Future Proof Games

Our work-in-progress, Exploit: Zero Day, will be a social, online game. It'll let you roleplay as a hacker with other players and even interact with the game's characters on the forums. The kind of community that forms will be essential to the game's success.

At the same time, the Internet can be an abusive place, especially in gaming spheres, and we're producing a game themed around "hacking" and computer security intrusion that is attempting to provide compelling dilemmas. There's a definite risk of our community becoming hostile, toxic, or downright dangerous.

Part of our vision statement at Future Proof Games is "audacious compassion." How do we create a community that encourages audacious compassion while being fun and financially self-sustaining? We're still working out the details, but here's our thoughts at the moment.

We're proud to release a new little game: "Awaiting the End." This is a free GM-less tabletop roleplaying game where you play people trapped in a Place awaiting a Doom and you tell stories about how you got there. It requires minimal preparation and the rules fit on ...

In April, Gregory gave a presentation for the local Charlotte GameDev Meetup group. The talk was called "Designing a Game - Concept to Polish," and it goes through the process of designing a game. No programming, no technologies discussed: just how to turn an idea into mechanics, rules, and challenges. ...

We've put out our first update to Ossuary in a while! This is version 1.7.0, and it's got a single change, requested by Arseny on our Greenlight discussion board:

Changelog:

• Added the ability to choose your pixel scaling multiplier. By default this will be set to AUTO, which makes ...

Transcendence was a frustrating movie for me to watch. I went in hoping for a genuinely novel look at transhumanism and strong AI, but with an unclear thesis and a slew of standard tropes, I was left watching the same failures of AI-that-will-be that I've seen before.

The movie ...

You know and love our marketing partner Samsara Digital. They've just anNOunced their new program: the Cyber Liberation Digital Liability Policy! This is exciting news for any company concerned about its cyber-secuuuuuuuuuuμ

zero day is watching

samsara is up to something

You can view the Samsara Digital announcement ...

We're quite pleased to announce that Ossuary is now available for sale in the Humble Store. During its debut, Ossuary will be 30% off through June 5.

The Humble widget has served us well here on FPG.com (despite the fact that I can't see stats outgoing clicks from the ...

Ossuary is 33% off on Desura from May 30 through June 1!

We -- like most indie game devs who make something they like -- want to share Ossuary with as many people as we can while being true to the value of the game. The more eyes on this ...

Our upcoming game Exploit: Zero Day deals with a number of themes, but one overriding direction is that of cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk was born in the 1980s in America. This is true both of the fiction genre and of the real-life phenomenon. The word "cyberpunk" evokes thoughts of cyborg implants, immersive ...

Last weekend we participated in the Ludum Dare game jam. Ludum Dare is a sort of video game Iron Chef. A theme is announced on a Friday evening and you have 48 or 72 hours (depending on which event you do) to make a game.

The theme was ...