After dissecting what “ambience” actually means in my previous article, we concluded that ambience cannot be deliberately created in reality. However, fortunately for video game developers, it is possible to invent one…
2024. You could say that the video games industry is on fire. Not in the ‘it’s cool’ sense, but literally burning before our very eyes. Studios are closing, developers are being laid…
From a personal point of view, No Plan B is one of this year’s pleasant surprises. A precise, demanding but rewarding strategy game once you’ve mastered it a little. With GFX47, the…
I discovered Sekamelica via her Twitter page and was immediately intrigued by her bio: “French indie gamedev working on a metroidvania about insurrection 🪓 ⚒️” So I contacted him fairly quickly to…
Clearly, I hadn’t seen Lifelong coming. After making a few tweets to find solo devs in France, I came across Rem’s page and my heart stopped. In a few seconds, I had…
In Stars and Time is a game that immediately caught my eye with its artistic direction. When I discovered that Adrienne was a solo dev, I have to admit I was impressed.…
Formerly of Arkane Lyon and currently working as a level designer at Crytek, Julien Eveillé is a developer who is now trying his hand at game design with his first game: Threshold.…
After graduated of ENJMIN, Bastien then worked for a time at Digixart as a programmer, notably on Road 96, before going solo with The Operator. Influenced by works such as X-Files and…
Welcome to the new Solo Dev format! In this first season, I’m going to meet up with 7 French solo devs to ask them questions about how they work, how they organise…
Pepper Grinder is announced during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase in November 2022. The Ahr Ech studio project, led by solo developer Riv Hester, is presented as an edgy, colorful 2D action-platformer. Inspired…