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Two $100,000 winners this week and a few other projects close to the finish line. While I was compiling the column this week, I realised I was keeping track of the number of projects that apparently ‘contained roguelike elements’. It’s about 90%, although to be fair I stopped keeping track almost as soon as I’d started so that figure is entirely made up. Perhaps my memory fails me, but I don’t recall the term being anything like as popular 12 months ago. Of course, some would argue that the meaning has been lost and that anything with procedural generation or a modicum of difficulty is now wearing the roguelike hat, but that in itself surely tells us something. Games want to be like rogue, which is far more agreeable than the days when every other one wanted to be like a soldier or a space marine. (Read More)

Hello everyone! Let me quickly, once again, thank you all for supporting PreApocalypse. We've still got a long way to go before the project is funded, but the initial support has been heartwarming, to say the least. In the past I've spent a lot of... (Read More)

Last weekend took on a life of its own, which is the sort of thing weekends should probably do more often, and I was stranded away from my trusty keyboard and therefore unable to type words about games that might exist at some point in the future. This was a sad thing. Fortunately, missing a week means that there are more winners than ever before and the bumper crop contains two games that I’ve played and enjoyed, at least three that I look forward to playing when they are released and a project that makes me realise how much I want to play with an Oculus Rift. (Read More)

ERICHO, VERMONT – Lonely Development invites fans of grand turn-based strategy games to discover PreApocalypse, a 4X strategy game offering a single player, narrative driven, experience. Grow your empire, conduct research, recruit battle-hardened heroes, design custom units, deploy your troops in strategic turn-based combat, and interact with AI players pursuing goals of their own. All of which are driven by the narrative, rather than simple win conditions. (Read More)