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I've been a judge for the Independent Games Festival for at least six years. It's been an amazing time to have free access to the best works in independent gaming. The IGF has evolved a bit during that time; the grand prize winner in 2011 was Minecraft. The 2016 winner was Quadrilateral Cowboy. The vast majority of my time as an IGF judge has been in a post-Minecraft world, where developers knew that there was the potential for their tiny one-person indie game to be bought by Microsoft.
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Due to unconfirmed reports of unpurchased IndieGameStand keys showing up on key reselling sites, we've revoked Steam keys which have not yet been redeemed from IndieGameStand and Desura, both sites that disappeared or changed hands without paying us money they owed.
Most people who bought the game should be totally ...
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When Gregory released "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors" in 2008, the video game world was rather different. Flash games were big. No smartphones supported Flash, but that was fine; the iPhone App Store only had 10,000 apps, with the best-selling being a peaceful thing called ...
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We find live-action roleplaying (or LARP) the most fun when the rules work to support interesting characters and dramatic interactions. We designed Rosette Dramatic LARP to allow for this with simple rules that adapt to any sort of storyline or character action. This results in play experiences that showcase the players' creativity and flexible cooperation without disproportionately focusing on combat or any other aspect of storytelling.
To show how this works in practice, here's a summary of a recent plot done via the Rosette LARP rules. Everything in this story was guided by the game's conflict system to keep things flowing dramatically.
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As we finish up our remastering of "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors," we've settled on our list of enhancements we're making in this version. Beyond making the game work on modern devices, here are the major changes you'll get when you purchase the new version:
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Our upcoming remastered release, "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors)", has a long history already. Here are a few links chronicling interesting events in the game's life!
The Majesty of Colors Released! - This is the original release post for the game, made in December 2008. I'd ...
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Sometimes in game development (and in development at large) you spend a lot of time on a task that's less important because you think it should be simple. We ran into one of those issues lately involving an input method for our nearly-finished remastering of "(I Fell in Love ...
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Our upcoming remaster of "The Majesty of Colors" will be available on a bunch of devices: iOS and Android phones and tablets as well as Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs. We're excited to release on such a wide array of platforms, but it raises some development challenges!
The ...
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This week the two of us traveled to Raleigh to show off in the Indie Alley at ECGC 2017! We've shown at the East Coast Game Conference once before, and once again it gave us useful insight into what parts of our games folks find most interesting.
ECGC is a ...
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Future Proof Games will be at the East Coast Game Conference in Raleigh, NC this week for the second year in a row!
If you want to be among the first humans to play the remastered Majesty of Colors, stop by! We'll have playable demos of Majesty running for ...
