TIGSource Devlog Zine #14

[Interactive version here, on Venus Patrol]

This week's selection shows some love for pixel art, with fourteen games in development showing true skill with the pixel brush! We have Chasm in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, Tale of the Stolen Rainbow creating an epic Zelda-like adventure with minimalist black and white pixels, and then there's The Bitter End.. oh wait, it seems to have been made in Hexels! 

I'd also like to point out that Dungeon Hearts, a puzzler for the quick mind, has finally been released on the App Store, after over two years of thorough devlogs on the TIGSource Forums. You should probably read their entries, especially if you enjoy the soundtrack - there's a freebie in there somewhere!

Games: Dungeon Hearts, Upthere, Meta4, GetOff, Grotto Quest, Pipeworks, Sprout, Olav and the Flute, Solstice, Tale of the Stolen Rainbow, The Bitter End, Chasm, Dying Sun, Sky Tourist, Trash TV, Super Punchball, The Dungeoning, Grabbyhands

TIGSource Devlog Zine #12

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During the holiday break, the TIGSource Devlog Zine got a little make-over, and with it I've decided to change its schedule - the zine will now be published every two weeks!

Now that we're back, you should catch up on the incredibles games in development - new screenshots have been added to Two Brothers, Saturated Dreamers, Jack the Reaper, SpaceHero Command and lots of other cool new games. I'd also recommend you visit Tower of Gorillion's forum thread for more screens and info about this new action platformer. 

19 games: Hellas, Delver's Drop, Tower of the Gorillion, Momodora III, Chasm, Everlasting Tower, Aces, Hartacon, HammerWatch, SpaceHero Command, Paranautical Activity, Saturated Dreamers, Two Brothers, CrossCode, Waker

TIGSource Devlog Zine #11

Click the map to view the interactive version on Venus Patrol, then click a game in there to view its thread!

Would you look at all the colors in this week's issue? We explore the dark corridors of spaceships filled with evil robots in Steam Marines, jump around Another Castle in our brand new jetpack, swim in the crazy seas of Geisha Novia, and skulk creepily in a foggy forest in Stealth Vampire... My personal favorite this week has got to be I Found My Place, a beautiful, creepy experimental adventure game - check out the new teaser they just put out, you'll see what I mean. 

Between Clouds, Polycode, Pavilion, Steam Marines, Space Hero Command, Crawle, Another Castle, Geisha Novia, I Found My Place, Papers Please, Vampire Stealth, Nadia Was Here, Scraps, Meadow, Cannon Brawl, Super Space Bucks, Noomix

TIGSource Devlog Zine #10

[Every Friday on Venus Patrol, designer Dominique 'Dom2D' Ferland presentsTIGSource DevLog Magazine, a visual guide to the newest & most interesting in-development games making the rounds on the invaluable TIGSource forums. Looking for inspiration, or just the very first look at the amazing games we'll be talking about in the future? Click any image to learn more, and come back each Friday for the latest picks!]

Since 2009, TIGSource forum user St33d has been writing a pretty thorough devlog for a rogue-like platformer named Red Rogue. This week marks the end of that thread – Red Rogue is finally completed and released for everyone to play! It’s a very interesting entry in the rogue-like genre, with its mix of platforming, auto-combat, loot and traps. I’d also recommend checking out its soundtrack on Bandcamp!

There are a ton of new threads in the Devlog section this week. Let’s start with HarvestCraft, a game inspired by Harvest Moon, but with Minecraft‘s creativity aspects, all done in tiny, lovely pixel art. We’re glad to see Fezcomposer Disasterpeace join the devlog threads with January, a music generation game/tool involving snowflake-licking he’s been working on for a while now. Then there’s Reich, a turn-based strategy game in which you play the axis’ side of World War II – risqué, but quite interesting!

As usual, click on the picture to visit the feature on Venus Patrol, where the map is interactive, leading you to each game's thread!

Break'n'Take, Diecrypter, Far From Home, Harvestcraft, Incognita, Naked Farmer, Neon, Pavilion, Red Rogue, Reich, Temporus, Antharion, ExoPlanet: First Contact, Chasm, Davy Dreams of Flying, Car Tank!, Aeon, Masami Sushi Ace, January

TIGSource Devlog Magazine

As the month of November ends, we see the Sports competition nearing completion. Blood Ball, Flog, Home Run and Unicorrida all seem pretty much finished, and I can't wait to try them out. A surprising addition to the compo roster is Spelunky's creator and TIGSource guru Derek Yu's own entry - a funky tennis game called Boogie Tennis.

A Man's Quest, Anodyne, Attack of the Gelatinous Blog, Blood Ball, Bodybuilder Destroyer, Boogie Tennis, Chopper Mike, Dead Dog in Space, Disorder, Escalated Strange, Flog, Home Run, Jungle.com, KingStone, MiniFlake, Telepath Tactics, Terra Incognita, Triverse, Unicorrida

As always, click the pic to go on the Venus Patrol article, where you can click on each game to visit its thread!

