Posts Tagged 'indie games'

Amnesia a good memory for Frictional

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSzpvq73FY&fs=1&hl=en_US] I love indies, especially indies who put out super high quality, retail type experiences, but I can’t play horror games. This has made me something of a cheerleader for Frictional Games, whose Amnesia: The Dark Descent was, by many

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Amnesia a good memory for Frictional

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSzpvq73FY&fs=1&hl=en_US] I love indies, especially indies who put out super high quality, retail type experiences, but I can’t play horror games. This has made me something of a cheerleader for Frictional Games, whose Amnesia: The Dark Descent was, by many

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Team Meat: Games Today Provide Empty Happiness; Expansion Plans

In an excellent interview over at GameReactor (part 1 here, part 2 here ) Team Meat reveals their thoughts on modern game’s difficulty. Can you guess why they think that the industry is catering to a  larger audience? “It’s 100%

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Team Meat: Games Today Provide Empty Happiness; Expansion Plans

In an excellent interview over at GameReactor (part 1 here, part 2 here ) Team Meat reveals their thoughts on modern game’s difficulty. Can you guess why they think that the industry is catering to a  larger audience? “It’s 100%

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Super Meat Boy Review

For the past couple of days, my reality has consisted of nothing but blood curdling shrieks. You see, I’m currently trapped in a nightmare. This terrible nightmare has a name–Super Meat Boy. Fun fact: Super Meat Boy is the devil.

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Super Meat Boy Review

For the past couple of days, my reality has consisted of nothing but blood curdling shrieks. You see, I’m currently trapped in a nightmare. This terrible nightmare has a name–Super Meat Boy. Fun fact: Super Meat Boy is the devil.

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Stand on a Rubix Cube, and rotate ninety degrees

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jxzYJviPoo&fs=1&hl=en_US] And where will that get you? Well, somewhere an awful lot like Nudo, a charmingly inventive little platformer imagining how cool it would be if levels worked kind of like Rubik’s Cubes. You may have seen it other places,

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Stand on a Rubix Cube, and rotate ninety degrees

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jxzYJviPoo&fs=1&hl=en_US] And where will that get you? Well, somewhere an awful lot like Nudo, a charmingly inventive little platformer imagining how cool it would be if levels worked kind of like Rubik’s Cubes. You may have seen it other places,

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Take a look at an ACTUAL Murder Simulator: Serial Killer Roguelike

Ho boy, just wait until the press gets a load of this. ‘Serial Killer Roguelike’ is a murder simulator–literally, a murder simulator–by indie developer Crimson Kings, which started out as a fan-project for Showtime’s Dexter. You can play as a

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Take a look at an ACTUAL Murder Simulator: Serial Killer Roguelike

Ho boy, just wait until the press gets a load of this. ‘Serial Killer Roguelike’ is a murder simulator–literally, a murder simulator–by indie developer Crimson Kings, which started out as a fan-project for Showtime’s Dexter. You can play as a

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Immortal Defense now 'pay what you want'

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC6W9r-Bj8&hl=en_US&fs=1] When it comes to Tower Defense, there are three games in my mind: Defense Grid, Comet Crash, and Immortal Defense. The former is the best by the numbers approach to the genre. Comet Crash makes a lot of interesting

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Immortal Defense now 'pay what you want'

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC6W9r-Bj8&hl=en_US&fs=1] When it comes to Tower Defense, there are three games in my mind: Defense Grid, Comet Crash, and Immortal Defense. The former is the best by the numbers approach to the genre. Comet Crash makes a lot of interesting

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Buy Machinarium for 5 Dollars Through 'Pirate Amnesty'

Yes, pirates are the ones to thank for this fantastic sale. “Everybody who downloaded our game illegally (for free) has now a chance to redeem himself and get the latest version of the game (Win+Mac+Linux)  and it’s fantastic Soundtrack only

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Buy Machinarium for 5 Dollars Through 'Pirate Amnesty'

Yes, pirates are the ones to thank for this fantastic sale. “Everybody who downloaded our game illegally (for free) has now a chance to redeem himself and get the latest version of the game (Win+Mac+Linux)  and it’s fantastic Soundtrack only

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The MMO and Risk Versus Reward

It’s been an interesting span of weeks for those of us interested in game design as a thing, not just as a process. We’ve been given access to not only Guild Wars 2’s design manifesto, which lays out the many

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The MMO and Risk Versus Reward

It’s been an interesting span of weeks for those of us interested in game design as a thing, not just as a process. We’ve been given access to not only Guild Wars 2’s design manifesto, which lays out the many

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Super Mario Crossover

Sometimes, some days, something comes along that just makes everything brighter. And that something for today is Super Mario Crossover. To put it simply, this game is the original Super Mario Brothers, playable with a laundry list of classic NES

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Super Mario Crossover

Sometimes, some days, something comes along that just makes everything brighter. And that something for today is Super Mario Crossover. To put it simply, this game is the original Super Mario Brothers, playable with a laundry list of classic NES

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