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Indie Games Uprsing III Review: City Tuesday – Signs, signs everywhere a sign

September 18, 2012 stevelesniewski 7 comments

City Tuesday by Return to Adventure Mountain is time-bending puzzle game that focuses on prolonging and staving off an impending terrorist attack. The overall dynamics of the game are brilliant and well-designed; however, the game is over shortly after it begins. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi3TnXqXbj8 In City Tuesday, you are a man who is tracking down bombs hidden throughout the city before […]

Indie Games Uprising III Review: Gateways! – For science!

September 16, 2012 Tristan Rendo 6 comments

Gateways takes the Indie Games Uprising III through portals and time and twist everything up in the process. To try and write this review without referencing the obvious source material would be possible, but pointless. The game is Portal, but 2D, a whole hell of a lot more difficult and with a lot more than just a simple portal gun. […]

Indie Games Uprising III Review: Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos

September 15, 2012 stevelesniewski 7 comments

Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos by Andreas Heydeck Games is an office simulator with some comic relief. Smooth Operators has some addictive early playing, but it fails to make the later game as exciting or economical to continue. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BBx1nhiEA Smooth Operators lets you control a budding call center from a one small office building with the hope of creating a […]

Indie Games Uprising III Review: Diehard Dungeon – With a Vengence

September 14, 2012 Tristan Rendo 4 comments

The third title in the Indie Games Uprising III has arrived and in doing so redeemed the Uprising after the 2nd game unfortunately fell flat. Diehard Dungeon is a homage to the dungeon crawlers of old, mixed with some new, combined into a retro styled game that is not only aptly named but also a lot of fun to play. […]

Indie Games Uprising III Review: Sententia – Stick and Stones…

September 12, 2012 Tristan Rendo 5 comments

The Indie Games Uprising III continues onto its 2nd game, Sententia by Michael Hicks or Michael Arts, if you prefer. A colorful platformer/puzzle game that takes on the very difficult task of making a game about growing up (and this isn’t no Zelda – transporting into the future and suddenly being an adult type of growing up either). Ultimately, Sententia […]

Return to Adventure Mountain Studios leading a double-life

September 12, 2012 stevelesniewski One comment

By day he is one of many, writing software for a computer company. But, by night, he is something different entirely – he is a game developer. His name. Zukowski. Chris Zukowski. “I write software for an enormous computer company that makes servers that store so much data that almost no one, except for a few banks and government institutions […]

Andreas Heydeck Games finds games in life

September 10, 2012 stevelesniewski One comment

What’s in a name? Shakespeare riddled off 154 numbers for his collection of sonnets. The Beatles’ second Capitol Records album was given the inventive name of The Beatles’ Second Album. Andreas Heydeck followed the same path, naming his studio, Andreas Heydeck Games, after himself. However, his games have much more inventive titles, including his newest one Smooth Operators – Call […]

Indie Games Uprising III Review: QRTH-PHYL – What’s old is new again

September 10, 2012 Tristan Rendo 4 comments

The Indie Games Uprising III has begun. As a community, the developers of the XBLIG scene have banded together to unite under a common banner, to stand shoulder to shoulder and scream loud enough that even the most aloof gamer might hear them. In that spirit, together, they have chosen to start by chanting… QRTH-PHYL… which is pronounced… qurth-phil? Qrith-phile? […]

Download the Indie Games Uprising III soundtrack for free!

September 10, 2012 Tristan Rendo One comment

Celebrate the start of the Indie Games Uprising III with the original soundtrack for the Uprising. The guys of VVGTV.com took the time to put together samplings of the music from all of the games in this years Uprising into one convenient soundtrack that you can now download for free. Indie game music from indie games made by indie developers. […]

Indie Games Uprising III has begun!

September 10, 2012 Tristan Rendo One comment

Today marks the beginning of the Indie Games Uprising III, the community ran, community supported effort to raise awareness of the XBLIG channel and promote indie game development. A total of 9 games, 8 of which cost only $1 (80 MSP) will be released starting today and going through September 20th (on Monday-Friday). In the end, all 9 games will […]