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Steam Greenlights 100 more: Light, Probably Archery, EvilQuest, Saturday Morning RPG
Steam's traffic lights turned Green again, with 100 more games zipping towards the client's Parking Lot of Distribution. Those putting pedal to the digital include carb-surd platformer Potatoman Seeks The Troof, Team 17-published stealther Light, QWOP-like sim Probably Archery. 1980s-fest Saturday Morning RPG, and villainous RPG EvilQuest, to name a few. "These titles were selected on the same criteria we have been using in the past," reads Steam's statement on the approved century. "Votes in Greenlight give us a hugely valuable point of data in gauging community interest along with external factors such as press reviews, crowd-funding successes, performance on other similar platforms, and awards and contests to help form a more complete picture of community interest in each title." The full list of games coming to a Steam near you can be found here.
Indie Royale Halloween bundle includes Home, full Sam & Max season
The latest Indie Royale bundle has arrived just in time for Halloween. The Halloween Bundle is on sale now for the next five days, and includes Home by Benjamin Rivers, all five episodes of Telltale's Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Ice-pick Lodge's Pathologic, MacGuffin's Curse by Brawsome, and EvilQuest by Chaosoft Games. Those that pay more than $8 for the bundle will receive a bonus chiptune album by C-jeff called "Preschtale."Additionally, the top bidder for the bundle will win the Home: Old-School Collector's Edition signed by the game's creator. The top bid for the previously sold-out collector's edition bundle is just over $160 as of this writing.
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: EvilQuest
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, the founders of Chaosoft Games, Forrest McCorkle and Josh Ferguson, discuss the goodness in going evil with their classically inspired title, EvilQuest. What's your game called and what's it about?Forrest McCorkle: Our game is called EvilQuest and it's about an extremely sadistic evil knight named Galvis that is trying to destroy the world. At the start, the character is merely trying to conquer the world, but fails to do so when he is defeated and captured by the dominant kingdom in the game world. In prison, he switches his goal from conquering the world to annihilating it, and also learns a possible means of accomplishing this goal. Of course, he eventually finds a way to escape and from there it's up to the player to see this quest to fruition.How important was it to have original artwork, animation and music in EvilQuest?Josh Ferguson: It was of critical importance -- it was never an option to consider using someone else's material. Quality graphics draw people into a game, while quality gameplay keeps them there. We tried using our individual talents to create both. We wanted an original look and feel while staying true to the sprite-based JRPG style of the early Squaresoft games. As for music, that was a part of the project that we just had some fun with.
