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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Big money, big production video games are great, but let’s never forget about the indie games, that’s where the sexy happens.
Indie developer Derek Yu’s Spelunky is making the platform leap from PC to Xbox Live Arcade some time this year, a release date we’re starting to believe courtesy of a quartet of new screenshots.
Indie darling Aquaria may be best known for its serene underwater setting and gorgeous hand-painted artwork, but its genesis lies in one of the most twisted, most violent video games ever created, I’m O.K. That game, designed in part by “attorney” Jack Thompson, was part of the self-described school shooting expert’s “A Modest Proposal” an ultra-violent game concept that was supposed to elicit a $US 10,000 pay out from Thompson, should someone be bold enough to make it. Jack, as expected, welshed on the promised charitable donation when I’m O.K. hit the web, but the freeware shooter garnered the attention of Aquaria co-creator Alec Holowka.
Over at The Independent Gaming Source, indie game developer Derek Yu has decided to give Ben Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation a taste of his own medicine. When Yahtzee isn’t busy trying achieve the same results on all five dice, he creates his own games like The Art of Theft, which comes under scrutiny in this apt parody of his own rapid-speaking flash game reviews. Of course it loses something by not being particularly British at all, but Derek makes up for it by getting the opening and closing music bits right as well as being one of the developers of Aquaria, so it all balances out in the end.
Some Punctuation: The Art of Theft [The Independent Gaming Source - Thanks Randy!]
