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  • Mattias Gerdt, Music For IGF Nominee Cobalt: Part 1 [Interview]

    Oxeye Game Studio’s action platformer Cobalt has received honorable mentions in the technical and visual arts categories for the 2011 Independent Games Festival. It is also a finalist for excellence in sound design. IGF’s judges had this to say about Cobalt: “The soundscape in Oxeye’s Cobalt was also praised for “giving it the amount of [...]

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    Hello friends, fellow readers and indie game lovers. You may have noticed a distinct lack of content and updates from yours truly these past few months. Truth of the matter is that we’ve struggled to gain traction in a world dominated by up-to-the-minute news from mega blogs like Kotaku.com, Joystiq.com and, yes, even IndieGames.com/blog (for [...]

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    Earlier this year I had my first experience with a strategy series called Mount & Blade, and it’s successive sequel Mount & Blade: Warband. Despite being a huge strategy and RPG fan prior to playing these games I had, for whatever reason, completely passed them over when they were initially released. So, when I finally [...]

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  • Mattias Gerdt, Music For IGF Nominee Cobalt: Part 1 [Interview]

    Oxeye Game Studio’s action platformer Cobalt has received honorable mentions in the technical and visual arts categories for the 2011 Independent Games Festival. It is also a finalist for excellence in sound design. IGF’s judges had this to say about Cobalt: “The soundscape in Oxeye’s Cobalt was also praised for “giving it the amount of [...]

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  • DIYGamer.com State of the Site + Updates

    Hello friends, fellow readers and indie game lovers. You may have noticed a distinct lack of content and updates from yours truly these past few months. Truth of the matter is that we’ve struggled to gain traction in a world dominated by up-to-the-minute news from mega blogs like Kotaku.com, Joystiq.com and, yes, even IndieGames.com/blog (for [...]


  • playpen Rom Check Fail developer Farbs has unleashed on us all the Web-based communal adventure game creation game, Playpen.

    The game presents you with a blocky point-and-click adventure interface; as you click around and explore, you will find your choices leading you down increasingly eccentric avenues — until suddenly you hit the edge of the world. Say you click on a path leading to a fountain, but there is no target page to the click. You are then dumped into a simple image editor, where you can paint the scene yourself and designate however many links you like, to however many other pages.

    Rather like a wiki, you can also edit existing pages — though in doing so it pays to be polite and cautious, as that’s someone else’s work you’re tweaking. Come to think of it, I guess Playpen would be best described as the Wikipedia of adventure games. Which is to say, imagine Wikipedia as a videogame.

    As you’d expect, Farbs has set up a whole community around the project, with discussion boards, edit histories, and user preferences. You’re perfectly free to camp out your own corner of the world, invite your friends, and flesh it out to your heart’s content.

    And there you have it. Go on and get creative. Be civil, and don’t get pulled into stupid politics. Pip pip!

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    • The Daily Stash « GamePron

      05/30/2010 05:15 PM

      [...] for $1. Indie Links: Panicky and Traumatized. Text Zedventure gets reviewed on infinitecontinues. Farbs’ Playpen allows you to explore ...

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