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Indie Royale Stuffing Bundle crams together Dream Machine, Puzzle Agent 2 and more
Before the holidays have you engorged to the point where the only game you can play is called nap, Indie Royale wanted to proposition you with a new tempting smorgasbord of indie games. The Indie Royale Stuffing Bundle groups together Dream Machine: Chapters 1-3, Puzzle Agent 2, Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Children of the Nile and Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery. Dream Machine uses cardboard and clay to tell the story of Victor Neff and his wife who just moved into an apartment building that just isn't quite right. (Dream Machine is a five-part series, so keep in mind you won't get the entire award-winning point-and-click adventure experience in this bundle.) Puzzle Agent 2 is the 2011 sequel to Telltale Games' and Graham Annable's original adventure/puzzle outing and Pilot Program winner. Anomaly: Warzone Earth you've probably heard of since it's on every platform ever invented, while Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery is a Metroidvania game with lots of exploration. Finally, Children of the Nile is a city-building sim set in ancient Egypt – the Enhanced Edition is a Steam key, while the Desura/DRM-free code included in the bundle is based on the 2004 original, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile.
Tilted Mill turns with Steam power
Valve's Steam service is generating the power for Tilted Mill's digital distribution of its enhanced 2004 title, Children of the Nile. The game places players in the role of a Pharaoh tasked with building an ancient Egyptian society SimCity-style and is available for $20.Although Tilted Mill did say previous owners of CotN would be able to get this updated version for free, that upgrade is not available just yet. We spoke with the company's president, Chris Beatrice, who tells us the download should be available on their site and several others "in the next couple of days, hopefully today." He also tells us Tilted Mill is currently working on several other projects and at least one of them will be announced this Friday. Beatrice believes that game should be available this fall and we'll be sure to post what it is as soon as we get word from the company.[Via BigDownload]
Tilted Mill updating Children of the Nile, self-publishing next title
Tilted Mill Entertainment says it's relaunching the studio's 2004 sim game, Children of the Nile, with a major update/redesign later this year; those who already own the title will be able to download this update for free. In a letter to Big Download, the company's president, Chris Beatrice, also outlines several other plans the developer has going forward.Although known for competent (but not exactly great) city sims like Vivendi's Caesar IV and EA's SimCity Societies, Beatrice says the company is going down a new path and will self-publish its next title this fall. Although he gives no hints as to what the game will be, he expresses that PC gaming now has "new distribution opportunities" to make and sell games at a reasonable cost. If Tilted Mill's self-published titles end up being vastly superior to its mega-publisher titles, we'll be more than happy to support the company with our hard-earned cash.
