The Spanish government today provided a major boost to the country’s independent developers, confirming a €6.5 million grant to game makers. Last week, news emerged that Spain’s minister of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, Álvaro Nadal had canceled a much-needed European Union grant. A report in El País today said the grant was simply stalled due to managerial turnover at the game industry’s main negotiating organization, the DEV. Games companies with an annual turnover of less than €2 million a year can apply for up to €150,000 in funding. They must have been in business for more than six months. More details will be announced next month. The grant was announced at a presentation in Madrid, attended by DEV representatives and game industry personnel. The DEV issued its annual white paper on the state of the Spanish game industry, which focused on how important investment is to the sector. Industry-wide income grew by 21 percent in … [Read more...] about Spanish indies win major funding boost
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Spearhead Games Reveals Indie Project Omensight with New Trailer
As genres continue to blur across the gaming industry, indie developer Spearhead Games is doing their best to pioneer a genre they are labeling the “narrative puzzle.” In doing so, they have revealed their newest project: Omensight. And based on the announcement trailer alone, it seems like there is a lot to get excited about with the game. Sporting a (seemingly) similar artstyle to Pyre, Omensight takes the term revisionist history to a new extreme. Players take on the role of the “Harbringer,” an extra-chronological being who is looking to reverse the fate of war-ravaged Urralia. Using this power to change the past — the “Omensight” — you can meet up with key players in the worlds history, befriend (or maim) them, and change the fictional world for the better. While that all seems like the setup of a Telltale-like adventure story, Spearhead has noted that there will be combat within the game. More specifically, … [Read more...] about Spearhead Games Reveals Indie Project Omensight with New Trailer
Indies In Development: This week’s most promising picks from #ScreenshotSaturday
Subscribe to PCGamesN on YouTube This is a golden age of videogames. More than ever before, people from all backgrounds are making games using freely accessible tools that industry pioneers of the '80s and '90s could only dream of. The only problem now is information overload; with more games than anyone could ever process, what are you to do? It's that time of the week again, and PCGamesN returns to help you cut through the noise, and tune your signal into some of the most intriguing experiments in the indie scene this week, one enticing image at a time. Check out the latest crop below, and check back next week for more. Plus check our our lineup from last week, January 14th, if you missed it! As with last week, these games are picked from the most recent roundup on the #ScreenshotSaturday tag, but if there's a better trailer available than the latest animated GIF shown, we may use that. Any or all of these games could be the next big thing. Here's some of the … [Read more...] about Indies In Development: This week’s most promising picks from #ScreenshotSaturday
Other indie games that should get their own movies
Time for the little guy to shine Calling all fans of jump scares, here's some news that will make you scream with something other than flash-bang terror: indie horror and recreated childhood nightmare Five Night's at Freddy's has been picked up by Warner Brothers and will soon be getting its own feature film. How a game about hiding in a tiny room waiting to be attacked by animal-tronic terrors will work as a movie is yet to be seen, but if anyone can do it, it's the fine folks in Hollywood.Though a movie based on a game isn't anything new, in a sea of Tomb Raiders and Resident Evils, it's rare to see a small-scale indie title be offered the silver-screen treatment. That got us wondering what other indie games would make good films and what directors would make them shine. And oh boy, did we have a lot of thoughts. Here you'll find those very thoughts on what indie games deserve their own movies and the film-focused minds that would treat them right. Prev Page 1 of 11 Next Prev … [Read more...] about Other indie games that should get their own movies
Trippy Earthbound-Inspired Indie Knuckle Sandwich Launching in 2018
With the New Year celebrations come and gone, a lot of large AAA game news have eclipsed smaller announcements. And one of those smaller announcements released nearly a week ago was a confirmation of a launch date for Earthbound inspired indie game Knuckle Sandwich. Revealed in a New Year’s day tweet from the Knuckle Sandwich Twitter account (below), the single-developer based studio announced that “everyone will get to play the dang videogame [sic.]” in 2018. Along with that announcement, we got a new animated gif of the game’s protagonist looking a bit dazed. This isn’t the first time we’ve covered Knuckle Sandwich, given that the trailer released earlier last year wowed us. The story follows a young man who is looking for an escape from his boring diner job — and solving the disappearances in his town happens to be that escape. With a mix of the quirk Earthbound humor and inspired … [Read more...] about Trippy Earthbound-Inspired Indie Knuckle Sandwich Launching in 2018