Kickstart This Shizz: Battle City - A Pokémon Inspired Art Show Our friends over at PKMNCast.com have launched a Kickstarter campaign for a follow-up to their popular 649 Monsters art show. This new show, Battle City, will feature over 100 artists from around the world and the backer incentives include sweet deals like art prints, and even a hardcover book featuring every piece from the show complete with artist bios. Campaign video below: They’ve already murdered their $2,000 goal by pulling in over $7,000, but there’s still 24 days left to unlock some of the stretch goals. Kickstart this shizz here.

Kickstart This Shizz: Battle City - A Pokémon Inspired Art Show

Our friends over at PKMNCast.com have launched a Kickstarter campaign for a follow-up to their popular 649 Monsters art show. This new show, Battle City, will feature over 100 artists from around the world and the backer incentives include sweet deals like art prints, and even a hardcover book featuring every piece from the show complete with artist bios.

Campaign video below:

They’ve already murdered their $2,000 goal by pulling in over $7,000, but there’s still 24 days left to unlock some of the stretch goals. Kickstart this shizz here.

Kickstart This Shizz: Papa Behr

Papa Behr is a desktop companion in the form of a cybernetic samurai bear with magnetic armor and sword accessories. He’s also a USB drive.

The creators have already met their $20,000 goal on Kickstarter with an impressive 33 days left to go, but feel free to keep the donations rolling and score some of the sweet incentives!

Kickstart it HERE.

WE ARE LAUNCHING A KICKSTARTER!!! We’re launching a Kickstarter on March 1st to make this site fresher, radder, more… adequate. We want to film a regular series of minidocumentaries about passionate people creating fantastic things. We want to finally be able to afford travelling to all the press events we get invited to. We want to bring you video interviews with your favorite actors, directors, cartoon creators, game developers and more. In a nutshell, we want to bring you more of the fresh content that brought you here in the first place, only on a much LARGER scale. Not only that, but we want to turn this site into a legitimate business - a full-blown brand. Original videos, podcasts, livestreams, t-shirts, stickers, convention booths, the whole 9 yards. Our goal is gonna’ be pretty big, but with over 120,000 Tumblr followers and around 1,000 new followers every day, we’re pretty sure we can make it happen. A project like this takes way more to finance than the site makes from ads in a month (which is about enough to buy a used sports game if we’re lucky). So far we have some pretty amazing incentives planned. Check it. PC/tablet/smartphone wallpaper pack with a buttload of wallpapers designed by some insanely talented artists like Byron Buslig, Maré Odomo, Erick Scarecrow, and former editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly/founder of Shawnimals, Shawn Smith! An Albotas Papercraft figure designed by Mekazoo A compilation of exclusive chiptune tracks by swell dudes like Ro-Bear and a bonus track by DJ Cutman A hardcover book featuring some of our favorite Daily Graffiti pix from over the years A hardcover book featuring some of our favorite geeky custom toys we’ve featured over the years An exclusive resin figure of our Albotapus mascot produce by Shinbone Creative We’ve been hard at work planning this project for close to three months now and we’d really like to see all the effort we’ve put into this site over the years pay off. This is our chance to create something truly unique and shine a spotlight on creators and projects that would otherwise go unnoticed. This is our chance to bring all corners of geek culture and creativity into one place like never before. If you are an artist, brand, or chipmusician who would like to be involved with our Kickstarter backer incentives, please email brownkidd@albotas. It would mean the world to us if you’d kindly share this post with your friends and loved ones through Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Thanks and stay awesome,Robby “brownkidd” Weiss

WE ARE LAUNCHING A KICKSTARTER!!!

We’re launching a Kickstarter on March 1st to make this site fresher, radder, more… adequate. We want to film a regular series of minidocumentaries about passionate people creating fantastic things. We want to finally be able to afford travelling to all the press events we get invited to. We want to bring you video interviews with your favorite actors, directors, cartoon creators, game developers and more.

In a nutshell, we want to bring you more of the fresh content that brought you here in the first place, only on a much LARGER scale.

Not only that, but we want to turn this site into a legitimate business - a full-blown brand. Original videos, podcasts, livestreams, t-shirts, stickers, convention booths, the whole 9 yards.

Our goal is gonna’ be pretty big, but with over 120,000 Tumblr followers and around 1,000 new followers every day, we’re pretty sure we can make it happen. A project like this takes way more to finance than the site makes from ads in a month (which is about enough to buy a used sports game if we’re lucky).

