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Amanita Design Christmas Sale
Here’s a fantastic Indie Game Christmas deal from Amanita Design: The Pack incudes: Machinarium (Win + Mac + Linux versions) Machinarium Soundtrack (MP3) Samorost2 (Win + Mac + Linux versions) Samorost2 Soundtrack (MP3) Hi-res Cover Pictures f...
IndieCade 2009
Games features at IndieCade 2009 Included: Aether – Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel - http://armorgames.com/play/2153/aether Akrasia – Team Aha! - http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/akrasia.php ClassicNight – Akarolls - http://akar...
Storytelling through Indie Games
Alec Holowka of Infinite Ammo (and half of Bit-Blot) closed the Indie Games Summit at GDC Austin with one of the best talks of the conference. Alec went on immediately following Twisted Pixel. People were leaving as he took the stage, and Alec conf...
Splosion Man: How to make an XBLA game in 6 months
Twisted Pixel’s talk can be summed up pretty easily. Don’t Do It! Do not try to make a game for XBLA in 6 months! The team wanted to make XBLA’s Summer of Arcade so they came up with this ridiculous schedule which resulted in some 90 hour w...
2DBoy: Beyond the Finish Line
Ron Carmel (aka half of 2Dboy) spoke about the hurdles they faced after the release of World of Goo. Their problems stemmed from retail partners putting Mac discs in PC boxes, bugs, Paypal, their hosting provider, and more. This all manifested it...
Effective Marketing for Indie Game Developers
Wolfire’s John Graham candidly shared a lot of their PR tactics and marketing techniques. John’s first point: big companies have lame PR tips that don’t relate to Indies so nix all of these common PR practices and do the opposite:...
The NinjaBee Story
Brent Fox, Co-Founder of Wahoo Studios and Ninja Bee, panel was entitled: “How to Operate Your Indie Game Business for Fun and Profit” but it really just focused on the story of his Studio and what they’ve done right and wrong. It ...
Business Managing Your Indie Developer Through the Downturn
I found Jennifer’s talk the worst of the day, not because she was a bad speaker but rather because her focus didn’t seem relevant to most indies. She had some good points that Indies should definitely take to heart: Have a business pla...
Post Mortem: Fantastic Contraption – Fantastic Cash
Colin easily had one of the most entertaining panels of the day. His panel focused on a Post Mortem of his Flash game: Fantastic Contraption and how he made a ton of money off of it. Northway woke up one night and wrote down on a piece of paper his...
New Indie Hotness
Brandon Boyer of Offworld.com had my favorite panel so far… not a lot of information in it… but he did highlight 7 upcoming indie games that’s he’s excited for: The games kicked off with Brandon poorly playing Spelunky. Spel...
Bit.Trip Series: Holistic Indie Game Design
Mike Roush, the artist of Gaijin Games, got things kicked off at the indie game summit with his talk on Holistic game design. The core takeaway from the talk was that the team at Gaijin Games (game designer, artist, and programmer) all have input i...
GDC Austin Coverage
The Game Developer’s Conference Starts Tomorrow! You can check out all our exclusive Game Developers Conference Austin 2009 Coverage by using the link below. We will be focusing on the Indie Game Summit series and lectures. Check out all ou...
Season 1 Bundle
Never picked up a copy of the Indie Game Magazine before? Well this is your chance to get our first 6 issues for 1 low price and witness how much the magazine has evolved over its first year. Our Season 1 Print Special Edition features: 100 Pag...
Best of the week, August 29 – Sept 10
While not a slow week by any means, platformers definitely rule the week. However, experimental games are the biggest draw of September thus far with the results of the Experimental Gameplay Project being released. Action Ozmoze Indie game players ...
Getting paid, earning a living in a free world
Modern Models . Indie Gaming’s path to riches and success Indie gaming has certainly gotten attention as the next important step in gaming’s evolutionary process. Though while there is a virtual maelstrom of talent and ideas clashing and ...
Best of the week, Aug. 23 – Aug.30
A week in review, the best free and maybe-should-be-free games of the week for August 23 to August 30, 2009 All games free unless otherwise noted. Adventure 78641 – A Targ Adventure (GZ Storm) You play as a frying pan who comes back fix his l...
Game Developers Conference Austin 2009 Coverage
We’re two weeks away from GDC Austin and Indie Game Mag will be there to cover all the Indie Summit Lectures and Panels. Be sure to check back here September 15-17th for coverage on GDC Austin. We’ll be tweeting from the panels, recap...
Best of the Week
A week in review, the best free and maybe-should-be-free games of the week for August 15 to 22, 2009 All games free unless otherwise noted Simulation Osmosis / (Hemisphere Games) / ($10) A classic amobe-eating game, done fast paced and furious. Adv...
Issue 6: September/October 2009
In this issue we review 16 Indie Games including the IGF Grand Prize Winning Blueberry Garden, the incredibly addictive Faerie Solitaire, the humorous Tales of Monkey Island and sublime Plants vs. Zombies. We also rank 10 of the most recent indie ga...
Get a FREE IGM Digital Subscription – Kinda
You can now become an IGM insider for FREE! Just click the picture above or use any of the TrialPay buttons on our subscription pages. Basically, you’ll pay to signup and pay for Gamefly, Blockbuster Online or whatever service/product you̵...
Jonathan Blow’s (Braid) Next Game Announced: Witness
A teaser site for Jonathan Blow’s next game has launched. The game is titled Witness. The teaser site is very VERY sparse. It features the text: Something amorphorous and consummate existed before Heaven and Earth. Solitude. Vast! Standing...
Super Laser Racer is Coming
Super Laser Racer is an interesting title from New Star Games that fuses geometry wars with racing. Despite the graphics being directly influenced by Geometry Wars, the game does look to be a unique top-down combat racer…I mean come on, how ma...
20% OFF ALL Print Issues of IGM!
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Miner Wars Game Trailer
I would’ve never been aware of this game, if they hadn’t posted in our news forum. It looks really well done. I love the destructible environments….it reminds me of a the first Red Faction mixed with Descent (both Volition Games)....
On Trial – July RoundTable Next Week
Next week, we’ll be posting our round table reviews of 5 indie game demos. July will see reviews of: Rooms Astro Creeps Spirited Heart Faerie Solitaire Synchronicity ...
FREE ISSUE 4 GIVEAWAY
Time for a little Twitter Experiment. Our next 50 Twitter Followers will get a FREE PDF copy of IGM: Issue 4 – featuring PSN’s Flower – got the idea from the Indie Games Blog. Follow us on Twitter now ...
IndieGameMag Forum Launch
We are happy to announce the launch of the IndieGameMag Forums. The main purpose of this is to create an automated indie news submission service. Now instead of waiting for us to wade through all the news submission emails, you can submit your ne...
Issue 4 is Available for 25% Off
For a Limited Time, you can order the print version of Issue 4 for only $6. With shipping that’s only $7.40! If you’re like us, once you see the magazine in print you’ll never go for reading it on a computer screen ever again. O...
Wordzy Released on Xbox Live Community Games
WORDZY has just been released for the XBOX Live Community Games. WORDZY is a game you can play on your own or compete against another to complete a 5-letter word with letter clues....
Labyrinthica: The quest of lima.
Labyrinthica: The quest of lima is a new indie game under developement by Pompi Pompi Entertainment. A one man company. Screenshots, videos and a downloadable demo with 10 levels(1 boss level) is available either at: www.pompipompi.net or at http://w...
