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Adrian Hon

London, United Kingdom

I'm the co-founder and Chief Creative at Six to Start, a games company that creates next-generation stories; plus I write about technology for The Telegraph. Previously, I was a neuroscientist at Cambridge, Oxford, and UCSD, and author of a NASA award-winning website on astrobiology. And I spoke at TED about Mars exploration.

  1. Word Realms by Asymmetric

    A roleplaying video game where words CAN hurt you.

    • 47% funded $47,280 pledged
    • 1,192 backers
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    Tour for GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS, a Lo-fi Sci-fi Feature by Jim Munroe

    If you buy our completed mockumentary now, we can go to different cities to start discussions about the future. And giant spiders.

    • 399% funded $19,999 pledged
    • 820 backers
    • Funded May 18, 2012
  3. Drifter: A Space Trading Game by Celsius Game Studios

    Drifter is a sandbox space trading game with thousands of stars for you to explore. You can be a trader, a mercenary, or even a pirate!

    • 107% funded $53,519 pledged
    • 1,956 backers
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    Flint and Tinder: Premium Men's Underwear by Jake Bronstein

    Luxuriously rugged yet refined Premium Men’s Underwear; Sparking a revolution in American Manufacturing the old fashioned way.

    • 971% funded $291,493 pledged
    • 5,578 backers
    • Funded May 22, 2012
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    Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology

    Pebble is a customizable watch. Download new watchfaces, use sports and fitness apps, get notifications from your phone.

    • 10,266% funded $10,266,845 pledged
    • 68,929 backers
    • Funded May 18, 2012
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    Shadowrun Returns by Harebrained Schemes LLC

    Shadowrun Returns brings back one of our most original & cherished game settings as a 2D turn-based RPG for tablets & PC.

    • 459% funded $1,836,447 pledged
    • 36,276 backers
    • Funded Apr 29, 2012
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    The Banner Saga by Stoic

    A mature, story-driven, turn-based strategy game steeped in viking culture, by three game industry veterans.

    • 723% funded $723,886 pledged
    • 20,042 backers
    • Funded Apr 20, 2012
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    Wasteland 2 by inXile entertainment

    Wasteland 2 is a sequel to the amazingly popular 1988 RPG Wasteland and the post-apocalyptic predecessor to the Fallout Series.

    • 325% funded $2,933,252 pledged
    • 61,290 backers
    • Funded Apr 17, 2012
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    FTL: Faster Than Light by FTL Team

    FTL is a spaceship simulation roguelike-like. Its aim is to recreate the atmosphere of running a spaceship exploring the galaxy.

    • 2,005% funded $200,542 pledged
    • 9,818 backers
    • Funded Apr 01, 2012
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    MATTER by Matter

    The world is full of big stories. We don't want them to go missing.

    • 280% funded $140,201 pledged
    • 2,566 backers
    • Funded Mar 24, 2012
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    Double Fine Adventure by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions

    An adventure game from Tim Schafer, Double Fine, and YOU!

    • 834% funded $3,336,371 pledged
    • 87,142 backers
    • Funded Mar 13, 2012
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    Guns of Icarus Online by Muse Games

    Captain a steampunk airship and fly with your friends in this thrilling MMO air combat game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

    • 352% funded $35,237 pledged
    • 1,211 backers
    • Funded Feb 21, 2012
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    The Last Sleeper - Episode 1 by Kendall Deacon Davis

    An interactive story from the makers of Halo, Lord of the Rings, How to Train Your Dragon, and God of War.

    • 159% funded $15,940 pledged
    • 359 backers
    • Funded Jan 14, 2012
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    Newsmotion by Newsmotion.org

    Newsmotion is a civic media, public art and documentary storytelling initiative.

    • 118% funded $41,338 pledged
    • 568 backers
    • Funded Dec 29, 2011
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    Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical

    A wireless square with sensors and a simple web app to set rules, Twine tells you what your things are doing by email, text or Twitter.

    • 1,590% funded $556,541 pledged
    • 3,966 backers
    • Funded Jan 03, 2012
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    Improv Everywhere Film by Matt & Andrew

    Feature-length documentary film which chronicles how a group of New York comedians started a cultural phenomenon.

    • 100% funded $126,220 pledged
    • 1,675 backers
    • Funded Jan 20, 2012
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    The Written World by The Written World

    The Written World is a multiplayer storytelling game that lives on the internet.

    • 104% funded $18,272 pledged
    • 300 backers
    • Funded Jan 20, 2012
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    C 299,792 km/s by Derek Van Gorder and Otto Stockmeier

    A visually stunning, compelling sci-fi short film about interstellar colonization, meticulously shot with retro filmmaking techniques.

    • 200% funded $37,317 pledged
    • 1,198 backers
    • Funded Dec 26, 2011
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    Against the Wall by Michael P. Consoli

    Journey through a dangerous and strange world where everything exists on the side of an infinite brick wall.

    • 129% funded $8,416 pledged
    • 348 backers
    • Funded Dec 04, 2011
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    Genegrafter by Erik Dahlman

    A superhero themed card and dice game designed to be easy to learn but hard to master.

    • 584% funded $14,617 pledged
    • 274 backers
    • Funded Jan 20, 2012
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    The Exo Typeface Family by Natanael Gama

    Exo is a geometric sans font family with 9 weights and full OpenType features. I want to make it available to all designers.

    • 104% funded $7,855 pledged
    • 141 backers
    • Funded Dec 26, 2011
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    Shiva's Mother (A Story) by Andrea Phillips

    A bleak, emotional short story about science and parenthood.

    • 246% funded $616 pledged
    • 25 backers
    • Funded Oct 28, 2011
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    Teleportraiture by Janet

    Teleportraiture is a series of oil portraits of kickstarter backers, painted from remote videochat sittings.

    • 147% funded $7,387 pledged
    • 71 backers
    • Funded Oct 12, 2011
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    Video Game High School by Freddie Wong

    An action/comedy series about surviving high school, fitting in, and landing that perfect head shot.

    • 364% funded $273,725 pledged
    • 5,661 backers
    • Funded Oct 22, 2011
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    Lifeless Planet: A New Cinematic Sci-Fi Adventure Game by David Board

    Intriguing story and spectacular environments in the spirit of classic adventures like ICO, The Dig, and Another World.

    • 202% funded $17,236 pledged
    • 641 backers
    • Funded Oct 24, 2011