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The Phoenix Engine is under development by Wolfire Games, it's being used to power their upcoming game Overgrowth. The Phoenix Engine aims to be easily modable and user friendly, it has built in support for rigging, animating and scripting.

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Editors Choice - Indie of the Year 2017

Editors Choice - Indie of the Year 2017

Feature 15 comments

Welcome to the Editor's Choice awards for the 2017 Indie of the Year Awards, where we show recognition to the indie games from the past year that we've...

Character Design

Character Design

Overgrowth 10 comments

Hey everyone! I’m Steve, the new character concept artist for Overgrowth. In this post I will share some of the designs I’ve been working on. All...

New Overgrowth a209 video devlog

New Overgrowth a209 video devlog

Overgrowth 7 comments

New features including self-documenting script registration, attached objects can be manipulated with editor, can attach groups to characters, and more!

New Overgrowth a208 video devlog

New Overgrowth a208 video devlog

Overgrowth 5 comments

New features including more simultaneous characters, ragdoll physics are more accurate and more efficient, improved chase AI, increased enemy sight distance...

New Overgrowth a207 video devlog

New Overgrowth a207 video devlog

Overgrowth 6 comments

New features including AI characters can be set to follow other characters, AI investigates dead bodies, new wolf variant with tintable colors, player...

New Overgrowth a206 video devlog

New Overgrowth a206 video devlog

Overgrowth 7 comments

New features including rendering uses cubemap mips instead of two cubemaps for diffuse and spec, finer jump velocity control, improved animation when...

New Overgrowth a205 video devlog

New Overgrowth a205 video devlog

Overgrowth 11 comments

New features including a dew settings screen, can change any graphics options without restart, new fullscreen system based on native desktop resolution...

Best Upcoming Indie Game of 2013 Players Choice

Best Upcoming Indie Game of 2013 Players Choice

Feature 75 comments

The final votes have been tallied these are your picks for Upcoming Indie Games of 2013

New Overgrowth a204 video devlog

New Overgrowth a204 video devlog

Overgrowth 11 comments

New features including a tool to attach environment objects to character skeletons, added NVTX labels for GPU profiling, converted most immediate-mode...

New Overgrowth a203 video devlog

New Overgrowth a203 video devlog

Overgrowth 17 comments

New features including tail physhics, character scaling, random dog and color palette, improved wolf animation, added bone inflation effect, added muscle/fat/ear-size...

New Overgrowth a202 video devlog

New Overgrowth a202 video devlog

Overgrowth 9 comments

New Overgrowth development video, featuring the initial dialog system!

New Overgrowth a201 video devlog

New Overgrowth a201 video devlog

Overgrowth 19 comments

New features including spear throw, thrown weapons penetrate farther, spear run and threat animations, spear sweep attack, spear active block poses, added...

New Overgrowth a200 video devlog

New Overgrowth a200 video devlog

Overgrowth 24 comments

Plenty of new features in this alpha, focusing on improved combat and arena fighting!

New Overgrowth a199 video devlog

New Overgrowth a199 video devlog

Overgrowth 7 comments

New features including - Different arena game types; weapon spawns - Player is handled as just one more arena fighter - Added arena team colors - Added...

New Overgrowth a198 video devlog

New Overgrowth a198 video devlog

Overgrowth 16 comments

A new dev video is here, featuring the new audience system and other arena enhancements.

New Overgrowth a197 video devlog

New Overgrowth a197 video devlog

Overgrowth 10 comments

New features including an arena level with progressive difficulty, GPU character skinning, scripts can attach items to characters, split challenge level...

IOTY Players Choice Upcoming 2012

IOTY Players Choice Upcoming 2012

Feature 39 comments

Ladies and Germs these are your top 5 upcoming Indie games for 2012.

New Overgrowth a194 video devlog

New Overgrowth a194 video devlog

Overgrowth 9 comments

New features including scripts can create and delete objects, scripts can translate, rotate and scale objects, scripts can change object script parameters...

New Overgrowth a193 video devlog

New Overgrowth a193 video devlog

Overgrowth 14 comments

New features including slower AI reaction time to changes in target position, AI pays attention to attack pose (if target is planning to attack), AI can...

New Overgrowth a192 video devlog

New Overgrowth a192 video devlog

Overgrowth 6 comments

New features including double-tap tab to freeze time, hold space to move camera slowly, parameters have different editor controls, script definitions...

New Overgrowth a191 video devlog

New Overgrowth a191 video devlog

Overgrowth 7 comments

In this video, David shows off the new attachable armor / general object feature by giving a rabbit custom wooden armor and demos how it works with the...

New Overgrowth a190 video devlog

New Overgrowth a190 video devlog

Overgrowth 4 comments

In this video, David highlights a new item attachment system that he has added to the game.

New Overgrowth a188 video devlog

New Overgrowth a188 video devlog

Overgrowth 15 comments

Check out David's latest Overgrowth devlog featuring more scriptable hotspots for challenge levels.

New Overgrowth a187 video devlog

New Overgrowth a187 video devlog

Overgrowth 6 comments

This week's Overgrowth alpha includes hotspots for challenge levels and more challenge level support. Aubrey highlights his latest level with an art asset...

New Overgrowth a186 video devlog

New Overgrowth a186 video devlog

Overgrowth 2 comments

New features including ten early prototype challenge levels, initial challenge level selection menu (press 'challenge' on main menu), LevelSet xml files...

New Overgrowth a185 video devlog

New Overgrowth a185 video devlog

Overgrowth 13 comments

New features including a challenge end UI, NPC teams, and more!

New Overgrowth a183 video devlog

New Overgrowth a183 video devlog

Overgrowth 6 comments

New Overgrowth alpha video with initial per-level award tracking and progress on savegame file saving and loading.

New Overgrowth a180 video devlog + initial Linux support

New Overgrowth a180 video devlog + initial Linux support

Overgrowth 10 comments

The first Linux client is available! Check out David's latest video inside.

New Overgrowth a178 video devlog

New Overgrowth a178 video devlog

Overgrowth 9 comments

New features including animated debug text using webkit, set up proper animatable wolf rig, started to overhaul level load system, updated angelscript...

New Overgrowth a177 video devlog

New Overgrowth a177 video devlog

Overgrowth 18 comments

New features including left-handed weapon support, new debug text system, same-side sheathing animations, ability to swap weapons from one hand to the...