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Indie game champion Day of the Devs is now an independent non-profit
Indie game cheerleader Day of the Devs is now an independent non-profit organization. The team says this will open up more funding avenues and help it be more transparent about its fundraising efforts.
Here's the cream of the crop from the Day of the Devs Game Awards stream
Day of the Devs is awesome. Here are the new indie games, release window updates and hot titles from the 2023 Game Awards Edition of the show.
'Helskate' mashes together Tony Hawk and Hades
'Helskate' is an upcoming skateboarding action game in which you'll need to pull off killer combos to power up attacks and take out monsters.
Watch Summer Game Fest's Day of the Devs livestream here at 5PM ET
You can watch the Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest showcase here at 5PM ET.
'Birth' is the macabre indie game quietly crushing the convention circuit
“Showing Birth at conventions feels like putting my whole, raw, beating heart on a table in front of a bunch of strangers and asking if it is enough for them,” creator Madison Karrh said.
'Time Flies' turns the life of a housefly into a cute game about existential dread
I didn’t expect to laugh while playing Time Flies, but I did, out loud on the Summer Game Fest show floor. It’s a deceptively simple game with monochromatic, MS Paint-style visuals and a clear premise: You’re a fly and you have a short time to live a full life in a random house.
What to expect from this summer's big video game shows
Between Summer Game Fest and the Xbox showcase, June is jam-packed.
Summer Game Fest returns on June 9th and it's coming to IMAX theaters
A Day of the Devs showcase will take place immediately after Geoff Keighley's event.
Rhythm game 'A Musical Story' comes to consoles, iOS and PC this October
Part rhythm game, you’ll need to play music to unlock the memories of protagonist Gabriel.
'Axiom Verge 2' is coming to PlayStation 4 and 5
In addition to releasing on Nintendo Switch and PC via the Epic Games Store as previously announced, Axiom Verge 2 will make its way to Sony consoles.
Summer Game Fest's second edition gets underway in June
A Day of the Devs showcase of indie and AAA games is on the schedule.
What a treat: Play tons of indie games free on Saturday in SF
The second annual Day of the Devs, an independent game showcase hosted by Double Fine and iam8bit, kicks off on Saturday, November 1 at Mint Plaza in San Francisco. It's free, open to all ages, and runs from 4 - 11PM PT. And it's probably tons of fun. Games on display and available to play include Costume Quest 2, Axiom Verge, Escape Goat 2, Classroom Aquatic, Gang Beasts, GNOG, Grim Fandango Remastered, Hyper Light Drifter, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Massive Chalice, Night in the Woods, Push Me Pull You, Titan Souls and Videoball. There will also be musical entertainment from Doseone, Disasterpeace, David Kanaga, Lifeformed and Fez-developer-turned-DJ Phil Fish. Hear some of Fish's mixes here. If you're not in San Francisco this weekend, you can follow along with the fun live on Twitch, streaming the show from 4PM - 11PM PT on Double Fine's channel. Last year's Day of the Devs drew in more than 1,800 fans.
Destructamundo is a game about interplanetary destruction from Robotube Games
Destructamundo is a new puzzle game from Robotube Games, a smaller label acquired by Gaijin Games that operates out of the studio's Santa Cruz offices. In Destructamundo, players must aid a race of scavenging aliens whose only means of survival is to travel to various star systems and detonate planets in order to harvest the resources left behind. Each level is comprised of planets with orbiting satellites moving in a clockwise direction. Destroying planets is achieved by clearing its satellites, initiated by triggering an explosion that in turn chains together and causes more explosions throughout the level. The goal is to clear a level by setting off the least number of explosions. Simple. Jason Cirillo, an artist with Gaijin Games, was on-hand to demo the game at Double Fine's Day of the Devs gathering in San Francisco today. Cirillo said the goal was to launch Destructamundo for "about $1 or $2," hopefully "in January" or some time "early next year." The version I sampled was running on Ouya, one of the supported platforms, but Cirillo also added that iOS was part of the plan. Cirillo, unfortunately, wouldn't go into specifics regarding any other potential platform.
Double Fine, friends gather to demo games at Day of the Devs
Double Fine is gathering some of its indie friends together next month for an event called Day of the Devs, a public showcase in San Francisco that will see Double Fine, Tribute Games, Gaijin, Capybara Games, Supergiant, Honeyslug, iam8bit and Chris Hecker in attendance. "It all started with us just wanting to show Broken Age to our backers and fans," Double Fine brand manager Greg Rice told Joystiq during a phone interview. "And we knew that if we were going to invite those people out, we were going to need a larger space – so we figured if we had the space, we might as well invite some of our friends to show their games." Day of the Devs was concocted as a simple gathering that wouldn't force developers to plan and detract from their own development schedules, Rice went on to say. Developers just show up and demonstrate what they've been working on to anyone willing to attend.
