Gaming’s underground: an indie games primer
Like most commercial artforms, video games have a vibrant community that exists outside the commercial realm. People are making games that are less influenced by the marketability of the graphics, the concept, and the gameplay conventions—and in many cases they…
Three great gaming blogs (two new to me)
Awesome gaming blogs are coming out of the woodwork. I have found two excellent blogs in the past week that were not at all on my radar before. The first is Play This Thing! That’s their exclamation, not mine, but…
City Rain: Awesome twist on city building
IndieGames.com spills the beans on City Rain—a cross between a city-building sim and a falling block game. It sounds to me like just the twist to bring new life into this sub-genre that has remained virtually unchanged since the release…
The Legend of Princess
The IndieGames.com blog highlights a new indie release entitled The Legend of Princess. Unfortunately, I can’t fire it up right now because the Windows partition on my Macbook Pro died a horrible death and will no longer boot or mount….