Posts Tagged 'Indie'
Sky Island Review
Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp
Sky Island Review
Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp
The Cold Season: Iron Grip: Warlord
The Cold Season is an exploration of independent video game Iron Grip: Warlord, a FPS/Tower Defense hybrid available via Steam et al. It’s quite good, and worth checking out, especially if you have friends to play it with. This is
The Cold Season: Iron Grip: Warlord
The Cold Season is an exploration of independent video game Iron Grip: Warlord, a FPS/Tower Defense hybrid available via Steam et al. It’s quite good, and worth checking out, especially if you have friends to play it with. This is
Capsized Review
If I had to use one word to describe Capsized, an indie action platformer, it would be beautiful. Everything in the game is hand drawn, from the pulsating environments and enemies that inhabit them to the illustrated comic panels that
Capsized Review
If I had to use one word to describe Capsized, an indie action platformer, it would be beautiful. Everything in the game is hand drawn, from the pulsating environments and enemies that inhabit them to the illustrated comic panels that
Indie Impressions: Starfarer
Trying to come to grips with games released in alpha is often a daunting task. It works better for some games than others; certain games have a core mechanic that compels you to keep playing regardless of any lack of
Indie Impressions: Starfarer
Trying to come to grips with games released in alpha is often a daunting task. It works better for some games than others; certain games have a core mechanic that compels you to keep playing regardless of any lack of
Interview: Jake Elliott of Cardboard Computer
Last week we wrote about Balloon Diaspora, an indie adventure game that challenges a lot of the standard ideas of what an adventure game should be. Instead of focusing on puzzles and obtuse mechanics, it focused on conversation and on
Interview: Jake Elliott of Cardboard Computer
Last week we wrote about Balloon Diaspora, an indie adventure game that challenges a lot of the standard ideas of what an adventure game should be. Instead of focusing on puzzles and obtuse mechanics, it focused on conversation and on
The Weight of Definition: Balloon Diaspora
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pX0LlPLtTw&w=480&h=390] Balloon Diaspora is a funny little game that’s weighed heavily on me since I’ve played it. It is ethereal and wonderful like a leaf blowing in through an open window in fall, but at its core it asks
The Weight of Definition: Balloon Diaspora
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pX0LlPLtTw&w=480&h=390] Balloon Diaspora is a funny little game that’s weighed heavily on me since I’ve played it. It is ethereal and wonderful like a leaf blowing in through an open window in fall, but at its core it asks
Bastion looking swell
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I_EdTkvRZo&w=640&h=390] One more brief trailer into the breach my friends! Bastion was recently picked up by publisher Warner Bros. Interactive, most likely for one of those fancy “Summer of Live” releases, and had a new trailer released at roughly
Bastion looking swell
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I_EdTkvRZo&w=640&h=390] One more brief trailer into the breach my friends! Bastion was recently picked up by publisher Warner Bros. Interactive, most likely for one of those fancy “Summer of Live” releases, and had a new trailer released at roughly
Wacky trail of the day: Kentucky Route Zero
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pvkCYNhf7M&w=640&h=390] We missed the boat on this extremely hard, but Kentucky Route Zero is a game being made by Cardboard Computer who apparently made games I’ve either not heard of or meant to play in the past. In any case,
Wacky trail of the day: Kentucky Route Zero
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pvkCYNhf7M&w=640&h=390] We missed the boat on this extremely hard, but Kentucky Route Zero is a game being made by Cardboard Computer who apparently made games I’ve either not heard of or meant to play in the past. In any case,
SPENT a different kind of game
Games like SPENT are interesting studies in potential. I’ve long contended that the proper avenue for edutainment is documentary and not dumbed down children’s games full of math problems. What a video game, as interactive fiction, can do is let
SPENT a different kind of game
Games like SPENT are interesting studies in potential. I’ve long contended that the proper avenue for edutainment is documentary and not dumbed down children’s games full of math problems. What a video game, as interactive fiction, can do is let
More Finished Games?
Comments of the most curious nature came out of Gaijin Games’ Alex Neuse’s interview with GameSetWatch. To provide you with a block quote: I think that the indie scene is out of control. There are SO many games being made,
More Finished Games?
Comments of the most curious nature came out of Gaijin Games’ Alex Neuse’s interview with GameSetWatch. To provide you with a block quote: I think that the indie scene is out of control. There are SO many games being made,