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Gravity Bone's Brendon Chung has released his first commercial title, Flotilla, on PC and XBLIG. Let's check it out together, as a family.
Blendo Games, Turn-based strategy, Windows/XBLIG, $10
Remember Gravity Bone? Yeah you do, because it was awesome. A stylish, fun, way outside-the-box mod of Quake II, it totally stole our hearts when we covered it last year. Now Brendon Chung, the man behind its development, is back with Flotilla, a turn-based strategy game for Windows and Xbox Live Indie Games. Was he able to transfer all the charm and style to a different genre?
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Cave Story made the jump to consoles last week and it got us thinking: there are probably a ton of other free indies that deserve the same treatment. We asked for your input. You gave it. SYNERGY.
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Hey, remember Free Indie Rapid Fire? It's a part of @newchallenger now, video comments and all! Here's this week's: http://t.co/7N1xAqB0
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@spirit31gaming I actually put a video up on Bytejacker and the Bytejacker YouTube/Facebook about it when we started- guess you missed it ;)
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@spirit31gaming Moved FIRF and indie reviews over to the @NewChallenger youtube. http://t.co/EyCeVMPi
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RT @acarboni: Hey, guys? FREE. INDIE. RAPID. FIRE. (seriously) http://t.co/uVcGzbgy
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Used the terms "scaling" and "ux experience" when she asked for details. I have learned a lot here in SF.
