Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Canadian Indie Bundle on Steam: Superbrothers, Shanks and more]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/23/canadian-indie-bundle-on-steam-superbrothers-shanks-and-more/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/23/canadian-indie-bundle-on-steam-superbrothers-shanks-and-more/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/23/canadian-indie-bundle-on-steam-superbrothers-shanks-and-more/#comments Our brothers and sisters in The Great White North are getting some time in the spotlight today with a new bundle on Steam. The Canadian Indie Bundle packages together games from Klei Entertainment, Capybara Games, Gaslamp Games and more for $14.99.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, Shank and Shank 2 highlight this Canadian Indie Bundle, joined by Space Pirates and Zombies, Waveform, Hoard, Dungeons of Dredmor and Capsized. Many of the games in the bundle offer SteamPlay between Windows and Mac OSX.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>canadian-indie-bundlecapsizedcapybaracapybara-gamesdungeons-of-dredmorgaslamp-gameshoardklei-entertainmentmacpcshankshank-2space-pirates-and-zombiessuperbrothers-sword-and-sworcery-epwaveformTue, 23 Oct 2012 17:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Steam Summer Sale, Day 7: Super Meat Boy, LA Noire, Total War, Indie Bundle 7 and more]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/18/steam-summer-sale-day-7-super-meat-boy-la-noire-total-war-i/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/18/steam-summer-sale-day-7-super-meat-boy-la-noire-total-war-i/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/18/steam-summer-sale-day-7-super-meat-boy-la-noire-total-war-i/#comments Steam Summer Sale, Day 7 Super Meat Boy, LA Noire, Total War, Indie Bundle 7 and moreWe're gonna let the "Ouch, my wallet!" jokes simmer for a couple days (or until we can think of a good one, whichever comes first) and instead we'll just give you all the straight poop on today's Steam Summer Sale offerings.

Amongst today's Most Discounted Things[TM] is the Carpe Fulgur series, which includes Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters, Fortune Summoners and Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale. Today's offering also boasts a heavily discounted Total War mega pack, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and Super Meat Boy. In addition, there's a new Indie Bundle that features Q.U.B.E. and Dungeons of Dredmor, among other titles.

Oh! Here's one: What's the difference between a second mortgage and the Steam Summer Sale? With a second mortgage, at least you get to keep the house!

... No? Okay, maybe next time.

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This is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity.
Once upon a time, the "Roguelike" genre was a semi-hidden cache of secrets in gaming. Games like Rogue and NetHack were passed around from floppy to floppy, not sold in stores, not discussed in magazines, and certainly not treated as part of the same tradition as an Ultima or even a Gold Box game. Maybe it's because the genre name is just so stupid. We don't call first-person shooters "Doomlikes" or puzzle games "Tetrislikes."

Unfortunately, I don't have a better term for it. Perhaps over the course of describing them in a column we can think of something. Here are the consistent attributes of the genres: it involves a series of randomly generated levels, starting hard and getting progressively more difficult. They're usually stripped-down role-playing games, where you roll a quick character, pick a class, buy a couple items, and then get killed permanently by a slime and have do it again. They're also designed for short play sessions.

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JoystiqA Diversity of Roguelikes originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>desktop-dungeonsdungeons-of-dredmormacpcrowan-kaiserthe-binding-of-isaacwestern-rpgsThu, 19 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST<![CDATA[The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Dungeons of Dredmor]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/22/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-dungeons-of-dredmor/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/22/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-dungeons-of-dredmor/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/22/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-dungeons-of-dredmor/#comments Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, the gang from Gaslamp Games explain the hilariously time-consuming adventure of indie development with Dungeons of Dredmor.

What's your game called and what's it about?

David Baumgart: Our game is called Dungeons of Dredmor. It's a humorous, graphical, roguelike-inspired dungeon crawling RPG. The setup is the archetypal hero descending into the dungeon to defeat an evil dark lord -- that's Lord Dredmor -- by fighting, casting spells, collecting loot and experience, and generally being bothersome.

This is no sure process, for the dungeon is filled with traps, monsters, and bottles of acid. Everyone will die at some point. If a player has selected the traditional permadeath option, then upon death the player's character is dead forever and the player must start again with a new hero at the beginning of the game. It's more fun that way.

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JoystiqThe Joystiq Indie Pitch: Dungeons of Dredmor originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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