All posts tagged in indie game
May 3, 2019
A Fold Apart explores what it’s like in a long-distance relationship.
With the rapid advancement of technological communication, more people than ever have experienced what it’s like to be in a long distance relationship. The weight of uncertainty combined with an unwavering longing can be quite the emotional roller coaster. Well, indie developers Lightning Rod Games have created a beautiful puzzle game, A Fold Apart, to allow gamers to explore this reality in a virtual way.
Come together in A Fold Apart.
In this wonderful heart-felt puzzle title, it is the players mission to guide their characters through a charming fold-able world with the ultimate goal of bringing your two characters together. Given that the game was heavily inspired by actual events in the developers lives, you get a true sense of what it’s like to be in a long-distance relationship. The sacrifices made by each individual to work toward becoming one again is experienced through the charming characters (whose genders are also customizable) created by devs who have been there.
The delightfully appealing graphics of A Fold Apart really help you to get the emotional feel of the game as well. With soft shapes and colors galore, we’re sure we will get to experience as close to the real happening as we can get from the virtual world.
A Fold Apart is set to be released in June of this year for the Nintendo Switch and PC, and later this year for Xbox One and PS4. For more information about this soul-stirring release, be sure to check out their website, and don’t forget to wishlist on Steam! For another great puzzle title, don’t miss Automachef!!
- May 1, 2019
The April dev. log for Ooblets reveals new features and improvements!
The recently updated dev log for Ooblets let us in on some in-depth details in regards to the progress of this eagerly awaited title! The dynamic duo of a dev team has been hard at work to make sure the game is as streamlined as possible before the still unknown release date. This adorable title has already gained quite the following, mostly for it’s uber-cute art style and ingenious minion system (the Ooblets).
In case you haven’t heard, Ooblets is an extremely adorable farming SIM/creature collection game in the style of such classics as Animal Crossing and Pokemon. Only in this game, you don’t need to necessarily catch your creatures, instead, you grow them in your awesome garden! Your little friends will help you do many things as you explore the expansive lands before you.
The juicy deets….
The updated dev log for last month mentions a few choice improvements! First and foremost, as usual, bug fixes! All those nasty little critters are being sought out and corrected as we speak! There has also been the addition of a heads-up display (HUD) to make for easier access to your quests and tasks.
Also, a new special homebaby grow system makes it so that the Ooblets you leave on your farm will help them grow faster, depending on the attributes of the individual Oobs. This adorable feature is implemented through dance. Watch your Ooblets groove for the betterment of your ecosystem!
In this update, you can now keep much better track of your cutesy creatures with the addition of an almanac. This will simplify the process of knowing which ones you have, and which ones you still need to grow! These are just the key features of the update (from our perspective), for the full details on what’s new and what’s to come, hop on over to the dev log! For more information about this charming title, check out everything myPotatoGames has to say about Ooblets.
- Apr 27, 2019
Explore a beautiful and captivating land in Hive Quest.
With the recent release of the demo version, we feel like we are a little late in discovering this most charming title. Partake in a grand adventure through an alluring and whimsical forrest. You can change the world around you to make for a more personal feeling! There are many folklore elements to Hive Quest, such sprites and faeries, that truly adds to the overall fanciful tone.
Explore the world with your pet, Shrublet, and do whatever it takes to bring peace to the land, and reveal everything there is know about Old Orchard (the land where the game takes place). Control the “Hive Mind” of your own creatures to solve puzzles and uncover the mysteries that lie strewn about this enchanting place! Much is to be discovered in Hive Quest, with magical beings and fantastical happenings throughout.
Inside Hive Quest…
Hive Quest is a solo project by indie developer Rod Tyson, and is available in demo version as well as wish list-able on Steam. This title is a Real Time Strategy game with plenty of puzzles and varied environmental interactions. There is currently no release date, but we do know that it will be on PC (both Windows and Mac).
Update!
Recently, there has been an update to the demo version, so now is the perfect time to check out this striking and visually impressive title! The update includes new characters, challenges, bug fixes and many other alterations that are sure to streamline this already adorable game.
For more information about Hive Quest, be sure to check out their website! And don’t forget to add this beautiful indie title to your Steam Wish List! For another game in the Real Time Strategy genre, don’t forget to check our coverage of Pikmin!
- Apr 26, 2019
The console version of My Time At Portia finally gets major update.
Team17 recently announced that My Time at Portia will get an update that includes many features already available in the PC version. Many of us were wondering if the console versions would receive any love, and now we know. The update is set to be released “in the coming weeks”, and is said to include more quests, relationship features, character cosmetics and much more. For the full rundown of everything that is included in the update, please check out Team17’s blog about My Time at Portia.
For those of you who are a little late to the party, My Time at Portia is an expansive, open-world role-playing adventure game. Since its release, it has been touted as one of the greatest Indie games ever, mainly for it’s adorable graphics and simple yet varied gameplay. With many relationships to partake in, and seemingly endless duties about, Portia has comfortably nestled itself into our hearts and game libraries forever!
My Time At Portia PC Launch Trailer
For more information about this epic title, be sure to check out all that myPotatoGames has to offer on the subject!
- Apr 20, 2019
A bit of R&R for these super-busy devs!
