The Flipside of Gaming
Here is the latest selection of indie games I (Josh Bycer) covered during last week.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is my (Josh Bycer’s) coverage of the Latin American Games Showcase from October 2026, all games shown are either demo builds or creator fest access.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
Here’s the latest batch of indie game shorts I (Josh Bycer) looked at over on my Game-Wisdom Channel.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is the latest collection of indie games I (Josh Bycer) covered for my shorts series.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
For this critical thought, there are plenty of games that feature inverted difficulty — starting very hard to becoming easy, and I (Josh Bycer) wanted to talk about why this often leads to frustration and imbalanced design.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
Here is another week of indie games I’ve (Josh Bycer) had a chance to check out for my shorts series.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
Here is the latest collection of indie games I (Josh Bycer) covered through Game-Wisdom. Please reach out if you would like me to look at your game.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is the collection of the indie games I’ve (Josh Bycer) done shorts to cover over the week.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is a double review of No Players Online and Blippo+ played with review keys. (Editor’s note: I [John Harris] wrote about Blippo+ some time ago.)
00:00 Intro
00:20 No Players Online
3:35 Blippo+
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is the weekly collection of indie games I (Josh Bycer) am covering on my indie short showcase series on the Youtube channel.
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is the final part of my look at steam next fest October 2025 and the great demos I (Josh Bycer) played.
00:00 Intro
00:23 House 2
2:27 Goblin Sushi
4:06 Saga of Yurina
4:58 Hermit and Pig
6:36 The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
8:20 Idosra: The Electric Renaissance
10:49 Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes of Disaster
11:56 Obelus Manor
13:19 Requiem of Reuinis
16:29 Shadows of the Afterland
18:06 The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike
20:35 Humanica
22:16 Nighthawks
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
This is a double review of Astro Prospector and Legends of Dragaea played with a review key and press key respectively.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Astro Prospector
2:57 Legends of Dragaea
Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”
