April Fools Contest Reminder

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 31, 2010

Want some free games? You still have until tomorrow night to get in your one-liner entries for “Why Indie Games Rock.” Technically, the game ends at midnight mountain time – but why wait until the last second? April Fools Game Giveaway – No Joke! I have been loving the entries into the contest so far […]

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Game Announcement: Millennium 2 – Take Me Higher

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One of the problems with sequestering myself for about three months or so to focus on Frayed Knights and not adding any new games to the Rampant Games store is that I miss about five hundred releases from Aldorlea Games. Like the second game in their popular Millennium series. The new one is entitled, “Millennium […]

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Game Announcement: Slay

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 30, 2010

Wow. Now I remember why I keep slacking off when it comes to putting new games up on the website. It’s a lot of work! But I’m still trucking along, trying to get a new game up there each day this week. Today’s game is not in any way “new.” In fact, it’s a classic […]

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Game Announcement – Lilly and Sasha: Curse of the Immortals

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 29, 2010

Okay, the first “game of the day” this week is John Wizard Games’ Lilly and Sasha: Curse of the Immortals. This is the first of a planned three-part “Lilly and Sasha” series of indie RPGs. You may remember John Wizard Games’ first release, Dawn’s Light, which I thought was all kinds of awesome based on […]

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April Fool’s Game Giveaway – No Joke!

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Okay. It’s the week of April Fool’s Day, which normally means really obnoxious blog jokes that usually drive me crazy. It’s also the week of my  birthday (this coming Friday, if’n you must know, and I’ll be old enough to know better but young enough to do it anyway…), which is probably why I have […]

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Messing Up My Perfect Game Taxonomy!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 26, 2010

Gareth explains what, in his opinion, constitutes the RPG-ness of a game: Mass Effect 2 Part 2: An RPG? Really, Gareth? You wanna throw down? You think you can argue against my awesome well-established (well, for three years anyway) defining characteristics of an RPG? Huh? The science is settled, brothah! It’s … It’s… Well, it’s […]

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Secret CDProjekt Message to Fans of The Witcher

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 25, 2010

Alright, maybe some folks don’t think this is cool, but I do. And others, it would seem. Buried in their trailer for The Witcher 2, CDProjekt has inserted a secret message in a single frame near the end of the video for their fans. This is the text (as lifted from GameBanshee): This message is […]

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Is Old-School Becoming the “New” New-School?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 24, 2010

One of the amazing things about indie games is how some of the old-school aesthetics are coming back into vogue – and not just among the pure “indie” titles. Yeah, any budget-busting AAA title is going to have the most up-to-date 3D graphic effects money can buy, but a lot of the big success stories […]

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Frayed Knights: A God Complex

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 23, 2010

This post has nothing to do with my previous post, but I was just tickled by the similar titles. I am easily amused, apparently. Speaking of being easily amused, one source of minor amusement around our tiny little Frayed Knights development team has been the number of temples in the game. Starting with the Temple […]

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A Messiah Complex…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 22, 2010

Warning – Fallout 3 spoilers follow. The game is now 18 months old, which by mainstream computer game years is ancient. But a lot of folks haven’t played it but may still intend to do so unspoiled and unsullied. If you are one of them, please read no further. I finally finished Fallout 3 last […]

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My Favorite Forum Post of the Weekend

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There was some great discussions going on this weekend about the new Might & Magic inspired indie RPG Underworld, a work-in-progress old-school-style RPG The Secret of Lamidia, and Hanako has solicited some suggestions for a “deluxe” version of Cute Knight Kingdoms. But this was my favorite post of all. Of course, I’m biased.

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Game Design: Capturing That Old-School RPG Flavor (New & Expanded)

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 20, 2010

This is a reposting of a fairly recent post from the old blog. But I keep finding myself referencing it for the awesome links, so I figured it was worth updating to the new system… with some brand new links on the subject. “Old School” computer RPGs means different things to different people. For some […]

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Frayed Knights – Nepharides and the Wizard War

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 19, 2010

Time for an update on the development of Frayed Knights, the tongue-in-cheek indie RPG in development at Rampant Games. This time, we’re gonna talk some not-quite-ancient history: The Wizard War. The Wizard War “ended” about three hundred years before the beginning of the game.  Nobody’s really certain when it really began. Stories tend to begin […]

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Original, Hardcore RPGs? Nah, Those Won’t Sell!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 18, 2010

Pardon me while I snicker just a little. I don’t mean anything by it. Sony Regrets Not Publishing Demon’s Souls In North America “Despite Sony’s close relationship to the game’s production, the company determined Demon’s Souls was too demanding and unusual to connect with Western audiences. Atlus, known for localizing niche Japanese games in North […]

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The Sound of Silence

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You know who we haven’t heard from in a long time? Our favorite paranoid EX-lawyer, Wacky Jack Thompson. Can’t say I miss him. Actually, it’s been nice not hearing much of anything on the whole nanny-state videogames-are-crime proposals. Too bad it’s taken two wars, an economic meltdown, massive unemployment not seen in 30 years, and […]

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Please FINISH Your Game…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 17, 2010

I discovered Chris Hecker’s indie game rant from last week, and I was pretty impressed. Of course, Chris is always a fun speaker to listen to. He also summarizes a bit of it on his website. This was kind of an interesting talk for me. I’m not quite as plugged in to the Game Jam […]

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