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Eleven new games come to the Atari Lynx in 2019

Atari Gamer, has been running the Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition over the past few months and we now have the final submissions! All eleven of them! That’s right, that’s eleven new games for you to play and rate. We do admit that some are very well polished and others are more on the tech demo side, but all are worth having a look at. Admittedly, I never played the Lynx hardware when it came out, but I find it fascinating people are still developing games for the platform

A Dark Room Removed From Switch eShop

In concept, it was a great idea to have a hidden high level code editor right there on a console as an easter egg. But in practice, this opens the console up to a slew of exploits. there’s no saying what kind of system access the editor really has, and players that do not know how to read code could potentially brick their systems. Nintendo made the right call to remove it.

Something doom-like work in progress

Work in progress for something…Doomy.

meditations.games

Put together by Rami Ismail, Meditations.games is a collection of games by over 350 developers. Each day is a new, unique game, and only available that day. Its a great concept. I’d love to see the analytics by the end of the year, and just how many people will still be playing this.

Choose your own adventure...with Typeform

I love this. I never thought to use Typeform this way. It’s still not as open as something like Ink or Twine, but it’s always great to see services being used for strange new things.

Svetovid

There’s some great stuff coming out of the 7DFPS game jam. I’m not sure how practical this could be, but being able to see in every direction at once adds a new layer of interaction to your typical first person shooter. 7dfps 2024A game jam from 2024-12-06 to 2025-01-01 hosted by ruby0x1. what is 7dfps? 7dfps is a game development challenge , to make a first person game in seven days. Challenge yourself, and first person games, by creat…itch.io

StarCraft Universe

An ambitious and rather impressive project to say the least. At some point though, you have to ask yourself if it would just be easier to build a 3rd person game engine in the likeness of Starcraft, outside of the Starcraft II client, rather than modding a real time strategy engine to function as a 3rd person game. A good comparison to this would be the popular Warcraft 3 mod Dota, and the stand alone game Dota2. When you’re constructing a mod for a game, you’re limiting yourself to that game

canipostandmonetizevideosofdevolvergames.com

Devolver games has a simple message about posting videos of their games to youtube or twitch. Can I stream and monetize Devolver Digital games? | Devolver Digital GamesPurveyors of fine digital entertainment wares from independent video game creators worldwide.Devolver Digital Games

Superbrothers - Sword & Sworcery: 1.5 million sold

There’s not that many titles out there that began on iOS and made their way to this many other platforms over time Close to a 1/3 of sales came from IOS. This was a truly amazing game with some stunning audio. I could listen to the soundtrack all day. CAPY – It’s Getting There » Blog Archive » WE SPIED A #SWORCERY INFOGRAPHIC

16 more Titles get Steam Greenlight

One of them came a bit of a pleasent surprise to me- a PC port of Deadly Premonition. Steam :: :: Sixteen More Titles Greenlit TodayWe’ve just Greenlit another fourteen games and two software titles, bringing the total number of Greenlit titles to 145. These titles were selected on the same criteria we have been using in the past: Votes in Greenlight give us a hugely valuable point of data in gauging community interest along wit…STEAM

Lead Members Leave Maxis to Form Indie Studio

Creative Directer Ocean Quigley, Gameplay Lead Dan Moskowitz, and Lead Architect Andrew Willmott have left EA/Maxis to form an indie studio, Jellygrade. An interesting move, but Im going to remain skeptical for the time being. Forming a studio to develop an iPad game just seems like a bad move with the shape of the current market. jellygradejellygradeTumblr

Molyjam 2013 Kicks Off Today

What Would Molydeux, affectionately referred to as “Molyjam,” is a 48 hour game jam inspired by the works of @petermolydeux, a loving parody of the legendary Game Designer, Peter Molyneux. While I won’t officially be participating, I think this might be the perfect time to flesh out an idea I’ve had for a while. Look for an update Monday next week. Source: http://www.molyjam.com/news Molyjam Deux

A Dark Room

Inspired by the ASCII taxt game, Candy Box. Incredibly minimal and fun. A Dark RoomA minimalist text adventure

Build Your Own Retro Arcade Machine

All the components and directions you need to build your own arcade machine, sans cabinet. Retro Gaming with Raspberry PiWith a Raspberry Pi, game emulation software and genuine arcade controls from Adafruit, you can build a dedicated retro game station and re-live these classic quarter-chompers. (Members Only jacket not included.)Adafruit Learning SystemPhillip Burgess

A Look at CivCraft, a Minecraft Mod

It’s hugely involved, with you mining the ground to gain resources to trade for coins to claim your land. Like a proper game of Civ, major construction involves clicking on the ground and watching the buildings extruding upwards. They’re functional buildings, allowing you to enter and use them, and enhancing them to provide the bonuses to the land. This feels like the next natural stage of evolution of Minecraft. A Minecraft Mod To Admeier: CivCraftThere’s not a lot of structure to vanill

Morrowind Rebirth 2.2 Released

Find new enemies to fight, exciting areas to explore, gain access to new weapons to slay your foes or just roam the huge world that’s out there Combine this with the Morrowind Overhaul Mod, and you have a beautiful remake of the classic game.

Candy Box, a Bizarre Text Adventure

A very minimalistic, ASCII text-based game that runs in your browser. With no instructions on how to play whatsoever, it’s oddly addicting and fascinating.

Build New Games

Build New Games fuses game programming, web development & open web technology to push the boundaries of game development on all platforms. Some well-written articles on getting started with web-based games. As an added easter egg, you can also play Asteroids on the frontpage.

Angry Birds HD: My thoughts on Ouya

With Ouya’s Kickstarter page going live yesterday, people have been asking me what I thought of the new console. I’ve had some time to think it over, and I keep coming to the same conclusion. The Ouya is little more than a smartphone masquerading as a home console. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just what it is. Hardware Lets start with the hardware. It’s near-identical to what’s found in the current generation of smartphones and tablets. Nothing about it is really impressive. It’