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Geek Native provides an authoritative and independent perspective on Indie, a topic we have followed for more than 16 years. This collection of 5 articles evaluates industry shifts through original reporting and critical analysis. This resource evaluates first-hand data from official industry announcements and crowdfunding mechanics.

The Indie+ RPG convention team in chain reaction interview

October 30, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An Indie+ chain reaction interview? What is Indie+ in the first place? It’s an online gaming convention, this week, that works over Google Hangouts. What on earth is a ‘chain reaction interview’? Glad you asked. A chain reaction interview is when a whole bunch of people take part in an interview and overlap their questions […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 6d6, Chris Tregenza, Dungeon World, indie, jeff dee, Mark Diaz Truman, roll20, tabletop forge

An introduction to Indie+

October 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What is Indie+? It is an online convention and hangout for gamers. It’s made possible by Google+ Events and Google’s rather awesome Hangouts (also part of Google+). Hangouts, if you’re not familiar with them, are super easy to use video chats that support many people at once. They represent a virtual table as much as […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adam Koebel, bill webb, Dungeon World, frog god games, indie, kobold press, Owen Stephens, pathfinder, Wolfgang Baur

Gamersgate’s ultra cheap Indiefort Bundle 3 tries something new

September 10, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is Indiefort Bundle 3 for the folks at Gamersgate and things are a little different. Bundles are typically straight forward – one pile of games for one really low price. No one can suggest that Indiefort Bundle 3 has broken the price promise around bundles as the most you can expect to shell out […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: indie, sales

The Indie+ bundle: $94 of RPG for $4

July 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Indie+ is rather like an online gamer expo. It’s here to promote indie game publishers, writers, artists, podcasters and even bloggers. If you’re taking part in Indie+ let Geek Native know. A big part of Indie+ will take part in Google+. It’s the ideal venue, albeit rather untested, for this sort of online experience. Google+ […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 6d6, indie

The Forge

August 28, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Forge is home of many of the academic elite of the indie press RPG world. In fact, the domain name for the site is www.indie-rpg.com. Whereas I’m very much a fan of the indie mindset and rather turned off by stat crunching and boasting about level such-n-such paladins I have to warn that too […]

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: indie, rpg

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