Indie Games Summit: Polytron debut new Fez trailer
If you weren’t in Kyle Gabler and Phil Fish’s early morning indie games promotion session, a special treat for you: Polytron’s second Fez trailer showing off its newly updated mechanics and art. The...
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One shot: Polytron’s Fez, deconstructed
From Polyton programmer Renaud Bédard’s explanation of Fez‘s “non-interpolated ortographic voxels,” or, trixels (c)(tm). [via Polytron] Previously: Indie Games Summit: Polytron debut new Fez trailer –...
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One shot: Polytron’s work-in-progress #fezfriday debut
Polytron co-founder Phil Fish kicks off his new #fezfriday feature — showing off whatever he happens to be working on in Fez at the moment — with this eye-popping and inter-dimensional work in...
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One shot: popping the child-proof lid on Infinitron Polypharma
Fez co-creator Phil Fish unveils a new logo for ‘Infinitron Polypharma’, with the tagline “curing diseases as we invent them”, which can only mean one thing: work steadily continues on Power Pill,...
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One shot: Polytron’s latest #fezfriday teaser
My new favorite reason to slog through the week: Polytron’s continued work-in-progress looks at their forthcoming Fez. Adds co-founder Phil Fish this week: We’re getting really close to finally coming...
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One shot: This #fezfriday, don’t call it a POW Block
But admits creator Phil Fish, “It wouldn’t be a videogame without some sort of explosive crate!” Previously: One shot: Polytron's latest #fezfriday teaser One shot: Polytron's work-in-progress...
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One shot: Fez, paus’d
Not even illness can keep Fez‘s Phil Fish from fulfilling his #fezfriday duties. Previously: One shot: This #fezfriday, don't call it a POW Block One shot: Polytron's latest #fezfriday teaser One...
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One shot: building Fez one block at a time
Another week, another #fezfriday: this time, the building blocks in their trixellated form, which would probably make a wicked T-shirt of their own. Previously: One shot: Fez, paus'd One shot:...
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One shot: celebrate Canada Day with a bonus #fezwednesday
With Canada Day in full swing, Polytron’s Phil Fish gives a bonus #fezwednesday pulled-back work-in-progress trixellated shot of a suspended Fez level. Expect to hear more on the future of Fez in very...
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Polytron officially announce Fez for 2010 Xbox Live Arcade release
After many months of (probably misguided, given its ever-clear XNA roots) speculation, Polytron has finally, officially announced that their space-warping 2D/3D debut Fez will be released for Xbox...
View ArticlePoly-amory: new footage of Xbox Live Arcade platformer Fez
There’s a good amount of both padding between there and here and very light questions from the TV crew, but skip to the 6 minute mark on the video above to see G4′s recent profile of Fez creators...
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To Infinitron: the latest WIP look at Polytron/Infinite Ammo’s iPhone Power Pill
Part 1 One Pill Is For Power Act 1 FADE IN ON: EXTERIOR: INFINITRON POLYPHARMA HEADQUARTERS THE CAMERA cranes in on the 808TH FLOOR WINDOW of INFINITRON POLYPHARMA‘S monolithic and möbius-twisted...
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Gamma-Go: Kokoromi bringing indie game showcase/party to GDC 2010
Montreal art/game collective Kokoromi have just announced that they’ll be bringing the latest installment of their yearly Gamma showcase (traditionally reserved for the Montreal Game Summit) to GDC in...
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I Get Your Fez: Polytron show 2 years of Fez-related fails
And sticking around Montreal for just a second: inspired by the anonymously-run bug/comment/build error blog I Get Your Fail, Polytron have just published this showcase of 26 images highlighting some...
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Hey Montreal: go see the debut of Polytron/Infinite Ammo’s Power Pill Sept. 30th
As part of Montreal’s latest Pecha Kucha Night, coming Wednesday, September 30th to the SAT (1195 Saint-Laurent), Fez creators Polytron will be on hand to talk about the “highs and lows of designing a...
View ArticleWhat Was Missing: Fez’s ‘Lost’ Features & Mechanics
Via sort of honestly the last place I’d expect to find a wellspring of interesting information, Fez programmer Renaud Bédard (currently working on mech arena shooter Waiting for Horus as part of Les...
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One Shot: The New Model Polytron Portable
The Polytron Portable Pro gets its first hardware upgrade since its original inception, following Fez designer Phil Fish’s discovery of Teenage Engineering’s super sexy OP-1 synthesizer (with one more...
View ArticleFez On A G-String: London Philharmonic Teases Orchestrated Disasterpeace Remake
One of the rare indie games voted in by the public, conductor Andrew Skeet and the London Philharmonic Orchestra have teased this snippet of their fully orchestrated version of Disasterpeace’s...
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Looking Back: A Slideshow of Venus Patrol & MOCAtv’s HORIZON Conference
It’s been almost a week since we ran HORIZON, the alternative E3 press conference co-presented by Venus Patrol & MOCAtv, and to be honest, I think we’re all still recovering. Reaction to the...
View ArticleVideo: Watch Venus Patrol & MOCAtv’s HORIZON Conference
One more HORIZON post for posterity’s sake: if you missed the Twitch.tv livestream of Venus Patrol & MOCAtv’s alternative E3 conference last week — graciously provided and masterminded by the...
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