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Now on Kickstarter is Trouble in the Manor, a multi-player online horror game about survival for PC, iOS, and Android. In a haunted manor far away, ten strangers are stuck together for unknown reasons. An ancient vampire, Count Murdock, lives in the basement and will…
Let’s Go to Prison With The Escapists By Marcus Estrada [divider] The Escapists did quite well for itself when being funded on Kickstarter. In the end they received about double the asking price and have been hard at work on the game ever since. The…
CasinoRPG – Previewed By Marcus Estrada [divider] Many of us enjoy the thrill of gambling at least once in a while. I’d be lying to suggest that even I don’t enjoy a jaunt to Las Vegas every once in a while. The only issue with…
As hard as it may be to believe, not all games on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are platformers, roguelikes, dating sims, or Oculus Rift enabled. Some of the games are a bit more straightforward, like CasinoRPG from GoldFire Studios. Funded on Kickstarter in early 2013 for…
I have a strange relationship with retro games; I love them, and I hate them. I love them because they bring me back to my childhood; long summer days in Orange County with the windows open, a pile of snacks, and Red Baron, Wing Commander,…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]ower defense games and RTS have been overlapping a bit lately, and what’s been popping out of that odd little union are some great, fast paced light strategy games, and the newest entry to the genre is Bruce McLavy’s Northern Guard: Assault, an RTS about…
Guido Henkel, one of the minds behind such masterpieces as Planescape : Torment, and Realms of Arkania 3, is back in the RPG game, this time with Deathfire : Ruins of Nethermore. A first person single player hardcore RPG, Deathfire feels like Legend of Grimrock…
Kickstarter’s Top 50: How Good Are They? by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite being around for many years, it wasn’t until a few massive projects landed on the site that most video game players earnestly began to back projects. It’s fitting that the project that started this…
Besides showcasing new games, this year’s IndieCade proved to be a time for looking back on the festival and indie games in general. On a panel called “Indie Histories: Handmade Pixels and the IndieCade Book,” game theorist Jesper Juul and IndieCade co-founder Celia Pearce discussed…
After finding success with The World Next Door and Cat Lady, Rose City Games and publisher VIZ Media have a new project in the works. Described as a mix of adventure RPGs and social simulators, their newest collaboration, Garden Story follows Concord, an anthropomorphic grape on a…
Originally from Alaska and a graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Sarah Webb is an artist with a comprehensive career. She has worked as an intern for Blue Sky Studios and Sparkypants Studios. She develops her own ongoing webcomic Kochab alongside creating comics…
Aivi Tran is well known for working with their partner surasshu on composing the musical score for Cartoon Network’s critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning animated series, Steven Universe. Known together as aivi & surasshu, the two give the show a video game-influenced soundtrack, filling it with…
PC gamers have grown accustomed to a unified digital platform over the past two decades. For better or worse, Steam has become the de facto game launcher. Most PC titles, since the platform’s debut in September of 2003, have released through Steam. The Epic Games…
Hill Agency: BARK & byte is a unique game right off the bat: a futuristic cyber-noir detective game with an entirely indigenous cast. The game is currently campaigning on Kickstarter and its imaginative world has already generated a lot of interest. It even managed to…
ARTE, a Franco-German TV channel that features several documentaries and films, also makes games. According to GamesIndustry.biz, ARTE experiments with video games as a new way to tell documentary-style stories. Their current catalog consists of Vectronom, Vandals, Californium, Type: Rider, Homo Machina, Alt-Frequencies, A Fisherman’s…