Oreum Games Indie Dev News
HOMELESS 1999 indie game devlog 2, I ran it at a PC bang and the bugs came pouring out
Things I never noticed while taking screenshots at home, and how I fixed them in a day after playing on a stranger's computer
HOMELESS 1999 is a PC game headed for Steam. That means players won't run it on my computer, they'll run it on theirs. So I packed the PC build into a single zip file and took it to a PC bang, one of the internet cafes you find on every street in Korea. I unzipped it on someone else's computer and just played, the way a player would.
HOMELESS 1999 devlog 1, a survival game that started in the browser and is heading to Steam
A third-person sim about living on the street outside Seoul Station in 1999, how it began and why it changed course
HOMELESS 1999 is a game about getting through one day at a time as a homeless man outside Seoul Station in 1999. I'm now building it as a PC game for Steam. That was never the plan.
In the middle of the AI backlash, a game called 1 in 8 Billion just blew up
The two words indie developers hide the most, browser game and AI game, and what one hit proved about both at once
The backlash against AI is at its loudest right now. Illustrators, writers and musicians are calling for people to reject AI-made work, and in games, the moment a developer admits to using AI the review page goes cold. Right in the middle of that, a game called 1 in 8 Billion blew up.
Three days on Indie DB and number 25 out of 75,000: the story of the indie game Lasso Sister
A free 3D western action game from a very small studio in Korea made the popularity ranking of a big indie game site
Oreum Games, a very small indie studio in Korea, released Lasso Sister on October 4. The Indie DB page went up on October 5, and on October 8 the game was in the TOP 25 of the popularity ranking, out of 75,628 games listed there. Three days.
Selling your private life to an AI for 3 million won a month: how the indie game 300 A MONTH was made
A dystopian simulation game that grew out of one sentence and was built in a day
Oreum Games, a very small indie studio in Korea, released a new game on September 26: 300 A MONTH. It is about someone who hands their private life over to an AI and lives on the basic income it pays, 3 million won a month. It is a simulation game, a story game and, honestly, a dystopia game. It went from idea to release in one day.
Three new free browser games: a drunken fist brawler, kart racing on Jeju, and checkers
New games this week from Oreum Games, no download, right in your browser
Oreum Games, a very small indie studio in Korea, put out three new games this week. They have nothing in common except that they are free and start in your browser with no download and no sign-up: an arcade-style brawler, a 3D kart racer set on Jeju Island, and checkers.
Indie games with no install: why a small Korean studio put 50 of them on the web
"Indie games without a download button" — Oreum Games, from idle tycoons to adventure
Say "indie game" and most people picture something on Steam for a few dollars. But there is another way that is slowly growing: games you do not install at all. You click a link, the game starts a few seconds later, and if it is not for you, you close the tab and that is that.