TIGSource Devlog Magazine #8

Game designers don't have time for any of that turkey stuff and those pesky Black Friday sales - they've got amazing games to make! We've got six brand new devlogs in the forums this week - among them the gorgeous tile-based strategy game Oberon's Court, rocking epic dragons and volcanoes, The Burger Flipper, a point and click adventure game set in a fast food restaurant, and Droidnaught, a first-person dungeon crawler à la Eye of the Beholder, but set in a sci-fi world!  Meanwhile, other developers are still working extra hard on the sports competition on the TIGSource Forums, with some titles evolving quite nicely, like Buckets of Blood and By the Law of Blades. 

20 Games: Bowling Game, Buckets of Blood, The Burger Flipper, By the Law of Blades, Cavernaut, Chroma, Droidnaught, Eris, Famaze, Final Fantasy Football, Nave, Oberon's Court, Pause Ahead, Scout, Skydiving Yo, Sole Gunner, Trenchbrain, Turbo Ball, Ultima Ratio Regum and an untitled game!

As usual click on the picture to see the interactive version on Venus Patrol!

TIGSource Devlog Magazine #7

Game makers are still working hard on the Sports compo, as the list of participants keeps growing We now have an incredibly wide variety in the competition - strategy football (or "Footbrawl"), cake fighting, parkour platforming, rabbits and bees (sic)...

We're also quite intrigued by some non-sports games on the forums, like Fran Bow, a brutally dark point and click adventure game, and Papers, Please, whose designer calls a "dystopian document thriller". 

21 Games: Buccaneer Bombardment, Buckets of Blood, Codename Diggers, Dog Racing, Dungeon Colony, Football Time, Footbrawl Quest, Fran Bow, Home Run, Loot Panic, Nature Sports, Papers Please, Parkour Parcourse, Pole Vaultage, Project GNH20, Renegade Sector, Secret of Ox, Sugar Loco, TinyFight, Wrestling, Velodrome, World Pro Psychic Rock Paper Scissors

TIGSource Devlog Magazine #6

A new game making competition has begun on the TIGSource forums and the theme is SPORTS! Don't expect the usual football and hockey games from indie developers though! A month from now, we will be playing a crazy series of sports games, from the hyperviolent (Dodgefist, By the Law of Blades) to the hilarious (Limbolympic).

21 Games: 2001: A Chess Odyssey, All my balls, Avalanche Week-End, By the law of blades, Dodgefist, Dungeon Dashers, The Few, Flug GB, Gladiator School, Greedy Piggy Chase, Gunbox, Jet Lance Polo, Limbolympic, New World Songbirds, Project Netsuke, Screaming Snakeball, Sneeze Kendo, Something About Knives, The Threat, Tiny Football Manager, X-Pong Armageddon Tournament Edition

As always, click the picture to see the interactive version on Venus Patrol!

TIGSource Devlog Magazine #5

In this issue, there's a new simulation RPG called Avant-Garde about life as a painter in Paris. Yes, you read that right! Speaking of art, we get concept illustrations for Soulstrand and Burden, plus a nice fan art for The Walled Garden, and other artists showing off their shiny new art in Alienoid Core, Ritus and Aeon.

19 games!
Aeon, Alienoid Core, Antharion, Avant-Garde, Burden, Eris, Hostile Takeover, Lemma, Metal Mage, Meteor Storm Escape, Ritus, Son of Nor, Soulstrand, Swamp Fever, The Walled Garden, TD Game, Under the Ocean, Unlamentia, Welcome to Bunny Land

Click on the picture to visit the article on Venus Patrol - once there you'll be able to click on the map and visit a game's thread! Woohoo!

TIGSource Devlog Magazine #4

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[Every Friday on Venus Patrol, designer Dominique 'Dom2D' Ferland presentsTIGSource DevLog Magazine, a visual guide to the newest & most interesting in-development games making the rounds on the invaluable TIGSource forums. Looking for inspiration, or just the very first look at the amazing games we'll be talking about in the future? Click any image to learn more, and come back each Friday for the latest picks!]

Don’t mind the huge creepy eyes staring at you in Environmental Station Alpha – focus on all the good stuff on the forums this week! Pixel art western The Wild West, mysterious point and click platformer The Remnant and 4-player arena party game Greedy Piggy Chase (shameless plug!) make their first appearance, while Rock Boshers DX sees a release on Playstation Mobile.

18 games: 7 Grand Steps, Anodyne, Blue Saga, Domination: Remnants of the Past, Environmental Station Alpha, Forma.8, Hellas, Kings of the Desert, Love Machine, MiniFlake, MoonMan, Nobu: Fat Revenge, Penumbear, Rock Boshers DX, Slimeful: Greedy Piggy Chase, The Remnant, The Wild West, Vertex