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 #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

TIGSource Devlog Magazine #1

Since 2005, TIGSource has hosted the largest forum dedicated to independent game development. Its devlog section, in particular — where developers show their work-in-progress and get feedback from the community — has proven to be a goldmine for amazing design, gorgeous art and constructive criticism. As a game designer and an artist myself, I find these quite inspiring and feel these projects deserve more attention.

Every week on Venus Patrol, using screenshots posted to the TIGSource threads, I’ll be building a visual map of the most inspiring projects of the past several days. Soon, this series will be a nice timeline of awesome games evolving from start to finish, and hopefully sharing them here will help get these games the exposure they deserve.

It's a reboot! I'll be doing these visual maps every Friday now, and each issue will be published on Venus Patrol as a regular feature! Click on the picture or click here to view the full interactive map - you'll be able to click on the screenshots and game names to visit the devlog threads directly!