By Alec Meer on December 21st, 2011.
Good news and less good news from the Humble Bundle camp today. The happier end of the bargain is that purchasers of the current Humble Bundle 4 now get the base contents of Humble Bundle 3 (i.e. VVVVVV, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, And Yet It Moves, and Hammerfight) added to their pack. That’s if they’ve bought HB4 already. If they haven’t, they’ll have to beat the average price to get the bonus goodies. The average price is currently $5.17 million.
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By Alec Meer on July 26th, 2011.
First there was a Humble Indie Bundle. Then there was another Humble Indie Bundle. And now, there is a third Humble Indie Bundle! So it goes.
Yes, the pay-what-you-want pack that has brought welcome funds to indie devs and philanthropic organisations alike (not to mention giving gamers a fat pack of splendid indie games for bargain prices) has returned for a new Summer of fun. But which splendid indie games are in it, exactly? I’m glad you asked.
By Alec Meer on April 10th, 2009.
Good Friday does, of course, mean one thing: rotating abstract 2D worlds to aid the progress of a crazy-haired man made of paper. We ran a brief story about inventive, long-in-the-making indie puzzle-platformer And Yet It Moves a little while back, and since then the full game’s been released. We’ll have some impressions up on the site soon, but before that we had a chat with developer Broken Rules’ Project Lead Felix Bohastch, one of the masterminds behind a game that began life as a project at the Vienna University of Technology. Soon afterwards, a prototype of AYIM became the 2007 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Winner, so this commercial version is, quietly, a highly anticipated game.
Beneath the jump, Felix explains the thinking behind the game, why it’s been so long coming, and why the physics-based platformer is a genre so weirdly beloved by indie developers.
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By Alec Meer on March 26th, 2009.
Ooh, you aren’t half going to like this one, unless you’re horrible. You’re not horrible, are you? It’d be a shame if you were. I picked this’un up via PC Gamer’s Twitter, which suggests the latest social networking fadette has a useful purpose after all.
And Yet It Moves is almost a meta-indie game, combining (probably coincidentally) elements of Fez, Braid, Shift, World of Goo, Gumboy and Narbacular Drop to create a beautifully-realised physics platformer with character and inspiration that’s all its own.