So far we have some pretty amazing incentives planned. Check it.

  • PC/tablet/smartphone wallpaper pack with a buttload of wallpapers designed by some insanely talented artists like Byron Buslig, Maré Odomo, Erick Scarecrow, and former editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly/founder of Shawnimals, Shawn Smith!
  • An Albotas Papercraft figure designed by Mekazoo
  • A compilation of exclusive chiptune tracks by swell dudes like Ro-Bear and a bonus track by DJ Cutman
  • A hardcover book featuring some of our favorite Daily Graffiti pix from over the years
  • A hardcover book featuring some of our favorite geeky custom toys we’ve featured over the years
  • An exclusive resin figure of our Albotapus mascot produce by Shinbone Creative

We’ve been hard at work planning this project for close to three months now and we’d really like to see all the effort we’ve put into this site over the years pay off. This is our chance to create something truly unique and shine a spotlight on creators and projects that would otherwise go unnoticed. This is our chance to bring all corners of geek culture and creativity into one place like never before.

If you are an artist, brand, or chipmusician who would like to be involved with our Kickstarter backer incentives, please email brownkidd@albotas.

It would mean the world to us if you’d kindly share this post with your friends and loved ones through Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.

Thanks and stay awesome,
Robby “brownkidd” Weiss

Kickstart This Shizz: Mario Warfare Mario Warfare is a fan-made YouTube series set in the Mushroom Kingdom by Beat Down Boogie for the Call of Duty generation of gamers. They’ve already surpassed their $20,000 goal and made $27,750, but there’s still six days left to support them even more. Each episode involves enormous amounts of time and money, so they need all the help they can get. Here’s the official Kickstarter page. And if you need a better reason to donate, check out the first two episodes of Mario Warfare below. Mario Warfare Part 1. Mario Warfare Part 2.

Kickstart This Shizz: Mario Warfare

Mario Warfare is a fan-made YouTube series set in the Mushroom Kingdom by Beat Down Boogie for the Call of Duty generation of gamers. They’ve already surpassed their $20,000 goal and made $27,750, but there’s still six days left to support them even more. Each episode involves enormous amounts of time and money, so they need all the help they can get. Here’s the official Kickstarter page.

And if you need a better reason to donate, check out the first two episodes of Mario Warfare below.

Mario Warfare Part 1.

Mario Warfare Part 2.

Kickstart This Shizz: GameStick - The Ultra-Portable $79 Gaming Console PlayJam, the makers of casual and social games for Smart TV, have officially launched the Kickstarter page in support of their Android-based GameStick project. Upon launch, GameStick users will have access to an online store where smaller game developers will be able to make their games available to play on televisions across the world, free from the obstacles associated with getting their games hosted through PSN or Xbox LIVE Arcade. Check out the video below to see the GameStick in action. Between this and the Ouya, the home console gaming landscape seems to bee changing rather quickly. What do you guys think?

Kickstart This Shizz: GameStick - The Ultra-Portable $79 Gaming Console

PlayJam, the makers of casual and social games for Smart TV, have officially launched the Kickstarter page in support of their Android-based GameStick project. Upon launch, GameStick users will have access to an online store where smaller game developers will be able to make their games available to play on televisions across the world, free from the obstacles associated with getting their games hosted through PSN or Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Check out the video below to see the GameStick in action.

Between this and the Ouya, the home console gaming landscape seems to bee changing rather quickly. What do you guys think?

Kickstart This Shizz: LA Game Space

For the past few decades video games have challenged us, inspired us, brought us together, and, most of all, made us feel something. 

LA Game Space aims to serve as sort of a headquarters for experimental (a.k.a. “indie”) game design by hosting exhibitions, workshops, artist residencies for budding game developers, talks from guest speakers, and research labs.

There’s also some pretty huge names attached to this project like Adam Robezzoi (Attract Mode), Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time), Ben Esposito (Unfinished Swan), Chris Osborn (Bit.Trip Series), Eric Nakamura (Giant Robot), and more. 

This is a chance for us give back and help push the medium forward. The project is up on Kickstarter with a goal of $250,000. You can get a whopping 30 new games from top indie developers for only $15, and the incentives just get better from there.

