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New Android game uses a smart vibrator as a controller
A new Android game uses a bio-sensing vibrator as a controller.
The Lioness 2 vibrator adds AI-assisted orgasms to its feature set
In 2018, the Lioness Generation 1 vibrator promised to improve users' orgasms through detailed data collection. Two years later, Lioness has unveiled the Generation 2, a new vibrator that implements more than 30,000 climactic data points to deliver AI-driven guidance on your own experience.
Artgasm turns the female orgasm into a literal work of art
The female orgasm can be elusive, but at CES 2018, sexual-health startup Lioness managed to capture and immortalize them as works of art. The art is based on information gleaned from volunteers who have used its $229 bio-sensing vibrator, which started shipping in August. The mini exhibit was in Las Vegas to drum up awareness for both the Lioness brand and women's sexual-health issues, particularly how we orgasm. It was shown in a limited preview last year at the Mothership music festival, and Lioness hopes to eventually add more pieces and take the exhibit to galleries all over the country.
Crowdfund Bookie, August 4 - 10: Warmachine Tactics, Organic Panic
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. This week in crowdfunding, the Kickstarter campaigns for Warmachine: Tactics, Organic Panic, Gettysburg: The Tide Turns, Lioness, Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly, Deus Ex Machina 2: Reboot, Yargis and Ghost Encounters: Deadwood ended. Warmachine: Tactics, a turn-based tactics game for PC and Mac based on the Warmachines tabletop game, earned the most money this week ($1,578,950), and had the most funders of the group, as 19,829 people backed the game. Space arcade game Yargis had the highest average pledge per person, with each funder averaging $275.05, thanks to one brave backer in particular that ponied up over $5,000. Check out the week's results and our fancy charts after the break.
Lioness gets funded on Kickstarter with over 3 weeks to go, refuses stretch goals
Zak Ayles and Phillip Lanzbom's PC adventure game Lioness recently received funding on Kickstarter, reaching its $7,000 goal with over three weeks to go in its campaign. Typically, this is the part where creators add stretch goals to the project, pushing the funding, and the game itself, far beyond its initial scope. In a July 11 update, the developers described why that will not be the case for Lioness. "We disagree with the idea that there's any direct correlation between quality and scope in a project like this," the duo wrote. "When you force a game or film past its own scope and design it just begins to cannibalize its own narrative and vision by stretching it until it breaks." Also known as Lionheart Drive, the game is an "experimental adventure game about human connection" where players control freelance journalist Eggert Kirby, seeking information on seven missing people. Along the way, Kirby "befriends a nicotine addicted cat and unravels a plot involving time-travel, yakuza, and interdimensional coffee." The first reward tier for $7 pledges promises access to the game's seven "sessions," as well as seven new games from the Braingale collective, a ragtag group of indie developers and artists. Those seven games are Francis by Andrew Brophy, Killing Man by Jerry Mickle, Gabbage Day by Todd Luke, Namragog's Shadow Creatures are in the Sky, Star Bizarre by Lulu Blue, an untitled game by Alec Stamos and The Devil's Throne by Manuel Magalhaes. "The more money we have, the better we can invest ourselves into pursuing our vision unencumbered," the update concludes. The project has raised $9,400 to date, with 23 days left in its funding period. Ayles and Lanzbom are hoping to have the first episode of Lioness out by the end of 2014.
