Indie dev Cryptic Comet ditches video games

Cryptic Comet’s Vic Davis is leaving digital development to focus on creating board games.

The developer, who has worked on strategic turn-based titles such as Solium Infernum and Armageddon Empires, said it was becoming increasingly difficult to sell games directly through his website.

He added that he felt his programming skills were also becoming tied to an aging and abandoned development platform, which meant making niche titles like his previous games was becoming a dubious proposition at best”.

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