Posted in January 31, 2013 ¬ 10:09 amh.Craig Stern
A little bit of browsing through the Google Play store has brought to my attention an action RPG by the name of Pocket RPG. Created by Tasty Poison Games, Pocket RPG was first released for iPhone and iPad in 2011, then for Android devices in summer 2012. The premise: Enter a world overrun by hordes […]
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Posted in January 23, 2013 ¬ 11:15 amh.Craig Stern
Last month, Choice of Games released another of its Choose-Your-Own-Adventure / RPG hybrids, this one martial arts themed. Written by novelist Alana Joli Abbott, Choice of Kung Fu takes place in a fantasy version of ancient China. The premise: Become the greatest fighter the world has ever known, harnessing the power of chi to manipulate […]
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Posted in January 7, 2013 ¬ 11:56 amh.Craig Stern
Mighty Rabbit Studios is on a roll, folks, with Episode 4 of Saturday Morning RPG seeing release barely a month after the last one. “But Craig,” you say, “it’s been more than a month sinc–” Shhhh. I was on hiatus, remember? Here, look at these screenshots; you are feeling very sleepy… The premise: Commander Hood has […]
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Posted in January 7, 2013 ¬ 8:30 amh.Craig Stern
Andrew Trese, one of the sibling creators of Star Traders RPG, has written in to inform me that the aforementioned outer space RPG / economic sim (previously mentioned here) has been ported to iPhone and iPad so all you Apple loyalists can have a crack at it as well. As with its original Android release, […]
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Posted in November 30, 2012 ¬ 12:29 pmh.Craig Stern
Jason Hill writes in to announce the release of The Fleet, the latest text-based RPG / Choose-Your-Own-Adventure hybrid using the Choice of Games engine. Created by Jonathan Valuckas, The Fleet offers the following premise: Take back your home world from alien invaders! Forge an Intergalactic Alliance (with untrustworthy allies) to reclaim your planet; blast your […]
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Posted in November 26, 2012 ¬ 9:37 amh.Craig Stern
Greetings, indie RPG fans! Over the weekend, I learned about a strategy RPG that just recently released for iPhone and iPad by the name of Partia: The Broken Lineage. The developers don’t quite provide a premise, though they do have a somewhat lengthy history of the game world that hints at a plot: However to […]
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Posted in November 16, 2012 ¬ 7:45 amh.Craig Stern
The Battle for Wesnoth is a bit of a classic. It was first developed by David White and released for free back in 2003; because the game is open source, however, it has been further developed and extended by a small army of people over the intervening years. Wesnoth is so old that it gets […]
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Posted in November 15, 2012 ¬ 10:03 amh.Craig Stern
Pete Biles of Mighty Rabbit Studios writes in to inform me that Episode 3 of Saturday Morning RPG (“To Bot or Not to Bot”) is getting released today. The premise is simple: The evil Botchangers, the Badbots, are attacking Shadow Valley’s Jean Claude Van Dam and stealing all the power! Marty must stop them to […]
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Posted in September 26, 2012 ¬ 12:13 pmh.Craig Stern
You know who puts out a ton of games? Choice of Games, that’s who. Dorian Hart is the latest author to produce a choose-your-own-adventure / RPG hybrid via the Choice of Games engine, a sci-fi space epic entitled Choice of the Star Captain. About that: Fight on the front lines of the war between humanity […]
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Posted in September 10, 2012 ¬ 5:14 pmh.Craig Stern
Hey folks! Sorry for the ridiculous delay in posting–the site host was down all day due to some friendly DDOSing from our friends over at Anonymous. Speaking of friends: when you take a look at Dragon Fantasy, don’t you just feel like you’re looking at your old pal Final Fantasy 4? What’s that–you say don’t […]
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