Successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2016, Saurian is a game fuelled by a wonderfully imaginative concept: players become dinosaurs. Currently available through Early Access on Steam, it’s a survival-simulator from the perspective of hatchling dinosaurs trying to live long enough to grow up. Urvogel Games…
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…
Illustrator and character designer, Nicholas Kole, has contributed to a diverse range of AAA and indie projects. He worked on the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, creating character designs that brilliantly updated the look of the original for the remake. He collaborated with indie developers like Spiritwalk…
The hand-drawn 2D indie game trend seen with titles like Cuphead, Hollow Knight, and Indivisible continues with Guinea Pig Parkour, a game that recently hit its Kickstarter goal for Early Access. Developed and animated solely by Jeff Mumm, it’s a 2D platformer adventure following Joe, the…
“Yer a loose cannon, but dammit if you don’t get results.” Except those results will be worth nothing if the general public turns against your team. Welcome to the psychological noir-detective thriller, Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived. Critique Gaming casts players in the role of…
The digital convention LudoNarraCon returns next year. Focused on narrative video games and founded by Fellow Traveller, it was first held in May 2019 as a live streaming event hosted on Steam. Exhibiting games showed demos and behind-the-scenes material, and speakers discussed various subjects on…
So the trailer for 3 Minutes to Midnight looks really good. It looks like another awesome example of illustration come to life. There’s a mix of stylized drawing, brilliant color, and almost painterly texture moving across the screen. The music and visuals in the trailer…
Halloween is a time to enjoy all of the spooky things in life. Ghosts, ghouls goblins…and other things beginning with a G. One of those other g-words is games, and one of the best horror games going is Lone Survivor. Check out why it’s so…
Described as a mix of Groundhog Day and Shakespeare, Elsinore is Golden Glitch Studios’ first game and a Kickstarter-funded project. It’s already won awards like “Most Unique Game” at Power of Play 2017, and caught the attention of WIRED. Nominated again for IndieCade, Elsinore returned…
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…
While the Area 51 raid may have ended up being a massive disappointment, aliens are still an interesting topic. In the spirit of moving on from the failed raid, I decided that this week we should take a look at some alien-themed content. Chaos is a…
After making the rounds at E3’s Indiecade this year, insectoid arcade game Killer Queen Black is making its way to PC and Switch this October. From Liquid Bit and BumbleBear Games, Killer Queen Black is an homage to the classic arcade game of the 80s,…
Between her costume designs for BioShock Infinite and her historical Disney series, Claire Hummel is a prolific artist with an intricate and elegant style. While exhibiting at the first edition of LightBox Expo, an attendee admired her illustration of Medusa, praising the emotion and ideas…
Based in France, Magic Design Studios released their first 2D platformer game, Unruly Heroes on multiple platforms. The game’s website describes Unruly Heroes as having “lushly illustrated environments and [a] hand-drawn art style.” The game’s story “updates [the] classic tale [of Journey to the West] into…
Last weekend the Pasadena Convention Center in California was packed as the inaugural LightBox Expo celebrated artists in a variety of visual arts, ranging from illustration to gaming. With programming consisting of panels, demos, and portfolio reviews, LightBox also gave artists a venue to exhibit…