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One Special Game artwork competition celebrates iconic video game series #indiegames #onespecialday #specialeffect #onespecialgame

SpecialEffect is accepting official fan artwork submissions for titles including Mass Effect and Stardew Valley for it’s One Special Game artwork competition.

One Special Game artwork competition

Gamers’ charity SpecialEffect has launched a new community artwork competition that aims to celebrate a selection of iconic video games. The ‘One Special Game’ initiative is now accepting submissions in…

Cat Cafe Manager #indiegames #indeigamepreviews #indiedevs

In Cat Cafe Manager, you become the manager of your granny’s old cat cafe in the small countryside village of Caterwaul Way.

Besides hiring staff and decorating the cafe, you also have to take care of and eventually adopt some of the many cute and fluffy stray cats that roam the streets. Each cat is unique: with its own look, stats, and personality. It’s your job to pick out the right…

How To Implement Choice in Videogames? #indiedev #indiegames #indiefeatures

In my last post, I discussed the purpose of narrative in games (to enhance game play). Now I’m going to get a bit more technical and discuss the purpose of choice in video games. How to implement choice in Videogames?

How to implement choice in Videogames?

First, what is the purpose of choice? The purpose of choice is to give the player control over the story. Unlike in a book or movie, in a…

Top 5 indie games of July 2020: The IND13 Picks #IndieDev #GameDev Featuring: @SUPERHOTTHEGAME @TributeGames @route59games @Amanita_Design @PolyTreehouse Read here:

In July’s indie games, we talked to trolls, drank coffee in the afterlife, met furniture monsters, moved with time, and put on a power armour.

The second half of the year has begun! It’s been a hell of a year, in many ways, but the second half is where all the video game action usually is. July did not disappoint in the least when it comes to indie games. Our highlights include a visual novel, an…

Savage Boat – A game of sea savaging activities @game4everyone #indiegame #indiedev #indiepreview

I am in love of games and I have been playing a lot of games, that’s why I created Savage Boat. I watched movies about savaging ships that saved lives and ships in accidents and dreamed about this when I was a small child. I had tried to find any games like this ever existed, but I had never succeeded until I decided to create one myself. In this article, I am trying to introduce you the game…

How much money do Steam games make? @VG_Insights #indiegames #indiedev #steam #Rimworld #Subnautica

Hi, I’m Karl Kontus, one of the creators of a free games market research platform Video Game Insights. In this article, I will look into how much money do Steam games make? How much revenue Steam games have generated over their lifetime – is it really as low as we’ve anecdotally heard? I’m going to cover all Steam games, then dig into indie games in particular and look at how it changes by genre.

Stuck in Röki? This walkthrough will guide you through finding the ram skull, retrieving the Krokelings, and making the mask of invisibility.

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 1 – Cabin)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 2 – Escape)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 1 – Hurting Troll, Mother Tree, Dagger)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 2 – Wolf Puzzles, Wolf Staff, Nokken)

Röki Walkthrough…

Indie Game Releases of the Week: 3rd to 9th August 2020 #IndieDev #GameDev Featuring: @FinishLineGames @1C_Company @MightyPolygon @Creamative_ @FallGuysGame Read here:

This week in indie games, we have the party game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, first-person puzzler Relicta, arcade brawler Clan N, and more.

This week’s indie games involve a fantastical skull, a science-fiction thriller on the Moon, a mad colourful party game, a samurai-themed brawler, and a crime-themed strategy game set in 1960s London.

Be sure to check out our curated honourable indie…

READY, AMPERSAT, GO! #indiegames #indiedev #indiepreview

Upcoming RPG puzzle shooter Ampersat proves a bedroom coder can still make magic

Full disclosure: I was an early beta tester on this releasing-in-September Steam game created entirely by a former colleague (and still friend).  However, I feel that having battled through all of its dungeons and towers, and been informed of the refinements that have been made since, qualifies me to rave about it.

A…

Stuck in Röki? This walkthrough will guide you through finding the song sheets in the Bear Guardian vision in order to escape.

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 1 – Cabin)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 2 – Escape)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 1 – Hurting Troll, Mother Tree, Dagger)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 2 – Wolf Puzzles, Wolf Staff, Nokken)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2…

Stuck in Röki? This walkthrough will guide you through fighting the spider Widow Drau and then freeing the Tomtes she tied up.

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 1 – Cabin)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 2 – Escape)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 1 – Hurting Troll, Mother Tree, Dagger)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 2 – Wolf Puzzles, Wolf Staff, Nokken)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2…

Stuck in Röki? This walkthrough will guide you through exploring the church, solving the Bear Puzzles, and making a torch.

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 1 – Cabin)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 2 – Escape)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 1 – Hurting Troll, Mother Tree, Dagger)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 2 – Wolf Puzzles, Wolf Staff, Nokken)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part…

GOD'S MARGARITA #indiegamepreview #indiegame #indiedev

In God’s Margarita question where and why? Will the future always be progressive, or are we to awake in a landscape that looks more like our past, full of misery and destruction?

These are the thoughts that led Furstentum Liechtensteinto create God s’ Margarita. A biographical, adventure game. A modern proposal that highlights the character and the psyche of its heroes, discovering and revising…

How to Win - Taking theatre gaming online #indiegame #indiedev

How to Win is a new online adventure game where the story is shaped by suggestions from its online audience. Your choices change everyone’s story

How To Win

Created by multi-award winning UK theatre company Hidden Track, and commissioned by Harrogate Theatre as one of Manchester HOME’s HOMEMakers commissions, How to Win tries to capture the frenetic energy of a live performance within an…

Ticket To Heaven #indiegame #gamecrowdfund #indiedevs @HandmadeLLC

Ticket To Heaven – Fight to heaven or stay in hell. Kickstarter campaign launches July 30

Ticket To Heaven

Unique art-style, familiar elements borrowed from other popular multiplayer games but been put in a purely exciting experience are the words by which we define our latest game. Ticket to Heaven is the game that we are talking about, a title in which we try to make feel the real craze of the…

HIVE QUEST #indiegame #indiedev #indiegamepreviews

Solo Indie Dev releases Hive Quest demo after Kickstarter. Vertical Slice showcases bugs life in an enchanted wood for crowdfund campaign

It’s been more than 3 years in development so far and with the latest round of play testing, bug fixing, marketing, art directing, coding and every other dang hat he’s been wearing Rod Tyson, the founder & creative director of Goldenheart Games, has just…

Stuck in Röki? This walkthrough will guide you through escaping the vision you find yourself in when you meet the Wolf Guardian.

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 1 – Cabin)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 1 (Part 2 – Escape)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 1 – Hurting Troll, Mother Tree, Dagger)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2 (Part 2 – Wolf Puzzles, Wolf Staff, Nokken)

Röki Walkthrough – Chapter 2…