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Gratuitous Tank Battles – The Verdict

Gratuitous Tank Battles – The Verdict

If the past 30 years of games have taught us anything it is that war is fun. Yet actual conflict teaches us that war is hell. How do we square these two opposing results? With Positech “Cliff “Cliffski” Harris” Games’ latest release, Gratuitous Tank Battles.

The Magic Number – The Cost of Gaming

The Magic Number – The Cost of Gaming

With certain new games set for release at ever higher prices, while others (such as Men of War) have a distinctly lower price point and regular sales, it seems time (as ever, I suppose though) to think about what games should cost. Rather than blathering on in an opinionated fashion, I did a little survey, firing off a short list of questions to a section of The Reticule’s eminent friends in development to see what they thought about it.

SimSocial Launched

SimSocial Launched

I stumbled accross SimSocial after reading about it on Cliffski’s blog. Interestingly enough, SimSocial is based on Cliffski’s excellent Kudos 2.

Leaving the Industry No Quarter – An Interview With Edmund McMillen

Leaving the Industry No Quarter – An Interview With Edmund McMillen

Edmund McMillen has become a bit of a poster boy for what it means to be an indie developer. He’s constantly producing games (and I really mean constantly) of a high caliber and a thoughtful content. They’ve been pushed towards the ‘art’ side of the indie scene, but they still remain very fun. In Aether you can launch yourself into the heavens by way of monster tongue, after all.

Cliff Harris Interview

Cliff Harris Interview

Cliff Harris, more commonly known as Cliffski or Cliff is the person behind one man indie game studio Positech famous for such games as Kudos 2 and Democracy 2 amongst many others. I recently got the chance to quizz Cliff on his games, life as an indie game developer. We also talked about that ever controversial issue of Piracy and DRM. Hit the jump to read the interview.

Cliffski on Game Sales

Cliffski on Game Sales

Positech founder and indy game developer Cliffski has recently been talking about indie game sales and specifically Positech game sales on blog. In something I think came about from this Rock, Paper, Shotgun comments thread Cliffski posted some thoughts about sales volume. This led to a group of people to answer his question about how many copies we thought Democracy 2 and Kudos 2 had sold. Numbers ranging from 1 to 12,258 were shouted out, none of which Cliffski can…

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Kudos 2 Gets a Post Mortem

Kudos 2 Gets a Post Mortem

Kudos 2 by Positech Games (aka “Cliffski”) is an interesting life-sim game. I have the demo, yet unfortunately I haven’t had much time to play it, though I am sure that I would really enjoy it. Regardless, Cliffski has done a nice little Post Mortem on the game, it is well worth a read right here. While you are at it, don’t forget to check out the demo, or even buy the game from this lovely page.