Sentences with phrase «indie games portal»

Keith Stuart: FortressCraft has fought accusations of plagiarism to become the most successful title on the Xbox Live indie games portal.

IndieGames.com - The Weblog - News: BusinessWeek Arcade Wow, BusinessWeek has an indie game portal now?

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PC is, of course, the ultimate haven for indie developers with technically no entry barrier but skill, and Steam has managed to profit immensely out of simply providing a secure, stable portal to these games.

Over at Greg Costikyan's Manifesto Games website, he's revealed that the indie portal's first exclusive game will be «Playing With Fire», a»... highly unusual platform puzzle game in which you play a giant ball of fire — and burn things down.»

This game was made as part of a promotion for Valve's Portal 2, where we — together with a bunch of other indie developers — took part in an Alternative Reality Ggame was made as part of a promotion for Valve's Portal 2, where we — together with a bunch of other indie developers — took part in an Alternative Reality GameGame.

We've previously covered the intriguing Kongregate indie web game portal, but we spotted that they have sign - ups open to the public right now.

Abzu's publisher, 505 Games, has worked with Nintendo to release various indie games on the Switch including Portal Knights and Terraria, so we won't rule out Abzu on the Switch just yet.

But Russ is also part of the casual / indie game biz himself, as marketing boss of Reflexive Entertainment, which both distributes casual games and makes its own - Wikipedia has a good list of Reflexive's own - developed titles, and their portal is also v.important for PC casual titles.

You can accuse it of being Portal and Minecraft's lovechild all you like, and it has some awkward physics that detract from the fun somewhat, but for recent indie puzzle games that weren't called Quantum Conundrum, you could do a hell of a lot worse than QUBE.

For an indie developer it's definitely a solid effort but in a world filled with AAA games like the Portal franchise, games like this need some type of gameplay innovation or personality that makes them stand out.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun» As Narbacular Drop Is to Portal «Perhaps there's a room for a blog post looking at indie games that could potentially be the germ of a commercial idea».

We also saw more overtly indie friendly portals like itch.io, and the Humble Indie Bundle, offering new marketplaces and ways of selling games — even if many later bundles proved a dead -indie friendly portals like itch.io, and the Humble Indie Bundle, offering new marketplaces and ways of selling games — even if many later bundles proved a dead -Indie Bundle, offering new marketplaces and ways of selling games — even if many later bundles proved a dead - end.

It might be the perfect venue for indie game developers looking to expand their reach beyond a shrinking or well - established market such as game portals and mobile app stores.

The Xbox Live Indie Video games portal on Xbox was often known for its below average quality of games along with its hidden gemstones.

We thought that the play Indie games to accelerate Portal 2's launch countdown and message was the end of it... but by the looks of things, Valve aren't quite done with us.

Indie developer Flashhbang announced it's started development on a successor to Off - Road Velociraptor Safari, a much bigger project than its previous Blurst portal games developed in 8 - week cycles like Time Donkey.

Finalists and winners of the Independent Games Festival since its 1999 debut have included landmark indie games such as Braid, World of Goo, Super Meat Boy, Portal predecessor Narbacular Drop, Minecraft, and a host of other seminal titles.

The golden age of indie superstars may be over, Steam and other portals may be awash in thousands of games, but it's now easier than ever to drive sales of niche and creative titles.

In a surprising move, Campo Santo, the developer behind indie hit Firewatch, has recently been acquired by Valve, the monolithic game company behind the digital distribution platform Steam and critically acclaimed titles such as Half - Life and Portal.

Unfortunately, puzzle games have become increasingly «indie», even with fantastically successful games like Portal 2 showing behemoth publishers that there is, indeed, a market for them.By the way, the Wii U Smartglass deathcontroller does have some kind of motion sensor in it, right?

The Xbox Live Indie Games portal on Xbox 360 was often known for its mediocre quality of games along with its hidden gems.

Between the two of them, Facebook seems to be aggressively securing more exclusive Oculus - only titles, while Valve is relying on first - party games like DOTA 2 and Portal Stories: VR and a much wider indie developer selection.