Venus Patrol / Offworld [Games]

Our good friend Brandon Boyer, Offworld.com editor and IGF Chairman, has just launched a campaign on Kickstarter for VENUS PATROL, his upcoming successor to the Offworld. Within 5 days the campaign has reached the target but Brandon needs all the support he can get. The larger story is that a ton of amazing people have given their time & talent over to giving away some super incredible stuff for people who donate which include an exclusive wallpaper painted by KATAMARI DAMACY & NOBY NOBY BOY + MINECRAFT character skins from Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time ((1$ donation only!), new games exclusive to the Kickstarter by CANABALT creator Adam Saltsman + RADICAL FISHING/SUPER CRATE BOX creators Vlambeer ($25!!), a new SWORD & SWORCERY 7″ EP + so much more for $75….and the list goes on!

Don’t miss this, only 23 days to go!

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Hi, I’m Brandon. I ran a blog about videogames called Offworld for Boing Boing from winter 2008 through autumn 2009, and doing so changed my life forever. It wasn’t the first time I’d written about videogames ‘professionally’, but it was the first time that doing so started to make me feel like part of a bigger and entirely amazing community. A community of artists, musicians, designers, coders, nearly all of whom had taken the terrifying risk of jumping out of the rat race and trying to live life on their own terms: by creating things they know only they can create and trying to find an appreciative audience who might support them.. read more…