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Review: Camy Adventures – one order of retro gaming, hold the lo-rez
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.
The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle Released This Week
The first two indie bundles generated over a million dollars last year for charity. The first bundle of 2011 comes out today and includes Trine, Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds: Survivor, and a preorder for Splot. It also includes the game/source code for the unfinished project Jack Claw. They are all DRM free and can be downloaded directly, [...]
Dino Run SE! Run, Dino, Run! – An Indie Game Review
A review of Dino Run SE is the Slightly-Evolved Edition of Dino Run, a very retro-styled 8-bit flash-based 2D side-scrolling platformer from independent developer Pixeljam. Get the full scoop…
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale – an Indie Game Review
Recetter: An Item Shop’s tale from indie developer Carpe Fulgur involves old school Zelda-style hack and slash dungeon crawling combined with a casual store-keeping game you might catch your mom playing. Sound like an unlikely combination? It is. Does it pay off? It does. I think we’ll look at the two elements individually, then tie them together
Review: Pound of Ground finds the fun under the rotting meat
It’s getting risky to step into the Zombie genre, mostly because of its blinding over exposure in video games, comics and movies, to say nothing of the humorous phenomenon it is on the net. In this indie game review, we find out whether Pound of Ground brings anything new to the growing pile of bodies…
Review of Incognito: Episode 1
Review of Incognito: Episode 1 from independent Canadian game developer Magrathean. How does the first episode in the epic indie fare?
The story-line that weaves together the cross-genre web of game-play that is Incognito is kind of like what would happen if an episode of Doctor Who did it with an episode of the Twilight Zone. The resulting offspring is a vague but seemingly colourful tale that is going to be told across multiple downloadable episodes.
Plain Sight – A Two Hander Review of a Robot Romp n Stomp Multiplayer Indie Game
Indie Game Reviewer offers up a two-hander review of Beatnik Games multiplayer robot romp n stomp indie game, available for Windows and on Steam.
Indie Game Spotlight – Devil’s Tuning Fork – Free Download
IGF award-winning indie game Devil’s Tuning Fork, inspired by the works of master optical illusionist M.C. Escher and the sonic echolocation abilities of dolphins and whales, is a first-person exploration/puzzle game in which the player must navigate an unknown world using visual sound waves.
