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Melbourne – November 30, 2012 – As another year comes to an end, it is time once again to begin our search for the Players Choice Independent Game of the Year.

After amassing a staggering 61,000 votes in 2011 which resulted in Terraria being crowned the eventual winner (Minecraft won in 2010), voting booths have been added to all game profiles on IndieDB. It is now up to the players to click the “vote” button and help us crown 2012′s best.

Scott Reismanis, the Founder of IndieDB, commented “this is always our favorite time of the year, watching the nominations pour in, with the leaders usually only separated by a handful of votes. We cannot wait to unveil the Top 100 in 12 days and of course the No. 1 at the end of December. With some many games deserving of attention and accolades – we expect the outcome in 2012 to be interesting.”

Until January 1st join us in celebrating all that is great about our beloved independent developers by participating and voting to decide the top 100, and the overall ultimate winner.

Indie of the Year Awards

More information about the Indie of the Year can be found at: http://www.indiedb.com/events/2012-indie-of-the-year-awards

We are also running our 11th Annual Mod of the Year (108,000 votes last year!!) at: http://www.moddb.com/events/2012-mod-of-the-year-awards and for the first time an App of the Year at: http://www.slidedb.com/events/2012-app-of-the-year-awards

Media Enquiries

Scott Reismanis
Founder
scott@indiedb.com

About IndieDB

Indie games are changing the world, one giant pixel at a time. Indie DB supports independent developers and their games, by providing them with a place to showcase their hard work (in-progress or complete) to fans seeking original gaming experiences. For more information please visit http://www.indiedb.com

About ModDB

Mod DB is the premiere online community that unites developers, players and their ideas, empowering them to shape the games we play. Mods provide new and exciting options for gamers, and Mod DB is the largest website for players and developers who want to create and play something different. For more information please visit http://www.moddb.com

About SlideDB

Mobile and tablet games have opened up a new world of gaming anywhere and everywhere you want. You can slide, tap, shake and play all manner of games from family friendly educational titles to adventurous classics. On Slide DB we give developers a community they can share their ideas with and showcase the work they are doing, beyond the basic app stores and the highly contested “top charts”. For more information please visit http://www.slidedb.com

Hi, guys, long time not to see you. Today I will take a classic case of column to you. It is about how to recover files by CF Card Recovery. As We are known that the CF Card (Compact Display Card) is a well-known flash electronic storage space. The abilities are usually from 128 MB to 64 GB. CF cards has a bigger dimension when in contrast to other storage space kinds such as SD, SmartMedia, MemoryStick, and xD Image Cards. But usually, it has a cheaper per MB and quicker rate. Therefore, it is still commonly used by cameras.

 Ok, we started.

 Mr Green, A professional photographer, tell us that he has done a very bad thing last Sunday. He was be invited to shoot a series of model Photos for a local fashion magazine. And these photos will be ready to use at the next week news conference. It takes Green a lot of time to complete the shooting. When the night, Mr Green was go home for dinner and the camera was put on the sofa smoothly. When he finished the dinner. What happened ? His little son was play the camera as a toy. So, you know, things always happened by accident. The little boy have accidently deleted the most important photos that Mr Green have EVER taken. It makes Mr Green so worried.

 As the photos will be use Imminent, So, Mr Green search for help on the internet immediately, at last he find us and tell the whole process to our customer service. By on, People always want to make up the wrong things for timely. So them always make some counterproductive things instead. But fortunately, Mr Green was not did the things which he uncertain.

 We suggested he use the CF Card Recovery software, as Mr Green is not save CF Card Recovery program on the memory cards where he lost his digital photos. Secondly, to avoid overwrite the lost photos, Green isn’t save the recovered photos into the original disk where he loss them in his camera again. Files recovery come easy.

 Firstly, install and launch the CF Card Recovery in your computer. Then connect your digital camera on the computer.

After connecting, you need to select the digital camera where you loss photos and click the “Start Scan” button to start scanning to pick up the lost digital camera photos. You need to make sure that all the formats of your lost photos are selected here.

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Bussiness Simulation “Airline Tycoon Deluxe” has finally landed in the
Ubuntu Software Center. This classic Tycoon game, originally developed
for the PC by Spellbound, was ported to OSX and iOS earlier and is now
available for Ubuntu Users through the Software Center for USD 14,99.

About the game
Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in
realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.
However, don’t be fooled by the funny comic style or the included
jokes: A variety of tasks are requested and your competitors never
miss a chance to set a trap for you in order to put a spoke in your
wheel.

Your abilities are put to the test continuously playing Airline Tycoon
Deluxe: Will you be able to use your aeroplanes to capacity and land
some profitable charter flights? Can you establish routes for
lucrative scheduled flights? Aeroplanes cost millions; will you be
capable of increasing the share price and obtaining enough funds by
the issuing of securities?

Can you stand up for the construction of new aeroplanes in your role
as an engineer? Are you able to avoid your competitors’ deceitful
attacks? Accept this unusual challenge and win virtual laurels with
Airline Tycoon. The deluxe version contains 20 new airports as well as
new opportunities. It is as interesting for professional tycoons as
for beginners.

