See this is how it works. They start a bundle then add to it so that we the press keep posting about it! I’m just doing my job telling you that the Voxatron bundle now includes Gish, Jasper’s Journeys, Chocolate Castle, Zen Puzzle Garden, and a sweet little Voxatron update to boot. Remember you’ve got to beat the average to get all the bonus goodies and there’s less than a week to get it at all.
Developer Smudged Cat Games has released their latest game Growing Pains. After an uninspired run on the XBLA platform with The Adventures of Shuggy, they’re giving things another go on the Xbox Live Indie Games platform. This basically translates to a win for gamers as it means we’ve got yet another talented developer offering up games at low prices. Hopefully the reduced expenses of publishing on XBLIG will translate to a win for the dev as well. Keep on reading below the fold for some fuzzy Growing Pains trailer. Keep reading
This patch comes at a pretty critical time for Dungeon Defenders. Despite loving the game and playing for well over 160 hours, I haven’t actually touched it in a several days. But here it is, patch 7.08 adding big time content like 16 player versus player capture the flag and a whole host of fixes and tweaks. The folks at Trendy Entertainment sure know how to get my attention back. Hit the jump for full patch notes. Keep reading
Do you have a supernatural ability to know exactly how far characters should overhang, or how close they should be to each other before it just gets to be uncomfortable, sexually? Then Kerntype is probably the game for you.
To play, you simply slide the inner letters of a word left or right in attempt to match the spacing defined by the elder typesetters of ages past. You’re rated on how close you are to the ideal kerning. It’s simple, short, strangely fun, and a cool way to get a better understanding of one aspect of typography that makes the discipline so interesting.
Give it a go at http://type.method.ac/
What do you do when you’re running low on paper? Well if you’re Chevy Ray and you want to take the development team of Hollow’s Deep to GDC you do what you do best. Finish up a game project and sell it. The story’s been developing most of the day as Chevy Ray has been tweeting about various plans to finance said trip to GDC. Initial speculation by Brooks and I was that we’d be seeing cookies for sale in no time flat.
Imagine this, but bigger and on your clothes!
Then something far more reasonable sprang up, news that Chevy would be selling FlashPunk branded shirts instead. Now we’re hearing that there is the possibility that we may be seeing a small game finished up with the assistance of Sara Gross to sell by the end of the month for the same funding reasons. The tweet in question is available below the fold but the most reasonable candidate for the game in question is the pig flipping game pictured above.
Sara is also selling prints of her own “Dick Move” T-shirt (as seen above) to help pay for her flight arrangements. If Melville jokes are your thing, you can buy one of those beauties here.
It’s a really really big adventure. It’s so damn big it bleeds into the adventures of every game you’ve ever known and loved. Abobo’s Big Adventure trailer is beyond description and you’re just going to have to watch it for yourself. The game is the brain child of Roger Barr, a man who’s been toying with it for nearly a decade. Fortunately he finally met up with the programmer and art guy he’d always been waiting for and one thing lead to another and then it lead to Abobo’s Big Adventure. The game is currently accepting beta testers, it will be a free flash game once completed and looks to be pretty epic. Jump below the fold for a BIG trailer and a little bit about the game’s story. Keep reading
If you follow my posts with any regularity then you are well aware of my inability to resist games with cute and cuddly things in them. I mean the only thing holding me back from Kinectimals is a room too small for a Kinect! Well that and my thirst for the blood of the people who dreamed up motion gaming. Alas I digress, what I’m really here to tell you about is Min: A Space Adventure.which is as the name indicates an adventure game set in the vastness of space.
Now as far as cute and cuddly, mostly it’s the narration that I find particularly endearing. It is almost as though she is imagining it on the fly in a starry eyed dreamy sort of way. The development studio behind the game is newly formed Cwerky Studios and they’re seeking a little funding Primarily the funds are to be used to finish up some of the art assets required for the first chapter of the game. In typical alpha funding style, there are perks for various levels of donations ranging from the basic to the grandiose.
Hit the jump and give the video a watch then head over to IndieGoGo and have a statue of yourself made for the minor donation of a thousand dollars. Keep reading
You want to talk scale? Lets talk A Valley Without Wind, an ambitious 2D Side scrolling action adventure that’s got all the fixings of an RPG rolled into a world of infinite procedurally generated possibility. The studio behind the game, Arcen Games, recently reached a new milestone in development. They’ve just finished up the first phase of beta and have since submitted the game to the 2012 Indie Games Festival competition. Not only that but the game is making its way to the now quite sold out MineCon as an exhibitor. So if you’re heading to Vegas for MineCon, you aught to stop by their exhibit and give AVWW a look over. Hit the jump for some gameplay footage and where you can find some additional information about Arcen and their games. Keep reading
Third Party Ninjas, the creator of Bluebones’ Curse and the iOS port of FunInfused Games’ Hypership Out of Control takes a little time to talk about the past, present, and future. Described as a “total failure commercially” Jesse Chounard discusses the various reasons the charming Bluebones only moved 282 copies. What’s more, we also learn that he is fired up and ready to get back to work on his next project Hero in Training. Which I’ve got to say is already oozing charisma in a video released a year ago. Hit the jump to have a peek at the footage in question and to find your way to the full blog post. Keep reading
Yeah they run these deals everyweek, but get this, sometimes they’re actually good. Like this week for example where you can take home Scott Pilgrim the Game for just 400 Microsoft Points. That’s half its normal price, what a deal! More importantly though, you can snag the Scott Pilgrim guitar for your avatar to rock out on and well, that’s just about all it will do. But it will do that for half off! Hit the jump. See the deals. Keep reading