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Are you an indie game developer looking for recognition, to build your network of contacts, to gain exposure, receive the accolades your deserve for your countless hours/years of work?
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, The Guildhall at SMU and GameStop are offering aspiring video game developers a chance to compete for a quarter million dollars in prizes!
Despite serious and much ballyhooed controversy as it launched on Steam stemming from DRM issues, From Dust from Ubisoft is a good looking, intriguing entry into the god-game genre that is worthy of attention.
While scouring distant corners of the galaxy, an unspeakable evil is uncovered. Collect resources and build fleets of ships, lest humanity end up devoured in Space Pirates and Zombies (aka SPAZ) from MinMax games.
A review of Fate of the Pharaoh from indie developer Cateia Games. In their latest outing, the company focuses the gameplay, cuts out the fat and turns out a stronger iteration of their cute-styled civ sim template.
We love the ride back in time to some of our favorite old console platforms and 8-bit graphics. Here’s hoping the game matches the clever brilliance of the trailer.
Developer Summary: Dynamic destruction and cute hamsters — what more could you ask for? Help Hammy free his friends using […]
Bastion is a game that centers around its narrative, and its solid combat system. Right from the start its charm will grope around on you until it finds a firm grip and drags you into its lair for the rest of the ride. Read on to find out why this new RPG from Supergiant games gets a perfect score not only from Indie Game Reviewer, but every other critic who’s played it.
Tobe is an Xbox Live Indie Games native ported to PC, apparently born from the goal of making a game that could have come straight out of the early 1990s. Tobe’s graphics are 16-bit, and would have been right at home in an old Genesis or SNES game. Even the sound and music is what one might call Megaman-esque. Plug a controller into your computer and you could easily mistake Tobe for a console ROM.
Imagine being armed with all the skills you need to explore a city and its secrets from the very start of the game. The Curfew puts you in the position of an unnamed protagonist who has to protect valuable information that may potentially bring down the tyrannical Shepherd Party government.
Believing is great and all, but so is doubting. You won’t be able to know the truth without both. The truth is pretty normal, anyways. Not really interesting at all, and it’s debatable if it’s worth knowing. Somehow, honesty is still usually a good idea.
Tip, hop and toss your way to the girl of your dreams. Do bipeds with long tails really have the most fun? Find out in this indie game for iOS devices.
In playing documentary game Cat and the Coup, one gets the same sense of cross-cultural influences as comparative to whirlwind tour of a foreign art gallery. Within the encapsulation of a 2D side-scroller, traditional Persian artwork combine with black and white rotoscoping, somber caricatures of figures and peoples, and pictures from the historical press. An unusual mix of Erik Satie and Nine Inch Nails saturate the aural space with viscosity. Despite the imagery’s perspectival flatness, the actual experience of the visual scope is labyrinthine. Read the full review…
In just two weeks time, gamers on Steam and the Mac App Store will be able to experience EDGE in super high definition! The award winning – and much talked about – game from French indie developers Mobigame, is a perfect fit for PC and Mac gamers.
Read our review of Attack of the Mutant Sheep for iOS. Mutant sheep are attacking your hot dog! Fend them off, or get flocked!
Intergalactic Creations, the developers of Camy Adventures – Episode 1, took that most classic game genre–the platform jumper–and created a quirky little game with strikingly crisp, high-resolution graphics. It’s a testament to the fact that you can make a game with all the modern trappings that stays true to its classic gaming roots.