Indie RPG News, May 28, 2007
Those Indie RPG developers are at it again...

Nethergate: Resurrection
First off, RPGVault has a 3-page interview with Jeff Vogel about the new Nethergate remake, Nethergate: Resurrection. One small tidbit from the interview describes Vogel's company:

Jonric: For those who aren't familiar with Spiderweb Software, where is it located and how large is the team?

Jeff Vogel: We're based in Seattle, and we started out in 1994. We have three full-time employees. We had a tarantula mascot, but she passed last year.

Depths of Peril
Soldak has added new villains to their villains page; added imps, orcs, and zombies to their monster page, and added a new short story entitled, "Fire Scrape."


The Broken Hourglass
The Planewalker Team has put together a somewhat technical description of their "on-the-fly creature customization" system, which allows them to create anything from random encounters to highly tweaked single encounters. Anybody planning on modding The Broken Hourglass should take note, but it is also a nice bit of insight into the types of things that are being taken into consideration with this game.


Frayed Knights
Hey, how'd this get in here? Well, we've got sort of a monthly-summary up on GarageGames. This week I'm tackling the heart (and most complicated part) of the game, combat. To be followed up by the traps & locks mini-game. the save / load game menus, and the character sheet sub-panes (like the level-up dialog, personal inventory page, etc). Once that's done, we'll have Cycle #2 completed (I think). Cycle #1 was mainly the design document.


And that's it for this week. If you have any more news on indie RPGs that are in late-development (or from veteran indie teams), please let me know. I'm getting press-release type stuff from the Planewalked and Soldak guys regularly, which makes this really easy (hint, hint, indie devs....)


(Vaguely) related indie RPG lunacy!
* Beyond the Gate: Jason Compton on the Making of The Broken Hourglass
* News Bits on Upcoming Indie RPGs
* Frayed Knights: Background and High Concept
* Indie RPG Roundtable

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