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Humble Bundle 8: Jack Lumber, Aaaaa!!!, Little Inferno, Gemini Rue
Humble Bundle PC and Android 8 is live now with a hefty offering of games on four platforms: PC, Mac, Linux and Android. At the price of "anything," this bundle offers Little Inferno, Gemini Rue, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome and Jack Lumber, but you can pay more than the average to snag Hero Academy and Anomaly 2. All games come with Steam keys if you pay more than $1. This is the Linux debut of the chess-like strategy game Hero Academy, the Android and Linux debut of Aaaaa!!!, and the Android, Mac and Linux debut of Wadjet Eye's dystopian adventure Gemini Rue. Proceeds from Humble Bundle PC and Android 8 are split among Humble Bundle, the participating developers and charity, in a formula that you get to decide. And yes, there will be more games before the bundle ends in two weeks. Guaranteed.
Blackwell adventure game series coming to iOS
Wadjet Eye Games is planning to port its PC games to iOS. The news comes from a post by developer Janet Gilbert on the Adventure Game Studio forums, later confirmed by the indie developer to Joystiq. Gilbert's post sought help from a "skilled AGS scripter" to bring the developer's entire back catalog to iOS by "altering the AGS source of our games to make them run nicely on iPhone." Wadjet Eye Games told Joystiq that while it doesn't own the rights to Emerald City Confidential, any of its other games could be ported to iOS, "starting with the Blackwell series." The developer's first attempt at adapting an adventure game to the platform using AGS was with Gemini Rue, which we found to be particularly enjoyable on iPhone.
Portabliss: Gemini Rue (iOS)
Gritty, futuristic adventure game Gemini Rue started as a student project by Joshua Nuernberger. Nuernberger received help from Wadjet Eye Games, the husband and wife tandem of Dave and Janet Gilbert, who helped bring the point-and-click adventure to Steam in October 2011. The game runs on the Adventure Game Studio engine, which was first created in 1999, back when the notion of porting games to a mobile device wasn't at the front of developers' minds. Janet spent eight months adapting the AGS engine to iOS, and Gemini Rue is the first attempt at bringing one of Wadjet Eye Games' adventures to the platform. For a first attempt, it's quite impressive.Gemini Rue has players controlling two characters located across a stretch of space from one another in the distant future. Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin, is searching for his missing brother. The other playable character, Charlie, starts the game with his memory being erased after a failed escape attempt from an unknown testing facility. Each piece of the mystery unravels at a good pace. The initial puzzles provide the backdrop for the game's well-conceived universe, itself an intriguing, nearly relatable Earth-like world full of crime. As the story progresses, the plot thickens and twists in a mostly expected manner before dropping a hefty, deep series of concepts on the player at the end.If you think that sounds like a vague explanation of Gemini Rue's story, you're spot-on. I can't unveil the plot in good conscience; it simply needs to be played. It isn't ground-breaking by any means, but the tale is wholly enjoyable and worthwhile to anyone who enjoys dark sci-fi.%Gallery-185147%
Gemini Rue gets adventurous on iOS April 11
Gemini Rue, a gritty point-and-click adventure game that launched on PC in 2011, will come to iOS on April 11 for $4.99. For the first few weeks of release on the new platform, Gemini Rue will be available for the discounted price of $3.99.Wadjet Eye Games co-designer and CTO Janet Gilbert spent eight months adapting the open-source Adventure Game Studio engine to iOS in order to make the game as "touch-screen friendly as possible," studio founder Dave Gilbert told Joystiq at PAX East. Being a point-and-click adventure game, Janet expanded the hot-spots for select items in the game to make the experience less frustrating for iPhone users.Gemini Rue is the publisher's first game on iOS, and will serve as a test as to whether it will port more of the studio's titles to the platform. "If people buy this, then we could justify porting everything else," Dave said. "If it does badly then there's really no point, because this is our best-selling game on the best-selling platform, so that's the best way to gauge to see if it's worth doing."He added, "So if you want to see Resonance on iOS, buy Gemini Rue."
Dark sci-fi point-and-clicker Gemini Rue slinks onto iOS this spring
Gemini Rue, a critically acclaimed neo-noir point-and-click adventure that won the IGF Student Showcase back in 2010, is coming to iOS in the spring. The thriller, which mixes gritty noir mystery with cosmic sci-fi, was released for PCs in 2011, and indie publisher Wadjet Eye Games tells us it's now tweaking the game for iPad and iPhone.Gemini Rue follows the futuristic stories of an assassin-turned cop forced to turn to his former criminal employers for help, and somewhere across the galaxy a prisoner who wakes up in a hospital not knowing who he is or how he got there. As their lives entangle, the mystery unfolds.
Indie Royale bundle has a competitive price for Sanctum, Gemini Rue, more
As a companion to those modest and charitable bundles we've been telling you about, here's a regal collection of indie games presented with a competitive twist. The first "Indie Royale" bundle offers four games for a limited time: first-person tower defense blend-em-up Sanctum; Nimbus, a 2.5D platformer; side-scrolling shooter A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda; and Gemini Rue, neo-noir adventure game set on a distant planet. With the exception of Gemini Rue, all are available through Steam, and most can also be downloaded via Desura. [Update: Gemini Rue is now on Steam too.] The bundle's price at the time of writing is $2.49, and it can be influenced in two major ways. The price rises as more people purchase it, rewarding early adopters with a tinier price tag. However, the price can also be lowered if you pay above the minimum. Venturing above the required cost will not only save everyone else money, but your magnanimity will put you on a competitive leaderboard of very nice people. Why don't you go ahead and show us your magnificent altruism? We'll get the next one. [Thanks, Kent.]
