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Mini compendium of indie games

Played with Fire

As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. A few words about indie games. Indie , which is short for independent , means independent of the creator – financially, conceptually, or in terms of time. What are indie games and why are they popular?

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Out Now • Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

PreMortem.Games

Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” Is this mechanic fun? Especially an indie 2D side scroller puzzle game.

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Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

PreMortem.Games

Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” Is this mechanic fun? Especially an indie 2D side scroller puzzle game.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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God of War Ragnarok: Five Game Systems In One Bag

The Bottom Feeder

Though God help any foolish reviewer who tries to give an AAA game less than 9/10.) Is that new mechanic fun? Doggo leads to an enormous, entirely optional area with tons of creative fights, fun puzzles, and neat stuff to do. If you want to be surprised by a really neat indie RPG in a year or so, it’s not too expensive.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth.