addition to being completely inspired by meeting Tim Schafer (w00t!) I was struck by the amount of blood-and-gore-world-destruction games and dearth of creative-inspiring-world-building games.
I know I’m speaking to the choir on this front, or you wouldn’t be reading this update. However the reality is that blood & gore are easy hooks, first-person shooters make $100′s of millions, and game publishers are risk adverse. So that’s the content that makes it to the marketplace and public at large. It takes time and care to find ‘organic content,’ and most people are too busy or don’t have the means.
Kickstarter is one avenue for getting more BRIGHT content into the world. That’s one of the reasons we love this platform for funding Xeko.
But we can’t do it without your help.
If you agree the world needs more ENGAGING, INSPIRING & RATED-G-FOR-WORLD-CHANGING-GOOD games, give Xeko some backer love and help get out the word to like-minded folks.
Kickstart Xeko Today!
YOUR MISSION: Invite a friend (or 3 or 10!) to check out Xeko on Kickstarter and help us grow the Xeko Backer Agent Network. As a special thank you, I will mail you a signed card from my personal collection, if you get two new friends to back Xeko at any level. (Limit first 50.) Just email me, amy [at] xeko.com, with your address and the names of the backers that you referred.
PLEASE – flood my email with new backers! I would like NOTHING better than to get writer’s cramp from signing all of those cards!!! If I run out of cards I will FIND MORE.
S’all for now — have a wonderful weekend & thanks for your support!
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Amy
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http://kck.st/hfdg
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