Features:
- Funny economy simulation in comic style
- Complete freedom of action and freedom to move within the airport
facilities and more than 30 places to be visited
- Control of all parts of management: purchase of aeroplanes and their
fittings, financing as well as stock market listing, planning of
routes and filling order books, personnel, marketing and maintenance
as well as many other details
- Easily operated construction of own aeroplanes
- Use additional security precautions against competitors’ attacks
or sabotage competitors yourself

The kickstarter adventure/RPG game Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption will
now be getting a linux version. The game is being produced by renown
game designers Lori and Corey Cole, best known for the Quest for Glory
series.

Read more: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878147873/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption/posts/344017

News translated from holarse:

It is really going to happen. Valve started the beta phase of the steam linux client. From 60000 applications they chose a number of users and gave them access to the steam-client running on Ubuntu 12.04. They plan to add other distributions and to add more users to the beta-phase.

The first game running on the linux-beta is Team Fortress 2.

Valve will announce further news on this link.

I hope that this will be the beginning of the breakthrough of linuX as gaming platform. We all knew that linuX is totally suited for online gaming – now the masses will hopefully realize this as well.

Pressinformation

Giving mobile game developers a place to promote their creations

Melbourne – October 19, 2012 – After months of stealth development the creators of IndieDB.com, ModDB.com and Desura.com have announced the launch of SlideDB.com a developer driven mobile games news site.

With so much noise and content in the mobile gaming space, it is hard for developers of new IP to reach fans. When asked what can be done, Scott Reismanis the Founder of SlideDB commented “At the moment mobile developers are mostly at the mercy of app-store top charts and editor curated blogs, both of which allow little control. We hope to change this by putting the creators in control and providing another way of connecting with potential fans via SlideDB.”

n the mobile space there needs to be more ways to reach players interested in the game you’ve built without being dependent on paid ads, reviews and befriending the right people. “With ModDB.com and IndieDB.com reaching over 200,000+ readers daily, we’ve already had great success helping independent developers showcase their work. And with so many mobile games all competing for the few “top chart slots” available – it makes sense for us to expand our network.” stated Scott Reismanis. Developers interested in sharing what they are creating, and players interested in discovering up and coming mobile games encouraged to start interacting via SlideDB today.

Media Enquiries

Scott Reismanis
Founder
scott@slidedb.com

About SlideDB

Mobile and tablet have opened up a new world of gaming anywhere and everywhere you want. You can slide, tap, shake and play all manner of games from family friendly educational titles to adventurous classics. On Slide DB we give developers a community they can share their ideas with and showcase the work they are doing, beyond the basic app stores and the highly contested “top charts”. For more information please visit http://www.slidedb.com

I received a message from Jordan Brocks about a game called “Just Tactics”.

Homepage

Just Tactics is a Turn Based, Online Multiplayer, 1v1, Tactical War Game involving Squads and Deck Building.
We are using jmonkey engine and a lot of other open source tools. Our entire codebase is not open sourced, but some day it likely will be (right now what is not open sourced is our art assets and the game logic specific to our game, honestly not particularly useful to anyone). Any tool that we have made that actually would be useful to someone, we have open sourced, you can check them out on our devblog: http://devblog.htssoft.com/

For Just Tactics we have been doing QA testing for 6 months, so there aren’t many bugs left. The game is not quite finished (there are a number of art assets missing, mainly some paint and sound effects). However, Just Tactics is very much playable, and it is time to build a community of gamers that will love all of the tactical goodness packed into Just Tactics. We are looking to give away several thousand copies of the game, this will allow us to stress test our infrastructure, and also gets us to the ever important “critical mass” of gamers the community needs so that when you join the Quickmatch queue, you actually find an opponent.

We are using a “Minecraft pricing strategy.” Right now the game is free. As the game becomes more complete, we will start to charge a modest price for it. As Just Tactics gains more content, we will continue to up the price commensurate with what is reasonable. This creates an incentive to join the community now (especially now because the game is free as opposed a traditional pricing structure where the game comes out as a finished product at a high price, and then some people delay their purchase until the game is in the “bargain bin.” We feel that the “Minecraft pricing strategy” is a better fit for indie games like ours. When we do start charging for the game, anyone already in the community is still good to go, you do not have to pay for DLC or anything like that. Even when we are charging, new players will be able to demo the game for free forever using a default army (which is a decent army, not crippled in any way). By letting you demo forever, it helps us to continue to grow the community, and it lets us simply ignore that part of DRM When you grow weary of the default army, you can pay, and then you have access to everything (paying gets you everything, all units, all cards, all future units, all future cards, there is no “pay to win,” which is why having your fans join our community now, for free, is quite a good proposition for them

Check out some of these videos to see what the game is like:

Please check out the website (we have a web designer working on a nice design at this very moment I swear!): http://www.justtactics.com/