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In the second video interview of our independent developer series from IndieCade 2011, we talk to Australian developer Alexander Bruce about the history and development of his mind-bending environmental exploration game “Antichamber.”
Quell Reflect from Fallen Tree Games is the successor to the simply named “Quell” – a contemporary re-visioning of a puzzler created a decade-and-a-half ago, wherein you navigate a circular object (originally a smiley face, now a droplet of water) to collect all the “gems” on a given level. Read the full review…
A report on the most anticipated and best indie games from PAX Prime 2012 in Seattle, Washington.
A big change has taken place at Valve’s Steam powered (in other words cloud-based) games store as the incredibly successful […]
Here at IGR, we don’t usually review games that are still in Alpha. But, we were asked to give our take on an epic RPG called DriftMoon, with an assurance and confidence that we would find it to our liking. I feel that this confidence is not misplaced.
Indie Game Reviewer’s top ten indie games of 2011 with a long list of honorable mentions for best independent games of the year.
You may be wondering why a site called Indie Game Reviewer is covering The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – a massive AAA title from a well established company like Bethesda that will sell millions of copies. Let me explain…
Keys of a Gamespace by Sébastien Genvo working with the University of Metz team offers a stab into a rare genre of gaming – of theory and psychology. Read the full review…
With a purchase of Dungeon Defenders, you can now download the complete source code and art assets for the game, and their customized Unreal reference codebase.
In the first of our indie developer video interviews from IndieCade 2011, we speak with Rob Jagnow, creator of popular Steampunk puzzle game “Cogs” about his new title in development at Lazy 8 Studios – “Extrasolar”
Gamestar Mechanic from E-Line Media is a game, as an educational tool, a game development environment and a social media site. It’s a tall order, and more amazing to behold in action.
The complete list of independent game winners at the IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games 2011 held in Culver City, California.
A game controlled by kissing, a game about making games that ends with you making a real game and much more. A report from the IndieCade show Saturday Oct 8th 2011.
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…
Terraria IS (deep breath): a side-scrolling sandbox adventure exploration Metroidvania game with RPG and item-based character progression with MineCraft-like Build-It aspects. Read the review…