Indie Overlook Returns for 2019!
It’s a new year and with it Indie Overlook’s hiatus comes to an end! There isn’t a schedule in place, but updates will be far more frequent than they have been. I’ll also be covering more in the way of…
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Status Update!
It’s the middle of March and I originally said the schedule would be back to normal by early February at the latest, so what happened? Mostly, it comes down to getting sick, underestimating how much time it would take to…
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Finishing 2017’s Loose Ends for 2018
The second half of 2017 was a rather busy time for me, and not just on Indie Overlook. Unfortunately, this meant that some projects fell through the cracks and trying to finish them up while sticking to a normal schedule…
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Merry Megamas!
Starting tomorrow, I’ll be streaming Mega Man Maker (and possibly other Mega Man-related things) every day until Christmas! Streams will be at 9:00 EST over at https://www.twitch.tv/seeric. There’s a whole lot of new stuff to check out with the recent…
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This Week’s Schedule
Hey everyone, this week’s schedule is going to be a little different from usual thanks to me getting sick over the weekend and a few other things which got in the way. First of all, the streaming part of the…
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Revamping First Impression Articles!
First Impression articles were meant to go hand-in-hand with Grab Bag streams. The idea was to play a bunch of games for a few minutes each and then write about them. This felt like a good way to share my…
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Odd Schedule This Week!
This week’s schedule is going to be rather different, in part due to Thanksgiving preparations and in part due to my headset having issues where it will disconnect if I move a certain part of the cord in the wrong…
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Halloween Streams Start Tomorrow!
Halloween is only a little over a week away, so it’s time to start celebrating! Last year Indie Overlook had the Haunted House Week event, but this time around we’ll be doing something different. Starting tomorrow, there will be a…
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Schedule Change
I’m going to start experimenting with a modified schedule which distributes content more evenly and gives me more time to work on larger articles as well as on other things like catching up on uploading the current backlog of videos…
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Concerning The Hiatus
Hi everyone, you may have noticed the complete lack of updates on Indie Overlook for over a week now and for that I am truly sorry. I have not lost interest in indie games nor in writing about them in…
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Sorry For Slow Updates!
First of all, I really do want to apologize for not releasing new articles and streaming on schedule lately. I’ve had a few things I needed to focus on unrelated to Indie Overlook and I haven’t had much time to…
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Introducing First Impressions!
With the Steam Summer Sale currently in full swing, this seems like the perfect time to introduce a new feature for Indie Overlook, First Impressions. I’ve been wanting to add something like this in for a while so I’m really…
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Away From Keyboard
Hey everyone, I’m not going to have access to my main computer for a little over a week since I won’t be home. I might write a mini article or two if I have time, but there definitely won’t be…
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Back To Normal
Since it seems like I should be able to finish up Crystal Towers 2 in two or possibly three more streams the weekly schedule is going back to normal. In other words, you can expect a new article preview and…
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Scheduling Change This Week!
The schedule for this week is going to be different from usual. To start with, the full article for Monsterland will be arriving on Monday, though there will also be the normal 8:00 stream on Monday too. However, the rest…
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Sorry, Got Sick
Well, I haven’t been feeling particularly great all week, but as of today I think I can safely say that I’ve caught something. I doubt it’s anything serious, but it’s been difficult to focus on writing for more than short…
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Possible Easter Delays
Hey everyone, I just want to let you know in advance that Easter preparations might get in the way of this weekend’s schedule. With any luck I’ll still be able to stream on Saturday and have a full article up…
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Streams and Additional Videos
UPDATE: I have decided to swap the schedule for Wednesday and Thursday. This means that there will be a stream on Wednesday and a full article on Thursday. I’ve been making additional videos for many of the games covered on…
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Today’s Changes
Indie Overlook has once again seen a few significant updates today, none of which were actually the update I initially intended to make (that will be coming later this week). In addition to some behind-the-scenes stuff, here’s the full list…
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Old Content Updates and New Related Posts
I’ve made two fairly big changes to the site today. The first of which is there is now a ‘Similar Stuff’ list at the bottom of each article for people to scroll through. You’ll only see game articles in the…
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Site Updates Coming Soon!
Hi everyone, I’m going to be working on implementing two big new features on Indie Overlook for the next few days so there won’t be a new article today. I’m expecting have one or both of these features up and…
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It’s Also Knyttmas!
