PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

French indie studio Seed by Seed appreciates the importance of players’ time. That’s why the play sessions of their narrative-driven, co-op multiplayer RPG Baladins last around an hour. Narrative designer and Seed by Seed co-founder Antonin Demeilliez explains the idea behind Baladins. “We

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 15, 2024

In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players can’t lift out of the levels. This leads to some unexpected and quite frankly, explosive situations as the game progresses. Game Swing was founded in 2013 by five Danish game design students.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

Way back in February, I wrote a big article about indie phenomenon Vampire Survivors. It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. Brotato has a great design. A great idea.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

He is a highly successful indie game creator who makes really good action games (Salt and Sanctuary is the best-known one.) My games, by the modern standard, look like absolute dogs. Yet, I'm going to have a full career writing indie games. Video games have similar terms: "RPG." Metroidvania."

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In today, you’ll go through about 40 hours of gameplay through 4 different game worlds and countless sub-quests before you reach the final Leviathan raid where you’ll require great levels of skill and a well planned out strategy to emerge as the victor. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. So do they compete or co-exist peacefully? Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects.

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