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Roller Drama Releasing On January 26th

Roller Drama Releasing On January 26th

Roller Drama

Roller Drama is releasing on January 26th on Steam (+Deck), Switch, App Store, & GPlay. Roller Drama is a 100% independent production, a visual novel...

Football Drama “HD” — Major Update On Steam

Football Drama “HD” — Major Update On Steam

Football Drama

In this major update, you get all-new HD layouts, controller and keyboard support, a nice speed-up option, night matches, a new "Ted" achievement and...

Play Roller Drama, a strategy sport & narrative game (intro version)

Play Roller Drama, a strategy sport & narrative game (intro version)

Roller Drama

A first playable introduction to Roller Drama is now available on Steam during the Steam Game Festival, June 16-22. Roller Drama is a strategy and interactive...

Every Achievement Has A Story

Every Achievement Has A Story

Football Drama

We were not happy about the amount of feedback one got by winning an achievement in Football Drama, i.e. a Steam label and an image. So we created a site...

Football Drama Now Available

Football Drama Now Available

Football Drama

Football Drama is a narrative game with choices, that generates cards and power to be used in fast turn-based matches as part of a football championship...

Football Drama will obscure FIFA 20! Or maybe not...

Football Drama will obscure FIFA 20! Or maybe not...

Football Drama

We found out that we were releasing on the same date as FIFA 20 (September 24) so... we changed date.

Football Drama: There is a story behind every goal

Football Drama: There is a story behind every goal

Football Drama

Football Drama's is now in beta and we are releasing screenshots and gameplay videos. The game will be released on Steam, Google Play and Apple Store...

Football Drama: "Choices" Teaser Video

Football Drama: "Choices" Teaser Video

Football Drama

The first teaser video for Football Drama is online: choose your own narrative, and play turn-based football matches via tactical cards and hard choices...

Depth in Games: Researches for FootballVoodoom

Depth in Games: Researches for FootballVoodoom

Football Voodoom

A Gamasutra post with why and how create depth in your indie game by working on the narrative background.

Football VooDoom Teaser

Football VooDoom Teaser

Football Voodoom

Football VooDoom is a managerial football game, with an evolving story set in the Thiefa League universe. This universe is the world of football where...

Playable rough proto: The Never Ending Match

Playable rough proto: The Never Ending Match

Football Voodoom

A first rough prototype just of the game play part (called "The Never Ending Match") is now playable via Unity plugin in the browser.

Fifth part of creating Teutoburg battle in Unity 2D: grids!

Fifth part of creating Teutoburg battle in Unity 2D: grids!

Battle of Teutoburg

In this video and post I discuss grids (hex or not) in videogames and in Unity 2D development. Then we see how to apply grids to the Battle of Teutoburg...

Defining simple RTS games: a genre?

Defining simple RTS games: a genre?

Genio

In this Kickstarter update we try to define a genre: simple RTS, by defining four criteria and providing examples, one of which is Kingdom, a simple online...

Genio: Play the Renaissance on Kickstarter now

Genio: Play the Renaissance on Kickstarter now

Genio

Genio is a videogame about engineering, art and power: building the Renaissance. It is a card based real time strategy game with a simple, approachable...

 Learn history and science by playing

Learn history and science by playing

Genio

How can games be used for teaching? Can one learn by playing? As argued in detail by Koster, actually one always learns something while playing, for a...

Leonardo's toys  prototypes for Genio

Leonardo's toys prototypes for Genio

Genio

Genio is a videogame on the history of the Renaissance and has Leonardo da Vinci designed toys as Kickstarter pledges. All the details on the toys and...

Explaining How to Play Genio - a video

Explaining How to Play Genio - a video

Genio 1 comment

In the video I go through Genio game design, commenting the animations and also introducing the historic context of the economy and politics of the Renaissance...

Genio soon on Kickstarter

Genio soon on Kickstarter

Genio

Genio is about to launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund development: we ask for £50K to fund development of the game and the production of 3D blueprints...