indie
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After Being 98 Per Cent Off For 5 Years, This Indie Game Is Going Up To $150 Forever
5In today’s crowded video game market, getting eyes on your product can be a challenge, especially if you develop and publish games independently and with a small team. In 2014, the now-defunct Danish game studio Glitchap had a unique idea for their jousting deathmatch project LAZA KNITEZ: price the game at $150, but offer it…
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Session Is A Hardcore Skateboarding Sim With Cool, Weird Controls
“Pretty much everyone who tries the game eats shit like crazy at first,” Marc-Andre Houde told me when I met him in New York to see crea-ture studios’ forthcoming skateboarding game, Session. Maybe that’s a bad way to sell a video game, but Session is an unusual game—more a skate sim than an arcade stunt…
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Forget Everything You Know About Gravity In This Beautiful Puzzle Game
Playing Etherborn is like taking a hike through a series of colourful terraria that have been warped and torn apart by mysterious cosmic forces, causing gravity to shift like the sides of a Rubik’s Cube. It can be bewildering, but it’s never unpleasant-like a dream you can’t quite make sense of, but don’t want to…
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Mordhau’s Developers Are On Some Bullshit [Update]
Mordhau is a very good medieval brawler, but its also attracted its fair share of arseholes since release. That’s nothing out of the ordinary, a lot of games do, but Mordhau’s problem is that its not just retaining them, but catering to their arseholey whims.