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Nelly Cootalot is a traditional point-and-click adventure game where you play as a pirate on a quest to rescue a bunch of hypnotized birds from the clutches of evil Baron Widebeard. If you're a fan of Monkey Island, I'd highly suggest you give this a glance as it looks to have the same charm and humor.

They made a previous game (called Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy) that is freeware and they have a link to it on the project's front page.

I can't read German, but I think I get the idea.  We're looking at expanding the information for each project in the games page to include things like platforms supported and possibly if there's a "slacker backer" program still in effect.

Good news, everyone!  The blog is now officially live and includes not just news about Kickstarted adventure projects but also reviews, interviews, and other articles.  Come check it out and have fun.

http://www.kickstartadventure.com/home/

[http://spellirium.com/]

What do you get when you take a traditional point-and-click adventure game and add a liberal dose of Boggle to the mix? You get Spellirium, a fun looking blend of story and spelling game. Now, it's not on Kickstarter or Indigogo, but they instead created their own funding page.  Head on over to http://spellirium.com/ and check it out.

AR-K is a traditional sci-fi PnC adventure where you play as a journalism student who works to unravel a mystery behind the "Golden Sphere". And it comes with plenty of humor, if you're into that sort of thing. The first episode is free to download on their Web site.

Realm is a new adventure game Kickstarter set in a future where nature has reclaimed the land over the ruins of humanity. Play as Sarina and her stone golem companion Toru as they journey to find a cure to save her sick mother. It looks beautiful and you should check it out.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/995134339/the-realm-game

I'd like to announce that the Twitter feed is now live!

https://twitter.com/KS_Ventures

The blog should be up soon. I don't have a date, yet, though

Here's another good looking adventure game: A Small Favor by ClickShake Games. I loved their Reemus games and previous Small Favor games and I just had to back it. They're billing it as a 2D side-scrolling adventure and I'm hoping that it makes it.

A little bit of an update on the KickstartVenture front.  Broomie asked me if I would help out with posting updates and news for the FB page and upcoming blog, so you know you'll be kept up-to-date on the goings-on of projects past and future.

Excellent. Where is the blog going to be hosted?

I'm not privy that that information.  Broomie would be the one to announce the information when it's ready.  I'll let you know here when I know.

A little bit of an update on the KickstartVenture front.  Broomie asked me if I would help out with posting updates and news for the FB page and upcoming blog, so you know you'll be kept up-to-date on the goings-on of projects past and future.

You can also check out Broomie's facebook page he created for adventure games in Kickstarter

http://www.facebook.com/kickstartventuresblog

That is quite a nice tool to use for when you want to find an adventure game Kickstarter project.  You'll notice that I've been helping out with posting news, too.   

I've backed practically every adventure game Kickstarter since Leisure Suit Larry.  You want a list, here it is:

My KS Profile Page

All right.  I'll bite.  I already introduced myself in the backers section, but I'll talk briefly about myself here, too.  My name is Serena (yes, THAT Serena) and I'm from California.  I cut my teeth, so to speak, on adventure gaming through Infocom and their text adventures on my old Atari ST in the 80s.  I loved Zork and its ilk and they really helped my reading comprehension for such a young person (I was probably in elementary school when I shoved my first floppy in).  I very soon graduated to early Sierra and Lucasarts games, starting with King's Quest.  Space Quest soon followed suit and was the very first game that I bought with my own allowance money.  I even got "copies" of Leisure Suit Larry from a friend of my father's (along with a crapton of other adventures, both text and graphic).

I don't recall exactly how I stumbled upon it, but I eventually discovered Tierra and their King's Quest 1 & 2 remakes.  I really enjoyed the first one, but seeing such an expanded story in the second blew me away.  I fell in love with it right then and there.

2012 and 2013 are great years for adventure gaming fans like us.  This year we'll be seeing lots of beloved franchises return either as remakes, sequels, or spiritual successors.  Not to mention a bunch of other smaller indie games.  I'm glad to be a part of the AGRM and proud to be a "hero", bringing them back to a new generation.

An off-topic section, which should include other interesting Kickstarter projects, would be great to have.  Put me down as a +1 vote.

Yeah, I had problems with the whole "Roman alphabet" thing too. This was what went through my mind: "alpha, beta, gamma, delta...now is the next epsilon...I can't remember...oh, crap, that's Greek anyway...what the heck is the Roman alphabet?"

Glad to know that I'm not the only one who was thinking Greek at first, too.

It took me a couple minutes to realize what the answer was to that question, too.  I didn't have to Google it, but it was kind of confusing at first.

Congratz on such a great campaign.  I can't wait to see the finished product.

While the ports won't help me, I so want to see the Mac/Linux stretch goal make it.  I've gotten to know some awesome Linux gamers and I've supported their platform for months.

I'm holding out for the novelization.   

Hello all.  I'm really excited for Mage's Initiation and look forward to seeing it made.