Hello there and welcome to another edition of Kick Picks! Every Monday we will feature some of the Kickstarter Projects that have gotten our attention recently. In addition to that we’ll also be occasionally showcasing some reviews of delivered Kickstarter products as well as some interviews from people that are both running and have run Kickstarter campaigns.

With that out of the way let’s dive right in!

Moby Dick, or, The Card Game

Call me Ishmael.

I’m a real sucker for a card game. Something bereft of a board and just relies on the cards themselves just feels… I don’t know… pure. Not that I don’t love a thousand piece board game either, but I enjoy the relative simplicity of the cards. Might be because I’m working on a card game of my own at the moment and am kind of dialed into that mode… but that’s a Kick Picks for a MUCH later date.

What initially drew me in to Moby Dick, or, The Card Game is the fantastic art on the cards, which all have a cool woodblock type look to them which just feels like they’re tied to the book somehow. I also enjoy the theme of recruiting a crew and going out to hunt the big whales.

$30 gets you the game, and more can get you some pretty impressive looking silkscreens. Stretch Goals are currently unlocking now to add even more to the game.

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Willow the Whale is having a pretty bad day. Turns out getting chased about by Baron Von Barry (an evil “thing”) kinda sucks. But Willow has a plan. He’s going to use the power of the Whale Trail to ride a rainbow into the sky and then fly to all the colorful kingdoms of Rainbow Land. Sounds like an acid trip your parents told you about they had back in the 70′s? Possibly. But it’s also an awesome new iOS game for your iPod/iPhone/iPad.

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The popular social network for mobile gaming, OpenFeint, recently launched for Android-powered phones so I decided to take a look at what this thing that our iOS friends have been experiencing for quite a while now was all about.

There are 8 games launching with Feint support with 5 more promised as “coming soon” as of this writing. The launch games are: . (Dot), Flick Kick Field Goal, Fruit Ninja, MiniSquadron, Super Slyder, Symbolism, The Moron Test and Tic Tac Toe Free. The 5 “coming soon” games are FaceFighter Gold, Flick Kick Football, Flick Kick Rugby, Mega Jump and MUST.EAT.BIRDS.

Hit the jump for my impressions of the service and three of the games. (more…)