Alternate Fire – Code & Cardboard
Passionate coverage of indie PC and tabletop gaming.
Psyonix announced today that not only will their September update add an entire spanking-new game mode to Rocket League, but it will also feature several free PAX/Penny Arcade-themed garage items.
At the time of this writing, The Adventure Pals has successfully been funded with about 40 hours left to spare in its Kickstarter campaign.
Join our writer Jason Sterner as he braves the gauntlet of 2D goblins and random-number generation for your preview amusement.
The release of fully 3D platforming adventure games has dwindled significantly since their inception, and subsequent golden age, on the Nintendo 64.
I’ve played the demo for The Adventure Pals, and I wound up liking it more than I thought I would. In fact, I’d say it’s downright impressive.
Despite the fact that I can barely pull of drawing a stick figure (it’s really hard to get those straight lines on the arms and legs), I’m a sucker for interesting and impressive art when it comes to video games.
Remember the days of throwing down on the pixelated ice with your friends via NES, when hockey was about nothing more than making that pass, taking that shot, and punching that guy in the face? One-man development house Loren Lemcke does, and he’s in the process of making Super Blood Hockey, a retro-style tribute to the likes of NES classics such […]
It’s mid-day. I struck out to the west on my steed before first light, making sure he was well fed before the journey. I’ve passed the first portal. Maybe I should turn back, I might be too far out from my stronghold, but I need to reach the western camp.
Some may say that the most tumultuous and conflicting time of your life is your teenage years, a time when you must actively begin slotting yourself into a position in society while holding back the urge to slug all of the other teenagers around you.
The kingdom of Armello is going to get a little bit more crowded later this month. Developer League of Geeks is launching the first bonafide DLC pack for their anthropomorphic regicidal epic.
No Man’s Sky may be a game which truly needs no introduction. If you do need an introduction, I can only ask: where the hell have you been?
Last year, Kingdom, a “2D side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid,” was released. It was co-developed by developers Noio and Licorice and published by Raw Fury Games, all of hardy indie stock. Now, Kingdom: New Lands will replace Kingdom as the game’s definitive version.
In all honesty, I think games like Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire are what make the indie scene great.
Colorful, imaginative family-friendly platformer The Adventure Pals has materialized on Kickstarter.
Remember when Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story came out, and interest in dodgeball spiked?
Of all games that use elements from the roguelike genre, it’s my firm belief that the best ones are the ones that make failure part of the fun.
