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An NES inspired
action adventure
in first person!

Independent game developers from around the world have been kidnapped and it's up to you to save them.

Explore nine thematically diverse sectors filled with enemies, traps, and puzzles.

Blast your way to the end, taking down unrelenting bosses, and rescuing captive indies.

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Developers

Phubansoft
Progrium Games

Release Date

June 27th, 2019

Press Contact

Dana Trebella

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Platforms

Windows
Mac OS

Website

tigl3d.com

Price

$9.99

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Description

Independent game developers have gone missing and your only lead on their whereabouts is a distress signal from a remote alien base. It's up to you to infiltrate this hostile labyrinth and uncover the answers you need to rescue them. Explore five diverse biomes while surviving dangerous hazards and obstacles, solving clever puzzles, and taking down ruthless and relentless enemies. The lives of these indies, and the future of independent games, depends on it.

Immerse yourself in this nostalgic, colorful, and quirky handcrafted FPS as you uncover the secrets and lore of a retro world that blurs the line between game and reality. In the process, enter the storied and autobiographical psyche of an independent game developer facing their inner demons while battling the challenges of making games for the love of the medium.

Inspired by the NES cult hit The Guardian Legend and other classic titles, The Indie Game Legend 3D provides a fresh lens to what a classic 8-bit game might look like through the eyes of the player character.

Your mission, critical to the future of indie games, will become The Indie Game Legend.

History

In 2011, Paul Hubans an active figure on TIGSource, released a freeware game as Phubansoft on the TIGSource forums, called The Indie Game Legend. The Indie Game Legend was inspired by a desire to make a bite-sized, easily digestible game that provided an outlet for his insecurities and struggles with jealousy and success as a game developer. As the game progressed, it became a way to connect with friends on the forum including a myriad of notable game development figures and inside jokes among friends. The game was well received but shortly thereafter fell into obscurity.

Six years later, Jeff Lindsay, a friend of Paul’s, began experimenting with assets from The Indie Game Legend to see what it would be like from a first-person perspective. Paul was excited by this new take on the game, and the two decided to team up to collaborate on a larger-scale release.

Joined by Stevie Hryciw, who did the original music, they worked to double the number of diverse areas in the game, and shifted the gameplay to first-person, which allowed for a feeling of being literally immersed into a retro gameplay experience dreamed of from their childhood.

Wanting to keep the game light-hearted and quirky, they evolved the narrative of the game to serve as a love letter to the indie game dev community, but also touch on Paul's challenges and experiences as a young indie game developer.

Features

  • Over 250 handcrafted rooms across 10 distinctly themed areas
  • Solve puzzles and avoid traps in a non-linear sci-fi world
  • Blast hordes of enemies and take down unrelenting bosses
  • Discover weapons, equipment, and upgrades in hidden shops
  • Rescue some of your favorite iconic indie game developers
  • Retro pixel art style in a low-poly, full 3D world
  • Unlockable secrets, surprises, easter eggs, and more!
  • Original chiptunes soundtrack by a guy named Stevie
  • Nearly 8 hours of classic action adventure play
  • Your commander is a hairless guinea pig

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Original game
Original game OST

About Progrium Games

Jeff Lindsay was a hobbyist game developer from an early age. After high school he started running TIGSource with Derek Yu and put up what is now the largest online forum for the indie game scene. Professionally, he made an impact in the web and systems software fields, working at NASA and Twilio, and independently helped bring Docker, webhooks, and a number of other influential tools into the world. Other than occasional prototypes, Jeff became fairly inactive in games.

After a decade working in tech, Jeff came back to indie games. His first freeware release was Visitor Center in 2017, a love letter to the 1993 SNES Jurassic Park game. Looking for a bigger challenge next, he took on The Indie Game Legend 3D in collaboration with Paul Hubans as his first commercial game project.

About Phubansoft

For most of his life, Paul Hubans has been designing games. He started with NES-inspired drawings of his game ideas in the late 80s. By highschool he was hacking NES ROMs using tile editing tools and HEX editors. In the early 2000s, Paul started making his own fully playable games in Game Maker. The most notable of these was his horror top-down multiplayer shooter, MADHOUSE.

In the mid 2000s, Paul worked for SEGA of America doing QA on titles like Full Auto and Shadow the Hedgehog. He went on to work at 2D Boy as a production associate on their indie smash hit, World of Goo. Paul's experience with 8-bit pixel art that dated back to highschool landed him a job as background artist on Capcom's 2011 DSI title, Dark Void Zero. 2011 was also the year that Paul made and released the original 2D version of The Indie Game Legend. Two years later he released Spunk & Moxie, a one-button masocore platformer on mobile. Today, he is working on Mossmouth's UFO 50 project and The Indie Game Legend 3D.

Team

Jeff Lindsay, programmer and producer
Paul Hubans, designer and artist
Stevie Hryciw, music
Copyright 2019 Progrium Games