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  • Incredipede Preview
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    Colin Northway has a fascination with machination. His first title was the flash hit Fantastic Contraption, which had players constructing makeshift vehicles to guide unassuming shapes to safety. The game quickly became an internet hit, and spawned not only sequels, but curiosity about how the indie developer would follow it up. Now, Northway Games is back with Incredipede: an experience every bit as much about construction, but of a vastly different nature.
  • Luftrausers Preview
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    There's nothing fun about armed combat. Unless there is. Such is the party line in the next major title from the ceaselessly creative duo at Vlambeer: Luftrausers. A mash-up of the World War II era and the Game & Watch era, the title is a self-described "arcade-style aerial combat shooter." For all you civilians out there, that translates to one thing and one thing only: a retro shoot-em-up full of planes. Planes that you can explode. 
  • Flip’s Escape Review
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    Flip’s Escape Review

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    On my first playthrough, I couldn't see how I'd ever file a positive review for Flip's Escape. The controls felt obtuse, and the game - which presented itself as an endless runner of sorts - was filled with jarring stopping and starting. Ten minutes in, however, and I was frantically pressing the "tap to play again" button without even thinking. In a gaming landscape of short attention spans, believe me when I say this is one on which you should reserve snap judgement. It will take you from skepticism to obsession at warp speed. 
  • English Country Tune Review
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    English Country Tune Review

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    If you think that a weird, three-dimensional puzzle game that will tax both your spatial reckoning and your patience to their absolute max sounds like fun, then boy, have I got just the thing. It's called English Country Tune, and it'll drive you absolutely crazy. In love or out of your mind? That definitely depends.
  • Flip’s Escape Preview
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    When I was young, my dad bought me a wonderful book of illustrations that looked like one face when drawn right-side up, and another if drawn upside down. This, I feel, is the quality captured by Shaun Inman's excellent The Last Rocket, which played one way as you collected all the coins, and another as you attempted to avoid them. If you, like me, couldn't get enough of this indie gem, never fear: Flip is blasting off again. But you're still missing out on that great book.
  • Spry Fox’s next original game, tentatively titled Hoppington, will be played over 7 real-time days (Exclusive)
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    Spry Fox’s next original game, tentatively titled Hoppington, will be played over 7 real-time days (Exclusive)

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    One of my favourite talks at this year's Casual Connect was given by Spry Fox (Triple Town) Chief Creative Officer, Dan Cook, about designing completely original games. He feels a great place to start is at the root, with the core assumptions of how we play. Mario runs and jumps, and we control that. What if we didn't control the running part? Canabalt is what. A fitting chat, it seems, considering what this indie duo has up its sleeve.
  • Synesthetic Review
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    Synesthetic Review

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    The one thing I admire most about iOS is that it's allowed independent game developers to try daring new things and make money doing it.  To the ridicule of some and the praise of others, the App Store and other means of digital distribution have allowed developers to veer away from the conventions of mainstream gaming, emphasizing experience over what gamers usually expect: action, high scores, challenge, etc.  
  • iOS puzzler Polymer gets Polymer…er with universal update, multiplayer, and more
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    iOS puzzler Polymer gets Polymer…er with universal update, multiplayer, and more

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    It's no great secret that I'm a big fan of indie developer Whitaker Trebella's Polymer. Part Rubik's Cube, part Lego, the game tickles both right brain and left brain alike. Besides which, Trebella is a great example of pluck and determination: he wanted to learn how to design a game...so he did! So while many are poring over the new releases in today's App Store deluge, it's the "update" section of my iPad that has me excited.