ISSUE #29

Cover - ar_Tekko

Hello and welcome to Indiepocalypse!

Indiepocalypse is a curated monthly collection looking to highlight the very best of the indie game scene. 

Each month features games by 10 different developers, including a newly commissioned game exclusive to the bundle-zine. The games cover a wide variety of styles, genres, and themes as they fight against any definition of "indie game" as a genre.

Also, and this part is very important to me and should truly be taken as given, each contributor is paid and developers are paid royalties on all future sales.

This Month's Games

Twilight Web (WIN) by Rainbow Cemetery

A brief exploration of anxiety and isolation.

Authorized Likeness (WIN) by Scroungin' 4 Catsup

Booting the game up greets you with a black screen. The only things you can see are the mouse cursor, the instructions in the top left corner... and your own reflection! Use the mouse to trace your reflection and then press 'enter' to reveal your drawing. How successful will you be at replicating what you saw in your monitor?

By the World's Wind (WIN/MAC) by Leonardo Price

Set sail across a small, open world. Visit island communities, explore lost caves, and meet the local wildlife with the four winds at your back. Use the map-making tools to plot a course or simply let the wind carry you where it will.

Fight Item Run (Physical) by Whimsy Machine Media

Fight Item Run is a Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop roleplaying game that smashes action-packed combat and magic together with dynamic character and relationship exploration. Collect gear and unlock techniques based on the monsters you defeat. Solve puzzles and unravel the mysteries of the world you explore. Join robust and unique magical schools. Trigger cutscenes to tell an epic, nostalgic story as you play to find out the plans of the big bad. 

The goals for Fight Item Run are the following:
▶ Fight monsters, collect items, survive the dungeon.
▶ Tell a collaborative story of mystery and adventure.
▶ Plant and build upon evocative details at every chance.
▶ Explore the lives and relationships of characters traveling together.

talking to my dad (WIN) by Hatim B

A game about queerness, depression, family ties, and being on a drive with your dad.

Manzil (WIN) by Niv Khurana

A text game adaptation of Bollywood storytelling, without the iconic musical numbers. Click key words and keysmash to progress in a story about a young person, struggling with identity and their place in the world.

The British Library Simulator (Browser) by Giulia C Rossi

It's the spring of 2020 and London is in lockdown. With the British Library Simulator you can wander the virtual corridors of the Library building in St Pancras, London. Readers are out and about and very eager to share British Library facts with you. Use the keyboard arrows to navigate through the game and have fun!

What's up in the Kharkiv bomb shelter (WIN/MAC/Linux) by Dahuanna

I started developing this game while sitting in a bomb shelter in Kharkov. Something was howling and thumping overhead all the time, and I did not want to work on it, but I needed to distract myself somehow, so I did it. I continue working on the game in Lviv, in between volunteer activities (I helped people evacuate from cities where hostilities were taking place). When I finished it, I realized that working in safety brings me joy, and it allowed me to take my mind off my nervousness for at least a few hours. I hope this game can bring some joy to someone too. 

Although the game was not planned to be fun. It was a fixation of the reality, when author can't control it with their works, so they can just be a witness. I was just a eyewitness, spectator of things that happen, and I was too ruined too, to create something new. So I just asked people that lived with me in a bomb shelter, and my friends, who lived in other bomb shelters, how are they - what they think and feel. This is what game is about.

Professor Quackerton in: The Locked Birdhouse (WIN/MAC) by WhatNames

In this storybook game, Professor Quackerton and her friends have to band together in the wake of a loss. Experience this colorful world of queer animals with big personalities and a big problem. This short and sweet story will fill you with warmth.

*NEWLY COMMISSIONED FOR INDIEPOCALYPSE*

Apocryphauna (WIN) by Valerie Dusk & Claire Mulkerin

Content Warnings: Transphobia, Homophobia, Religious school.

You think it's just a card game

The nuns think it's evil

The truth is beyond your wildest nightmare

Apocryphauna: a game by Valerie Dusk and Claire Mulkerin

What'll you discover when you gather 'em all?

*BONUS*Electric Zine Maker (WIN/MAC) by alienmelon

Launcher Courtesy of MM Bundle Launcher

Indiepocalypse zine contents

COMICS
Open and Close by Sam Pender

FEATURES
Cassidy's Bad Game Corner: Paris-Dakar Rally Special!  by Cassidy
Parts 64-66 of 69 Games About Romance by Andrew

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