The Flipside of Gaming
The indie showcases highlight the many indie titles we play here on (Josh Bycer’s) channel. Games shown are either press keys, demos, or games from my collection.
0:00 Intro
0:14 Solar Raiders
1:30 Sol Cesto
2:47 Spider Fox
4:13 Preserve
5:43 Lightyear Frontier
7:17 Metal Mind
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 podcast, I spoke with Dominic O’ Reilly from Krunchy Fried Games who is working on the adventure game Five Day Detective. We spoke about adventure game design and writing along with the challenges of creating the story alongside the puzzles.
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 review of Blade Chimera played with a press key provided by the developer.
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 review of Magenta Horizon played with a press key. After I recorded this review, the developer updated the tutorial with a new version, but I have not had a chance to go back and play through it.
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 showcase of almost every demo featured in the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc Flipside Frights.
0:00 Intro
00:55 Sorrow
2:15 Spyrit Walker
3:46 Subversive Memories
5:08 Axyz
6:14 Scissors In Hell
7:36 Ticky’s Tower of Time
8:24 Prison of Husks
9:27 500 Calibur Contractz
10:39 Blessed Burden
11:34 Toree Saturn
12:26 Death in Abyss
13:44 Eclipsium
15:00 FriendShapes
16:37 The Hungry Fly
17:45 No Strings Attached/ Vladimere Lhore Collection
18:36 No Players Online
20:03 Trip
21:09 Children of Saturn
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 Inmost and Transiruby played with retail keys.
0:00 Intro
00:17 Inmost
3:45 Transiruby
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 part, it’s my (Josh Bycer’s) favorite action, or action-adjacent games of 2024.
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 entry, it’s my (Josh Bycer’s) favorite horror games for 2024.
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”
The weekly showcases highlight the many indie games we play here on the channel. If you want me (Josh Bycer) to look at your game for a future one please reach out.
0:00 Intro
00:14 Sheepy A Short Adventure
1:40 Dungeons & Doomknights
2:57 Sky Settlers
4:26 Into the Necrovale
5:44 Immortal Life
7:08 Clown Meat
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”
The weekly indie showcases highlight the games we play on stream, all games shown are either press keys or demo submissions.
0:00 Intro
00:14 Anomaly Agent
2:16 Ak-Xolotl
4:35 Ve Than: Divine Guardian
6:12 Dream of the Star Haven
7:14 Boxes: Lost Fragments
9:38 Spilled
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 #blud and Void Sols, both played with press keys.
0:00 Intro
00:18 #blud
4:08 Void Sols
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 for the adventure games The Night is Grey and Prim, both played with press keys provided by the developers.
0:00 Intro
00:14 The Night is Grey
4:33 Prim
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”