Check out the official Kickstarter page for more: LA Game Space: A Place for Re-Imagining Video Games

Seven Hours Left To Back The OUYA Gaming Console On Kickstarter

In case you’ve been living under a rock, OUYA is the Android-based, open platform gaming console that set out to earn $950,000 on Kickstarter and blew that goal out of the water by raking in over $8M. If you’d like to give them an extra push, the Kickstarter campaign ends today.

Kickstart This Shizz: GameDock Turns Your iDevice Into A Full-Fledged Retro Gaming Console

The GameDock aims to combine the more tactile controls of the iCade with the TV connectivity of a home console. This right here, this is the future of gaming, dudes. One device that can be played on the go or hooked up to a TV for maximum gameage. It also supports all the same games as the iCade, which is A LOT, so yeah.

So far, the GameDock has made almost $11,000 of its $50,000 goal and there’s 45 days left to turn it into a real thing that I can skip work and play with my buds.

Kickstart this shizz NOW!

(via Engadget)

Kickstart This Shizz: Help Gus Fink and Emi Boz Make The World A Cooler Place

Gus Fnk and Emi Boz are two passionate artists who make cool things and want to share those cool things with the world. They have prototypes for all kinds of read stuff like bags, apparel, plushies, apps, and more, but they need some Kickstarting to mass produce their awesomeness so it can get in the hands of cool kids like you all across the planet.

Go forth and Kickstart.

(via Plastic and Plush)

Super Mario Bros. Game Made from a Shoe Box

This was made using a handy little thingamajig called Teagueduino which is “an open source electronic board and interface that allows you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code, while teaching you the ropes of programming and embedded development (like arduino). Teagueduino is designed to help you discover your inner techno-geek and embrace the awesomeness of making things in realtime — even if you’ve only ever programmed your VCR.”

It’s basically like a more advanced, real life version of LittleBig Planet’s level creator.

Learn more about Teagueduino and help fund the project over on Kickstarter.

(via geeks are sexy)

Kickstart This Shit: Venus Patrol, a New Gaming Site from the Former Editor of Offworld

Remember when Boing Boing had Offworld, that kick-ass video game culture site from 2008 - 2009, but then it just sort of died? Well, former Offworld Editor Brandon Boyer wants to bring back that retro/indie/artsy/geeky flavor with a new site called Venus Patrol. Head on over to Kickstarter pronto and support this shizz.

Kickstart This Shit! Indie Game: The Movie.

Indie Game: The Movie is a documentary about the hardships and triumphs that come along with being an indie game developer. It features some pretty big names in the indie gaming scene like Edmund McMillen & Tommy Refenes (Super Meat Boy), Phil Fish (Fez), and Jonathan Blow (Braid).

If you’re digging the trailer, support James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot of BlinkWorks by helping them out on Kickstarter.

Thanks to Jason from Fist Full of Potions for the tip!

(Source: youtube.com)

Help Kickstart the OMFG! Series 1 toys on Kickstarter!

The dudes from October Toys/Toy Break want to make a cool line of collectible mini figures that are a throwback to figures like Monster In My Pocket and M.U.S.C.L.E., but they need YOUR help!

They’re currently at over $6,000 of their $11,000 goal and there’s still 56 days to go. There’s some cool perks and freebies for helping kickstart the project, so go check out the details over on Kickstarter and give these guys a hand!

Vigilante Vigilante - A Documentary On Anti-Graffiti Vigilantes.

Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle For Expression is looking for donations on Kickstarter.com. With 13 days left to make their goal of $8,000, they’re currently at almost $3,000.

A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante. These dedicated blight warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters. Many of these vigilantes have become the very menace they want to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they’ve turned to illegally and destructively painting other people’s property. VIGILANTE VIGILANTE is the story of two filmmakers who set out to expose these mysterious characters and discover a battle of expression that stretches from the streets to academia.

[Via Laughing Squid]

The MORE/REAL cap turns any Sharpie, Bic, or Pilot Fineliner into a stylus for your iPad, iPhone, or any other capacitive touchscreen device. The project is currently being funded through Kickstarter and is already close to meeting its $15,000 goal. Perfect for people who aren’t Jim Lee.

The MORE/REAL cap turns any Sharpie, Bic, or Pilot Fineliner into a stylus for your iPad, iPhone, or any other capacitive touchscreen device. The project is currently being funded through Kickstarter and is already close to meeting its $15,000 goal.

Perfect for people who aren’t Jim Lee.

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