Skullgirls creators Lab Zero have successfully raised a whopping $1.5m for their action RPG, Indivisible. $1.6m even, with a couple of days left to see that grow even taller. $3.6m even, with the now-secured publisher funding too. Enough money, it seems, for the characters to afford clothes this time out.

… [visit site to read more]

Skullgirls lot Lab Zero Games are coming back with another pretty-pretty hand-drawn game, but any face-punching it has will be a lot more formal. Their next game is Indivisible [Facebook page], an action-RPG where young lady Ajna will be travelling across a fantasy world to figure out why she has magic powers. I bet those magic powers will help you duff people up and get closer to the truth. I almost said “All they have to show for it now is some concept art”, but where do you draw the line with a hand-drawn game? Wakey wakey, Alice.

… [visit site to read more]

Energetically crowd-funded 2D fighting game Skullgirls absolutely exudes style. From the off there’s a classy jazz beat lain down to play out over the dark menu, entries listed in a unique typeface. Thought and time has obviously been put into the way options are enlarged, the selection cursor, the smoothness of transition from item to item. It’s polished to a tee, every surface smooth and shining its message to the world: I’m classy, I’m friendly and I’m intricately, lovingly designed. But can it carry this throughout? Does the biff and kick charm us with its clarity and cool?> (more…)