All Stories Tagged: Size Five Games

Every multiplayer game needs people to play it, but indies especially can have trouble landing a healthy playerbase. Some games have tried kick-starting communities by bunging every player a free copy for a chum, but Gun Monkeys is experimenting with a more-nuanced solution. If someone fires up the deathmatch platformer and finds themself on an empty server, it'll bung them a free copy to get a friend in the game.

Having scrapped a third game in the splendid Ben & Dan Adventures series earlier this year, English indie Size Five has gone back to the drawing board over a boozy weekend and is now "probably" going ahead with the new Son of Ben & Dan.

Lovely indie Size Five has "George Lucased it right up" with a Special Edition of its brillo adventure game Ben There, Dan That!, on sale now at $3.25 and packing heaps of extras and improvements.

Indie Jeff's picks this week include interviews for Serious Sam Double D, Marian, and, Super Comboman, a freebie from Size Five Games, and a trailer from Halfbrick's mobile title, Machine Gun Jetpack.

The developer of comic indie adventure games Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! has revealed its next game, a "steampunk cybercrime caper" curiously described as "Deus Ex meets Sonic the Hedgehog."