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  • Mattias Gerdt, Music For IGF Nominee Cobalt: Part 1 [Interview]

    Oxeye Game Studio’s action platformer Cobalt has received honorable mentions in the technical and visual arts categories for the 2011 Independent Games Festival. It is also a finalist for excellence in sound design. IGF’s judges had this to say about Cobalt: “The soundscape in Oxeye’s Cobalt was also praised for “giving it the amount of [...]

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    Hello friends, fellow readers and indie game lovers. You may have noticed a distinct lack of content and updates from yours truly these past few months. Truth of the matter is that we’ve struggled to gain traction in a world dominated by up-to-the-minute news from mega blogs like Kotaku.com, Joystiq.com and, yes, even IndieGames.com/blog (for [...]

  • Same Ol’ Ball Game… Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword [Preview]

    Earlier this year I had my first experience with a strategy series called Mount & Blade, and it’s successive sequel Mount & Blade: Warband. Despite being a huge strategy and RPG fan prior to playing these games I had, for whatever reason, completely passed them over when they were initially released. So, when I finally [...]

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  • Mattias Gerdt, Music For IGF Nominee Cobalt: Part 1 [Interview]

    Oxeye Game Studio’s action platformer Cobalt has received honorable mentions in the technical and visual arts categories for the 2011 Independent Games Festival. It is also a finalist for excellence in sound design. IGF’s judges had this to say about Cobalt: “The soundscape in Oxeye’s Cobalt was also praised for “giving it the amount of [...]

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  • DIYGamer.com State of the Site + Updates

    Hello friends, fellow readers and indie game lovers. You may have noticed a distinct lack of content and updates from yours truly these past few months. Truth of the matter is that we’ve struggled to gain traction in a world dominated by up-to-the-minute news from mega blogs like Kotaku.com, Joystiq.com and, yes, even IndieGames.com/blog (for [...]


  • fishbane Probability 0 designer Alexander “Droqen” Martin has developed a new puzzle platformer for Newgrounds. Fishbane is a little like Miles Drummond’s Jigsaw, except weirder, tougher, and stricter.

    You play as… I guess a diver guy, throwing harpoons at walls and collecting incidental goldfish. At the end of every level is a golden harpoon; snag it to move on. The main mechanic involves the harpoon; lodged in a wall, you can use it to clamber up and over surfaces. If you run and jump on the harpoon in mid-air, you can ride it like a broom. The levels will introduce gizmos and complications, but these are the basics.

    The game seems, at times, impossible — and it does the bare minimum to help the player along. Yet this is probably a good choice, as the solutions always are logical and in retrospect often obvious. Any level might contain two or three moments of head-slapping epiphany. A good test of a puzzle is when the solution always feels like it’s in the player’s hands, rather than being held at arm’s length — and that is the case here.

    You can play Fishbane online here.

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