Indie

Review: Shovel Knight, A Brilliant Homage To The 8-Bit Era

  What do Mega Man, Super Mario Bros. 3, Duck Tales and The Adventures of Link all have in common? Unique stories. Imaginative characters. Brilliant level designs. Fantastic music. They are some of the greatest platformers of all time, and helped define the 8-bit era. And now, they have all played a role in inspiring this years smash indie hit, Shovel Knight. What started out as a Kickstarter...

Nintendo Web Framework: the Indie developers are coming

Seemingly out of nowhere during GDC 2013, Nintendo announced the Nintendo Web Framework which is a development environment based on WebKit technologies, supporting application development on the Wii U system using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. What this potentially means is that Nintendo is lightening up its attitude towards smaller indie developers, currently making great games and applications for...

Wii U eShop More Indie Friendly Than Wii

Martin Pichlmair, developer of Chasing Aurora, has told the Official Nintendo Magazine that he believes the Wii U will be a great platform for Indie Games. “I can not talk about the new eShop in detail,” said Pichlmair. “What I do know is that Nintendo is doing everything to make this console much more open, social and indie-friendly than the Wii ever was.” Pichlmair stakes...

Humble Indie Bundle – great games, great cause

Do you want some of the best cross-platform indie games out there? Infendo reader Milom tipped us off to the incredible Humble Indie Bundle. Included are: Osmos, which I think you guys already know about! [mentioned on Infendo Radio] Braid, which is a seriously cool, mind bending platformer which allows the player to change the flow of time itself and even to question the meaning of life. Machinar...