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2 CommentsLittle Inferno now available for Mac, coming soon for Linux, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4
By Jenna Pitcher on Apr 16, 2013 04.16.13
Little Inferno is now available for Mac and is free to download for those who bought the Windows PC version, Tomorrow Corporation announced on its official website. The game is available to purchase from Steam for $9.99 and direct from Tomorrow Corporation for $10. Tomorrow Corporation also revealed that a Linux version is "almost ready" for testing and that an iOS update that will enable support for iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4 is a work in progress. The game won one of its two Independent Games Festival awards nominations at the recent Game Developers Conference. It was nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Technical Excellence, winning the latter. Little Inferno was first released last November for Windows PC and Wii U, and it later launched for the iPad on Jan. 31. Read...
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4 CommentsCart Life wins big at the 15th annual Independent Games Festival Awards
By Jenna Pitcher on Mar 27, 2013 03.27.13
At tonight's 15th annual Independent Games Festival awards, held at the Game Developers Conference, Richard Hofmeier's Cart Life won three of its three category nominations, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Narrative and the Nuovo Award. FTL: Faster than Light won one of its two nominations, which was the Excellence in Design category. It also won the Audience Award. 140 beat out Hotline Miami for the Excellence in Audio award. Kentucky Route Zero and Little Inferno won Excellence in Visual Arts and Technical Excellence, respectively. Zineth won the Student Showcase category. Each full category is listed below. Seumas McNally Grand Prize Cart Life (winner) FTL: Faster than Light Hotline Miami Kentucky Route Zero Little Inferno Excellence in Visual Arts G...
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2 CommentsPlaying with fire: How Tomorrow Corporation's IGF-nominated Little Inferno came to be
By Dave Tach on Mar 20, 2013 03.20.13
In a world gone cold and demanding heat, Tomorrow Corporation's game equips players with the Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace and tasks them with burning some of their favorite things to survive. Polygon interviewed the developers of the 2013 Independent Games Festival-nominated Little Inferno to learn about the company, the game and the unexpected controversy that arose when the National Fire Protection Association condemned it. It's been almost 10 years since Allan Blomquist, Kyle Gabler and Kyle Gray met. At Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, the trio collaborated on projects like a virtual reality version of Pong and organizing the Experimental Gameplay Project, a "friendly competition" that continues to reward indie developers who create innovative games...
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10 CommentsIGF 2013 finalists announced, including FTL, Hotline Miami and Super Hexagon
By Dave Tach on Jan 07, 2013 01.07.13
The juries for the 15th annual Independent Games Festival have released a list of this year's finalists, which honors games like FTL: Faster Than Light, Hotline Miami and Super Hexagon. This year's finalists divide into seven categories that recognize achievements in art, audio, storytelling and more. The categories and nominees include: Seumas McNally Grand Prize Cart Life FTL: Faster than Light Hotline Miami Kentucky Route Zero Little Inferno Excellence in Visual Art Guacamelee Incredipede Kentucky Route Zero Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Year Walk Technical Excellence Intrusion 2 LiquidSketch Little Inferno Perspective StarForge Excellence in Design FTL: Faster than Light Samurai Gunn Starseed Pilgrim Super Hexagon Super Space ____ Excellence in Audio 1...
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4 CommentsMega Man 1 and Super Mario Bros. 2 out on 3DS eShop
By Tracey Lien on Dec 27, 2012 12.27.12
The original Mega Man and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (known in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 2) are now available for the Nintendo 3DS from the eShop for $4.99 each. The 3DS eShop is also getting Fluidity: Spin Cycle, Johnny Impossible and Mahjong 3D: Warriors of Emperor. Games that are making their way to both the 3DS and Nintendo DSi include Goooooal América, Jump Trials Extreme and Wizard Defenders. There's also something for Wii U owners, with the North American Wii U eShop running a sale for indie games, which includes Trine 2: Director's Cut, Little Inferno, And Yet It Moves and more.
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1 CommentWii U eShop holiday sale cuts prices on indie games
By Samit Sarkar on Dec 27, 2012 12.27.12
Nintendo is currently running a sale on indie games in the North American Wii U eShop, with discounts on Tomorrow Corporation's Little Inferno, Frozenbyte's Trine 2: Director's Cut and Broken Rules' Chasing Aurora. The fireplace game Little Inferno is available for $9.99, a 33 percent discount off its regular price of $14.99, from now through Jan. 4. Trine 2: Director's Cut, the definitive version of the sequel to the 2009 puzzle platformer, is on sale for $15.99 instead of $19.99 through Jan. 7. And aerial platformer Chasing Aurora, developed by the studio behind the WiiWare title And Yet It Moves, is discounted to $7.49 through Jan. 3, half its regular price of $14.99. All three games were launch titles in the Wii U eShop.
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0 CommentsLittle Inferno was inspired by Yule Log channels
By Megan Farokhmanesh on Dec 07, 2012 12.07.12
Little Inferno, indie studio Tomorrow Corporation's game about a fireplace, was inspired by a TV channel featuring a burning log, founder Kyle Gabler told Red Bull. "You may have heard of the Yule Log TV program — the burning log you find on TV around the winter months in hotel rooms," Gabler said. "We thought, ‘Man, that's a super boring game that some awful company will make for the Wii or smartphones.' And then, ‘Wait, We could be that awful company! I wonder if we can start with an exceptionally underwhelming premise, but then actually make the game surprisingly good?'" Gabler and Allan Blomquist, creators of World of Goo, and Kyle Gray, best known for his work on Nintendo DS game Henry Hatsworth In The Puzzling Adventure, set out to build a kind of game that's never been...
