A few indie developers have been talking about the indie bubble and how it's going to burst. The indie bubble is the large influx of developers moving into the independent game space, all of those developers releasing games, trying to get press for said games, and trying to make money. A lot of people are going indie simply due to the ease of being able [...]
My new game, "A Spire To The Gods" has been entered into the IGF. There are over 600 IGF Games this year, so good luck going through ALL of them. A Spire To The Gods is a tile-based dungeon crawler with Minesweeper elements. It's basically a mix between Diablo and Minesweeper. You tap on tiles to reveal what's underneath which could be Lots of Loot [...]
You can now listen to some of the Be-Rad music tracks on SoundCloud and BandCamp. The BandCamp link currently only has the WarGames: WOPR tracks and they're available to download if you pay at least $2. The SoundCloud page has the WarGames music, the Lame Castle theme, and a couple tracks I made a looooong time ago for a prototype and tetris clone that I [...]
I recently added proximity mines to AnonA. Check out the dev video here: Proximity mines are used to defend you and your base from any threats you might come across on distant worlds. It's possible to deploy a mine in any direction by swiping across the button in the lower left corner of the screen. El Button Alternatively, you can tap the button [...]
Edit: (This was an April fools joke) It's true, Indie Games Are Dead. I had the unfortunate experience of hearing about it firsthand and decided to share it with you. I'm hoping things will change and indie games will be reborn, but for now we'll have to continue living with the fondest of gaming memories. RIP, indie games. Even Indie Statik is shutting down. What [...]
WarGames: WOPR came out in June of last year and managed to get some great reviews and coverage. It's been featured in the Google Play store as well as Apple's App Store. Metacritic made a list of the top reviewed games of 2012 and WarGames was #19 for iOS. This is pretty rad, too bad it wasn't the 19th highest grossing game! We still have some [...]