IndieRPGs.com recently had the pleasure of conducting an exclusive interview with Jay Barnson, whom you may know as the curator of the Rampant Games Blog (and the guy responsible for the occasional indie news round-up). What you may not know, however, is that he is a veteran game developer working on a humorous first-person dungeon […]

Michael Omer of LoadinGames writes to me with word of a new browser-based, first-person RPG called Misfortune. The creators summarize the game thusly: Misfortune is a single player online RPG, in which you find yourself lost in a strange city. The story unfolds slowly through a series of short unique missions and strange events. Two […]

Banov has now officially announced his newest RPG project, Phantasmaburbia. “But Craig,” you say, “didn’t you post about this befo–” Yes. But now it’s official. More importantly, he’s released a new demo and a trailer for us to play/look at, respectively, which means that it’s news. Here’s that trailer:

Kitty Lambda Games has announced The Real Texas, an up-and-coming action adventure game in the Zelda style. The Real Texas is an action adventure game that plays like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI. Sam, and [sic] ordinary Texas rancher, is on holiday in England when he falls into a […]

Word has reached my ear that well-received action RPG Bastion has been released on Steam for Windows. And yeah, sure, I’m a little late with this one (somehow it passed under my radar), but look at it this way: the game has been patched repeatedly since its release, meaning that you’re going to have a […]

The Rampant Games Blog reports on the death of long-awaited indie RPG The Broken Hourglass.

Eric Scwarz has posted an opinion piece on Gamasutra arguing that RPGs are not about story or decision-making so much as they are about rulesets: As narrative elements began to creep into RPGs, as players began to get attached to the characters they played as and the universes they inhabited, RPGs began to become associated […]

Russian CRPG website Core-RPG.ru writes in with word of an exclusive interview they landed with Vince D. Weller. It’s posted on a forum: you’ll need to click the little plus symbol to expand and read it.

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce the release of Millennium 4: Beyond Sunset (so…nighttime, yes?), the latest RPG Maker jRPG in the Millennium series. Aldorlea Games describes the game like so: Marine and her friends have six days to find the four remaining warriors and make it to the showdown! With such tight schedule and […]

Omorote Hideoshi writes to tell us of the release of Lost Hero, a free RPG that runs in-browser. The game appears to use HTML, as most actions are followed by a pause where images load onscreen. From what I can tell, this game is rigidly linear, at least to start. Additionally, all of the game’s […]