The indie development scene is perhaps richer and more interesting now than ever before across consoles, mobile and PC. These are the best, most interesting games and stories from that world.
Apple is showcasing a ton of cool indie games in iTunes. Outstanding new releases like Ticket to Earth, Euclidean Lands and Beglitched are on sale, along with an army of 99p classics. There are far worse ways to spend a couple of quid.
Greenheart Games, creators of the excellent Game Dev Tycoon, have announced their second game: Tavern Keeper, which is basically a fantasy pub simulator.
Fangamer are releasing an Undertale artbook, which has commentary from creator Toby Fox throughout, and features all sorts of concept art.
Ignore them, and things get weird.
Four and a half years after the campaign launched, it’s finally over.
The Procedural Generation Jam 2016 ended today, giving amateur and professional designers a chance to create some organised chaos. From endless shooters to infinite meadows, ‘Proc Jam’ offers plenty of variety.
That is a big-ass turtle: MOOD are back with another “cinematic novel”, this one called Brimstone.
In an effort to imagine a “not-a-sequel” to Swindle, Dan Marshall worked with artist Gareth Davies to create some concept art for a more sci-fi take on the game's core concepts.
Josuhe H. Pagliery and his partner Johann Armenteros are hard at work on Savior, an artistically ambitious 2D platformer. But they've got many hurdles to overcome.
r00nk has definitely shown some serious chops here.
This year looks to be filled with a number of stunning curios, from well-publicised games like Fullbright’s Tacoma and Supergiant Games’ Pyre, to more recent arrivals like Different Cloth’s Drive!Drive!Drive! and Ghost Time Games’ Jettomero: Hero of the Universe.
Five people play as scared high school kids, and one person gets to play as the villain in an old horror movie, hunting them down one-by-one.
Routine will finally be out in March 2017. Fans of Alien Isolation might want to take a look.
The First Tree looks like Journey: Fox Edition.
My Summer Car bills itself as “the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance, AND permadeath life survival simulator.” It’s taught me a lot.
Drum & bass producer SleepingEggs sampled the dulcet tones of Hyper Light Drifter for this wicked EDM track.
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