You’d think Mr. McMillen has enough games on the go to worry about, but apparently not.
To be released in March, his next flash-based project has been given the name ‘Spewer’, a lovely title (and clearly a charming game, if the screenshot below is anything to go by). McMillen describes this latest flash-tastic as ‘a lot more in depth then the other flash games ive released recently’.
Oh, and the guy above? His name is ‘Dr. Cool’. Yep, we’re in for another weird one.
Dates for this year’s IndieCade gatherings have been posted up on the official IndieCade site.
IndieCade provides developeres with a means of getting their games out there for both potential buyers and gamers alike, while allowing players to check out all the new offerings and undiscovered talent.
The dates for this year are as follows:
IndieCade @ E3
June 2 – 5, 2009
Los Angeles, CA
IndieCade @ SIGGRAPH
August 5 – 7, 2009
New Orleans, LA
IndieCade 2009 Festival
October 1 – 10, 2009
IndieCade Europe @ GameCity
October 26-30, 2009
I’ll pretty sure I’ll be checking out the Gamecity IndieCade when the time comes, so of course you can expect Independently Speaking to report back on all the goings-on.
Head over to the IndieCade site now and check it out.
You know those times when you invite some friends over, you stick a game on, and it’s so gloriously multiplayable that you end up hunched over it for the entire night?
Well here’s one to feed another night of group gaming. Mystic Mine has been released and first impressions tell me that it’s going to be an essential piece of multiplayer action. Developed by Koonsolo, I spotted this little gem about a month ago and today received word from team-member Koen Witters that their mining extravaganza has been released.
The aim of the game is to direct your minecart around a maze of tracks using just one keyboard button to change the junction ahead of you in an attempt to complete an objective before everyone else. There’s some awesome optical illusions going on there too, with tracks which are seemingly higher up leading upwards to lower down parts… pretty crazy stuff.
I’ve had a sit down with it for a couple of hours and, while the single player doesn’t seem to be much cop, the multiplayer looks like a sure-fire winner. However I’ve only managed to play it 2-player up to now, and since the big selling point of the game is the 6-player bonanza, I’m going to wait until tomorrow when I can rake in a bigger crowd to help me decide before delivering my full Independent Opinion.
Stay tuned.
We already knew that Flower, thatgamecompany’s upcoming Playstation Network game, was hitting America shores for $9.99.
Now European prices have also been disclosed. We’re looking at €7.99 in Europe and £6.29 in the UK. Using the currency conversion skills locked inside your brain (also known as ‘Google’) it’s pleasing to find that, in comparison, that’s about $8.99, so us Euros are getting it on the cheap!
It’ll help tackle the Credit Crunch, you know.
I was expecting innovative, completely crazy yet cool ideas from ‘The Big Boys’ at the Global Game Jam, but these… these threw me a little.
Petri Purho of Crayon Physics fame went for the ‘That’s pretty unique’ with a large dollop of ‘What the hell!!’ for his effort, called ‘4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness’. The object of the ‘game’ is to keep the program up for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, allowing the white to engulf all the black. The catch is, if anyone else in the world loads up the game, your game will end. I know… what the hell, right?
“It’s an exploration to what actually defines a game. You can win or fail in the game, but there is no user input or interactivity of any kind. I was tempted to leave the graphics out completely, but I figured that the white progress bar is abstract enough.”
Fair enough. Onto the second rather odd submission from none other than Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel.
AVGM, or ‘Abusive Video Game Manipulation’, asks you to repeatedly click a light switch over and over again to make objects magically appear, so you can then arrange them in a lovely order. Apparently you need to flip the switch 10005 times to win.
See, the problem is that people who understand (and I say that in very loose terms – to understand the man is to be lying to oneself) Mr. McMillen will know that this whole thing is a bit of a micky-take and anyone who actually clicks the damn thing that many times has just a little too much time on their hands (says the guy who’s posting on an indie games site for no personal gain).
This cannot be more obvious in the little comments he makes:
“UPDATE: The game now has 10 different endings that each make a piece of a puzzle. put the puzzle together and e-mail me with the info for a prize!”
Indeed. Two very strange games from three very indescribable minds.
Independently Speaking has moved! Well… kinda.
While Independently-Speaking.com used to redirect wuh-wuh-wuh surfers to the WordPress blog of the same name, Independently-Speaking.com is now the main site itself, with all site material available straight from there.
Have no fear! All links aimed at the WordPress blog will still get to their destinations un-harmed, while the RSS feed still works perfectly fine too! (even though I predicted that it wouldn’t)
So hail to the new, slicker site setup! But don’t you go worrying your little tooties there, mister – it’s still the exact same site, just with a cooler address.
Did I seriously just say ‘tooties’…
You may have noticed that, while the actual address for this site is independentlyspeaking.wordpress.com, the link www.independently-speaking.com will redirect you here also.
Sometime tomorrow, however, there’s going to be a bit of a change. A swap, if you will. www.independently-speaking.com will become the main site and independentlyspeaking.wordpress.com will begin redirecting there. I decided that Independently Speaking needs a proper site address and so, from tomorrow, it will!
Of course, moving the whole site is going to cause problems – RSS feed will probably stop working, previous links from other sites will become dead… but I’d rather get the move done sooner rather than later.
So don’t forget to add the new site address to your favourites/sign up to the new RSS feed!
You may also note that this is my 100th post since IS began. Hurrah!
