Spiderweb Software has announced the release of a playable demo for its dungeon crawler Avernum VI, now available for download.
Since Pong was invented in the 1970s (which was, according to Wikipedia, in the previous millennium), Jeff Vogel has been obsessed with video games. Jeff was a nerdy kid.
Vogel played them throughout his childhood. As soon as he learned to program in BASIC, he began to write games. Of course, in the beginning, they were terrible, but he was blessed with persistence and perfecting any craft takes time. He'd write a game, throw it away, then wrote another. At the time, it was just a hobby. Making it a real career never occurred to him. He followed other paths.
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For those of you who don’t know, there’s a little corner of Seattle, US, dedicated to creating massive RPGs. They won’t push your GTX680 to 70 degrees, and they won’t make your i7 scream for relief, but Spiderweb Software’s games will engage you in a way that no modern RPG could. Heavily engaging, and very descriptive, the games from this three-person studio have received silent acclaim on PC, and to a lesser extent on tablet devices.
Touch Arcade: Once a stagnant genre at the onset of the App Store, RPG fans have become increasingly fortunate in recent years with a nice selection of titles, both new and old, to enjoy. Spiderweb Software has been doing its part by revamping and porting its large collection of old-school PC RPGs to the iPad. Avernum 6 is the third such title (after Avernum [$9.99 (HD)] and Avadon [$9.99 (HD)]) to be released on iOS and continues the trend of strong, narrative-driven role playing games on the iPad.
