In the third of his pieces from the Toronto independent development scene, Ryan Hamann meets Dames Make Games. In early August, 2015, I had the […]
Tag: indie
The Static Speaks My Name
What if I told you that a free, 10 minute long horror game delivers on BioShock’s medium-defining twist even more memorably than the revered Irrational […]
Gang Beasts Quick Rinse – Doughboys, Jelly Babies or Morphs?
Darren Gargette talks over pre-recorded multiplayer games of Gang Beasts – a ridiculously funny physics-based drunken brawler (?!) We dunno. It’s off the hook either […]
Motor Rock Quick Rinse – Rock n’ Roll Racing too
“Who brakes in Rock n’ Roll Racing?” Darren Gargette burns up the circuits in Motor Rock, an indie ‘tribute’ to 1993 16-bit isometric racer Rock […]
Electronic Super Joy Quick Rinse – Lady sex noises
“Ooh la-laaa!” Darren Gargette plays the in-your-face 2D platformer formerly known as Techno Ninja: Electronic Super Joy. This is the Windows version of the game […]
Ethan: Meteor Hunter (not so) Quick Rinse – parts one to four
Darren Gargette takes on tricky puzzle/platformer Ethan: Meteor Hunter from Seaven Studios for PC and PS3. In the first of four videos Darren kills the […]
Thomas Was Alone – Be there or be square
“We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers” Darren Gargette gets into shapes and squares up to give us a […]
Proteus: A musical amble through retro wonderlands
If there’s one thing we have plenty of in games right now, it’s everything associated with violence. Violence, swearing, punching people in the mouth and […]
The Basement Collection: What’s underneath Edmund McMillen’s headspace?
Watch in horror as Darren Gargette fails to grasp the basics human reproduction in Ed McMillen‘s Coil, and several other games which make up The […]
La-Mulana: Darren G Wants to be Indy, is more like Mutt
Another helping of punishing dungeon-delving in an updated La-Mulana Darren Gargette decides that Spelunky wasn’t challenging enough for his tastes so immediately dives into the […]
Super Mario Bros + Portal = Mari0
What do you get if you cross the original Super Mario Bros. with Portal? The answer – Mari0 – and a somewhat confused Darren Gargette, […]
Spelunky
Darren G. confronts Derek Yu’s formidable Rogue-like Spelunky Rewind to 2008 and you’ll see the same baby-faced Darren as you would now but one as […]