Apogee is back

[Herr der Verboten]

Scott Miller on relaunching Apogee Entertainment as indie publisher

It's been a couple decades since the peak of Apogee Software, but company founder Scott Miller and long-time executive …

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[Fulcrum29]

"We decided here in the last year to resurrect and relaunch Apogee, to kind of reclaim our title as the original indie publisher," Miller says. "We're working with indie developers again and cherry picking what we think are the diamonds in the rough. And there are a lot of diamonds out there."

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The first of those projects to be announced is Residual from Orangepixel, set for release this fall.

Residual is going the give pixel art haters a heart attack,

 

[Fulcrum29]

I like what they are doing, but Apogee seems to want to be the next Humble Games. I can admire that, but so many publishers out there today digging out indie diamonds.

Tough market.

 

[_kabal_]

Commander keen reboot

 

[Swa]

Residual is going the give pixel art haters a heart attack,

I don't hate pixel art. I hate how it's used as an excuse for bad design. This actually looks pretty good.

 

[LazyLion]

OMG best news of the month!!!
Now please, please bring back Bullfrog, Westwood Studios and Blizzard North!

Don't care about the pixels, if the game is good it will sell.
This has already been proven many, many times.

 

[AlphaJohn]

OMG best news of the month!!!
Now please, please bring back Bullfrog, Westwood Studios and Blizzard North!

Bullfrog's
Best games - Syndicate/Wars and Dungeon keeper (But we have DK3 so we cool) Would love a new Syndicate hopefully The Ascent will scratch that itch.
Westwood
Gave me C&C, and we more than killed that formula by overdoing it. So Pass.
Blizzard North
Owners and some staff formed Runic Games that gave me Torchlight 1/2. The others where ate up by Blizz/Activision who gave us Diablo 3, It was not 2 but wasn't to bad either.
Runic ended in 2017? and some dev's formed Monster Squad Games. Still waiting to see what they will roll out.

Don't care about the pixels, if the game is good it will sell.
This has already been proven many, many times.

Best old school pixel game and a must is Bro force. I would love a revisit to Commander Keen's world.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Ah nostalgic. Biomenace and Raptor: Call of the Shadows were my favourite Apogee titles growing up.

 

[s0lar]

Never got into Commander Keen, was a huge Crystal Caves fan. Even managed to find the full version on a BBS.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Residual is going the give pixel art haters a heart attack,

Looks great but gave me aversion with their timed demo. I might actually now pickup something else if anything.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Commander keen reboot

Hopefully not like the 3D syndicate with guns guns guns

 

[Matt91]

Never got into Commander Keen, was a huge Crystal Caves fan. Even managed to find the full version on a BBS.

Crystal caves was my jam. I could never get very far though.

 

[swift412]

Crystal caves was my jam. I could never get very far though.

There's a HD remake on Steam if you're interested in giving it another shot:

Crystal Caves HD on Steam

Return to the underground classic world of treasures and traps in the HD remake of Crystal Caves! Guide Mylo through puzzles and arcade challenges of your favorite episodes, then explore the whole new Episode loaded with all new puzzles, enemies, challenges, hazards and help Mylo get back home!

store.steampowered.com

 

[GoofySmurf]

Bullfrog's
Best games - Syndicate/Wars and Dungeon keeper (But we have DK3 so we cool) Would love a new Syndicate hopefully The Ascent will scratch that itch.
Westwood
Gave me C&C, and we more than killed that formula by overdoing it. So Pass.
Blizzard North
Owners and some staff formed Runic Games that gave me Torchlight 1/2. The others where ate up by Blizz/Activision who gave us Diablo 3, It was not 2 but wasn't to bad either.
Runic ended in 2017? and some dev's formed Monster Squad Games. Still waiting to see what they will roll out.



Best old school pixel game and a must is Bro force. I would love a revisit to Commander Keen's world.

Satellite Reign on Steam

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

store.steampowered.com

Check out Satellite Reign

Its the spiritual successor to Syndicate.

 

[Beyond.Celsus]

Satellite Reign on Steam

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

store.steampowered.com

Check out Satellite Reign

Its the spiritual successor to Syndicate.

It's not very good though.

It's pretty meh


But then again, having played the original syndicate recently without my nostalgia glasses on, that was pretty meh as well.

Bullfrog's best game was Theme Hospital and we already got a spiritual successor to that.

 

[Polymathic]

Commander keen reboot

MS owns the IP now, at they very least there will be a definitive edition of Game Pass

Ah nostalgic. Biomenace and Raptor: Call of the Shadows were my favourite Apogee titles growing up.

Raptor's soundtrack was pretty good for time.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Terminal velocity thats all I want!
especially the taunts,
call your Mother, your not coming home!


PC gaming in the 90's was so much simpler.

 

[rustypup]

Bullfrog's best game was Theme Hospital

You take that back!

In point of FACT that would be Dungeon Keeper.

Magic Carpet was a close second.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Satellite Reign on Steam

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

store.steampowered.com

Check out Satellite Reign

Its the spiritual successor to Syndicate.

Played it, for some unknown reason it did not really grab me?

 

[AlphaJohn]

You take that back!

In point of FACT that would be Dungeon Keeper.

Agreed and I loved both recent, Dungeon Keeper 3 & War for the Overworld

Still need to Play Evil Genius 2, maybe this weekend.