Many of the users on this site likely recognize Nick Puleo as our former managing editor/Co-Optimus founder. A few may also recognize him as one of the two gentlemen, the other being Dave Paul, behind Brain Shape Games. This month in Indie-Ana Co-Op, Nick and Dave give breakdown for us how they went about developing the co-op for SCHAR: Blue Shield...
SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance, a co-op focused shooter from Co-Optimus founder Nicholas Puleo and Brainshape Games, is available now on Steam for the first time, boasting an array of gameplay tweaks and remastered graphical effects.
Indie co-op platformer Chariot is making its way onto PSN next week. Little has been mentioned of this game since it was first shown off earlier this year, but the colorful and charming art-style along with the physics-based co-op mechanics definitely makes it look like it could be a great couch co-op game.
Push, pull, slide, ride and reel. That's Chariot in five words. Using a few more words, it's a 2D co-op adventure platform game that stars a princess and her fiancé tugging her father's remains through a cave on a "chariot" to reach a resting place suitable for his royal bones. From that alone, it's easy to tell this is going to be a crazy game.
With a successful Kickstarter project back in 2012, Experimental Games' role playing game Boot Hill Heroes is finally ready for the world. Inspired by the likes of Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, and the early Final Fantasy games, Boot Hill Heroes takes a spaghetti western-style world and mixes in some extremely well-thought-out cooperative gameplay features. At long last, teammates who spend their time sorting inventory items won't stall the game!
Team2Bit aims to scratch your old school beat-em-up itch with Fist Puncher, a side scrolling local co-op game for PC, OUYA, and Xbox Live Indie Games. Constantly paying homage to classic 8-bit era games, Fist Puncher delivers exactly what you would expect from a game with such a title. While the experience is certainly entertaining, it’s not ...
Previously available for only PC and Xbox Live, Fist Puncher launched today on OUYA. The OUYA version also adds two new exclusive characters to the already impressive lineup of 15. All 17 characters include their own movesets and attacks, so there's tons of reasons to replay and find your perfect puncher.
Side-scrolling beat em' ups have been making a comeback in recent times. Once a staple of the video game world, these types of games took a hiatus, only to be revived once again when retro-themed games once again entered the gaming scene. One such game, Fist Puncher, was released recently for the PC. Fist Puncher, from Team2Bit, was a very zany brawler that featured tons of characters, content, moves, and achievements.
By now, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing zombies in our games. Whether it’s due to some new virus that brings the dead back to life, a biblical reckoning, or just good old fashioned dark magic, the deceased are having a hard time staying in their graves in the gaming world. TOMA (The One Man Army) Game Studio’s Jimmy vs Zombies al...
We are but a few short days away from the unveiling of the next Xbox and the rumors are running quite rampant. One thing we do know for certain is that XNA, Microsoft's packaged game development tools, will no longer be supported, though nothing has been stated yet what that means for the XBLIG program. This week in Indie-Ana Co-op, we look at an indie game that shows the value in having a program like this on a console: Rise of the Ravager.
Do you enjoy games that exist simply to test your bladder's ability to hold urine? White Noise Online takes a page from the Slender book of game design and drops you and some friends in a dark, spooky woods with the simple goal of collecting a bunch of tape recorders. Don't worry, though, because you've all got flashlights! Flashlights that do little more than attract the scary thing that keeps appearing just outside of your field of vision.
This week in Indie-Ana Co-Op, we speak with John Common, the creative mind behind the zombie indie co-op game, Dead Pixels. If you haven't had a chance to play it yet, I highly recommend it. It's a bargain at $2.99 on Steam, and a steal at $0.99 on the Xbox. A year after its initial release, the game is still going strong and we wanted to find out from John what's been so successful about the game and what he's learned along the way.
