Monthly Archives: June 2009

A Toast to the Queens: noonat’s ‘domestic violence’ game

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

And speaking of domestic violence, making it the subject of Ludum Dare’s most recent two-day mini-competition should have been asking for very thin-ice type trouble, but out of it came noonat’s flixel-powered Queens, a short (and, in keeping with the … Continue reading →

Video: 8-bit arcade classics are back, in Lego form

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Lego Arcade, by YouTube user MlCHAELHlCKOX, whose Lego/game obsession goes back several years to his original Lego Marios (the first of which is below the fold). [via Morgan Tucker]

One shot: a shot against the dark, The Path as bears

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

How do you inoculate against all the underlying domestic horror and tension in Tale of Tales’ coming-of-age game The Path? If you’re Sarah Lomba, you re-imagine all of its key players as adorable, un-corruptible little bears. There’s probably a fairy … Continue reading →

One shot: Jude Buffum’s ‘We Are Error’

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Not to go Jude Buffum overload, but as long as he keeps making them, I’ll keep plugging them, as with this: cover art for We Are Error, an album from game music metal cover band Year 200X, a name which … Continue reading →

The War-driver’s delight: WiFi treasure hunting in Aspyr’s Treasure World

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

The most important thing you need to know about Treasure World — the just-released DS game from developer Aspyr — is that it, and by it I mean the actual DS cart that you snap in and execute — is … Continue reading →

One More Go: Why Typing Of The Dead makes me feel so alive.

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Margaret Robertson

I love spam poetry. I horde it and treasure it and dream of one day releasing it as a short anthology and making my fortune, as so many poets do. I got some very fine stuff through the other week, … Continue reading →

Obsolescence test: Rolando [NOT] leaving the App Store alongside July 1st sequel launch

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

[UPDATE: ngmoco have reversed course on the decision, which, as suspected, was simply intended as a short term experiment: We did not intend to deprive you of the ability to re-download or update our games. Rather, we had wanted to … Continue reading →

Tweet (#2388111474)

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

The 1st & last indie-game-composer groupchat you’ll need, feat. Diamante, Schlarb, Baiyon & I am Robot and Proud: Link

Tweet (#2388036652)

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

New week, new shameless iPhone clone of an indie hit: ‘Dock’s excellent Tumbledrop Link becomes Blopo Link

One shot: a peek beyond the peak of SUPERBROTHERS’ Alpinist

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

…something… lies beyond the summit of Craig D. Adams’ Kurosawa-inspired in-progress work Alpinist (which is mountain-high on my most anticipated list), as shown at Toronto’s recent Hand Eye Society event. Previously: Mountain game: Craig Adams' Kurosawa-inspired Artsy design … The … Continue reading →