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It’s often strange how life imitates art. For example, Irish indie developer BillyGoat Entertainment’s latest game, adventure title Her Majesty’s SPIFFING, tells the story of a Britain increasingly isolated from the rest of the world… actually, developer Will Barr can probably do a better job of explaining the game. The …
Read More »How to delay your indie game
Simon Roth offers insight into the multitude of factors that can hinder a game's development
Read More »Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night delayed by a year to 2018
One of crowdfunding’s biggest gaming successes has seen its release date pushed back by a whole year. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which is being made by Koji Igarashi and is dubbed as a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, had been due out in 2017. Now, however, …
Read More »3D Realms co-producing Kickstarter Apogee revival Rad Rodgers
Nineties-style side-scrolling action platformer being developed in Unreal Engine
Read More »Sega Europe: ‘Shenmue 1 and 2 remakes have our full attention’
Remakes of Shenmue 1 and 2 are still being actively discussed within Sega. The publisher told fans in May that it was trying to find a way to return the classic Dreamcast RPGs, which were first released in 2000 and 2001. European boss Jurgen Post told MCV this week that …
Read More »Yooka-Laylee developers buoyed by Ratchet & Clank success
The commercial success of the new Ratchet & Clank reboot has excited the creators of Yooka-Laylee. Like Ratchet & Clank, Yooka-Laylee is a 3D platformer. It generated 2.1m via Kickstarter, and studio Playtonic admits it’s nervous that many of those interested in the game will already own it as a …
Read More »Richard Garriott: ‘If crowdfunding failed, my career was over’
Ultima creator Richard Garriott has said that his four-plus decades of working in the games industry would have come to an end had the crowdfunding campaign for Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues failed to hit its target. Pitched as a follow-up to his hit ‘90s RPG series Ultima, Avatar …
Read More »Original Shenmue director joins Ys Net for third instalment
Keiji Okayasu helped head up development of Dreamcast debut, before leaving Sega after completing 70 per cent of sequel Shenmue II
Read More »What we can learn from Fable Fortune’s Kickstarter
There were a few reasons for thinking that the Kickstarter campaign for Fable Fortune would do pretty well. For one, the free-to-play card game was associated with an iconic brand, Fable, and was being made by former Lionhead developers who, since the studio’s closure, have formed Flaming Fowl. Historically, this …
Read More »Kickstarter: Indie devs thriving despite ‘wobbly year’
Crowdfunding platform admits drop in overall amount pledged, but highlights growth of smaller projects as ‘bright thread’
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