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Indie game developers get it: people don’t have a lot of money these days. And while they’d love to sell their creations at full price, it’s given that a lower-priced offering will get people to try games like Canabalt or World of Goo out and come back to try out even more titles.
When Dejobaan Games, the developer behind The Wonderful End of the World and AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity create a first-person shooter that’s all about building and demolishing gigantic robots, they don’t need to name it Drunken Robot Pornography to get my attention; the name it Drunken Robot Pornography because there’s something wrong with them.
Everybody complains about artificial intelligence. It’s too dumb. It’s too all-knowing. What it really is is too opaque. AI design remains one of the most mysterious disciplines of video game creation. Well, if you’ve ever wondered about how the rules governing the allies and opponents in a video game, then a blog post regarding Sir, You Are Being Hunted got some answers for you.
One of the scariest games in recent memory came in the form of Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent. And while there’s a sequel underway — titled Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs — the indie developer’s not the one making it.
It’s been months since anything’s been seen from Might & Delight’s Pid, an in-development indie platformer that plays around with gravity. It’s looking like it’s going to sport really stunning visuals and the video above offers a glimpse of Pid‘s progression. Look for Pid to hit digital platforms later this year.
The first-person grid-based dungeon crawler rises again on April 11, when indie developer Almost Human releases The Legend of Grimrock on Steam and GOG.com. Act now and it’s far cheaper than it should be.
Small, well-crafted indie games can be great about delivering unfiltered experiences. In Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt, you ran and jumped until you couldn’t any more. With Jason Rohrer’s Passage, you wandered around a pixellated world that represented life’s journey, meeting a spouse and making your way together until that stopped, as it ultimately has to.
