Ye olde London was not a nice place. Grime, dirt and detritus covered the streets, smog hung in the air, hygiene was more of a myth than reality and people disappeared on a fairly regular basis due to being pressganged, walking down the wrong alley, drunkenly stumbling into the ocean or any number of delightfully degrading deaths,. Living day to day was a hardship for the common people, made all the harder by the absurd cost of meat. But…humans are meat, right? Seems like a prime business opportunity. Cue the Ravenous Devils, Hildred and Percival, and their lives of butchery and business management.
Tag: indie
Trigger Witch Review – 50. Cal Magic Spell
I do love a quirky concept. I’m a sucker for the kind of premise that someone dreams up after downing 9-pints and then finding a pen and a napkin. In the case of Trigger Witch, these witches have ditched fireballs and pulling cute rabbits out of hats for something far better: AK-47s. Nothing can make a problem vanish quicker than a hail of bullets, and so now witches accept firearms from the strange Ordinance Rift and become members of The Clip. Their old traditions and their magic fading into the past, they now worship at the alter of gunpowder.
Let’s Play Project Temporality
Project Temporality is a fascinating indie game that I currently have in for review that focuses on the use of time to solve puzzles. The player can rewind and fast forward time, as well as create clones that follow your previous actions to the letter. I’m barely an hour in and already I’m struggling to…
Microsoft Announces Indie Developers Will Be Able To Self-Publish Their Games On The Xbox One
Microsoft have once again executed a complete 180-degree spin by announced that independent developers will be able to self-publish their games on the Xbox One, a reversal on Microsoft’s original policy which stated that indie developers would need a publisher in order to get their games on to the console. In a statement released today…
‘The Brothers Rapture’ Indie Film Visits BioShock’s Rapture Before It Went To Hell
Within BioShock can be found one of the most iconic worlds known to gaming, the vast and hauntingly beautiful Rapture, an underwater city that was once a eutopia and is now nothing more than a place of death, inhabited by Splicers and worse. Now, an indie film is set to go back in time before…
Interview – DJArcas, Creator of Fortresscraft
On its very first day Fortresscraft became the best selling Indie game in the history of the Xbox 360 by selling a whopping 16,000 thousand copies. In just seven days it generated more revenue than previous record holder, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH 1N IT!!!1, made in an entire year. If you want even more statistics…
Cepinas – Review
Indie Games Title Price: 80MSP Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: Yes Co-op: No. In my eyes there are never enough space strategy games, and so it was with interest that I played Cepinas, a game that challenges you with conquering planets – by using the CONQ weapon – while stopping the enemy doing the same. At its heart Cepinas is…
2010 – The Best of the Indie Games
Written by hobblejp. In this past year we’ve heard a lot from big companies. We’ve had “Pre-owned games are stealing from the mouths of Developers children” We’ve had “People playing online so much should pay us extra for the extra value” The “We can lock stuff away on our disk and charge you for it because…