Indie News: March 10th
Previews
DigiPen Games Gallery 2007: A preview for the latest batch of DigiPen student games is up, though actual downloads will only be available sometime in April 2008.
Sandbox of God 2: Mr. Chubigans had posted a release schedule for 2008 in his new development journal.
Machinarium: New artwork added to the official web site.
Remakes
Hunters Moon: The remake of Thalamus' shoot 'em up on the C64 is now available for download. (development thread)
ChopRaider: A Flash remake of Raid on Bungeling Bay, originally posted in the Retro Remakes forums.
Freescape: A video demonstration for the Freescape engine remake uploaded.
Miscellaneous
24hr Game Jam: thatgamecompany is experimenting with rapid game development by creating a multiplayer game in under one day. (gameplay video)
Pixel's RPG: Seems like development work on his new project has been suspended or abandoned entirely.
Line Rider: Gamasutra's piece on the upcoming release of Line Rider for the Wii, DS and PC.
Bone Movie: Jeff Smith's comic book series will be headed to the silver screen soon.
Comments
There are quite some interesting games on that list. It doesn't really look
like one of them will evolve into the next Synaesthete (I guess Portal is
totally out of the ordinary in terms of success), but there might well be
innovations which can influence the industry to some extent :)
Posted by: MisterX | March 10, 2008 10:17 PM
Pixel's abandoned his RPG? Damn, that's sad to hear. I was really looking forward to seeing it. Can someone confirm this, though? His English is obviously not the best, so it could be that he's actually only taking a break from it or something, I don't know.
Meh :P
Posted by: Roxxboxx | March 11, 2008 4:18 PM
What Pixel means is that progress is halted. ("Is stopping" is a very Japanese-grammarlicious way of saying that.) He's never mentioned canceling it entirely, but it's been in this status for at least six months now, and his focus seems to be on Pxtone Collage (his music synthesizer). In other words, don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Shih Tzu | March 11, 2008 8:15 PM