

Hollywood has taken notice with the recently released "Indie Game: The Movie," which is available as a download on iTunes and, appropriately, the Steam game service, for around $10. Other projects, including "Shadowrun Returns," fared just as well, exceeding small goals and guaranteeing that the game would be made, and provided with extras. Schafer was shooting for a $400,000 funding goal he eventually grossed more than $3.3 million.

These donation programs help game makers build funds for dream projects, including Tim Schafer's "Double Fine" adventure title. No official release date has been announced yet, only that it will arrive sometime in 2012, and that it’s exclusive to the PlayStation Network.Gamers are also getting directly involved with developers, thanks to the insurgence of Kickstarter campaigns. It’s a brilliant little concept and looks like it could be well worth our time.Ĭheck out a story trailer and the lengthy gameplay demo for The Unfinished Swan below now! To find the path, you’ll throw little paint balls all around you, which will coat anything around you and reveal where you can walk. Basically, you the player start the game staring at a completely white screen (not for every level, as you’ll see, but some of them). The last big one to blow my mind was Limbo, the hauntingly beautiful tale of a boy making his way through a dark and deadly dream world.īut there’s a new game that fits this description that has me incredibly intrigued, and that game is called The Unfinished Swan. Not being one of them personally, it’s only every once in a while that one really grabs my attention. Some folks love finding enjoyable new smaller games to download and play from the Xbox Live Marketplace or PlayStation Network.
