Articles tagged "indie games"

Cool is dead. Long live videogames.

Early Wednesday morning, on the second day of the 2012 Game Developers Conference, a row of news vans lined the street outside the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Disappointingly, and perhaps somewhat ironically, they weren't there to cover the vari…

High-polish, multi-million selling titles may dominate today's videogame industry, but Doug Wilson and the crew at Danish games company "Die Gute Fabrik":http://diegutefabrik.com aren't afraid to get messy. Their rowdy party games like _Johann Sebast…

Bennett Foddy is the closest thing the indie game development scene has to an internet troll. His games, most famously the addictive track-and-field Flash title "_QWOP_":http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html, are designed to frustrate and bamboozle uns…

There are thousands of apps for making music on an iPad, and most of them are actually pretty dull. Touchscreen devices, possessing all the tactile finesse of a featureless slate of rock, just aren't great physical synthesizers. But as it turns out,

Almost every videogame ever made has a soundtrack, but there are still very few that let you _become_ the soundtrack. A work-in-progress from Montreal based developer Phosfiend Systems is helping to correct that. "_FRACT_":http://fractgame.com/ imagi…

If you spend any decent amount of time talking with videogame developers, it won't be long before you hear the age-old conundrum: There is an incredible surplus of great ideas and an unfortunate shortage of publishers willing to fund them. But for Ti…

Filled with a renewed sense of child-like wonder (and perhaps a few space martinis), a mixed crowd of lucky star gazers arrived at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City last Thursday to experience the cosmos through a lens like no other: videogames…