Author Archives: Brandon Boyer

About Brandon Boyer

Just trying to live a wild, pure, simple life.

Retro Remakes flipside: Demaking modern games

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

The other side to the Retro Remake phenomenon is, of course, the demake (a term, I’ve just found out via Wikipedia, was coined by Polytron’s Phil Fish): taking a modern game and simulating it as if through retro tech. We’ve … Continue reading →

Retro Remakes: The official repository

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Because there’s just no way I could adequately cover all of the excellent remakes that have flowed out of the indie/freeware community over the past several years, here’s the resource from someone that has, which you should pay close attention … Continue reading →

Retro Remakes: What Offworld readers want

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

No one emerged a clear winner in our straw poll to see which games Offworld readers would like to see remade, though a common thread did appear to emerge. System Shock was actually the first game to garner more than … Continue reading →

HCUFS & VMACHIN: the unlikely combo that brought down Scribblenauts

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

‘Brought down’s obviously an overstatement, but the Occam’s Razor trouble with creating a game in which players can do “anything” is that they’ll use that anything to skirt the obstacles you place in their way. In Scribblenauts‘s case, it’s an … Continue reading →

A little Love: Quel Solaar’s impressionist MMO gets test client, character

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

The best news I’ve heard in quite some time: Eskil Steenberg’s abstract painterly MMO Love is prepping a beta release possibly “just a matter of days” away, and has let loose a test client to gauge performance on various machines. … Continue reading →

Retro Remakes: Minter releases Gridrunner Revolution, Space Giraffe bundle

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

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Formerly known as: Dyson opens pre-orders, ask for new name

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

IGF grand prize nominated strategy game Dyson has just partnered with digi-distro Digital2Drive to open preorders for the game ahead of its October 20th release, and at the same time are announcing a new contest to let fans give it … Continue reading →

Offworld Gallery: Say Hello to Hello Games

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Less than a week away from announcing their first game, a little introduction to Hello Games: you may have spotted — especially if you were on the GDC Austin show floor — Hello’s recent appearance in Edge Magazine, where they … Continue reading →

Why I’m going to Indiecade (and you probably should, too): Pt. 3

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

For my final entry this week on why I’ve decided to go to LA for the Oct. 1-4th Indiecade conference/festival (and why you should come, too): a quick and dirty run down of all the games that have been selected … Continue reading →

Hey Montreal: go see the debut of Polytron/Infinite Ammo’s Power Pill Sept. 30th

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

As part of Montreal’s latest Pecha Kucha Night, coming Wednesday, September 30th to the SAT (1195 Saint-Laurent), Fez creators Polytron will be on hand to talk about the “highs and lows of designing a multi-touch game for fun and profit”: … Continue reading →