Twisted Pixel is something of an indie success story – and that might be putting it mildly. While there are around twenty employees now, with more being considered as I type, the company was originally started with just a few. The team jumped up to six or seven folks for The Maw’s development and moved [...]
Next time you’re off galavanting around a massive RPG world, slaying monsters and fulfilling your destiny, spare a thought for the shopkeeper in the last town who sold you all your gear. Without them, you’d be a nobody – you’d have no sword, no armor, no healing products. Confined to a live of standing behind [...]
While roaming around the halls of PAX10, we were lucky enough to stumble upon Ska Studios, the guys who made both the original Dishwasher and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1. And, since we’re super best friends with them, we were able to sit down with both James (the founder) and the their new game [...]
Pixelante Games, the Vancouver-based group of independent developers, want to make you laugh at all the dick jokes in their new game Fowl Space, or at least it shows that they cracked themselves up while creating the title. And I think there’s something to be said for developers who enjoyeds creating the product they release, [...]
I covered Bastion a small bit a few days ago in our run up to PAX. Back then I knew little about just what the game was and what it was going to offer beyond some small details given by developers Supergiant Games. Luckily for you (and me) I’ve just returned from my first play [...]
Welcome back to Best of DIYGamer as we highlight the top content on our site for the week wrapping on September 5. Along with the rest of the usual goodness, our big pile of PAX previews are included below in case you missed any of the coverage and want to catch up. Check out our [...]
[While our XBLIG Thursday feature fights against the main issue of Xbox 360’s Indie Games channel–gaming brilliance being lost in a sea of medicore titles and cheap apps–as good as anything out there, there’s just too many total releases for us to try them all.
That being said, we can still highlight them on a daily [...]
Exit Strategy Entertainment has passed along a fact sheet for their upcoming platformer Pirates of New Horizons, giving us some updated release target info along with some other new details.
A prototype of the game is currently being finalized and prepped for release, it will serve as a way for the developers to gauge the viability [...]
Wanted to catch everyone up on a popular game by a popular developer. Positech Games has announced a single-player campaign expansion in the works for space strategy title Gratuitous Space Battles. The cool part of the added component of the ‘conquer-the-galaxy’ mode is the way battles are presented. I’ll let Positech head Cliff Harris explain:
Rather [...]
The game that always makes me think of Wayne Knight Numen: Contest of Heroes has released a new update, now available for owners of the game on Steam.
The patch brings a couple new features to the action RPG, including an auto-save function for when players exit to the main menu or close the game entirely. [...]
[While our XBLIG Thursday feature fights against the main issue of Xbox 360’s Indie Games channel–gaming brilliance being lost in a sea of medicore titles and cheap apps–as good as anything out there, there’s just too many total releases for us to try them all.
That being said, we can still highlight them on a daily [...]
A couple updates have been released by Doctor Entertainment for Puzzle Dimension, offering up different PC and Mac patches for the casual puzzler now available for owners of the game on Steam.
The PC update carries just one item, a crash fix on startup for certain systems. The mac patch offers a bit more pizazz, with [...]
So many great indie deals, offers and sales this weekend it simply won’t let us slack off and not tell you about all of ‘em. Everyone is getting in the mix today, a couple of developers are taking the initiative themselves along with all four major digital distributors offering something for the indie connoisseur. Let’s take a look around.
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A few happy items to touch on as we lead up to Frictional Games release of their immersive survival horror title Amnesia: The Dark Descent next week.
First, Frictional has offered up a multi-platform (PC, Mac and Linux) demo for the title. The trial weighs in around 150 MB and apparently the devs have turned up [...]
Nimbly Games has announced a free weekend on Steam for their flying multiplayer title Altitude, which has already officially kicked off. If you want to get in on the action, head over to your games section on the Steam client and you’ll have the option to download and play the game for free through Sunday. [...]
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