After an unsuccessful Fig campaign last year, director Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro and his studio White Owls are once again seeking crowdfunding support for his new project, The Good Life—this time through Kickstarter. At more than a third of the USD $638,000 goal already raised, things are looking better than they …
There’s a lot to like about Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds. It comes out swinging with a full-motion video opening that’s both intense and charmingly retro. From there, you’re thrust into a gorgeous world of hand-painted, pre-rendered backgrounds, anime-style character designs, mystical prophecies, and strange monsters. For a game …
A fifteen-minute pre-alpha demo of Black Hive’s upcoming side-scrolling action RPG Kova is enough to make me very excited about the full game. The first thing that hit me was the beauty of the world, as my character woke up from a crash landing on deserted, icy planet. With it’s …
Australi #1 is a fine start to what’s sure to be great series, drawing on Australia’s wealth of untapped potential for fantasy. Australia is a land of stories. For 40,000 years, Indigenous Australians shared knowledge and culture in the stories passed down from generation to generation. The sands of time …
One of the best things about the recent surge in indie game development is the chance to hear stories from so many different voices; voices that are all but locked out from the traditional, AAA route. The relative accessibility of game creation tools, running the gamut of complexity from Twine to …
We haven’t had a new IGAvania in six and a half years, but finally, Koji “IGA” Igarashi has come out of the shadows with a new project: a “A gothic, exploration-focused action platformer” called Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. His is probably not a household name, but as the person …
