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IGF Awards’ 2018 nominees point to this year’s games to watch

A mix of 2017’s favorites and 2018’s future hits

Opinion
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How TumbleSeed helped me cope with a newborn

Or was it the newborn that helped me cope with TumbleSeed?

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Bit Bash 2017, a celebration of Chicago’s indie game scene

Digital and tabletop, inside and out, Bit Bash had it all this year

News
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TumbleSeed may never recoup its costs, team says

Roly-poly roguelike TumbleSeed has its fans, but the game didn’t turn out to be the success that developer aeiowu had hoped it’d be. In a postmortem for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and...

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TumbleSeed devs are making the game easier as quickly as possible

Greg Wohlwend, part of the small team of developers that created TumbleSeed, says the game is too hard and that he’s working to fix it. In a series of tweets yesterday he admitted “that’s our...

Reviews
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TumbleSeed review

I like just about everything about TumbleSeed except for the act of playing it. Made by a small group of indie developers, TumbleSeed blends together two quite different inspirations: the...

News
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Nintendo Switch’s single new eShop game highlights an underused feature

Updates to the Nintendo Switch eShop are light this week, with just two new things up for download. Thankfully, the only full game to launch on Switch this week is TumbleSeed, a unique roguelike...

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How the Nintendo Switch's HD rumble makes Tumbleseed feel real

I was delighted the first time I played Tumbleseed on the Nintendo Switch. You play the game by raising or lowering both sides of a screen-length, horizontal bar with the system’s two analog...

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Nintendo Switch gets rolly roguelike TumbleSeed in May

TumbleSeed, the “rolly roguelike” from an experienced team of indies, will launch on May 2. The game will release simultaneously for Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows via Steam. P...

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Nintendo's indie program treads fun — but very safe — ground

With more than 60 games due in 2017, Nintendo is positioning the Switch as a must-have for indie devotees. But taking a closer look at the console’s indie catalogue shows that, while it’s a...