Coins is a moment of Zen, followed by a furrowing of the brow. A simple and beautiful puzzle game, Coins challenges you to arrange tokens in a leapfrog like fashion where a coin can only be placed near two others, and your score is determined by the number of moves it takes you to match […]
Tame the Wild West with Gunman Clive
There’s a special place in my heart for westerns. Maybe it’s because I’m an American. Maybe it’s because I admire Sergio Leone’s masterful directing and Client Eastwood’s iconic acting in For a Few Dollars More. Or it could be that I just like a hero who’s more at home with the underworld than against it. […]
Men Who Wear Many Hats Interview with Ryan Wiemeyer
The full transcript is below, but here are the main points: The Men Who Wear Many Hats are responsible for indie instant classic Organ Trail Director’s Cut. The game is available on virtually every platform, has over a million players, and exceeded its Kickstarter goal by 500%. The game succeeds by being a combination of things people love; zombies and nostalgic game play. […]
Bounce Along With Chalk Ball
The love child of Pong and Arkanoid, born in the mobile generation. Chalk Ball by The Pill Tree challenges you to keep a ball/s bouncing along by drawing a chalk line for it to bounce off of. But chalk can be at a premium so it gets tough fast if you’re not economical and don’t have […]
Mow a Bloody Swath, Organ Trail Director’s Cut
I have mixed feelings about the whole bit-revival thing. Most of it seems to be nostalgic throwback garbage. However, Organ Trail Director’s Cut succeeds by going beyond bit-revival, to bit-undead. Produced by Chicago based indie studio Men Who Wear Many Hats, this old school style game tugs on all the right childish heartstrings while having grown up to maturity. […]
Trinket Studios Interview with Tom Eastman
Interview with Tom Eastman The full transcript is below, but here are the main points: In less than a year Tom and his couple of partners struck out on their own and have created 2 great Android games that have gotten a lot of recognition (Google Play Featured, Google Play Staff Picks, New York Times, […]
Gyro, Submachine Factory
Gyro is a pleasing mobile diversion; clean, simple and challenging. A very minimalist game, nothing about Gyro seems extraneous or out of place. Your task is simple: turn a three-color wheel to align colors with incoming projectiles. Gotta love a game that you only need one finger to play. As your score increases so does the challenge with […]
Clash of the Olympians, Better on Android
The first time I played Ironhide’s Clash of the Olypains online I put it down almost immediatly thinking the mouse controls were just to annoying to be worth it. Later they released it for Andriod and I’m glad I gave it another shot. The whole game is dramatiacally better with tap and swipe controls. Suddenly […]
Color Sheep, Trinket Studios Inc.
This is an ideal mobile game recently released on Android and iOS. Color Sheep delivers a whole lot of bang for only a buck. You play Sir Woolson the color changing sheep who must beat back an onslaught of colorful marauding wolves by mixing red, green, and blue in 20 color combinations. There’s also some items and level […]
Kingdom Rush, a Victory in Indie Gaming
Kingdom Rush by indie game developers Ironhide Game Studio, is playable for free at Armor Games and it’s one of my favorites at the moment. Your task is to defend the kingdom from an evil wizard who’s attacking you with goblins, trolls, bandits, demons and other undead. Who needs a better story than that right? You’re […]
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