I admit lately many posts have been very retro, but I love the style and indies often do so too. So chances are you too if you read these lines. Enjoy the trailer for Wyv and Keep from a jolly corpse.
After watching the trailer I had a sudden urge to play some Super Nintendo RPG or a PlayStation 1 Final Fantasy … but all at once! Here is Evolands description from their website:
Evoland is a game and a story. The story of action adventure gaming as seen in the Zelda or Final Fantasy series, starting with the early age of action RPGs, when a few pixels were enough to make us dream for hours. New players will discover a bit of video game history and a very fun gameplay, and veterans will also enjoy a host of references to legendary titles scattered along the game.
This is awesome! I guess most kids these days won’t go near a classic pixel adventure, but this might just open their eyes to classics like Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana.
Now have a look at the trailer – then go visit their facebook profile or play Evoland Classic on their website!
Okay that video is named “Release Trailer” – so it is a bit early. But according to Sick Kreations it is right around the corner :
It is currently in playtest, and when the “cloaking boss feature”(top secret!!!!) we are adding is finished, it will go into peer review to hit the marketplace!
So lets have a look at the next FPS after NuclearWasteland 2030 from Sick Kreations.
So the new year is here and I reboot Indienerds. There are three reasons – the Oculus Rift (Virtual Reality), the LEAP (a better Kinect?) and my first game (most awesome game ever).
Let’s start with the …
Oculus Rift
I just discovered this and it looks quite cool – a turn based strategy game in the works by 2 developers from Romania. Have a look at the trailer
“Forging Europe is a turn based strategy game where you grow an early medieval city to an enlightened powerful empire.” www.forgingeurope.koncept.ro
more details and a much longer gameplay trailer wait after the break
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It´s all the fault of George Clingerman, or his son – because when George asked him “…what makes a game an indie game?” the answer was: “This is easy. Indie games have less than 100 people in the credits.” And then George posted it to Google+ where Philippe Da Silva and I started a small discussion. Then Philippe wrote a blog about it “Indie” = “Startup”.
I don´t really share Philippe´s point of view, even though he does make some good points.
So here comes what I define as indie (today – my opinion here is not set in stone):
You are indie …
… if your game design decisions are not based on exterior influences (like money, a boss …)
… if the motivation to create a game comes from yourself and not an exterior influence (like like the need for money, or a boss…)
… if you´d rather give away your game for free then see it getting lost
… if you know everyone involved in the creation process by name
… if you are free in the choice of your distribution channel (no that does not mean you need to be able to publish via XBLA!)
… if nobody else has a sayso in any decisions in your “company” (if you want a yellow bath duck in your company logo, then you can have it!)
It happens quite often that developers get into a rage about games that don´t live up to the true indie spirit and instead just go for the fast buck. Using cheap methods to gain attention instead of creating games that are awesome enough to stick out with brillance.
One developer that for sure is not the kind going for a fast buck is James Silva from Ska Studios – and with hit titles like I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1NIT!!!1 or The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai under his belt his games certainly stick out through brillance. The fast buck is just the result … and he has earned it. Lately he wrote a nice article about the honor behind creating real indie games – or the lack thereof with so many titles that recently hit the Xbox Live Indie Games channel.
Read his very interesting rant right after the “MORE” button (or you might miss his cute (or something) drawing!).
According to Michael Hansen from EvoFX Studio they could look like this.
I could live with that – for a phone that most certainly looks impressive to me!
