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'Skin Deep' is a stinky sci-fi shooter from indie icon Brendon Chung
It's like Die Hard and Far Cry 2 had a blocky, intergalactic baby.
Explore 'Quadrilateral Cowboy' even further with its source code
The team behind Quadrilateral Cowboy is giving a little something back to the community. Blendo Games has released the game's entire source code for players and other studios to explore and examine.
Seen@GDC 2014: The 1987 PC version of Quadrilateral Cowboy
Okay, we can't be sure this box for dystopian hacking game Quadrilateral Cowboy is actually from 1987, but it does boast about stunning SVGA graphics.
Quadrilateral Cowboy invites you to hack the planet (or a hallway)
Hacking computers has become commonplace in video games. The subversive activity has worked its way into countless games, even those where it doesn't belong (really, TMNT?). Hacking in games is generally a vague abstraction of the real thing. You hold a button as a progress bar slowly fills, rotate panels in a thinly-disguised version of Pipe Dream, or maybe you connect circuits in a diagram. Quadrilateral Cowboy, the latest from Thirty Flights of Loving developer Blendo Games, takes a drastically different approach to computer infiltration. You aren't just pressing buttons or solving a mini-game; you're actually typing in code. Want to turn off a security laser? Easy, just type "laserX.off(Y)" into your portable hacking deck, where X is the designated number of the laser and Y is the number of seconds it will remain off. Sure, it's still an abstraction of the real thing, but hacking in Quadrilateral Cowboy requires a bigger investment in both time and forethought than most espionage games, and pulling off a flawless hack is thrilling.
IndieCade 2013 rolls out Red Carpet for winners
IndieCade announced the winners of its Red Carpet Awards, highlighting a number of indie standouts chosen by show attendees and a panel of judges. Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving developer Blendo Games took home the festival's Grand Jury Award for its hacking-themed adventure game Quadrilateral Cowboy. Nevernaut Games won the hearts of showgoers with SlashDash, earning it the Audience Choice Award. IndieCade's Media Choice Award went to Matt Thorson's Ouya-exclusive TowerFall, and Joshua DeBonis and Nikita Mikros won the Developer Choice Award with Killer Queen. Other honored games include Messhof's Nidhogg, The Fullbright Company's Gone Home, and Cardboard Computer's dual award-winning Kentucky Route Zero. A full list of winners follows after the break below.
Humble Weekly Sale shakes it up with Blendo Games
The Humble Weekly Sale has a quartet of titles from Blendo Games, featuring IGF nominees Thirty Flights of Loving, Flotilla and Atom Zombie Smasher, and educational children's game Air Forte. Pay more than $1 to get Flotilla, Atom Zombie Smasher and Air Forte, or pay above the average asking price (currently around $4) to add Thirty Flights of Loving to that list.Buying a bundle includes the soundtracks for Atom Zombie Smasher, Air Forte and Thirty Flights of Loving, as long as the appropriate price is hit. The purchase price is divvied up among charity, the Humble Bundle or the developer, as with all Humble purchases. These Blendo Games games (games) will be available on the Humble Store for six more days, so go mix it up while you still can.
Thirty Flights of Loving dev reveals hacking game Quadrilateral Cowboy
Blendo Games, the mix masters behind Thirty Flights of Loving, are cracking into the retro indie era with Quadrilateral Cowboy, a game about 20th century cyberpunk hacking due out this year. Quadrilateral Cowboy involves sneaky sabotage, tiny cameras with legs and a train of some kind, as demonstrated in the above video. Blendo provides a few more details in its description:"Hacking. Dial tone. Cyberpunk. Cassette decks. Robotics. Espionage. Sabotage. Suitcase decks. Simulators. Brainbox injectors. When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: You answer only to the highest bidder."In the 90s, the highest bidder could easily be Wal-Mart. So that's how they get those prices so low.%Gallery-178040%
Thirty Flights of Loving now seducing Mac
A Mac port of Thirty Flights of Loving, Blendo Games' follow-up to indie darling Gravity Bone, is now available for $5. You can get it through Steam or, if you'd prefer to avoid DRM, Blendo Games' website.Originally bundled into Idle Thumbs' Kickstarter package, Thirty Flights of Loving made its debut to non-backers in August. Thirty Flights of Loving continues creator Brendon Chung's desire to tell a story within a linear, first-person adventure framework. It's a short game, and apparently a very good one too.
Thirty Flights of Loving tells its story on Steam
Previously exclusive to a certain tier of backers for the Idle Thumbs Kickstarter drive, Blendo Games' Thirty Flights of Loving is available for purchase on Steam today. The self-proclaimed "first person short story" is a sequel to the indie outfit's previous game, Gravity Bone.Thirty Flights of Loving is available for 10 percent off until August 27, for $4.49 – at which point it'll go back to the full price of $4.99. If you're not thrilled about the whole DRM thing, you can purchase a copy of Thirty Flights of Loving directly through Blendo's site.%Gallery-148879%
Take a few seconds to check out Thirty Flights of Loving
Whether you're plunking down $30 on the Idle Thumbs Kickstarter, or waiting patiently to pick up Thirty Flights of Loving later on, at least you don't have to wait in the interim before checking out some screens and the above teaser trailer. Your interest is warranted: It's the sequel to Blendo Games' Gravity Bone, an excellent PC game that's still available for free download.%Gallery-148879%
