Indie Links Round-Up: Your Move

“Die Gute Fabrik, developer of Johann Sebastian Joust, has detailed their next game.

New game announcements from popular indie developers plaster today’s Indie Links.

Die Gute Fabrik reveals adventure game: Mutazione(Shacknews)
“Die Gute Fabrik, developer of Johann Sebastian Joust, has detailed their next game. Mutazione is a “quiet single player” adventure game, “the opposite of Sportsfriends,” according to developer Doug Wilson. Inspired by classic adventures like Another World, the goal of Mutazione is to give a “sense of a living place.” It’s even “a little inspired by Majora’s Mask.”

Double Fine to produce two new games through Indie Fund partnership(VG247)
“During the Horizon Indie Game Conference at E3, Greg Rice from Double Fine and Kellee Santiago announced a new partnership between Indie Fund and Double Fine to produce two new games.”

Lone Survivor PS3 and Vita has new content and endings(VG247)
“The PlayStation 3 and Vita versons of Lone Survivor have a significant amount of additional content when compared to the PC release.”

Oculus Outbreak: IndieCade@E3 2013 Displays 4 Oculus Rift Games(Indie Game Reviewer)
“At E3 2013, IndieCade celebrates its 7th annual E3 Indie Showcase. This year, they’re packing in more indie titles than ever before – a staggering 44 games! As always, the projects span various gaming genres and platforms, including 4 virtual reality indie titles that can be played using the Oculus Rift headset.”

Tiggit: What It Is, and Why You Should Have It(Indie Game Insider)
“If you’re anything like me, you have many fond memories of surfing the web and occasionally discovering a ground-breaking yet humble indie game. I don’t mean to come off as a video game hipster, but back in the day before Minecraft, Bastion, and all the media coverage indie developers are currently receiving, we had to dig much deeper to find these hidden indie gems. As I’m sure you know, innovative ideas and brilliant concepts can emerge from even the loneliest, most forgotten corners of the Internet; the trouble merely lies in finding them.”

IndieCade at E3: Dominique Pamplemousse in ‘It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!’(Joystiq)
“IndieCade took over a corner of the E3 show floor this year, complete with giant orange inflatable chairs and almost 40 games on various platforms. Out of all this beautiful madness, I spotted three games that went above and beyond the standard indie call – they were weird, they were different, and they were awesome.”

Ouya’s alleged tussle with the ESA at E3(Gamasutra)
“The Ouya team chose to show off its upcoming Android-based games console at E3 in a unique fashion this week, renting out a parking lot across from the Los Angeles Convention Center. However, E3 organisers the ESA allegedly aren’t very happy that the Ouya is being showcased outside of the main E3 show, to the point where they have tried shutting the operation down.”

Review: Super Sanctum TD(Indie Game Reviewer)
“The tower defense genre has firmly established itself with a wide selection of gameplay variants and with players always seeking out new experiences the pressure is on for developers to provide original and innovative titles. Tower defense certainly offers a strong canvas for new ideas and Coffee Stain Studios have worked hard to take advantage of this in their FPS/tower defense crossovers Sanctum (our review) and Sanctum 2. Today, though, we’ll be looking at a smaller, lesser known title: Super Sanctum TD.”