Behind every indie game is a story of passion, grit, and tireless iteration. For the two-person team at Midnight Fantasy Games, the journey to creating their upcoming 2D cyberpunk pixel-art action title, Nightblood W: Cutthroat Wolf, has been paved with valuable lessons from past projects and a desire to make games they truly love. In this interview, the developers open up about their transition from outsourced puzzle games to high-octane action, the inspirations behind their striking pixel-art style, and how their own lightning-fast reaction speeds help shape a deeply satisfying combat experience. Continue reading “Developer interview: Night Blood W : Cutthroat Wolf”
Category: Interviews
Preview and developer interview: Last Flag
When a new multiplayer shooter appears on the horizon, it usually arrives with a familiar pedigree of veteran developers and genre expectations. Last Flag, however, comes from a slightly different direction. Developed by Night Street Games, the studio co-founded by Dan Reynolds (lead singer of Imagine Dragons) and his brother Mac Reynolds, the game reimagines the classic playground staple of Capture the Flag as a theatrical, fast-paced multiplayer competition. During a recent preview session we attended, the Reynolds brothers talked about their background in gaming, their ambitions for the project, and even joined us in playing a few rounds – offering a first glimpse at how their unconventional studio hopes to shake up the genre. Continue reading “Preview and developer interview: Last Flag”
Developer interview: Transport Fever 3
Transport Fever 3 is the latest, ambitious entry in the long-running transport-tycoon series, building on the franchise’s core strengths while adding smarter cities, deeper logistics, revamped cargo systems, advanced traffic behavior, and richer visual atmosphere. This interview with Urban Games digs into the design choices behind those changes – when refinement became reinvention, which systems were fundamentally rethought, how citizen and cargo simulations tie into economy and player decision-making, how accessibility and performance were balanced, and how the team preserved sandbox freedom alongside a historically inspired campaign. Continue reading “Developer interview: Transport Fever 3”
Developer interview: Echoes of Mora (PC/VR)
In this interview, we speak with the team at Selkies Interactive about their upcoming narrative adventure Echoes of Mora. Set in a mysterious sunken village and playable both in VR and on traditional PC setups, the game follows a young girl searching for her missing brother while players interact with the past through time-spanning “Echoes.” Our conversation explores how the developers shaped the game’s unusual perspective – placing players in the role of an unseen guide communicating with Mora – while also discussing the challenges of designing meaningful VR movement, balancing scope as a debut indie project, and building an emotionally grounded story about family, folklore, and growing up. Continue reading “Developer interview: Echoes of Mora (PC/VR)”
Developer interview: No Stone Unturned
Gareth Owens – a onetime film-and-TV writer who cut his teeth with studios from Aardman to Pinewood before founding Wise Monkey Entertainment – has spent the last few years turning a lifelong love of British whodunits and absurdist comedy into something delightfully strange: No Stone Unturned, a comedy‑noir detective RPG game that casts an amnesiac squirrel, Detective Cox, as its hard‑boiled protagonist and stitches together murder mysteries, bespoke mini‑games, and theatrical puppetry‑inflected performance into a single, mischievous package. The game wears its influences proudly – Columbo and Jonathan Creek meet surreal animal farce – but it’s also unmistakably Owens’: part escape‑room puzzle design, part cinematic storytelling, and all pointed, playful weirdness aimed at making players laugh while they peel back a much larger mystery beneath the village’s quaint surface. Continue reading “Developer interview: No Stone Unturned”