2021-06-04 22:09 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Indie game developers on Itch are once again offering up their games in a massive bundle benefitting humanitarian aid. The Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid is offering up over 1,000 games for $5, with all profit benefitting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The bundle has so far raised $45,000 of its $500,000 goal for the week it will be available. Read more
2021-04-06 12:01 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Easter has come and gone now, and here in the RPS treehouse we lounge with bellies full of chocolate chatting about our favourite little surprises in games. Alice O has already asked you, dear reader, what's your favourite video game Easter egg? It appears some game developers have been pondering a similar question on Twitter, and revealing the best Easter eggs they've hidden in their games - from hiding games within games, to live coding an RPG to rewriting an RPG's script live to mess with streamers. Read more
2021-02-18 16:10 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Remember Minit? The 2018 indie darling that's a "peculiar little adventure played 60 seconds at a time"? Well, its publisher Devolver Digital is now launching a brand-new game that takes the Minit formula but puts a neat new spin on it, by turning it into a fast-paced racing game. And, all proceeds from the title's sales will go directly to some very worthy charities. Launching this very day, Minit Fun Racer is "a peculiar little racing game where every second counts," as Devolver explains in a press release. The new PC game's a collaboration between Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Jukio Kalli
2020-06-08 09:29 UTC · Eurogamer
itch.io's creator has launched what is probably the largest bundle ever in its efforts to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Partnered with 564 creators, the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality comes with a whopping 742 DRM-free titles in total, valued at over $3,400 ( 2,675), but which you can have the whole lot by paying however much you want, with donations starting at a minimum of $5 ( 4). It's already raised over $2 million ( 1.5 million) since launching over the weekend with a goal to reach $5 million before the offer ends on 15th June. All proceeds go towards the NAACP Legal De
2020-06-06 12:34 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)
This weekend, indie-centric storefront Itch.io kicked off their massive Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality. Pulling together a collection of 749 (and counting) indie darlings, hobby projects and unsung curiosities for a meagre $5, Itch’s massive bundle has currently raised well over $400,000 for legal defence funds across the United States – and there’s no sign of slowing down anytime soon. (more…)
2020-04-13 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alex Wiltshire)
Times are strange and frightening. But one point of great solace for me has been hearing people celebrating things in their lives. It feels especially important right now to hold on to what makes us all proud about what we do and who we are. And what I really love is people showing off things they’re proud of making. So I’ve been asking a bunch of developers to pick out something they’ve created that brings them pleasure to look back on. And here they are, including Harvey Smith remembering his input on Deus Ex and Dishonored, Derek Yu on one of his first-ever games. There&rs
2019-10-09 19:04 UTC · Eurogamer
Microsoft has confirmed the latest batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass on PC - and while a few have been revealed previously, some new names, including sci-fi grand strategy game Stellaris, will also be making the leap to the subscription service before the month is through. Alongside Stellaris, quirky (and tremendously entertaining) 60-second puzzle adventure Minit joins the Xbox Game Pass line-up on PC, as does F1 2018, a racer that Eurogamer's Martin Robison called "one of the very best F1 games to date" in his Recommended review last year. There's more racing, albeit of a two-wheeled
2019-10-03 22:57 UTC · Eurogamer
Minit, the quirky, critically acclaimed 60-second puzzle adventure from Willem Nijman, Dominik Johann, Jukio Kallio, and Kitty Calis, is currently free on the Epic Store. In Minit, players embark on a spirited, bite-sized adventure, presented something like an old-school top-down Game Boy RPG. Step outside the front door of Minit's duck-like protagonist and you'll find a whole monochrome world of mysteries, enemies, people in need of help, and secrets waiting to be discovered. The problem, however, is that there're exactly 60 seconds to get everything done, and once the clock hits zero, our pl
2019-10-03 16:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)
Okay, sixty seconds on the clock, let’s go: Monochrome adventure Minit is the Epic Games Store’s free game for the week. Solve the mystery of the sword factory, collect photographs, grab some coffee and listen to an old man ramble by the sea in this delightful little adventure game with a lethal twist. Every 60 seconds you drop dead and begin the cycle anew. But be quick – Minit isn’t the only one stuck in a time loop. Epic’s own cycle resets in seven days, putting another free game on a pedestal for the week. How long was that, did I do it? (more…)
2019-08-19 06:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time… This year’s E3 may have been dubbed “the year of the time-loop game”, but I’d argue there’s nothing as tight or as satisfying in this emerging subgenre as the 60-second sojourns you’ll face in monochrome puzzler Minit. You play a small, nameless duck-faced fellow who has the terrible misfortune to happen upon a cursed sword that locks him into a minute-long time-loop, and – oh, wait a minute, the timer’s about to run out. See you in
2019-04-23 16:40 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alyse Stanley)
Haunting the waterways of Minit’s Groundhog Day-cursed island is an immortal shark with a penchant for snacking on one-bit bird creatures. Oceans, caves, streams – anywhere you take a swim, players can expect Minit Shark (doo doo doo doo doo). Except that wasn’t exactly what the developers intended. Turns out, they didn’t know until the last minute that a bug broke Minit Shark free of his salt-water confines, and instead of fixing it they decided hey, look, a new feature. (more…)
2019-01-03 18:48 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dominic Tarason)
The finalists for the 2019 Independent Games Festival award ceremony on March 20th have been announced, and they remind me just how joyful a challenge it is to keep up with indie development. Every category is packed with exciting, creative endeavours both complete or still in development – a reminder that 2018 was a great year for games, and 2019 stands to be even better. Now I’ve just got to keep track of all of them. Among the headliners for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize are RPS favourites like low-fi groundhog day adventure Minit, the excellent maritime mystery Return Of The O
2018-10-31 15:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
Video games, you may have noticed, are often a little bit horrid. All sorts of naughtiness, and a distinct lack of people just being kind to one another. What are we like?! But fortunately there are games that make an exception to the potty-mouthed meanies that dominate, and today I celebrate them and their cuteness with a collection of lovely screenshots. (more…)
2018-10-04 14:25 UTC · Community Announcements · br33dlove
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/29180559/17bf77099b3be39a8c3f4c16f0bff961030933d2.png Speed-lovers all over the community will be able to easily track and trace tricky runs with the latest update. So jump right in! Beside a speedrun setting, fixes and tweaks, there are a few more languages too. Do you think you know Minit dialog by heart? Now’s the chance to learn Japanese, Simplified Chinese or Korean! https://youtu.be/01YyqGfwwEk https://youtu.be/GHssQ90MhLg
2018-09-20 08:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dylan Bishop)
Chances are you ve caught wind of Minit between its initial release and the clamor for a Switch port. It s a wee, wonderful, one-bit adventure where, thanks to a cursed blade, you die every 60 seconds. While it s a romping hoot of a game, it also blatantly wastes your time. I mean that in a good way: Minit tosses away precious seconds with so many fun, sincere, and clever tactics that this shines as a pro, not a con. (more…)
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