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Refresh your browser to generate a random screenshot from a Glorious Trainwrecks game (this...
Refresh your browser to generate a random screenshot from a Glorious Trainwrecks game (this won’t work if you have an ad block).
A community of people willing to play your dumb thing
NOTE: THIS STORY WAS ALSO PUBLISHED BY OPENFILE OTTAWA AS PART OF THEIR COVERAGE OF THE OTTAWA GAME COMMUNITY. Jeremy Penner is the man behind online community Glorious Trainwrecks , a pla...
A detail from Richard E Flanagan's Fract.
A detail from Richard E Flanagan's Fract.
Sketched into the corners of notebooks
Richard E Flanagan is the Montreal-based designer behind Fract , an adventure-puzzle game that takes place in a digital music fever dream. Equally unnerving, beautiful, and musical, Fract was...
Cooper McHatton’s Temple. Made on the Playfic platform.
Cooper McHatton’s Temple. Made on the Playfic platform.
The lower you can make the bar
Andy Baio is a smart guy. He’s the thoughtful mind behind Waxy , helped build Kickstarter, and has a few trillion successful projects under his belt. His nephew, Cooper McHatton, is another sm...
Douglas Wilson’s Johann Sebastian Joust. Photo by Natalie...
Douglas Wilson’s Johann Sebastian Joust. Photo by Natalie Seery.
Putting these stupid controllers back in their place
Douglas Wilson is a co-founder of the Copenhagen Game Collective and now a partner with indie games studio Die Gute Fabrik . He is an academic. A PhD candidate at the Center for Computer...
Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt
Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt
Of course you have five lives
Adam Saltsman , otherwise known as Adam Atomic , is a game designer based in Austin, Texas. He’s most famous for having created Canabalt and Flixel , but he has created an impressive range o...
Vlambeer’s Super Crate Box
Vlambeer’s Super Crate Box
Everything else we consider nonsense
Vlambeer is a Dutch indie made up of Ramii Ismail and Jen Willem Nijman. Their games include the painfully addictive arcade shooter Super Crate Box and GlitchHiker, an action game that died pe...
Justin Dempsey’s The Life of the Party
Justin Dempsey’s The Life of the Party
The Dirty Rectangles
This post is a break from the usual interviews I post on The Happy Medium. It’s a reprint of an article I wrote for OpenFile about the Ottawa indie game collective called Dirty Rectangles. Ke...
Sophie Houlden’s Lottie’s Dungeon
Sophie Houlden’s Lottie’s Dungeon
For all humans to play
Sophie Houlden’s games portfolio is diverse and explorative. She’s never held down by one style, and her seemingly endless experiments have turned up gems like Linear RPG , Boxgame , and the ...
Farbs’ Captain Jameson
Farbs’ Captain Jameson
A much deeper interface
Jarrad Woods is the designer known as Farbs . He gained early recognition as an independent developer when he left his job at 2K Games accompanied by a video game resignation , and by now he hard...
Buster Benson’s Health Month
Buster Benson’s Health Month
A little habit over time
Buster Benson–or Buster McLeod, or Erik Benson, depending on how long you’ve known him, I suppose–works independently under his company Enjoymentland , creating apps that help improve live...