Since it’s original announcement, Super Meat Boy has found its way through both the mainstream and independent press. It’s existence is no secret and its original version can be player for free, right now. But the new version, the one worthy of the Super tag, is still a few months from release.
I tried my hand [...]
Miegakure is difficult to describe, so I’ll leave it to the text developer Marc Ten Bosch uses: “Miegakure is a platform game where you explore the fourth dimension to solve puzzles.”
Simple, right? The answer is yes and no. I think my best description would call it a multi-storied game, in which each story is a [...]
Not many of the IGF finalists have been released at this point in time, so most impressions have been based on screenshots, gameplay videos, and word of mouth. So the nominations perpetuated a feeling of mystery that can only be cleared up through actual hands-on time. Trauma, from Krystian Majewski, was one of those titles.
Broken [...]
The nominations have been listed since January, but it wasn’t until this very evening that the awards and prizes were handed out. There really isn’t a bad game in all of the selections, so it’s tough to break out one from another. I’ll be continuing my previews of all of these titles for the next [...]
In just five days from January 29 to 31, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) will host 2010’s Global Game Jam which now contains 127 venues in total. The GGJ is a global experiment in creativity. In only two days, teams of developers will attempt to create games under certain restrictions and rules that apply [...]
2010 is going to be big for the Independent Games Festival. Already with a record number of main and student competition entries, the mobile department of IGF has jumped on board with another all-time high: 172 entries, a hearty increase from last year’s field of 107.
Many brand spanking new titles we’ve never heard before grace [...]
Following the record 306 Main Competition entries, organizers of the 2010 Independent Games Festival have announced 193 Student Showcase entries, up 33% from 2009 and another new record for the event. This year’s IGF Student Showcase entries will be judged by over160 game industry judges, before the student-specific finalists are announced in January of next year.
Ten [...]
The annual Experimental Gameplay Workshop is now accepting submissions for games that push the boundries of traditional gameplay. Chosen developers will be given the opportunity to discuss in a short presentation, their title, prototypes and ideas to an audience during GDC in March 2010.
If you’re interested in participating you can submit for the workshop by [...]
Meet the Torontron, put together by indie games advocacy group The Hand Eye Society, the masterpiece is an arcade cabinet retrofitted to play a half dozen games made by indie developers from Toronto. The apparatus debuted at Canadian Zine fair Canzine earlier this month, where the group showed it off at the event’s Artcade portion [...]
A record 306 entries were submitted to the Independent Games Festival 2010 main competition. 306! This past year saw 224 entries which was the first time the total ever broke 200, so to jump nearly 100 entries in only a year is quite exciting. The interest in both creating and playing indie’s is clearly on the rise.
These [...]
