Author: Josh Bycer

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"

Indie Game Showcase For 3/23/24

The weekly indie showcase highlights the many games we play here on the channel, and I’m taking submissions for future ones. All games shown are either press key or demo submissions.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Endling Extinction is Forever
2:32 Myth of Mirka
3:32 Fabled Lands
5:35 Kokoro Clover Season 1
7:32 Affogato
9:27 Rogue Genesia

Two Slices of Indie Platformers Review

This is a double indie game review of Forza Polpo and Doomblade, both played with press keys provided by the developer.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Forza Polpo
7:38 Doomblade

Indie Game Showcase For 3/15/24

The weekly indie game showcases highlight all the indie games we play here on the channel. Games shown were either demos or press key submissions.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Classic Sport Driving
1:36 Voltage High Society
3:35 Blastronaut
5:59 Garlic
8:16 Spellbook Demonslayers
10:53 Mech Shuffle

Double the Great Games With Super Mombo Quest and Dave the Diver

This is a double review of Super Mombo Quest and Dave the Diver, both played with retail keys.

0:00 Intro
00:15 Super Mombo Quest
4:30 Dave the Diver

Indie Interview With Lee Easson and Odd Infinitum

For this perceptive podcast, I interviewed self-taught indie developer Lee Easson about working on his first game Odd Infinitum. We discussed what it’s like to learn game dev today and how that has changed over the years and the challenges it brings to indie developers.

Indie Showcase 3/5/24

Each indie showcase highlights the many games we play here on the stream and I’m always looking for submissions for future episodes.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Kilta
3:21 Rail Route: the Story of Jozic
5:26 Maggie the Magnet
6:45 Panic Mode
8:59 Star Valor
10:50 Lost Twins 2

Dread Templar and HROT Reviews

For this double indie game review, I’m taking a look at Dread Templar and HROT, both played with press keys provided by the developers.

0:00 Intro
00:17 Dread Templar
4:38 HROT

Indie Game Showcase 2/19/24

The latest of Josh Bycer‘s showcases studying and showing off a variety of indie games.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Gunlocked
2:28 Necrobouncer
4:16 Recon Control
6:29 Spidersaurs
9:55 Gloomgrave
11:17 Neon Blight

Reviews of the Creepy Syndrome and Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

This is a double review of the Creepy Syndrome and Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, played with a retail key and press key respectively.

0:00: Intro
00:13: The Creepy Syndrome
2:39: Harmony the Fall of Reverie

The Return of Reus And Abbey Games

For this perspective podcast, I spoke with Adriaan Jansen from Abbey Games to catch up about how the studio is doing since our last conversation. We spoke about the challenges of creating Godhood, Renowned Explorers International Society, and more. For our main topic, we talked about recreating Reus with its sequel, and how the studio is changing things up compared to the first.

Best of Next Fest 2023 1/20/24

And at long last, the end of this particular Next Fest, but there are more to come.

Best of Next Fest 2023 1/19/24

Editor’s Note: Our presentation of Josh Bycer’s NextFest finds continues. Tomorrow will be the last in this sequence, I think.