I’ve always been a big fan of Kickstarter and what it means to the industry. Kickstarter has the unique ability to allow small studios and development teams to get access to funding through tapping right into their target market. Lately, we’ve seen larger companies using it to stay afloat, which goes a bit against what I think it should be used for. So today, we’ll take a look at some of the more unique and interesting [...]
A good deal on Kairosoft games is always newsworthy in my opinion. A free Kairosoft game is reason to celebrate. Right now on the Amazon for Android App Marketplace is a free copy of Pocket League Story ready for download. The reason for the freebie is simple. Amazon is now carrying multiple Kairosoft titles and felt they needed to make a splash in a big way. Currently they have on the marketplace English and Japanese titles for the following: Game [...]
Tucked away at SXSW this year was a small booth containing gameplay for Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Reloaded. For those that have been sitting out the news, Leisure Suit Larry is back in 2d form from Austin based Replay Games. He has gone through Kickstarter. He has gone through Steam Greenlight. Finally, with a month until release, he was in playable form. As I was cautioned however, the game is still in Alpha. Hit [...]
Games with environmental appeal usually flounder. Mario Sunshine for example has been remembered with disinterest and while Rainbow Rapture was cute, it was also somewhat demented. So when I stumbled across Pipe Trouble at SXSW, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. When I read that music was provided by members of a band whose naughty name rhymes with ducked up, I figured there had to be something here.
Man oh man, where do I even begin with this one? I suppose it wouldn’t be incorrect to say A Valley Without Wind 2 wears its influences proudly on its sleeve, That however, doesn’t really even begin to describe it because its influences seem to be just about everything. With A Valley Without Wind 2, Arcen Games tilts firmly against windmills by apparently trying to do just that. What’s really crazy is that, for the most part, it actually manages to succeed.
Role Playing Games are sort of my thing. I’ve been playing them for as long as I can remember and they are my favorite type of game if I really had to choose one. Many Indie developers go the route of the RPG because they are simpler to develop even though they have more content than other types of games, and because of this we see a lot of RPGs fly by us here at Twinfinite. Driftmoon is one of [...]
Sword of the Stars is an indie science fiction series of strategy games. With this latest installment, The Pit, Kerberos attempts to push into new gameplay territory by creating a dungeon crawler set in the series’ universe. The premise of this game is that your character must fight aliens, traps, and hunger to acquire a cure for a deadly disease — and death is permanent. Does Sword of the Stars: The Pit manage to straddle the line between being challenging [...]
Beating Bit.Trip.Runner is one of my proudest accomplishment as a gamer. Months of pure concentration and seething hatred culminated in one of the most compelling game I’ve ever played. Then Gaijin Games decided to return with Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future of Rhythm Alien and I knew now that God was not a merciful one but rather one that continuously tries you. So I sat down in front of my computer, took a deep breath, and went down the [...]
If you’re as old as I am, you remember PC gaming as the only real gaming a person could do in the early 90′s. Games were developed for the PC first and ported to consoles last. PCs had the power to play and later on, the internet well before any console could figure it out. LAN parties were a thing that happened and game mods were awesome things that developers didn’t include on the game disc and charged you $15 [...]
Though games like Syobon Action and I Wanna Be The Guy were early pioneers of the “masocore” genre, Super Meat Boy popularized and, arguably, perfected it. Since then, we’ve seen plenty of games in this vein – Dustforce, Spelunky, and even Hotline Miami have all put their own spin on the masochistic gameplay tropes that make the genre so special. In comes No Time to Explain, tinyBuildGAMES’ Kickstarter-funded cavalcade of craziness. The game itself may not have time to explain, but [...]
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