Tag Archives: Indie Game Mag

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Meg

I have a new review up on IGM: Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is an interactive fiction game for PC, Kindle, iOS, Android, and Linux. You play as a young would-be hero, in the Powered world of Millennia City, but when the … Continue reading →

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From Casual Connect

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Meg

New pieces up on Indie Game Mag, from last week’s Casual Connect conference. Charley Price, from Hidden Variable Studios, spoke at last week’s Casual Connect on Marketing by Design: Building IP with Reach. He used Bag It! as an example, … Continue reading →

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Getting Better

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Meg

I have a new piece up on Indie Game Mag, about Robert Yang‘s talk at Games For Change. Yang talked about queer themes in games, in his own projects like Radiator and CondomCorps,  and Anna Anthropy’s games, which deal with … Continue reading →

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Long Way To The Top

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Meg

Coverage from the Flash Gaming Summit over at Indie Game Magazine: At the Flash Gaming Summit, a one-day conference on the edge of GDC, Kixeye founders David Scott and Paul Preece discussed how to succeed as an indie dev in … Continue reading →

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NYGaming June Roundup

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Meg

A few weeks ago, I went to the NYGaming June meeting. I wrote on Socks, Inc. over at Indie Game Mag, and on Cloud Assassin over at I Heart Chaos. I also really enjoyed the Herograph demo, I’ll have more … Continue reading →

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Socks, Inc.

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Meg

Socks, Inc. was one of the local games demoed at last week’s NYGaming. Socks, Inc. is a supercute AR game. Players create a sock puppet character, and set off to do real-world challenges, like snapping a picture of your sock … Continue reading →

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Twistianapolis 500

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Meg

The sharp contrast between the all-out promotion of AAA titles at E3 and the laid-back schoolyard of IndieCade was particularly evident at Twistianapolis 500. Twistianapolis relies on a homemade, souped-up Twister board, a recording calling out body parts and colors, … Continue reading →

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Droid Odyssey on Indie Game Mag

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Meg

New review of Droid Odyssey up on Indie Game Mag: I want the Droid app market to take off. I want there to be as many wild indie games for my Droid as for my friends’ iPhones, all organized into … Continue reading →

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Deep Sea

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Meg

When I was in Austin for SxSW, I got the chance to check outsome amazing indie games at Screenburn, and I wrote up my reaction to Deep Sea, over at Indie Game Mag: Deep Sea, Robin Arnott’s terrifying sound-based undersea … Continue reading →

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Save GameTunnel!

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Meg

GameTunnel was one of the first websites that focused on the indie gaming scene. It was founded in 2002 and had years of great coverage, monthly game roundups, game of the year awards, indie game reviews and more. The founder … Continue reading →

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