SUPER PHANTASY FIGHTERS is a platform fighter developed by solo dev Andrew-P using visual assets and lore from Phantasy Star Online 2 (Sega, 2012). That technically makes it a fangame, but that label doesn’t fully cover everything SPF has going on under the hood. Andrew-P made all the code in the game from scratch, from controls…

I made an exploration game, Tall Trails, and released it recently on Steam. So, I wanted to catalogue a list of some of the silly, not fully polished things that shipped in the game that no one has complained about so far!

Summer means two things around here: hot dogs and AllStars. Luckily for us here at Back Alley, one intrepid team of developers crafted an experience that marries those seasonal pillars with the threat of carpal tunnel and a healthy dose of Wii-era shovelware nostalgia.

To the average person, a flute is perhaps one of the least intimidating instruments in the orchestra. To marching band survivors flashing back to piccolos trilling at full volume, it’s a bad memory. To players of Miki Straus’s Pan, it’s something else entirely. A weapon.

Future dystopia has never before been so full of rats. In Rats Rats Rats, the second runner-up in the Audience Choice category at this year’s AllStars, you’re a rat. Don’t feel bad, though, everyone else is also a rat.