Tom Francis, best known as the developer of the indie hit Gunpoint, has taken his latest game Heat Signature far enough into development to start fleshing out the aesthetics. Simplistic placeholder graphics will only get him so far when trying to hype his game, so he is now on the hunt for an artist and a composer to help do it justice. When we last saw Heat Signature, it looked like a...
The Japanese indie scene is still looking to take off in the same way that the Western indie scene has over the years. Language barriers, differences between the indie and doujin scenes, quality control, and the vastly Western focus of the overall gaming industry all have contributed to keeping it a small and very domestic movement. With that in mind, here are seven games you might...
This kind of news brings a warm tingle to my heart. Yacht Club games has opened up on the performance of its popular indie game Shovel Knight after the first month, and it happily reports that it has shattered all expectations. Yacht Club breaks down the figures in an extended post over at Gamasutra. Excluding the Kickstarter backers, the game sold an impressive 75,000 units through...
Nobody can say that Nicalis, the porter of Cave Story to the Nintendo 3DS developer of Aban Hawkins & the 1001 Spikes, doesn’t love a challenging retro 2D platformer. As if its already existing library wasn’t proof enough, check out the trailer for its latest game, Castle of Darkness. You control a small knight out to retake his castle from evil, and all he has to depend on is a...
Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid isn’t letting its failed Kickstarter campaign for Cult County slow it down. With Treasurenauts, Moon Chronicles, and Mutant Mudds 2 all currently in the works, the studio has just announced a fourth game for its library, the Nintendo 3DS “Metroidvania” Xeodriver. Speaking with GoNintendo, Renegade Kid designer Jools Watsham said that the game began...
Jeff Anderson, the actor most famously remembered for playing Randal in Kevin Smith's Clerks movies, has signed up to provide his voice to a point and click adventure heavily inspired by the film series. Randal's Monday is not a sequel to the films, but the similarities are impossible to overlook. Lots of geek references. Lots of irreverent humor. Lots of Randal. The story itself...
Another Kickstarter campaign, another gorgeous looking 2D platformer worthy of your attention. Aegis Defenders from GUTS Department is everything that I love to see and get excited for from the website: a lovely little game with age-old familiar mechanics and just enough brilliant new twists, a staff of guys with experience in small time game development, and a reasonable and obtainable...
The exodus of talented game developers heading into the indie scene is a promising proposition but also a risky one. Talented developers are tired of being held back by the restrictive conventions of AAA gaming and want to break away to make something more personal. More power to them. The downside is losing your job to start a company that might not even work out in the long haul. If...
Stoic Games, the developer of this year's indie hit The Banner Saga, has spoken out about the frustrations of pricing games and people who will only buy at a bargain. In an interview with Polygon about its upcoming iPad port, Stoic Games' John Watson has made it known that he wants to charge premium pricing for his popular game, and Apple actually encourages his doing so. "Apple is...
According to Rein Bros., the five person studio behind this wild looking title, Stikbold is a type of gym class game played in Denmark. It’s a lot like dodgeball. Stikbold, then, is a gaming take on that offering. It looks absolutely absurd, which, of course, puts it right up my alley. I saw it once on the Indie Gaming subreddit, and now Rock, Paper, Shotgun has given it some time in...