A Game About takes you through someone’s daily routines and their attempts to break free of the hopelessness within them.
Author: Joel Couture
Joel has been covering indie games for various sites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and more over the past seven years, and has written book-length studies on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is constantly on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be, and seeks to delve into the creative process, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.
‘Boat Basketball’ Offers Silly B-Ball Challenges on the High Seas
Ocean life, wobbly waves, and unsteady boats add new challenges to getting your ball in the basket with Boat Basketball.
‘Cheap Golf’ Plays a Few Holes With a Mysterious AI
AI SUSAN presides over your time spent playing low-poly golf in Cheap Golf, and her motives and hunger add a surreal, somewhat unsettling mood to the sport.
Dreamhack Winter to Celebrate ‘Iconoclasts’, ‘World of Horror’, & More in Sweden
Dreamhack Winter 2018, which runs from Nov 30-Dec 3 in Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden, will be highlighting twenty-three great indie games in its Indie Playground.
Best in Show of Sweden Game Conference – ‘Bleeper’
Bleeper, a game about helping censor broadcasts to make a dictator look good, manages to be delightfully silly and utterly terrifying at the same time.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Brownie Cove Express’
Brownie Cove Express is an antique train ride through the lives of six strangers. It is also a journey through the self.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Idearum’
Idearum takes you to a striking landscape that encourages you to think and feel as it explores Platonic myth – to solve its puzzles, but also to let its beautiful songs and…
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Minutes to Mayhem’
Multiplayer party game Minutes to Mayhem pits four furniture-possessing ghosts against a grandma with a hatchet, tasking the phantoms with driving her temper through the ceiling before she can chop them up.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Cosette’s Cassettes’
Repairing broken cassettes, all while exploring the past memories related to the music, made for a charming time when we played Cosette’s Cassettes at the Sweden Game Conference this year.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Verlet Swing’
Verlet Swing, with its smooth grappling and surreal, challenging environments to swing around in, stole our hearts at the Sweden Game Conference this year.
Visual Novel ‘Design Hero’ Navigates the High-Stakes World of Art & Design
You’re an intern at Jagger&Jones, a prestigious creative agency, in Design Hero, and it’ll be up to you whether you listen to your clients and come up with the rights designs if…