Indie developer Eoin Duffy has recently released their first game onto Android called Boxy the Box. In this game players will assume control of a box who has no remorse or feelings at all. Then again you are a box after all, you shouldn’t have emotions as an inanimate object.
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The Big Indie Pitch is coming and will be at GDC 2015. Pitch your game, get judged, and possibly win prizes!
Steel Media regularly holds indie Pitch events throughout the year. These are events where developers can pitch a game they are currently developing, to a panel of judges. If you are in the top three then you win various prizes that are meant to help you out with your game’s launch. However, a few times a year there are also Big Indie Pitch events and these are much bigger versions of the regular indie pitches. This means the prizes are also bigger.
Terry Cavanagh, developers of such gems as VVVVVV and Super Hexagon, has been busy porting over a variety of his older Flash games over to Ouya to start things off right. So far he has ported over ten of his older Flash games and is also strongly considering bringing VVVVVV and Super Hexagon over to Ouya as well.
Well, our Under The Radar column was meant to be something we did once every week or so, but in just the past few days I’ve come across some really good titles from first-time indie developers. So that leads us to our second Under The Radar for the week. More than half of the games on this list can be classified under the “brutal” category, so if you’re looking for challenging games then be sure to give them a go.
Back in September of 2011 we talked about a game called CheeseMan from developer Hicham Allaoui. For those of you not familiar with who Hicham Allaoui is, he has worked on a variety of title professionally for the Nintendo DS including the likes of Raving Rabbids Travel in Time.
There are plenty of retro-style racing games we would like to see land on the Android Market, perhaps with a bit of a facelift to bring it a bit more into the modern times but still keeping that retro edge that makes old games still fun to play even today. One such game that is trying to accomplish this is Turbo Racer.
Today, considering it being Cyber Monday and we as society have been dealing with craziness since Thanksgiving with family, Black Friday sales, weekend sports (and recovery) and Cyber Monday deals now, it’s only fitting we bring a Hidden Gem of a game to the table that is down right insane. Coming from Xbox Live is Techno Kitten Adventure.
Over the past month or so we’ve been talking about the hit indie game from 2D Boy called World of Goo and that it would be coming to Android. In fact last week we mentioned that it would be arriving today and 2D Boy hasn’t disappointed us! World of Goo is now available on the Android Market.
A great modern remake of the old school game Qix has just been released by Eclipse Games for the PC and Mac. The developer, who used to work from some big named studios before going indie when they closed, has mentioned plans to bring it to mobile which includes Android.
Bent Spoon Games to release their first title “Girl with a Heart of” on Android on November 17th
We like indie games as much as we like the big named titles as well and Bent Spoon Games will be offering up a pretty unique game called Girl with a Heart of this November on multiple platforms including Android. When it comes to indie games, you can always expect something unique and this is no exception.