Creator Jonathan Blow, whose team (Thekla, Inc.) was behind
another indie game called Braid, has created an island mystery that will remind you of classic puzzle games like Myst.
EA's E3 2017 keynote showcased games that were revealed earlier this year with two minor exceptions, and the one you should pay attention to is
an indie game called A Way Out.
Back in 2004, Studio Pixel released a fantastic little
indie game called Cave Story.
Technically that's equivalent to this year's offerings in January, which features the second season of Killer Instinct (which is a great nod to last year's offerings) and
an indie game called Deathtrap: World of Van Helsing.
Lately I've been playing
an indie game called Rogue Legacy, which is a rogue - like RPG platformer where you descend into the depths of a castle in pursuit of a great -LSB-...]
Today at the EA presentation on the E3 2016, they announced
an indie game called Fe by Zoink Games, part of the EA Originals collaboration program, where you are a little cub in a journey to save the forest from a mysterious evil that lurk in it, adventuring in the beautiful atmosphere of the forest where every living being has their own «song» or some sort of sound communication in which you can interact with them using your own sound waves or «song».
One of my favourite games of 2016 was a little
indie game called Action Henk!
A few years back a little Japanese
indie game called Downwell got quite a lot of acclaim around the globe after it launched for smart devices, PC, PS4 and Vita.
Not exact matches
I also checked out this
game from
Indie Games,
called Embers of Mirram.
We do lots of stuff with
indie music, video
games, movies, we have a whole section devoted to horror movies
called the Vault of Horror.
The
games I play mostly are
Call of Duty, Gta, OverWatch, The Last of Us, Infamous, and
indie type
games.
The list you can see below is filled with
indie titles and only few
games (Injustice: Gods Among Us, inFamous: First Light and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes) are what we would
call «triple - A», despite two of them being an expansion of inFamous: Second Son and a prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Sure,
Call of Duty, Madden, and Halo will always be popular, but
indie games have claimed more time in the spotlight recently.
Remember a really cool looking
indie racing
game called the 90s Arcade Racer?
Polytron, the studio best known for the
indie games hit Fez, is launching a venture it
calls Polytron Partners, designed to partner with other
indie games and help bring them to market.
Fairune is a retro 2D - Action
game developed by Skipmore, a Japanese
indie studio, that received a sequel on Nintendo 3DS last year (logically
called Fairune 2).
PC and XBox Live
Indie Gamers may remember a little title a couple years back
called Sol Survivor, a cooperative tower - defense
game that helped to kick - off the
Indie - Ana Co-Op feature.
Black The Fall has already received awards for Excellence in
Game Design by BIC Award 2016 & Best
Indie Game at Gamescom 2016 by Spawn.sk and has been nominated for even more, but is it worthy of being called one of the best indie g
Indie Game at Gamescom 2016 by Spawn.sk and has been nominated for even more, but is it worthy of being
called one of the best
indie g
indie games?
Indie developer BitMonster has announced a new update for their MMO shooter Grav
called «Reborn», which completely revamps much of the
game.
However, one of such tracks that was composed by an
Indie Pop band
called Animal Collective for the
game couldn't make into the
game and was never released.
In between the yearly offerings of Madden and
Call of Duty,
indie games kept delighting and surprising fans with a diverse spread of genres while established studios all launched some of their most ambitious titles all within the twelve months of 2017.
I like to draw, I like to make puns, I play non-violent video
games (no disrespect, they just make me dizzy), and I listen to a lot of music (hip hop,
indie stuff all over, electronica, rock n» roll), and I have a small company
called Moel.
However not all
indie games are created equal and sometimes
games like Drug Wars, if that's even what it's
called, come along and slap our starry eyed stare right out of our eye sockets.
But instead of the usual online petitions and angry blog posts, the
indie devs have gone several steps further: They're
calling Langdell out by changing the titles of their own
games to include the word «edge,» and in the process, instigating a large - scale public mockery of the CEO's repeated transgressions against
game developers.
Indie developer Still Games is working on an action - adventure RPG
game called Animal Gods, and has
called upon the power of crowdfunding to bring it to the masses.
Developed with Unreal Engine 4 and written by a former writer for the Assassin's Creed series,
indie developer Frima
calls the
game a «movie - length narrative adventure.»
As time goes on, it just keeps getting proven that XB1 is the better console... even the «paper spec advantage» of the PS4 is disappearing quickly... all this time, and the «
gamer's console» can't prove that it makes better
games, just more
indie games that they
call exclusive.
