Some indie studios rise and fall as the tides of gaming shift. For 10tons Ltd., they've managed to stick around for over 13 years by going with the waves and shifting development to the platforms that are in demand. Their latest title, Neon Chrome, is a return to their twin-stick shooter roots and Sampo Töyssy, Vice CEO of 10tons...
We first looked at The Red Solstice over a year ago while it was still in that Early Access phase and returned to it every so often to "check in". The game saw a full release earlier this month and we were interested in learning from the developers just how that much exposure (for so long) helped to shape the final product. Developer...
Many of the users on this site likely recognize Nick Puleo as our former managing editor/Co-Optimus founder. A few may also recognize him as one of the two gentlemen, the other being Dave Paul, behind Brain Shape Games. This month in Indie-Ana Co-Op, Nick and Dave give breakdown for us how they went about developing the co-op for SCHAR: Blue Shield...
This week in Indie-Ana Co-Op, Jesper Kristiansen, Audio Lead and Communications handler at BetaDwarf Entertainment, shares with us the lessons learned from the development of their 2013 hit, Forced. Every game's development has its share of triumphs and losses/difficulties, but the story of Forced is one that is all of its o...
Things were shaky for Retrovirus developer Cadenza Interactive for awhile. The Kickstarter campaign they launched for their cooperative six-degrees-of-freedom shooter failed due to a variety of reasons. Yet the small development team managed to press on and released the game on Steam last month. We talk with Matt Enright, one of the lead developers on the game, about how they managed it all, what challenges they faced, and what's next for them.
The folks at RockPaperShotgun recently posted a stirring post-mortem with Mark Venturelli and Gabriel Texeira of Critical Games, the studio behind DungeonLand. It's a surprisingly meaningful tale that, with the right spin, could be a movie of the week: deep in the heart of Brazil, a group of freelance illustrators band together with the stubborn goal of making a video game. The odds are stacked against them in a country sparse with indie game creators. But they fight, they persevere, and they emerge on the other side with the shining gem that is DungeonLand.
This week in Indie-Ana Co-Op, we speak with John Common, the creative mind behind the zombie indie co-op game, Dead Pixels. If you haven't had a chance to play it yet, I highly recommend it. It's a bargain at $2.99 on Steam, and a steal at $0.99 on the Xbox. A year after its initial release, the game is still going strong and we wanted to find out from John what's been so successful about the game and what he's learned along the way.
G4TV sat down with Gearbox VP of product development Aaron Thibault, producer Stephen Palmer and game director Matthew Armstrong to discuss Borderlands in a new post mortem. While they get the full story on things we've already heard about - art style, dlc and release dates - there is some new material that's worth a read.
