Let's hear it for New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Even if you don't appreciate such fine song lyrics as these, if you are in the New York area this weekend (13th - 15th February) you owe it to yourself to make it over to IndieCade East, where at least your dreams of playing lots of awesome indie games will easily be fulfilled. The show at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York offers three days of workshops, speakers and hands-on time with games from independent developers.
Nintendo is going large at the event this week and will be showcasing some of the coolest independent video games for its systems. Here are the delightful indie games which you can get your grubby mitts on at the event, as detailed in a press release:
- IronFall: Invasion from VD-Dev: This Nintendo 3DS exclusive takes full advantage of the C-Stick features of the New Nintendo 3DS XL system for better aiming. The game supports online and local multiplayer for up to six players, for fast and frantic fun.
- Moon Chronicles from Renegade Kid: An update is now available for this critically acclaimed first-person game, designed to fully use the extra control options available on New Nintendo 3DS XL – including the C-Stick and new ZL and ZR Buttons.
- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse from WayForward: This game is now available in the Nintendo eShop, but Nintendo will be showing off updates that take advantage of New Nintendo 3DS XL.
- Gunman Clive 2 from Hörberg Productions: This Nintendo 3DS exclusive has a strong following, and its loyal fans have been hungry to check out this sequel, which launched Jan. 29 in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.
- Affordable Space Adventures from KnapNok Games and Nifflas Games: This suspenseful stealth puzzling Wii U exclusive features co-op play and will be playable at the show.
- Swords & Soldiers II from Ronimo Games: This side-scrolling strategy game, which is a Wii U exclusive and features local multiplayer, will be on hand at the show.
- Elliot Quest from PlayEveryWare: An 8-bit retro RPG game with a hero on a quest to cure his curse of immortality. Explore Urele Island and uncover its secrets when this game launches in March, exclusively in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
- Blek from Broken Rules & kunabi brother: Imagination and creativity come to life in this beautiful award-winning puzzle game that launched on Feb. 12 in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
Nintendo of America's Damon Baker will also be hosting a seminar titled "Self-Publishing with Nintendo", which sounds intriguing and is a fairly common pitch from the company at events such as these. In addition to this indie game developers can learn how to work with Nintendo and learn what it takes to get their games published in the ever-expanding eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.
As if all this wasn't enough our very own Lee Meyer will be in attendance too, so if you see him do say hi.
[source indiecade.com]
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I'll be there Saturday, guys! Tweet me @leemeyer26 if you're around
Swords & Soldiers II = @rjejr
So maybe its release is not that far away. The one that I want is Affordable.
I really wish that Nintendo would make a serious effort at bringing the indie Unity developers to the platform. They need to get games like Twin Souls, Before, Space Hulk, Republique.
Most of the indie games that Nintendo get's for the wii u is total crap, with very little good indie games to choose from. They either need to get some great 3rd party games or do like Hyrule Warriors and let third partys make some great games for the Wii u with nintendo ip's. Because most of the indies just seem like ios and shovelware games.
@mowerdude Allow me to disagree. This last year was INSANE when it came to quality indie titles on Wii U, from exclusives like Shovel Knight, Shantae, and Stealth Inc 2 to multiplatform releases such as Guacamelee STCE, Teslagrad, and Costume Quest 2. There are even promising ones I haven't be able to get to yet, such as Stick it to the Man and Pier Solar.
Yeah, there were duds as well, but that doesn't really bother me when there's so much quality at the other end of the spectrum.
That said, more indies are always welcome, and I hope the number keeps on getting bigger.
@ricklongo I agree with you 100%.
@ricklongo
I agree, except that I find there to be an overabundance of platformers. It's fine since it's my favorite genre but it seems developers on the eshop are playing it too safe. Many of them are only making platformers and other types of side-scrollers and I'd love to see some more games with 3D movement.
In other words they need more like Costume Quest. Where are the Bastions and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons kinda games? Where's Transistor or Outlast? I really don't need another game "inspired" by Metroid no matter how great it may be.
Personally hoping that devs can use Unity3d on n3ds. It could lead to a further 'fragmentation of blah blah blah' but an investing of time in making n3ds compatible with Unity3d could be a sign of a longer lifetime for the n3wds!
@mowerdude
This is exactly the kind of consumer burning I was worried about with all the shovelware indies like Rcmadiax, Treefall, and Ninja Pig cluttering the eShop with no-quality nonsense.
@sinalefa - You know me so well It's actually the only 1 on the list I want. One other indie game I am really looking forward to is Rainbow Skies, another game that was supposed to be out in 2014 but should be out relatively soon on PS3 and Vita.
There are so many good indie games out there that it boggles my mind that the eShop is so barren. I wish that Nintendo would have just served as publisher for the games if nothing else to get them. Sadly, they probably did but offered terms similar to what they did for the Famicom Disk Drive system.
@Darknyht
We self-publish in the eShop, and at best, what Nintendo probably offered these guys was marketing materials or help in that regard. Some kind of deal on a dev kit or something for those that are new to the Wii U.
Nintendo does not actively seek out much in the way of support from indies or major 3rd party studios, but they clearly put a little more effort into their support of the indies for some reason. Probably because working on a Nintendo console is a more interesting concept for indies than AAA studios, due to the historically dismal support the core Nintendo fans have given the AAA 3rd parties.
@ricklongo True that, and the fact that there are in fact so many great indie games for Wii U has made it my go-to console for indies.
How bout indie games we don't know about yet??
Cool, Affordable Space Adventures is the most desired indie game of this year for me.
Hopefully Moon Chronicles will come to Europe some day during this year.
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