Are you going to the glittering Imperial city of London next month for games show EGX Rezzed? I’m not. I’ve got a stag weekend in Madrid where I’m expected to play Gaelic football with a crowd of storming drunks. Trust me, you’re better off in the bright glass hallways of Tobacco Dock, especially now that six more games have been added to the line-up, including…
Iconoclasts
3 years ago
A few indie passion projects years in the making have finally come to fruition this year. While it'll be missing December by a couple weeks, we've now got Iconoclasts to look forward to, an ambitious metroidvania by Swedish solo developer Konjak which will finally launch on January 23rd after over ten years of development.While the release date was announced over a week back, and accompanied by…
I've been writing about videogames going on about eight years now. For the majority of that time, I've had one eye firmly glued to Iconoclasts, an ambitious metroidvania by solo Swedish developer Joakim 'Konjak' Sandberg. It's been in development over six years now, and is finally, tantalisingly close to release.Word is that Iconoclasts is now effectively feature-complete and in the final stages of development (testing,…
5 years ago
The Iconoclasts [official site] is coming, The Iconoclasts is coming! After a years-long development period, one-person creator Joakim "Konjak" Sandberg has partnered with studio Bifrost Entertainment to finish the action-platformer. Their work has already borne fruit in the form of a new trailer below - the first, I think, since 2012.
8 years ago
Konjak's beautiful freeware platformer, The Iconoclasts, has a fresh alpha out, PCG has spotted. It's right here for you to play. It seems to have been in the wilderness for a while, but no longer, as dev Joakim Sandberg explains: "This game is not abandoned. I released the first alpha version when I was losing some motivation on it and have since decided to come…