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The State of XBLIGs Overall
Posted On: 3/7/2013This month, I was a bit late trying to get this out but oh well. I wanted to do an overall look at the state of XBLIGs (Xbox Live Indie Games), so why not ask a few prominent reviewers of said games ...
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Uncertainty in Games
Posted On: 3/7/2013In crunch mode at work, which is why there haven't been updates here for some time. However, as of tomorrow, The MIT Press releases my book, Uncertainty in Games. There are a lot of books that attem...
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Vlambeer, Kert Gartner on making a six-second Vine trailer for Ridiculous Fishing
Posted On: 3/7/2013Vlambeer recently announced via a six-second Vine video that its follow up to Radical Fishing for iOS, dubbed Ridiculous Fishing, will release March 14. In creating this micro-trailer, the ...
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Co-op dungeon crawler Hammerwatch demo needs playing - badly!
Posted On: 3/7/2013Jochum Skoglund and Niklas Myrberg have offered a demo of their Gauntlet-inspired hack and slasher, Hammerwatch, for Windows. This demo features Act 1, with a boss, secrets, bonus level, mo...
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'War is the H-word' in Green Slime's Mine Your Step free browser game
Posted On: 3/7/2013Soldiers are little more than fleshy land mine detectors in the asynchronous, online war simulator Mine Your Step. Players step blindly into fields of cloaked mines towards a grey bunker, usi...
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Why they're playing: Year Walk
Posted On: 3/6/2013With Year Walk, mobile developer Simogo tried more than one tack not broadly proven on the crowded App Store. First, the studio wanted to make an atmospheric horror game based on the old lo...
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Kickstarter Projects: Race The Sun (Flippfly)
Posted On: 3/6/2013Flippfly have roughly a day to reach their humble funding goal of $20,000 and I do suggest we all give them a hand. Their project Race The Sun, you see, is not just any any old racer. It's...
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Browser Game Pick: A Night in Crazyville (Carmel Games)
Posted On: 3/6/2013It's very short, not particularly funny, very straightforward in its design and its visuals won't set the world on fire, but there's something endearing about A Night in Crazyville. It is, we...
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'Road to the IGF' Pt. 2: more stories behind this year's top indie games
Posted On: 3/5/2013Gamasutra's Road to the IGF continues to highlight every 2013 Independent Games Festival finalist - and here's the second batch of interviews, including Little Inferno, FTL, Inrusion 2 and Sp...
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Humble Bundle with Android 5 includes Super Hexagon, NightSky HD, Solar 2
Posted On: 3/5/2013The latest Humble Bundle for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android has dropped, featuring 6 games so far. The pay what you want tier includes arcade shooter Beat Hazard Ultra, the top-down steal...
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