Getting physical: Why Villa Gorilla's debut game is the open-world pinball title Yoku's Island Express

Jens Andersson tells us about games genre definitions and the tribulations of self-publishing

• Yoku’s Island Express
• indie interview

Why two ex-TT LEGO devs are making Talesinger, an RPG without combat

British developer co-founder, Chris Payne, extols the virtues of narrative-led gameplay in an RPG

• talesinger
• rpg

Meet Bulkhead's Battalion 1944, the indie Call of Duty: WWII

Creative producer Howard Philpott tells us how the developer came together, esports and Kickstarter

• early access
• esports
• kickstarter
• Battalion 1944

'We wanted it to have two buttons and still feel and play like Super Meat Boy'

After seven years, we're finally getting a sequel to Super Meat Boy

• super meat boy forever
• super meat boy

How I learnt to stop worrying and love the Bomb: Runner Duck on its FTL-style WW2 game Bomber Crew

Why two developers ditched mobile free-to-play to make a procedural game about WorlD War Two bombers

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Hotline Miami, Akira and Polish history: Reikon tells us about cyberpunk action game Ruiner

Narrative designer Magdalena Tomkowicz tells us how

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"Hopefully there will be many Ultra Ultra games in the future"

Set up by ex-IO Interactive devs, Danish indie Ultra Ultra's debut game Echo is set to launch later this month

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What happens when you combine Hearthstone, The Hunger Games and FTL? Meet Insane Robots

Playniac's Rob Davis tells us how this ambitious-sounding title came about

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Why Mike Bithell surprised us with his latest game Subsurface Circular

The indie hero's latest title has a smaller scope that helped inform its price tag and release plan

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• mike bithell

Byron Atkinson-Jones: 'Developers should go triple-A before they go indie'

"The reality is every game you make as an indie is your make or break"

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• xiotex

SpatialOS is helping Spilt Milk compete with the MMO big boys

“There are some standout games in the MMO market but it's pretty stagnant creatively in terms of genuinely offering different ways of interacting with MMOs"

• spilt milk
• improbable
• MMO
• SpatialOS

How Nosebleed hopes to please hardcore and casual gamers with Vostok Inc

"It comes from a bit of a frustration"