Indie games

Card Saga Wars – Link vs Cloud

This time Link versus Cloud. As you can see, we improved the older sprites and animations to match the newer characters, and also improved the combat interface as well as Link’s stage: Sacred Forest Meadow. The one freeware PC game that I’ve been waiting on since 2008, I’ll even go so far to say that it might be even greater than Smash Bros.

Cave Story Good Things Coming Soon…

There was a rumor on the internet (originating from IGN) that Cave Story was going to launch sometime in September of this year. That would mean a Quarter 3 WiiWare release, however the good people from Nicalis have recently shot down that accusation. I think Matt at IGN must have gotten his wires crossed. We’re aiming to release Night Game around September. Pixel, Tiffany, Yann, Nicklas, Mi...

Youtube Tuesday – Custom Sprite Design

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Irony alert: Core gamers will save the industry, analysts say

How’s this for some Friday morning irony? Analysts, who at first said the casual audience was a fad, then changed their tune and said they were the future of gaming, have again decided to prove their irrelevancy by saying in these tough economic times it is the core gamer that will save the industry.

Anguna: Warriors of Virtue and Homebrew Gaming

A few days ago I sat down with Nathan Tolbert creator of an indie game Anguna Warrirors of Virtue for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS and asked him a few questions about the development process of homebrew games. Not only was Nathan happy to talk about it with me but he went into great detail about it and even recommending a few programs to use. If you every wanted to try and make a game for ...

Get with the holiday spirit 8-bit style!

If you are familiar with the 8-bit music scene then you probably have already heard this album and already know what it’s about. For those of you who don’t know much about the scene, it is basically comprised of people who feel that old school console game music is superior to everything out their is now. They continue to produce their own bleeps and bloops on the actual system hardwar...

So World of Goo is pretty much the greatest downloadable game ever

Portal-style writing + Fisher Price meets Tim Burton graphics + brilliant and varied gameplay + Danny Elfman-like music = something truly special. Agree? Disagree? Discuss.