During the Humble Bundle with Android #5, not to be confused with the current Humble Mobile Bundle going on right now, one game that made its debut appearance onto Android was Nightsky HD by Nicalis. Nicalis is actually a developer who has worked on a few other games you might be familiar with such as VVVVVV, also rumored to be coming to Android soon.
Tag: platformer
The Mario inspired platformer called The Other Brothers has been a game in the works for some time now, being slated for release onto iOS this week while the Android version is supposed to arrive at some point in the near future. While the game is inspired by the plumber brothers of the Nintendo generation the art is vastly different, featuring a more retro pixel art style to it.
Super Monkey Run is a pretty fun 3D platformer that is available for free off of Google Play. The game, developed by Geimo, is also available for PC and Mac should you want to play it on there as well. Well a new update has brought with it a new feature that you PC/Mac players might want to check out, especially if you own an Android device.
There are plenty of hybrid games out there that do a good job meshing together two or more standard genres of gaming to form their own little niche in the market. Another Castle by Uncade is about to finish a successful Kickstarter campaign and is a prime example of two genres being meshed together to create something really damn cool.
One of the more neat retro style platformers we’ve seen has gotten an update pushed to it. Life of Pixel by Super Icon is a Playstation Mobile game and after a lot of feedback from players of the game Super Icon has issued an update to address some of the issues people have brought up. Oh, and there is a whole new console world to explore as well.
Back in January of this year we talked about how the popular Xbox Live indie platformer Fez would be coming to a variety of additional platforms. Unfortunately at that time there wasn’t any solid confirmation as to which platforms Fez would be arriving on. Now we have a much better idea after Phil Fish went and held an IAmA on Reddit yesterday.
Welcome to the eleventh installment of our Under The Radar column where we showcase noteworthy games that we were not able to publish as full articles on the site. Ultimately, with this, smaller developers get vital exposure for their games and you get to have more games to play on your plate. If you know of more quality games released recently that have not got the attention they deserve, let us know by leaving a comment!
There can never be enough good retro-style platformers for Android and developer TheOmenBit has released a new one for platformer fans to check out called Bionfly. This little classic platformer has players take control of a dapper little robot who is out to collect Onyxs stones.
Welcome to the eighth installment of our Under The Radar column where we showcase a handful of good games that we may not have been able to publish as full articles on the site. Ultimately, with this, smaller developers get vital exposure for their games and you get to have more games to play on your plate. If you know of more quality games released recently that have not got the attention they deserve, let us know by leaving a comment!
Kerosene Games and Luma Arcade look like they work on a fair amount of their games with a bit of a team effort. Both have had their hands dirty in Bladeslinger as well as a few upcoming games we will touch on later. Open-Reset is responsible for another game we’ve talked about in the past, and even had some hands-on time with, called Bounty Arms THD, which Kerosene Games is also helping out on.







