Brazil’s BIG Festival takes its indie-gaming event online
Some indie games are small, but some are BIG. That is to say that they are “Brazilian indie games.” And to continue shining a...
The IndieBeat: Saying good-bye after a year of exploring the indie scene
It’s been a year and some change since I joined GamesBeat. Now that I’m leaving, I still don’t have a good definition for what...
The IndieBeat: Corona Black’s style comes from mech punches, space Westerns, and color blindness
Corona Black is relentlessly stylish. Indie studio Ota Imon has remixed and amped up the aesthetic of Japanese comic books (or manga). It stars...
The IndieBeat: How Nyamakop’s founders survived making their first game
In their last year at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand‘s game design program, Cukia “Sugar” Kimani and Ben Myres began working on their thesis project. Kimani...
The IndieBeat: Tehran Game Convention shows global politics won’t stop gaming’s growth
The nonprofit Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation (IRCG) has wanted to bring international game developers to Tehran for over a decade, and it...
The IndieBeat: ArenaNet’s firings heighten concerns about company policies and harassment
It’s been a week since ArenaNet fired Guild Wars 2 narrative designer Jessica Price and writer Peter Fries without any warning, and the statements...
The IndieBeat: Glitch Mundo carves out a grassroots festival for indie games in Brazil
Brazil’s Independent Games (BIG) Festival ran last week in São Paulo, but it wasn’t the only event there that celebrates indie games. A group of...
The IndieBeat: Puzzles shine at Brazil’s Independent Games Festival
It’s a good week for games in São Paulo — and not just because Brazil advanced in the World Cup. Brazil’s Independent Games festival...
The IndieBeat: VR innovation bubbles at IndieCade’s E3 booth
Virtual reality didn’t get much love at the press conferences before the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo kicked off, but it fared better on the...
The IndieBeat: Composer 2 Mello’s notes for starting a game-music career
Some of the most memorable game music have come from the indie scene — think the haunting resolve of Lena Raine‘s soundtrack for Celeste,...