PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Now, with the follow-up, Nirvana Noir , the New York-based indie studio Feral Cat Den is crafting audio-visual poetry in motion. Previous to making their own indie games, the studio’s background was in advertising and product design. Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 17, 2024

Japanese indie game developer Yamada has used ChatGPT as a key design element for his latest project, Doki Doki AI Interrogation. “Many game developers at that time were trying to replicate experiences like TRPGs, Werewolf, or lateral thinking puzzles with ChatGPT,” he explains.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. It allows players to instantly swap places with any physics based object which allows for some clever puzzling through the relentless levels. “We

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A shooting schedule for an indie film goes way beyond simple calendar planning. Picture it as a complex puzzle in which you need to line up limited resources, tight budgets, and a creative vision to bring your story to life. A well-laid-out shooting schedule is crucial for your indie film's success. Let's tuck in!

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And I believe that creative freedom is the greatest quality that an indie game has, as it is free from labels and return demands from big investors.” That’s how I worked on the level design and puzzles in Raccoo Venture, for example. Of course, if it doesn’t work out you won’t be able to blame anyone!

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

He decided to start his own indie game development studio, Overwrite Interactive , and create a video game from scratch. Operating as Gerel, players will explore the whimsical land of Muur, meet some of the quaint and quirky locals, battle enemies using melee combat, and unlock new areas by solving puzzles on a quest to reclaim her children.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 6, 2025

From Christopher Nolan's mind-bending blockbusters to scrappy indie gems squeezing gold from every penny, one secret ingredient binds them all: meticulous script breakdown. This isn't just pre-production planning - it's your production's superhero cape, ensuring every piece fits perfectly into your filmmaking puzzle. Of course not!

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This brand-new feature will allow the players to approach the gaming action in large-scale battles in multiple ways. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? While a project like CoD must spare thousands of dollars for this, others, like indie games, may be promoted for free. And what genre will you pick?

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

Earlier the game players were constricted to play online games such as simple puzzles to adventures series only on the desktop, but the massive development of mobile technology within the past few years has brought a noticeable change in the game application development industry. It has robust features with a neat interface.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here you'll get a front-row seat to the exciting development process for indie game Kristala, the inaugural title from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—an indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. Nick started by modeling out the base armor set your see featured on the right. Let's take a look at Cass's impressive work.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Astronomical observatory simulator, manipulating telescope POV, rotating planets on lens display like dioramas or puzzle boxes, relaxing, immersive 360 experience in space, UX pillars: precision, real-time, comfortable distances, avoiding locomotion sickness. A reliable system of interaction for puzzle mechanics. Not necessarily!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. Up next for Harold?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The main benefit of supporting C# is that, all of a sudden, Godot will become a more-than-tempting option to the indie and corporate cultures who are used to products supporting this language. As always, we want to implement the features that our community wants the most, and C# support is definitely one of the most recurrent topics.

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Game Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Once again, the event – organized annually by indie label Fellow Traveller – brought together panels and talks, as well as presentations and sales of games that focus on storytelling. I had an outline of where I wanted to go with places and puzzles and characters. “Monkey Islands 1 and 2 were very much improv games.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Kristala Featured at IWOCon 2020. If this is your first time joining us, we're super happy to have you! 3D Asset Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. It's been a hard year for all of us, especially for independent creators.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The common point is that both were the co-founders of the indie games company Scuttlebutt Games. The profiles make me think of something indie-looking. This second team is a bit of a headscratcher: Can an indie game team create something on PC and Console with a big-enough scale to be worth for Supercell?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Here's a look at some racks Bianca created that will be featured in the Blacksmith quarters. and they're not wrong.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures! Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Wanna check out the 10+ armor mockup sketches Pete initially created before landing on the final design featured below? 3D Modeling.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This year, we featured 22 inspiring creators in our Solo Developers-series and we love to share some of their highlights in these final days of the year. Team up It was right at the beginning of the pandemic, in early 2020, when Austrian indie dev Dominik Hackl started working on Summit , a 2D mountain-climbing Metroidvania.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The game has already been turning heads with a nomination for Best Saudi Indie Game and a win in the Graphics Galore category at the Devcom 2024 Indie Awards. Turtle with camel features At its heart, Bahamut and the Waqwaq Tree is an underwater adventure rooted in Arabian themes. ” Aflah laughs.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. No point in having to solve the same puzzle over and over. This gag was perfect, and in some ways better then making the player solve more puzzles.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. No point in having to solve the same puzzle over and over. This gag was perfect, and in some ways better then making the player solve more puzzles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

On looking deeper, it was found that this was driven by two things - 30-35% of the growth was driven by increased IAP integration in various hypercasual mini-genres, most notably Puzzle. Clearly, the move towards hybrid-monetisation tactics has begun in Hypercasual. Success of new entrants in the genre was quite limited.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Breath of the Wild features picturesque natural environments, whimsical characters, vibrant colors, and perky sound effects. The game features edgier imagery, corrupted natural environments, hostile characters, and realistic sound effects. Is there a fog obscuring hidden threats, or is the level in clear view for easy puzzle-solving?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. And we reckon if Supercent threw in a couple of extra features and maybe a catchy tune, it would just take this title that extra mile. And explosions.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Or at least tweaking features over and over again. It’s something different.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Or at least tweaking features over and over again. It’s something different.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA. In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces.

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DameDev.tv

JANUARY 22, 2024

The game's focus on exploration, puzzle-solving, and character interactions has garnered widespread acclaim. This ambitious RPG features customisable spaceships, and a plethora of planets to explore. This indie gem stands out with its puzzle-based gameplay, centered around light manipulation and environmental interaction.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. The cartoony art style is applied in the development of puzzles, educational, adventure, and hyper-casual online games. It’s hard to clearly outline the key characteristic features of the cartoony 3D art style. Fantasy Realism.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

and try your luck at winning a FREE PS5 Disc Edition, courtesy of women-lead indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Featuring the latest releases from studios large and small—and from developers old and new—Play NYC celebrates every facet of gaming in a way that only the Big Apple can. Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. I know it's easy for armchair indies like me to complain about pulling punches. Loadout is 3 guns. Deathloop couldn't trust the player as much as Outer Wilds.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog. Wanna see more of Amanda's work from this sprint?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here. AND NOW WE FINALLY CAN!!!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. If you're new 'round these parts, let us help you get properly acquainted. 3D Modeling.

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