Indie RPG News, July 24, 2007
Indie RPGs - no budget, no publisher, no problem! Here are some of updates on some RPGs in development that you probably won't hear much about from the major gaming sites and magazines:

The Broken Hourglass
Well, let's see. We've got another "under-the-hood" article about skipping events for those modders out there who are already planning on turning The Broken Hourglass into their own little garden of creative delights. There's also a profile of all the non-human races, showing how they break down in terms of game mechanics.

Depths of Peril
Besides some new monster profiles at Soldak's site - providing an overview of the hulk and the scavenger - there have been a slew of previews of Depths of Peril this last month. There's a preview at RPG Codex, another at Hooked Gamers, a third at RPGWatch, another at GameBanshee, and a somewhat less flattering one over at YouGamers.

It should be noted that all of these previews are based on a "late alpha build," and so there is plenty that can change between now and the final release.

Aveyond II: Ean's Quest
The sequel to the best-selling "casual RPG" Aveyond has had its projected release date pushed back into November - though even that is only a "tentative" plan.

Game-In-A-Year RPG Front-Runners
The Dream Game competition first-quarter tallies were calculated earlier this month. The competition is still very, very early, and there's no guarantee that any of these games will make it to release. However, most of the contenders were role-playing games. The top six were very close, including:

#1 - Isles of Midgard, a massively multiplayer RPG (with a really cool website).
#2 - Frayed Knights - who let that lame thing into the contest? :)
#3 - Arcanoria - a fantasy MMORPG.
#4 - Pelorea: Tactical War - a "tactical RPG with a card system"
#5 - Fantasci: Hidden War - a "multi-genre" science-fiction RPG.
#6 - Inspire - not an RPG. An episodic multiplater 3D platform game

So there you go! I really hope we'll end up seeing all of these games in playable form in a few months! Especially that Frayed Knights game. Somebody bug that guy to get off his can and finish the game! Besides these, however, there are many other games (almost twenty more) that are actively competing and making good progress, many of which are RPGs. If these all pan out, there could be a ton of interesting indie RPGs getting released next year.


(Vaguely) related banging of two empty halves of a coconut together:
* Indie RPG In Development: Scars of War
* An Early Look at the DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) RPG
* Cute Knight Deluxe Available from Rampant Games
* Indie RPG News, June 26
* Indie RPG News, June 15

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Labels: Frayed Knights, Indie Evangelism, Indie RPG News, Roleplaying Games

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