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What Can We Do About Dev Crunch?

Jay Castello - October 12, 2017

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Get Caffeinated With Guinea Pig Parkour
The hand-drawn 2D indie game trend seen with titles like Cuphead, Hollow Knight, and Indivisible continues with Guinea Pig Parkour, a game that recently hit its Kickstarter goal for Early Access. Developed and animated solely by Jeff Mumm, it’s a 2D platformer adventure following Joe, the eponymous guinea pig that relies on coffee to keep him […]
Crossing Ethical Lines for Truth in Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived
“Yer a loose cannon, but dammit if you don’t get results.” Except those results will be worth nothing if the general public turns against your team. Welcome to the psychological noir-detective thriller, Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived. Critique Gaming casts players in the role of a (presumably) grizzled police detective tasked with uncovering a terrorist […]
Second Year of LudoNarraCon Scheduled for Spring 2020
The digital convention LudoNarraCon returns next year. Focused on narrative video games and founded by Fellow Traveller, it was first held in May 2019 as a live streaming event hosted on Steam. Exhibiting games showed demos and behind-the-scenes material, and speakers discussed various subjects on panels. Although the first LudoNarraCon is over, Fellow Traveller has […]
A New Mexico Mystery in 3 Minutes to Midnight
So the trailer for 3 Minutes to Midnight looks really good. It looks like another awesome example of illustration come to life. There’s a mix of stylized drawing, brilliant color, and almost painterly texture moving across the screen. The music and visuals in the trailer also supercharge the game with a vintage, rock ‘n’ roll […]

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What Can We Do About Dev Crunch?