Wraithkal's Indie Gaming Corner

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt over the years, it’s never to underestimate the creativity of DigiPen students. Super Space ____, a physics-based arcade game where teamwork is vital for survival, is a recent example of such. Don’t be surprised if things end up more competitive than co-operative though!
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Boy is Jack Haunt ever in a pickle. As if being a wandering spirit stuck between the two realms isn’t bad enough, he’s also managed to lose the deed to his haunting grounds in a poker game, forcing him to evacuate the premise. There’s one problem though: Rules say he has to locate his earthly remains prior to leaving, and as fate would have it, he’s forgotten where they are. Time is running out for Jack Haunt (again).
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I’m sure more are familiar with Bundle In A Box than its good friend The Indie Dev Grant, but in my opinion they deserve equal attention, as both do a lot for indie developers in their own way. As it turns out, Kyttaro Games are bringing both back for another round, so let’s go over the specifics.
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Do you know what an Oceanspirit is? Well, probably not and neither do I, yet in this game you’ll be taking up the role of Ray, who’s been tasked with tracking down one such and enlist his aid! Fortunately, an Oceanspirit known as Dennis has been spotted in the neighbouring city, so this shouldn’t take long. Or it wouldn’t, if ‘someone’ hadn’t decided to block Ray’s passage across the bridge. Time to point & click this problem away!
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Oh boy. We have a history, me and this game. I’ve lost track of how many times this game has kicked my ass, yet I kept coming back for more. How could I not? It’s so much fun! But at the same time, so bloody difficult… And now it’s back with a vengeance, along with a level editor, lots of new levels and, well, more cool new stuff!
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It seems Stone Monkey Studios, like me, thinks that we can never have enough adventure games. These guys have fired up a Kickstarter for City Quest, a rather silly take on the old ‘small town boy travels to the big city, hoping to make a name for himself’ story, with a heavily pixellated art style, plenty of humor, a fair amount of politics and… much more. One man, one mission!
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Oh look, another action platformer with pixel art – yawn, right? WRONG! For starters, have you ever played a game with fully destructible terrain… in 2D? Somehow I doubt it and no, Terraria doesn’t count – I said destructible, as in explosions or gunfire, not a shovel or a pickaxe! That’s not the only way in which BROFORCE differs from the norm either: how about playing as pop culture action heroes, like Rambo or Judge Dredd? aha! Got your attention now, eh?
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Energy balls? ENERGY BALLS! Finally, a game in which your main thing isn’t guns, swords, rocket launchers, laser beams or some magical mojo! Instead, technology is your best friend in CrossCode, where you’ll have to fling energy balls around with great precision, curving them around corners and pulling off crazy trick-shots to make it.
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I recently decided to embark on a journey that will hopefully let me to create something truly remarkable at some point – learning how to program/code! It’s still in the early stages though, as I haven’t even picked a language yet, but ya gotta start somewhere, right? Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Indie Update!
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More and more animals are disappearing every single night in Forli, which can mean only one thing: a kidnapping spree! Such a crime must be stopped as soon as possible, so The Feline Council enlists the aid of Orazio. While this guy is hardly the brightest four-legged creature in town, he’s still the right man (cat) for the job.
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