All The World’s a Stage – A Review of Plague Road Martyn Bryson June 16, 2018 Reviews My overall sense is of a project that has plenty of ambition for its scale, but with a development team that lacked either the resources or the time to fully realize it. The art and writing demonstrate a clear vision and a care for a unified aesthetic that’s rare even amongst indie games, but this effort is undermined as a complete piece in other areas.
On the Border Lands: Games and the Immigrant Experience Martyn Bryson November 27, 2017 Features Around 4 years ago, I had my first real experience with the international immigration system. Being from the UK with an American partner, this was inevitable eventually. We had managed to avoid properly tanglin...
Your Royal Gayness Mixes Diversity with Politics and Parody Carolyn Lovelace March 7, 2017 News 1 Your Royal Gayness’ Kickstarter launches today, and Finland based development studio Lizard Hazard is out to make waves with their fresh new take on the kingdom management simulator. Your Royal Gayness stars a...
Coping with Anxiety in the World of Indie Games Carolyn Lovelace February 22, 2017 Features, Opinion 5 Hi, my name is Carolyn, and I have General Anxiety Disorder. It’s a bit cliche for an opening, but extremely apropos. My mental health often gets the best of me, as it does with many others who also suffer from...
A Hero’s Call is Bringing Fantasy RPGs to Vision Impaired Gamers Carolyn Lovelace January 31, 2017 News 1 With only 3 days left in its Kickstarter campaign as of this writing, A Hero's Call is a PC game looking to scratch that fantasy RPG itch that both sighted and vision impaired players have alike. Game developme...
Google Play Indie Games Festival Coming to the Bay Area Sheva Gunnery August 31, 2016 Features Usually, we don’t publish news here on Indie Haven. But today, we’d like to share an announcement with you that that we’re pretty sure you’re going to like: registration for the Google Play Indie Games Festival...