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Patch Notes: Drift Shell
On April 11, the closed online alpha test for Preston (or Slaps)’s upcoming online multiplayer action game Drift Shell launched. The game, where players take control of a mech and fight in a low-poly world, is created by a one-person team and inspired by PS1 games like Armored Core (FromSoftware Inc., 1997).
SolarFlare
In my experience, all indie gamers love pixel art and hate corporations and the way they’ve changed the world. SolarFlare, an upcoming co-op, roguelike hero builder includes both evil corporate executives and a beautiful pixel art grid, making it an ideal experience for indie gamers.
A Return to Detect-Dev
Detect-Dev is a sci-fi narrative mystery game with themes of corporate corruption. The two main characters — Dev, a cocky detective straight out of the academy and AV1NA, his wisecracking, lie-detecting robot sidekick — use three kinds of logic puzzles to solve a murder at an animation studio.
Getting Coffee with the dev of an upcoming shoot ’em up
Newgrounds has always been a place friendly to fresh ideas, scrappy underdogs, and gratuitous blood splatter. From animations to flash games, aspiring and veteran artists and developers alike used the site as a testing ground for new ideas and a repository for their best poop jokes.
From that primordial soup springs Contract Rush DX, a wide-release…
If you give a llama a haircut
Indie City Games’ January weekend jam was titled “Alpacalypse!,” and no game exemplifies that theme quite as much as “A Llittle Off the Top,” a short comedy game produced by programmer Dwight Davis, writers Mike Gillis and Dave Kornfeld, animator and musician David McQuary, and sound designer Griffin Guge.