Posted in May 9, 2012 ¬ 4:12 amh.Craig Stern
I recently reviewed Age of Fear: The Undead King. Although I decided that it’s a fantasy strategy game (as opposed to an RPG), there’s a sequel due to come out around the end of the year that may muddy those waters a bit. With the review behind me and only a few details about the […]
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Posted in May 8, 2012 ¬ 1:09 pmh.Craig Stern
There’s a new interview with Steven Peeler up at the Random Tower of Games blog, in which they discuss Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming action RPG Drox Operative. 4. Compared to your last game, Din’s Curse, what kind of new features players could find? The biggest new feature is basically all of the diplomacy with the races […]
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Posted in April 11, 2012 ¬ 7:20 amh.Craig Stern
So! I just did a humongous audio interview with DeadlyHabit of Vinesauce Vidyas about a wide array of subjects, including but not limited to: Telepath RPG: Servants of God IndieRPGs.com politics in RPGs game development whether or not X-Com is an RPG which RPGs get covered on gaming blogs, and why. Fair warning: it’s really […]
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Posted in February 23, 2012 ¬ 5:47 amh.Craig Stern
IndieGameMag reports that Stoic Studio, a newly-formed indie operation consisting of three former Bioware employees, have announced that they are creating a new turn-based tactical RPG called The Banner Saga. On their site, the devs describe their game as follows: role-playing meets turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about vikings. Travel through stunning landscapes […]
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Posted in January 23, 2012 ¬ 9:55 pmh.Craig Stern
IndieRPGs.com recently sat down with Greg Lobanov (a.k.a. “Banov”), creator of the innovative pirate-themed jRPG Dubloon, for a chat about his latest project, Phantasmaburbia. We also talk about RPG pricing and his experience so far with transitioning from free games to commercial work.
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Posted in September 11, 2011 ¬ 11:19 amh.Craig Stern
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 […]
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Posted in August 20, 2011 ¬ 8:16 pmh.Craig Stern
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.
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Posted in July 9, 2011 ¬ 9:41 amh.Craig Stern
RPG Italia has posted an exclusive interview with Vince D. Weller, lead designer on the upcoming wRPG Age of Decadence. From the sound of it, this is going to be an extremely open-ended game with a strong emphasis on role-playing. Interestingly, they’ve decided not to include a traditional magic system in the game at all: […]
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Posted in June 15, 2011 ¬ 7:36 pmh.Craig Stern
Today I scored an interview with Jeff Vogel, one of the great-grandaddies of the indie RPG world.Vogel has been developing indie RPGs for a whopping 15 years, and by all accounts, he’s been quite successful at it. We discussed the reaction to Avadon (his latest game), what his next move will be as a game […]
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Posted in April 17, 2011 ¬ 11:26 amh.Craig Stern
RPGWatch has posted an interview with Nathan Jerpe, creator of the freeware quasi-roguelike Legerdemain. For those of you not familiar with the game, Jerpe spends most of the interview describing it. For instance, he has this to say about it: There are some detractors out there who dismiss Legerdemain because it lacks certain roguelike features […]
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