Why Bundles and Steam Sales Aren’t Good for Most Indies

Check out my first post on the Dinofarm-Games blog and tell me what you think:

Why Bundles and Steam Sales Aren’t Good for Most Indies.

-Ido.

Auro: The Golden Prince

For the last couple of weeks I've been working with Keith & Blake from DinofarmGames on a new game- Auro: The Golden Prince.

Auro is the result of deconstructing the roguelike genre to its base components and trying to reassemble it in a unique way, optimized for fast & furious game-play that is easy to learn but difficult to master.

The result however, is that Auro is not a roguelike - but rather a new approach using the base principles behind what we believe makes roguelikes good.

Please check it out on Kickstarter, where you can find out more about what Auro is all about and tell your friends about it!

We need all the help we can get to make this happen!

-Ido.

Prediction for the new year

I know it's a bit early for new-year predictions, but here is mine:

This time next year Angband and Nethack will become obsolete - there will be no reason to not play ToME4 or DCSS respectively instead.

EDIT: one game Brian mentioned in the comments that I completely forgot about: Brogue.

With that in mind I would restate my argument that I think the future "major" roguelikes are going to be DCSS, ToME4 & Brogue (and with some hope JADE eventually too).

-Ido.

The Future of Cardinal Quest - Classic and Deluxe.

Hi,
we've got a ton of feedback after the cardinal quest free-day and the subsequent pay-as-you-wish day: both huge successes that I will talk more about shortly!

The most significant change to the game's direction tho is that the format is changing from free 3-levels demo and payed full version to Minecraft-style free Classic edition and payed Deluxe edition!

The upcoming Cardinal Quest Deluxe will be a ton better, including 3 new character classes and ~50% more content in terms of monsters, spells, items, weapon, etc..

Most importantly - everyone who bought or will buy the current full version of Cardinal Quest will get Cardinal Quest Deluxe for free!

Have fun and check out the now-free Cardinal Quest Classic,
-Ido.

Finally Released: Cardinal Quest 1.1c!

This is a major update that fixes almost all known bugs in the game!

Among the changes:

• improved performance
• fixed memory leaks
• fixed crash bugs
• added "variety monsters"
• fixed/tweaked many graphical issues
• improved visual effects
• improved texts
• fixed many small bugs
• improved balance (early game is a bit harder now)

The update has been uploaded to CloudFront and BMTMicro & sent to Gameolith.

If you are having problem getting it from BMT just send me a message.

-Ido.