PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Enjenir is a physics-driven sandbox game with a clumsy medieval engineer that fumbles his way from one construction project to the next. Farrell and Mackenzie form the two-person indie studio Peaty Turf. From the building mechanics, all the way to the third person character movements. As long as it works.

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Engine Engineering Build Mechanics 129

AWS Games

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’re a larger studio or game publisher then odds are you have multiple titles in production internally or throughout a portfolio of startups and indie studios you own. If you’re a smaller indie or startup studio then you may be operating on lean budgets to make the most out of your latest funding round.

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Studios Games Sandbox Point and Click 52

Game Errors

APRIL 6, 2023

Putting Effort into Putting No Effort In At All Before tearing into this game for being one of the most low-effort games in the Far Cry era, one has to say that if this were a brand new game with a different title and from a different developer, you would praise its mechanics and some of its graphics and design.

Terrain 52

Terrain Mechanics Sandbox Bug 52

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

So I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that "learned" how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. When cool European indie artists do it, I can abide it, but if I do it, I just feel too smug. What does the giant hole symbolize?

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