Posted in Indie Games on Oct 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Indie award-winner World of Goo is celebrating one year on the market, and players can celebrate too with a special pick-your-own-price deal. Up to October 19th you can purchase the game through developer 2dboy’s site for the price of… you name it! It can be a quarter dollar, five dollars or, if you’ve won the [...]
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Posted in Deals, Indie Games on Oct 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Indie outfit Amanita Design are close to releasing their first fully commercial project, Machinarium, and Direct2Drive are offering a 25 percent discount on all pre-orders of the game made until October 16th, slicing 5$ off the 20$ pricetag.
Machinarium is a 2d adventure game in the unique and charming style that made Amanita’s previous games, Samorost and [...]
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Posted in Free Games, Indie Games on Sep 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Indie Developers Digital Eel have released their 2002 game, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, for free.
Strange Adventures is a fast playing rpg in space, a sort of small, randomly generated little brother to classics such as Star Control and Starflight. Explore the galaxy, meet exotic aliens, land on planets, trade and fight and try to discover as much [...]
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Posted in Deals, Indie Games on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
The D2D Store’s 4th week of its anniversary deal focuses on Independent games. Now you can buy each of the following titles for 5$ only:
Mount and Blade – A freeform rpg game where you lead a band of warriors in a medieval world, the focus being large battles between warbands, including battling on horseback (average review [...]
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Posted in Deals, Indie Games on Sep 5th, 2009 No Comments »
celebrating Labor Day weekend, NY based indie devs Wadjet Eye Games are offering their adventure games for 50% off. Their main game series is the Blackwell Chronicles, a series of paranormal mystery adventures starring a reluctant medium and her “spirit guide”. You can now get the first chapter, The Blackwell Legacy (a 2006 release, 80 [...]
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Posted in Deals on Aug 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Not to be outdone by Direct2Drive’s Best of Indie Bundle, Steam also offers a great collection of indie titles for one sweet low-calorie price. Taken together, D2D’s and Steam’s bundles cover a good portion of the best indie games of recent years, a real treat for those craving originality.
Steam’s bundle consists of [...]
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Posted in Deals on Aug 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Direct2Drive’s got some great prices on some worthy titles.
First there’s a 30% discount on The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, the expanded edition of a great role-playing game from 2007 (review average 86). In a world of dark magic and political intrigue, guide Geralt the monster hunter as he unravels a conspiracy, battles supernatural foes and [...]
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Posted in Free Games on Aug 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Experiments with storytelling can take us to whole new worlds of gaming, as anyone experienced with the text-based gaming form called Interactive Fiction can testify. Unfortunately, these days innovative interactive storytelling takes a backseat to technological pizzaz and shock value.
Low budget indie developments and student projects are the place to search for innovative new [...]
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Posted in Indie Games on Jul 29th, 2009 No Comments »
If you love role-playing games (the video game type, we’re not serving any other types here) and don’t mind some retro graphics (as in 1990-retro), then you should really get to know Spiderweb Software.
Jeff Vogel, proprietor, senior designer and lead programmer, makes up about 95% of this indie developer, with bit parts taken by [...]
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Posted in Deals on Jul 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
The original indie platform-puzzle game with the even more original name, And Yet It Moves, Can now be purchased for a mere $5 (until Sunday that is).
The game differs from your run-of-the-mill platformer by letting you spin the game screen in 90 degree intervals, causing game objects. as well as the player character itself, [...]
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