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Are You “Man Enough” – Play 4 Games At Once With This Free Indie from the No More Sweden Gathering
Created by Daniel Remar creator of Iji, Hero Core and Garden Gnome Carnage and Erik Sjöstrand (who wrote the song for the game), Man Enough addresses the attention deficit generation with a multitasking indie monster of a game that plays as much like a freaky Devo video as it does a simultaneous four-way multi-genre 8-bit [...]
What Excited Me From E3 2010
with additional reporting by Indie Game Freak Old Friends Back From the Dead In the near future we’ll be seeing a number of sequels to game franchises that we haven’t heard from in many years. No, I’m not talking Duke Nukem Forever. I think we’ve all stopped holding our breath on that one. Deus Ex: [...]
Most Underrated Video Game Heroes – Best Of Bytejacker User Answers
We wanted to share this list of Most Underrated Video Game Heroes because it features some our personal faves like Psychonauts and …wait we can’t give it away. Watch the video and be reminded of some cool games that have lurked in the shadow of the popular conscious too long! From Revision 3 TV featuring [...]
Indie Game: The Movie – Teaser Video
You can usually tell a trend is on the upswing when you set your project up for funding at a site like Kickstarter.com hoping to raise a lofty $15,000 and then easily besting that number. Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft with a particular focus [...]
Listen to a 1 Hour Podcast Interview About The Rise of Indie Games
Keramcast.com (full disclosure – a sister site) features a comprehensive discussion and interview between new media enthusiast and host Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Sam Roberts (director of the Indiecade festival) and Jesse Vigil (Psychic Bunny). Topics covered include the past, present and future of indie games, how to develop an indie without any resources, how to get a game into the marketplace, new kinds of games that are emerging and the importance of this new medium.
IndieCade International Independent Game Festival Day 1 – California, 2009
For better or worse, depending on your take, indie games are becoming something entirely new. Nowhere to be found the frag enthusiasts or Columbine tributaries that one used to expect from the definition of floppy disk era indies like DOOM and Duke Nukem. IGR reports from day one at Indiecade, Culver City 2009.
8-Bit Is the New Black
This week I have come across a growing number of videos that also find their muse in the pixelated style of the 8-Bit ouevre. Is it pure nostalgia or something deeper in the transforming human psyche that commands our interest, like a scratch in an old vinyl 45?
Sam Raimi to Direct World of Warcraft Epic Film
World of Warcraft fans have much to celebrate as Raimi’s unique mondo-movie style seems to translate well with what would normally be considered B-movie fare. The world of Azeroth, where the mythology and lore of the World of Warcraft unfolds is rich with characters, races, classes, gods and history. Thousands upon thousands of hours of gameplay and development offer an almost bottomless well of stories from which to draw ideas.
