🦅 Feather | Samurai pink interview with Nicholas McDonnell 🦅 @samuraipunk #GameDev #IndieGames

We took some time out to speak to Nicholas McDonnell who is the Managing Director of Samurai Punk games who have just released their hit PC game Feather on PS4/Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

💦🍆Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry | XBOX | Review | "A surprisingly good-natured, innuendo-filled rump, er, romp" 💦🍆 @CrazyBunchTeam #IndieGames #GameDev

Platform Reviewed: XBOX ONE

Developer: CrazyBunch

Looking back over Leisure Suit Larry’s release history is long and hard. First exposing himself on our screens back in 1987, the adventures of Larry Laffer have been received in a range of ways, from standing so achingly proud that you feel worryingly light-headed to depressingly flaccid, with the last major entry in the series, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, being as welcome in my bed as a genital-eating spider comprised entirely of clones of my father’s disapproving eyes that can only be thwarted by watching a looped, grainy VHS tape of myself weeping into a hessian sack filled with physical manifestations of suppressed memories as I’m force-fed burnt clown-hair.

📼 💻Telling Lies | Review | Nintendo Switch | "An interesting concept, if you have the patience for it to reveal itself" 📼 💻 @A_i @mrsambarlow #GameDev #IndieGames

Sam Barlow’s previous game, Her Story, put the player in the position of a person watching the interview of a woman (in VHS format, natch) as she reveals more about herself and her situation. 

Naturally, the order in which you watch the clips is scrambled and thus the player must make the story cohesive in their own mind from what they have seen. 

This approach reminded me a lot of Simon Meek’s performance piece, Marnie Wakes, which is presented as 32 cards with fragmented thoughts and dialogue on each. This means that the order in which you approach the information dictates how the story plays out in your head, a different story for each person but the same cards are provided. Saucy.

🏎️ Inertial Drift | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A Sleek, Cool and Very Pure Racer" 🏎️ @InertialDrift #GameDev #IndieGames

Game Title: Inertial Drift
Platform Reviewed: Switch
Rating: Ice Cool

Inertial Drift is a stylish racing title that may take a few minutes to click with but boy, when you get the hang of it… you’ll feel like Cole Trickle (but you probably have a name with more gravitas).

There really is a lot to love about Inertial Drift, Level 91 Entertainment’s retro-futuristic racer. The music is vinyl-purchasingly good with its moody, synth beats that bleed neon, the perfect match to the intense, focused racing. 

🎙️ Super Rare Games - Ryan Brown Interview - "Head of Saying Stuff at Super Rare Games" 🎙️ @Toadsanime @SuperRareGames

Britt: Hi Ryan! I know we’ve met at game conventions over the years but for those unfamiliar, could you give an overview of your personal gaming history and current position at Super Rare Games? 

Ryan: Absolutely - hey readers, I'm Ryan Brown, perhaps better known as Toadsanime in the gaming sphere. I'm the Head of Saying Stuff at Super Rare Games, a company that publishes a rare print physical Nintendo Switch game every 3 weeks. 

If you see newsletters, social media posts, marketing campaigns, or even press releases, that'll be from lil ol' me! I previously worked in a similar role for video game merchandise and games publisher Numskull, and as a video games journalist for The Mirror, etc.

🏔️⛺️🗻Kholat | PC | Review | “I tried so hard, and got so far, but, in the end, it doesn’t even matter.” 🏔️⛺️🗻 @PixelHunted #GameDev #IndieGame

Chester Bennington once sang: “I tried so hard, and got so far, but, in the end, it doesn’t even matter.” This could be the motto of Kholat, an indie horror title from IMGN.PRO that starts strong but gradually becomes less and less enjoyable

Kholat is inspired by the notorious Dyatlov Pass Incident in which nine Russian hikers died in Ural mountains in 1959. 

An investigation revealed that they’d frantically clawed their way out of their tents in the middle of the night, with their bodies found naked and mutilated in the mountains - some reports claiming that high levels of radiation were found on the bodies.

🏚️🏰🏚️ Westmark Manor PC | Review | "You can’t toss a stone in the horror genre without disturbing something vile..." 🏚️🏰🏚️ @PixelHunted #GameDev #IndieGames

HP Lovecraft may have been a daft turbo-racist, but man, that guy could nail creepy.

His Cthulhu Mythos has blossomed far beyond his books, spreading its tentacles into every facet of pop culture, finding a particularly sticky purchase in games.

You can’t toss a stone in the horror genre without disturbing something vile, ancient and unknowable. 

Eternal Darkness, Darkwood, World of Horror, The Sinking City, Moons of Madness, Call of Cthulhu, Sunless Sea/Skies, Bloodborne… Hell, even the venerable Quake ends with you telefragging the pulsating and veiny Shub Niggureth. 

Do we really need more Lovecraft games? 

Well, Nodbrim Interactive and Toadman Interactive think there’s room for just one more…

🔪 Party Hard 2 | Nintendo Switch | Review | @partyhardgame #IndieGames #GameDev🔪

“Andrew... Buddy. What’s up? 

Yeah, it’s Jimmy here. 

