I want to take the time to briefly celebrate the spectacular achievements of a minigame currently (and very, very deservedly) making the rounds in the video gaming blogosphere. The game in question is axcho and knivel’s Flixel game The Love Letter. (Go on, open the link and play the game right away. Do it! Just …
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Category Archives: Indie
On The Love Letter
25/02/2012 - 13:16
When Are Bad Ideas Good Ideas? Goats vs Nazis and Dropsy
25/10/2011 - 17:17
Kickstarter, bless ’em, have made possible many projects that would have been much, much harder for indie developers to initiate only a few measly years ago. We’ve seen plenty of really interesting projects receive funding via the platform, including Kentucky Route Zero, Octodad 2, Star Command and Blade Symphony.
Goats vs Nazis, then, is the latest …
Ensnaring Customers: Spiderweb Carnage Sale
17/10/2011 - 14:00
I’ll let Jeff Vogel, the man behind the Seattle-based RPG game company Spiderweb Software, do the talking:
Glorious October Carnage Sale! In celebration of a fantastic year (releasing Avadon and putting out our first titles on Steam and the iPad), we are permanently lowering the prices of everything we sell by 20% or more! Even better, …
The Indie Stone: Brave-Faced & Hard-Headed
16/10/2011 - 19:00
“Ah, but The Indie Stone is a brave-faced stone.” -Brendan Caldwell
In what can only be described (in suitably hyperbolic tones) as the most unfortunate development process ever (Duke Nukem Forever, you say? Ptsch! Ptschhh!), the Indie Stone have had their dev laptops stolen. According to the team, the latest update - and as such, months …