I can’t possibly celebrate Kryllmas without also celebrating Knyttmas! Yes, both of these 2D platformers with wildly different approaches to player-created content and nearly identical names are going to be celebrated until the end of the year, especially since I…
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Kryllmas Begins!
As a way to celebrate the holidays I’ll be covering a bunch of Below Kryll levels from now until the start of 2017 (along with one other likely predictable surprise starting tomorrow)! There’s no actual Christmas theme here beyond this…
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Major Site Updates
It has been nearly a year since I first started covering overlooked indie games here at Indie Overlook so I thought that now would be a good time to get around to making some useful changes to the site. More…
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Introducing Mini-Articles (Sort Of)
They’re not entirely new since I already wrote one every day for the last week of October, but mini-articles are going to be a more permanent addition to the site starting today. While the articles written in celebration of Halloween…
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Haunted House Week!
Halloween is the best holiday of the year as far as I’m concerned, so let’s celebrate it in style with some seasonal indie games! I’ve already been celebrating the season by focusing on horror indie games all throughout October with…
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New Hard Drive
My computer and most of my programs are now back to normal so you can expect to see some new content around here again starting later tonight! Things aren’t going to go quite back to normal just yet though because,…
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More Computer Issues
Well, it seems like my current hard drive is almost certainly going to die rather soon. I would have posted this notice sooner, but the last several hours have been largely split between my computer spontaneously freezing and refusing to…
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Coming Back September 20th (Vacation)
Hey everyone, I’ll be on vacation for the next week so there was only one article this week and there won’t be any major articles next week. I won’t have access to my computer while away, though I will have…
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Article Experiment
I’m going to be testing out a new way of releasing articles starting today. Specifically, the full article will be split into a tiered release with the video, relevant links, and the basic description going up today and the rest…
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This Week’s Article Tomorrow
Hey everyone, I’ll only be releasing one main article this week and it will be available at some point tomorrow (Wednesday). There will still be a few smaller articles and videos released this week and the schedule will be going…
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Slow Computer Updates + Audio Issues = Writing Woes
The Make a Good Mega Man Level Contest article for today is finished, but the *mysterious article* and the Fraxy boss article aren’t going to be ready until Sunday. So, what happened? Well, the answer is that two things in…
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Something Somewhat Different Tomorrow
I’ll still be posting the daily updates of Make a Good Mega Man Level Contest content within the next hour, but the major article will be arriving tomorrow. That said, this article is going to serve to introduce a new…
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Tips on Downloading and Playing Foreign Games
A decent number of the games I have covered on Indie Overlook have been from freeware Japanese indie game sites, but even if you don’t have any trouble with downloading a game it can still be difficult to figure out…
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New Videos!
Instead of a short article, I’ve decided to upload several videos from playthroughs which I’ve been sitting on since the playthroughs aren’t fully recorded yet. There will still be a normal article and video tomorrow, but for now here’s the…
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Today’s Article
The main article scheduled for today is going to be delayed until tomorrow, but there will still be a smaller article released later tonight! UPDATE: The article is going to be for The Bug Butcher and it will be up…
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Potential Delay
Hi everyone, tonight’s article may end up getting delayed until tomorrow due to a rather severe storm which looks like it has a pretty good chance of knocking out the power in the area. So, if you don’t see a…
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Game Jolt Marketplace Launch
Game Jolt: http://gamejolt.com/ I don’t usually cover news on Indie Overlook, but this is a very important piece of information to be aware of for anyone interested in indie games. Game Jolt, one of the primary sites hosting freeware games,…
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New About Page and Contact Information
I have now changed the old ‘Welcome’ page into a proper About page and have added in some information about myself alongside the existing information about the site. There is also now a new Contact Information page for if anyone…
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Games Page Updated
So, there have been individual pages for freeware and commercial game articles around here for a while now, but the “Games” tab itself didn’t actually do anything. That has now changed and clicking on “Games” will now take you to…
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Some Useful Downloads For Running Freeware Games
Compatibility is always an issue where older games are concerned, and especially when it comes to older indie games. Though I’ll be covering plenty of new games where compatibility (usually) isn’t a concern, a good number of games will require…
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