Indie News: April 7th
This is a Cry for Help: Edmund McMillen (Gish, Triachnid, Twin Hobo Rocket) has redesigned one of his old sites to include nearly every single game he has a hand in creating in the last few years.
Echoes: fog reveals the secret code to unlock Crack, a hidden game in Binary Zoo's arena shooter.
auntie pixelante: dessgeega has a new site up. She reviews all sorts of indie games on it.
Four Elements VI: GameDev.Net's 4E6 competition entries are now available for download.
Updates
Toribash: Hampa's physics-based fighting game updated to version 3.2.
Powder Game: Earth Editor 1.0 released. New gas feature also added to DAN-BALL's popular physics simulation tool.
Interviews
YoYoGames: Sandy Duncan interviewed by TVGB.
Line Rider: The developer of the popular webtoy interviewed by Alistair for a new GameSetWatch column.
Blueberry Garden: Erik Svedäng interviewed. (source: Maggie Greene, Kotaku)
Press
Graveyard, The: Chris Kohler takes a look at Tales of Tales' latest release.
Indie Nation: Gamma Bros mentioned on Destructoid.
Miscellaneous
Resonance: Preview for xii games' upcoming release posted. (screenshots)
Audiosurf: A new beta is available from Invisible Handlebar's forums.
Dev.Mag: The latest issue of this free publication includes reports on the AGS engine, Synaesthete and GDC.
Snow: The developer of Muon and Reversed had posted several screenshots from his new game in the Poppenkast forums.
P.B. Winterbottom: Postmortem for the IGF Student Game Finalist is up on Gamasutra. (web site)
Seizures: An article on why games with flashing images should have proper epilepsy warnings.
Comments
Just wondering if you guys have done an article about this little known gem called Ad Astra
http://granttlc.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/independent-games-festival-2008-part-1-ad-astra/
http://www.a-astra.com/index.htm
Posted by: Ziltron | April 6, 2008 9:11 PM
That really does depend on your definition of "hand" though because I know for a fact that Edmund has worked on a few more games than that! This is definitely his main stuff though.
Posted by: Mr. Scapetti | April 6, 2008 10:28 PM
Nice Edmund, oh BTW Edmund has posted this news on Newgrounds and we got more stuff about Gish 2 and Triachnid 2:
"Gish 2 is a few months into dev. and will be out around the end of the year, we currently talking to all major consoles, but probably an online release (xbla, wiiware, sony online)
Triachnid 2 is currently a few days into dev, caulder is redoing the engine so it will probably take a month or so to get things going, but it will come out! and it will be free!"
Here you can find it: http://bluebaby.newgrounds.com/news/post/104534
Posted by: Anonymous | April 7, 2008 6:06 AM
This isn't exactly new news, but since I just got back today and found out about it mere minutes ago, let's pretend it is and start praising the great god of indie gaming who somehow was able to restore faith in one of his most trustful servants. For you see, some random chap who goes by the name of ikiki on the interweb put together a nice 'n shiny website intended for showcasing all of his precious work here:
http://ikiki.sokushinbutsu.com/himoji/
It's a whole lot more sophisticated than his old "place where I'll dump all my games" kind of site over at Vector and additionally features several sweet artworks and even handmade gif animations, mostly starring the obligatory naked guy(s). Some of them are equally weird and disturbing, but others would make for excellent avatars I'd say.
Major point of interest though probably the fact that he's gone and finished two new games in the meantime:
-Curry Ki
Put curry in the best possible position in order to create the ultimate curry onigiri.
-Tobioriya
Save the lives of suicidal naked guys jumping off of the top of a building ikiki-style by using bow & arrow to hit them in midair and pin them to the wall. Yes.
Posted by: Random Passersby | April 7, 2008 9:08 AM