Overbyte, the independent games magazine your mother would be ashamed of, has released its third, less silly, issue.
In the main articles Jack Brockley takes a look at eight of the entries in YoYo Games’ fifth competition while Andrew McCluskey delivers some design tips you can use to give your game a more professional appearance.
A huge bundle of reviews are included in this issue: Grid Defender 2, Paper Dreams, Super Space Rogues, the new sport puzzle that’s sweeping the globe – Extreme Gardening, BoxyCraft, Remaddening (aka madnessMADNESSmadness 2) and A Starspangled Zephyr.
There is also a round up of recent news, an interview with Liam Barden containing all the questions you wanted to know (and some trivial ones!) and a comic by Rebecca Clare Smith.
The photo at the end is of NAL’s favourite game maker.
Previous Issues: Overbyte 1 (Feb), Overbyte 2 (March).
T’was a good issue. Nice work.
Thanks a lot for putting Ruined as a part of the 10 entries outside of the top 8. It means a lot.
Also, the magazine itself was very good. I liked the past 2 issues, and this one was by leaps and bounds better.
No problem. It seems quite a few people like Ruined. And thanks; I’m glad we’re improving!
Apart from from some hypocritical paragraphs, the magazine was alright.
That’s not what you said on the YYG forums. O_O
Evil Jack is Evil. >:D
>:)
Is the photo at the end 3d/Indiegameslite? XD
You win the internet.
Thank you very kindly for the Ultrageist mention, Jack. It’s such an odd, deliberately frustrating game that while I don’t think it’s going to do very well, I am pleasantly surprised by the number of people who’ve responded well to it.
Thanks again.
No problem, Tom :). I feel the same; I don’t think YYG will enjoy it but I know you put a lot of effort into it and although I’m crap at bullet-hells, I thought this was one of the more fun ones.
Best game maker magazine I’ve seen in a long time. I love some of the silliness as Phil would put it. Excellent layout, great articles, awesome interview (randomness keeps the interview fresh & interesting), very nice use of the theme & best of all, the comic was actually funny.
You should all be very proud!