Yeah, JIMMY. Ya fuggin’ agent. Calling up to see how ya doin’. Don’t mean to bust ya balls, but the guys up here at Island Records are getting real twitchy. 

They loved Party Hard man, LOVED it. Great tune. 

But that was then and this is now. They need another hit. Tell me you got another hit in that monkey brain a yours? Another smash for your pal, Jimmy?  

You have? Really? So what’s it called? Party Hard 2...

Oh, ok. Just as long as it’s not a rehash of the first one…”

💻 Zasluke Game Capture Card | Unboxing & Tutorial | Nintendo Switch | OBS 💻 #CaptureCard

 

I bought a Zasluke Game Capture card for £22 off of Amazon and I decided to make an unboxing and Tutorial video on it as there isn't much out there covering the low-end budget game capture cards.

⛵️ Spiritfarer DEMO | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Row Row Row Your Boat" ⛵️ @ThunderLotus #GameDev #IndieGame

Spiritfarer® is a cosy management game about dying. You play Stella, ferry master to the deceased, a Spiritfarer. Build a boat to explore the world, then befriend and care for spirits before finally releasing them into the afterlife. 

Farm, mine, fish, harvest, cook, and craft your way across mystical seas. 

Join the adventure as Daffodil the cat, in two-player cooperative play. 

Spend relaxing quality time with your spirit passengers, create lasting memories, and, ultimately, learn how to say goodbye to your cherished friends. 

What will you leave behind?

🕴️ Peaky Blinders Mastermind | PS4 | Review | "By Order Of The Peaky Blinders!" 🕴️ @FuturLab #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a puzzle-adventure game.

It’s obviously based on the multi-award-winning TV show Peaky Blinders and it tasks you with becoming the Mastermind as you control key characters in puzzle box levels and attempt to pull off perfectly synchronized plans by moving each character into positions to utilise their special skills.

🚀🪐🛸 Stellaris | PC | Ten-minute Taster | "Tactical Space Exploration & Diplomacy At Its Finest" 🚀🪐🛸 @StellarisGame #GameDev #IndieGames

Stellaris is A GRAND STRATEGY 4X SCIENCE-FICTION GAME!

Which lets you Explore a galaxy full of wonder!

🚴‍♂️🚴🚴‍♀️ Descenders | Review | PS4 | "Fast, Frantic, Fun and Filthy" 🚴‍♂️🚴🚴‍♀️ @RageSquid #GameDev #IndieGames

As stated in my previous review for Hotshot racing, this period has seen a lot of vehicular-based games come my way and Descenders was another solid example that does something different with the genre, In particular, using procedural generation as a key part of the gameplay.

At its heart, Descenders is a simple idea – get your bike to the bottom of the hill – but done with some really neat touches. This intrinsically accessible gameplay means that whilst the game can be challenging - and boy, does it get challenging – players of all skill levels can dive in and get involved.

Art of Rally | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "An Outstandingly Beautiful Rally Game" 🏎️💨🏁 #GameDev #IndieGames

Art Of Rally Lets YOU Race in the golden era of rally. 

Drive iconic cars from the 60s to Group B on challenging stages through stylized environments inspired by real worldwide locations. 

Will you master the art of rally?

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/550320/art_of_rally/

💻 Becoming A PlayStation Animator 💻

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Do you have dreams of becoming an animator for PlayStation games, video promos, and such like? 

To become an animator, it goes without saying that there are various software programs you need to be familiar with and be able to utilize in order to do so. 

Whilst at any animation institute or school for animation, you should be learning to use the following interactive design and software programs as they are quite frankly crucial:

📽️📺 £16 Mayeah Video Card | Budget Video Card Unboxing & Review | Nintendo Switch Compatible 📽️📺

 

The Mayeah Video Capture Card is only £16 on Amazon and is compatible with the Nintendo Switch so Rich sets about taking a look at this little budget piece of kit to see if it's any good and worth the budget-friendly price!

Amazon Affiliate Link:

https://amzn.to/3ncSEJs

🛩️ Flying Red Barrel: The Diary Of A Little Aviator | PC | Ten-minute Taster | "Coins N Bullet Hell" 🛩️ #GameDev #IndieGames

 Flying Red Barrel ~The Diary of a Little Aviator~ is an old-school bullet hell/STG game with multiple endings based on actions you take.

👁️ As Far As The Eye | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Here Comes the Wave" 👁️ @AFATEGAME #GameDev #IndieGames

 

In As Far As The Eye, you try to build a mobile village whilst trying to outrun the wave and travel with your tribe toward the centre of the world, called The Eye. 

This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. 

Ready to move?

🧟‍♀️🔪🧭 Night Of the Dead | PC | Gameplay | Part 3 | Coordinates Episode 🧟‍♀️🔪🧭 #GameDev #IndieGames

 Build defences against nightly waves of zombies. 

Survive and escape the island.

Join Rich for his PART III of The Night Of The Dead Ten Minute Taster.

💥 Freedom Fighters | PC | Ten Minute Taster | " FreedomFighters2020 " 💥 #FreedomFighters2020

 

It’s been 17 years since iO Interactive released Freedom Fighters and it has never been available digitally – until now!

See how Rich rises to the challenge and proves himself as a true Freedom Fighter!