I stick around the Indie Game scene mostly for the potential. As much as I love to game, I like the prospect of new cool games the most. So, I thought it would be sweet to highlight some potentially awesome games that are currently in production. And what better place to find games made by serious game developers than the newly launched site www.8bitfunding.com? By serious, I certainly don’t mean that the developers themselves are serious, as is plainly demonstrated by Gorilla Tactics who made this weeks featured game Kung Fu Kingdom.

So what’s so cool about Kung Fu Kingdom? Well, it has stuff that I like. That’s a good reason, right?

Kung Fu Kingdom is an RTS. However, unlike most RTS’s that require some serious micro to play well, KFK lets you draw up what needs doing, and all your minions do the nitty-gritty work. This is why I liked Darwinia so much, so it’s cool to see someone else putting a completely different spin on the concept of a Macro-Management RTS. MaMRTS? I guess that’s better than it being a MMOMaMRTS, or rather a Massively-Multiplayer Online Macro Management Real Time Strategy… but I digest.

It’s dynamically generated, so you can play it as many times as you want, and never worry about playing the same level twice. Small package with lots of potential. Add to that that some items from your previous campaign get used again at the beginning of a new campaign, and you have a game with limitless amounts of replayability. Very cool.

It’s coming to Mac and iPad! The iPad’s cool, and the new Mac App Store is cool. It’s giving lots of Indie Devs a really good opportunity to reach tons of people. I believe that Indie Games need exposure more than they need to make money right in the beginning, so it’s nice to see that they have a plan to reach a broad audience.

I can get my name and/or a character modeled to look like me in game as a perk for funding their project. I enjoy pwning noobs, even vicariously through the AI. Lastly, I watched their 8 Bit Funding video, and he said that I was his friend… several times! It’s the little things that count.

With a reasonably requested $3000 in 30 days, I figure I could do my part and help give this game a little bit more polish before it goes out the door to all those hungry gamers.

[8-Bit Funding, Kung-Fu Kingdom]