Jim Franklin

A few weeks ago now, you may remember me telling you about Armello, which is a Kickstarter-funded fantasy digital board game, well it’s now available for the PlayStation 4, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux. With the latest release of…

If you’re in Busan, Korea on the 11th and 12 September then you’re in the right place to visit Korea’s first independent game festival. BIC will feature the best in Indie Talent from Korea and the rest of the world,…

Many things have changed for gaming over the past thirty or so years. Consoles and computers have become infinitely more powerful, games have moved on from using a long rectangle to bat a square across a white line, to games…

If you’re looking for a game that takes the thrill of drift and pushes it into your face, then you may be interested in ‘HotBlood Drift’ an indie game from Mobile indie game developer WANGMUL that launched recently. In the…

Every video game has some level of obsolescence built-in. No developer expects their game to last forever. Even games like World of Warcraft have an expiry date on them. The Flock, Vogelsaps first-person asymmetrical multiplayer horror game takes this concept…

Blowfish Studios sat down and wondered what it would be like if there was a game with the world building properties of Minecraft all squashed together with the elements of a first person shooter. Then they stopped thinking about it,…

My last what am I playing post was written all the way back at the start of May, and in these three months things have shifted, games I couldn’t put down three months ago have made way for new games…

If you cast your mind pack a few days you may remember me posting about a Roman Chariot racing game called Chariot Wars. Chariot Wars is a racing game in which you pit your chariot against some of the greatest…

Funding a video game can be an expensive business. Large software companies can pump millions into a release, with massive budgets being bounced around to get that perfect game. But what do you do, if you’re an indie developer with…