As video game console giants are showing more of a commitment to the indie games movement, we may be seeing some surprising new titles this year. Yahoo! has the story.
Alongside the big-budget sci-fi epic sequel Gears of War 2, Microsoft will be touting independently developed games available for download via Xbox Live later this year: an art-house take on Mario-style games called Braid and the comic animated battle game Castle Crashers. On the way for the Wii via its online Shopping Channel: the whimsical puzzle game World of Goo.
But the show stealer may be Flower, a PS3 game for Sony's PlayStation Network. In the game, "you play as the wind, flowing across the field, picking up flower petals," says Kellee Santiago, a co-founder of ThatGameCompany, a seven-person Santa Monica developer. "You are changing the environment as you go, trying to create a harmony between the elements of the urban and the natural."
