Welcome to a very special edition of Indie Zoe. C’mon, I know it’s after hours, but pull up a chair and let me tell you all the things you haven’t heard before. You know you wanna.
Results of the indie game developers survey are out and surprisingly few games went the crowd funding route. We hear a lot about Kickstarter, but only 5% of indie respondents had collected any income from crowd funding. Additionally, only 8% said that they made money from paid alpha sales, proving that people really do prefer to play games when they’re actually completed.
Speaking of crowd funding, it seems there was Areal mess. We told you about the controversy with the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. successor, and it just got worse. The developers started accusing journalists of bad reporting when they asked questions implying the whole thing was a scam. The game has met its Kickstarter goal, but the campaign has since been suspended. It’s all just a big bunch of bad news.
Prototype of the Week
This week’s prototype of the week is Caelum which has the most straight forward and awesome description:
you build your own totally custom spaceship and fly around and do things, like shoot other spaceships.
Perfect, sign me up! you can give it a whirl through the web build and be sure to give feedback to the developers so they can make a better game about flying around and making spaceships.
Last Updated: July 24, 2014
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 24, 2014 at 19:13
I was so excited when I heard about Areal, then it turned out to be this…
Sir Rants A Lot Llew
July 24, 2014 at 20:19
loooooooool
nerissapartington
July 24, 2014 at 21:13
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Hammersteyn
July 24, 2014 at 21:28
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Alien Emperor Trevor
July 25, 2014 at 06:58
Damn it, I wanted to see that special job offer & now I can’t.
Hammersteyn
July 25, 2014 at 07:47
I heard the sequel will be called Dish
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 25, 2014 at 07:52
badumdish? 😉
Spaffy
July 25, 2014 at 10:00
You’re getting quite good at this I see 😛
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 25, 2014 at 06:59
There’s a new Humble Weekly Bundle that looks interesting & the current book bundle is a whole bunch of Transformers comics.
Kensei Seraph
July 25, 2014 at 07:57
That Caelum prototype seems pretty interesting… but what are the controls?
Kensei Seraph
July 25, 2014 at 08:02
Seems you have to set the hotkey for each engine component and weapon individually when creating your ship.
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July 25, 2014 at 13:48
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