I'm much more of what you'd
call an «
indie gamer» since I seem to enjoy (and spend the most money) on smaller
games that are often made by solo developers and small teams.
We'll be taking a look at two
indie games, a tactical stealth shooter
called Gunpoint which now has a demo out, and an isometric adventure
game called Fleish And Cherry In Crazy Hotel.
After an elevator ride up to the mixer, I ran into Dan Tabar, an
indie developer who toiled on a
game called Cortex Command for 11 years years and is now developing a
game called Planetoid Pioneers.
I understand that we need PlayStation Plus 2 player multiplayer
games like battlefield or
call of duty so everybody has PlayStation Plus now but once every two months they could throw us a bone with a good
game unlike these
indie games that I wouldn't buy there's no point of having PlayStation Plus now unless is older you're going to do is play multi player like I do I get my money's worth but I feel sorry for the people that don't play multiplayer
games and PlayStation Plus was their way to get a free
game once a month now Sony is just ripping off these people
In development for about a year, the
indie sensation has made fans all across the board, with The Escapist
calling the preview trailer «quite simply amazing,» PC
Gamer praising it as «insanely beautiful,» and IGN stating that the
game has «visuals to challenge the very best
games on the market.»
He's the editor of the
indie game blog Pig - min, and he asked me if I would mind helping to spread the word about a
game called Cut & Paste.
This
indie title from a small French studio
called Pastagames released on both PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 as part of October's PlayStation Plus Instant
Game Collection.
Indie developers Power Up
Game Studio have released their debut Android game today called Orbitron Arc
Game Studio have released their debut Android
game today called Orbitron Arc
game today
called Orbitron Arcade.
However
indie developers Brutal Studios, who you may know from their previous
games like Dawn of the Sniper, have hit up Kickstarter to get a little additional funding for their unique upcoming management
game called Gentlemen's Club Manager.
The people of company created already
games such as
Call of Juarez, Dead Island, Hard Reset, Shadow Warrior as well as lots of artistic projects,
indie flash and casual
games.
Meanwhile, the team is now preparing the VR
game called Warlock VR that they're planning to bring to
Indie Showcase at Casual Connect 2016 in Amsterdam.
Just recently popped on our radar is a new
indie Flash
game site
called Kongregate, currently in Private Alpha, and handily explained on Techcrunch as»... an alpha stage online gaming site that will let users upload
games they have built, charge users for premium play or features with a one click payment system and share revenues with the site from premium payment and advertisements.»
Sungrand is an Australia - based
indie game studio that has released their first
game onto Android
called Animelee.
Im over 35 so I grew up with what people now
call «
indie»
games, but enough is enough.
Indie developer Zeimtoer has released their first
game onto Android
called The Samurai Wars.
Four ex-Gameloft seasoned
game developers just founded a new
indie game development studio
called Sama Sama which means «You are welcome» in Indonesian.
These aren't just
indie games and bargain bin titles;
games like Dragon Age: Inquisition,
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Destiny are all heavily discounted.
Fairune is a retro 2D - Action
game developed by Skipmore, a Japanese
indie studio, that received a sequel on Nintendo 3DS last year (logically
called Fairune 2).
The service wasn't even
called Xbox Live
Indie Games when this
game first came to the public's attention, it was still
called Xbox Live Community Games.
The service is
called Xbox Live Gold, and allows you to connect and play with others online, and you get
games that are part of Xbox
Games With Gold each month, which are anywhere from smaller
indie titles to larger AAA titles for no money, allowing you to score some sweet
games for free.
Whether you are an
indie developer solely responsible for your
game's release or part of a large corporation with a team of hundreds of developers and publishers plotting a
game's success, if you are a
game designer today you are often also
called upon to be a business strategist.
US
Gamer calls Mario Paint «an era - appropriate solution to graphics programs on expensive PCs» which is «at least somewhat responsible for our modern era of 2D
indie throwback
games».
In a way, this
game's return is perfect for the early days of the Switch console; just as the original release in 2008 helped to usher in Nintendo's first shaky relationships with
indie developers on the WiiWare service, this 2017 re-release rings in an entirely new era of so -
called «Nindies» — one that, presumably, will find them at a happy medium between their developer - unfriendly Wii days and the era of ludicrous shovelware that was brought on by the Wii U's Web Framework.