In a recent tweet from @MinekosMarket, it has been revealed that production of Mineko’s Night Market will be slowed due to some near cat-astrophic health concerns. That might be a bit exaggerated on our part, but maybe not! The creation of such a beautiful and whimsical game is sure to be a fur-midable endeavor.
While it was mentioned that this is more of a slowing than a halt, un-fur-tinately, it doesn’t appear that a new release date is as soon as we might hope. We here at myPotatoGames know the importance of peace and pace, however, and fully support the Mineko team in taking all the time they need.
If hiss-tory has taught us anything, it’s that slow and steady wins the race. Of course, all new updates will still be mew-sic to our ears, but all good things come in time! We would like to say thank you furry much to the Mineko’s Night Market team for all the hard work on this pur-fectly paw-some title. We wish you all the best going fur-ward!
For more information about Mineko’s Night Market, feel free to check myPotatoGames coverage of this lovely title! For up-to-date information, be sure to follow @MinekosMarket on Twitter!
- Apr 16, 2019
Adorable games are always a great addition to video games and KeyWe is no exception. It doesn’t get much cuter then jumping into the role of two kiwi birds, each controlled by a real player and cooperatively solving puzzles together. If this sounds strange, funny and extremely cute to you, then this upcoming indie title might be your next new Co-op Puzzle addiction.
KeyWe is a Co-op experience designed to be enjoyed with friends and family, come together and play together. As the name suggest each player jumps into the role of a cute kiwi bird. Players are tasked to work together inside an old fashioned post office. According to the developers you will need to “Jump, flap, peck and but-slam your way across interactive landscape of levers, bells and buttons…” in order to get mail (messages) delivered on time.
It is up to the player to deliver the message to citizens of Bungalow Basin, we all know how packages can’t arrive soon enough, let alone if they get miss delivered.
The first KeyWe gameplay trailer reveals the first three of four seasons the game will feature. Each season will present the player with a variety of challenges. The summer chapter for example can surprise our kiwi bird friends with a powerful monsoon, you will then have to make sure to quickly send out an emergency signal to the beloved people of Bungalow Basin to keep everyone safe and sound. Check out the super cute KeyWe trailer below.
KeyWe is coming out on PC and Mac in the near future. Indie developer Stonewheat and sons hope to bring it to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Playstation 4 as well.
For more adorable games, check out our top 15 cute games for Nintendo 3DS, as well as the award winning Ary and the Secret of Seasons in which you have to take control of the weather and seasons in order to make progress on your journey.
- Apr 15, 2019
Thank you Confused Hamster!!!
We would like to start out by giving a big thanks to Éloïse Laroche for not only creating such a gorgeous and expansive game, but also the kindness of sharing it with some true fans free of charge and making this Alchemy Story giveaway possible! The best response we could think of to this loving display of generosity is to do our best to make sure this game gets in the hands of true cutesy RPG enthusiests (i.e. our followers)! We have much appreciation for what you do, and look forward to all upcoming updates and other possible future titles!
Notification of new arrival!
A recent tweet from @ConfusedHamster tells us that we are also getting a new character in the next update! William appears to be a handsome gentlemen with a rustic attire and a dapper 3 o’clock shadow. He is sure to be a most-welcomed addition to the eclectic group of inhabitants already settled into Alchemy story!
The Alchemy Story giveaway has ended, and the winners are…
After throwing darts at the expansive list of friend-taggers and tater tot earners (then replacing our laptop screens, hehe), we have our winners!
TAG A FRIEND WINNER
@bmueller tagged @jmmuellerTATER TOT EARNER
Rika427Congratulations!!!
Thank you so much for being a part of the Potato family! We are super stoked to have you as a part of this community, and just as pleased as punch to share this amazing game with you!!
A big thanks to all participants!
We would also like thank all of our followers that participated in this wonderful Alchemy Story giveaway! We saw lots of interest in this beautiful game, and we are overjoyed to be able to share it with some fans! Though this giveaway has ended and you may not be a winner this time, you will always be a winner to us. We will continue to do our best to share everything we can about the games we all love! This ever growing adventure is made possible by you, and we are endlessly elated to have you with us!
- Apr 8, 2019
Color the world your own way in Drawdog!
From the creator of the indie smash-hit “Wandersong”, Greg Lobanov, comes an RPG like we’ve never seen before. In Drawdog [working title], you play a doggo on a mission to bring color and art back into the world using only a giant paintbrush. Lobanov’s previous title, Wandersong, received a loving reception and created quite a buzz for it’s beautiful play-style and unique take on an art game. It appears that Drawdog will attempt to do the same, only this time for color instead of sound.
What we know so far…
This game will surely tickle the fancy of not only all canine fanatics, but also capture the heart of any and all art enthusiasts. However, in this title, it is not so much about perfection as it is expression and invigoration. Your primary goal is to breathe life into your surroundings by adding color, which will inherently alter the moods of the characters that inhabit the land.
Your interactions with your environment will be your means by which you achieve progression, i.e. adding colors to items and objects to make them act in a certain way. You will use paint to solve puzzles and help your fellow townsfolk to change their surroundings to their liking. Each character along the way has it’s own unique and quirky additions to the story. This game is still in development, and has not recevied release date, nor has it been determined exactly what platforms the title will be released on.
A little gameplay GIF…
For more information on Drawdogs, follow them on Twitter! For more information about Lobanov’s previous title, Wandersong, check out our tidbit from myPotatoGames!
