Indie News: August 14th
The Underside preview
Releases
Cryptic Sea: New arena shooter released by the team behind Coil (note: adult content). Also, a new bridge building game is currently in development.
Ben Jordan Case 7: The penultimate chapter of this long-running paranormal investigation series is now available for download.
Previews
Overwave: Monokey (Force Majeure) is working on a new vertical shooter.
Hoshi Saga 3: Yoshio Ishii is currently working on a sequel to his popular puzzle collection series.
Release Dates
Jumper 3: Matt Thorson will release a new sequel to his popular 2D platformer on the 24th of August, 2008.
Braid: Jonathan Blow has hinted that the PC version of his critically-acclaimed platformer might be coming out sometime in October 2008.
Updates
Toribash: Version 3.4 released. (download page)
Fraxy: mon's top-down 2D shooter gets a new update.
JellyCar: The Windows version of Walaber's physics-based obstacle course game has been updated to version 1.1.
Articles
Breakthrough Developers '08: Twenty noteworthy game developers (some indie) were recently featured in a special Gamasutra article.
IndieCade: Games shown at the indie-friendly showcase at E3 profiled by Joystiq. (Kotaku coverage)
Controversial games: MSNBC had named a number of games considered offensive by many in a special eight-page article.
Miscellaneous
Assembly 2008 Summer: A couple of seminar videos from Finland's largest computer festival are now available for download. (source: Jari Komppa)
Dot Fighters: Apparently Takase is still working on a major update for his 2D versus fighting game.
Online scoreboard tutorial: A rather useful guide (especially the MySQL and PHP sections) for developers who are looking into implementing high score submission features into their projects. (source: monoRAIL)
Price cuts: Eschalon Book 1 is now selling for $19.95 (reduced from $27.95), while the price of Kudos 1 has been halved to $9.95.
DigiPen: Sophomore games added to the gallery.
Legend of the Chambered: Fans of Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder may want to keep tabs on this promising Java applet project. (gameplay video, play LotC)
Vanguard: Baltirow is currently working on a four color CGA-style action game (pictured below).
Comments
"New arena shooter released..."
I love the way you avoided going into detail with this one :)))
Posted by: Gr.Viper | August 14, 2008 6:52 PM
Must say it,
The creator of The Underside is a god.
Really, you are very good man, I mean VERY good, the game looks amazing.
Congratulations you have an outstanding skill.
Posted by: Ynitsed | August 14, 2008 11:54 PM
You had me at "new Bridge Builder game."
Posted by: PF | August 15, 2008 10:21 PM
Underside looks great, but the art looks like it was ripped wholesale from Doukutsu Monogatari. I mean, just look at it. The powerups look the same, the damage looks the same, even the characters look very similar. I'd love to play it, but I feel that I'd be uncomfortable with it's similarities.
Posted by: Noobchan | August 16, 2008 9:25 PM
Noobchan, you are a douche. Get over it.
Posted by: Anonymous | August 20, 2008 2:00 AM