Multi-platform horror puzzle game Whispering Willows by Night Light Interactive has gone on and won the BIAB Cerebral Bundle Indie Dev Grant and will thus be receiving $240. Congratulations and our very best wishes!

Having finally had the first Cerebral Bundle bonus unlock at 1000 sales and after six whole days (it is the lovely Phantasmaburbia Deluxe Box in case you haven’t noticed), it has become apparent that, at this rate, unlocking the rest of the wonderful extra content we’ve put together for you would be almost impossible. And that, dear gamers, would be a shame.

We have thus changed the rules, fiddled with the numbers, pleaded with demi-gods and decided that the rest of the bonus content will unlock for every 250 sales; a more modest, more achievable goal. So, here’s the way our bonuses will become available to you (remember, you do not have to beat the average price to get our unlockable extras):

-1250 sales: Dédale DeLuxe Wallpapers unlock

-1500 sales: Cognition Prequel Comic unlock

-1750 sales: Dédale De Luxe OST unlock

-2000 sales: Necrotic Drift Source Code unlock

-2250 sales: Cognition OST unlock

-2500 sales: Reversion Music unlock

Help us reach these goals! Grab the bundle and, please, spread the word!

[The BIAB Blog is presenting the Indie Dev Grant nominees that Bundle In A Box will be funding. Voting for the IDG winner will begin as soon as the Cerebral Bundle bundle goes live.]

The Project:

‘Tides Of Glory’ is an action based MMO for mobile platforms; with fast paced, real time combat; and a detailed immersive world. Players will need their reflexes to survive, but their wits to flourish as they play the economy and rise to power. Customisable content will be at the heart of my game’s business model. Items that affect abilities in game will only be attainable with in game currency – preventing large wallets from conquering the world. The game will feature offline play as well as online play, catering to the unreliable nature of mobile internet.

The Team:

Tides Of Glory has been my life for the last couple of years, and a large chunk of it has been completed– it just needs a little bit more work to get it up to a standard I can be truly proud of. Its biggest weakness at the moment is art assets.

I started programming professionally at Blade Interactive Studios in 2006. A year later I was made Head of Mobile and we released some of the best 2D and 3D pool and snooker games on the market. I was particularly proud of WCP2010 3D where we were allowed to really push the boat out in terms of graphics, making some of the shiniest balls ever seen on mobile at the time (there is a joke in there somewhere).

The Site:

http://www.facebook.com/tidesofglory

[The BIAB Blog is presenting the Indie Dev Grant nominees that Bundle In A Box will be funding. Voting for the IDG winner will begin as soon as the Cerebral Bundle bundle goes live.]

The Project:

Whispering Willows is a horror puzzle game that features a dark and rich narrative, beautiful 2-D visuals, and haunting melodies that will leave you yearning for more. The game will release for OUYA, PC, Linux, and Mac (and later to Android and iOS). The emotional story will unfold over five riveting chapters, each more intriguing than the last. The story will immerse you in a rich history steeped in the depths of the human soul as you solve the mysteries of wayward spirits.

You will assume the role of a young girl named Elena as she searches for her missing father, against challenging odds, working through unconventional puzzles and bypassing other-worldly obstacles. She must harness the powers of her heritage, utilizing astral projection and other ethereal abilities to find her father before he, too becomes lost to the hopeless morass of the Willows estate.

The Team:

Night Light Interactive is an indie game studio based in the Los Angeles area, established in 2012 by David Logan. Our goal at Night Light Interactive is to create innovative, exciting, and memorable experiences. Being gamers ourselves, we’re always trying to innovate and create something totally new and unique, while retaining the best elements of the old. The ultimate payoff is to see the reaction of someone who experiences a game we have created. When we initially started Whispering Willows, that was and remains our goal.

The Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWHg1-Rhotk

The Demo:

http://nightlightinteractive.com/files/ww.html

The Site:

http://www.nightlightinteractive.com/

[The BIAB Blog is presenting the Indie Dev Grant nominees that Bundle In A Box will be funding. Voting for the IDG winner will begin as soon as the Cerebral Bundle bundle goes live.]

The Project:

Perdgard as of now is a turn-based strategy, survival game, with permanent death. A band of travelers has entered the realm of Perdgard, seeking something more… What they discover is a world encompassed by darkness, loss, and death. Lamp oil is quickly becoming scarce and the creatures of the darkness grow forever bolder, what’s left to explore?

So far, nothing has been set into stone and Perdgard is very early on in development, with only a movement and lighting system for combat in place. As well as concepts, feelings, and filler/basic art are on their way.

The Team:

Perdgard is created solely by myself, Taylor Bai-Woo(KinzyBW), as my main game development project. My skills are mainly focused in art and design and I’m using unity as an engine to boost my average programming abilities. Writing and music are fairly foreign to me, but I know people! Perdgard is what has emerged thus far, and I’m simply working on it, with no deadlines or big design plans.

[The BIAB Blog is presenting the Indie Dev Grant nominees that Bundle In A Box will be funding. Voting for the IDG winner will begin as soon as the Cerebral Bundle bundle goes live.]

The Project:

Galactose is a three dimensional space shooter/RTS hybrid that chronicles the war between Dinner and Dessert. The player can join the battle in roles ranging from piloting a single fighter drone to commanding the fleet from a god’s eye view, allowing them to experience all scales of the action.

In drone-mode, the player remotely pilots an individual ship and thrown right in fray, dodging missiles, taking out hamburger fighters, and defending their mothership from broccoli bombers. On the other end is the command view, where the player is given RTS style controls to evaluate the tactical landscape and command their fleet accordingly. In any given view the player can turn or orient themselves in any way they want; there is no “up” in space.

Galactose aims to have a fun, light-hearted theme but still with gameplay that can be taken seriously. Those potato point defenses are serious threat, but you’ll have to take care of them if you want your banana split guided missile cruisers to be of any help. We recommend starting with a light tutorial and then working your way up from there, preferably consulting a dietitian before taking on the never ending all-you-can-eat mode!

The Team:

I’m the project lead, and one of the programmers, John. We have a reasonably small team of currently seven people at the moment. There is David, who is the other programmer, his specialty is the AI. We have an audio guy, Matthew Pablo, who produced the music used in our game, and did some of our sound effects. Mignonne is our 2d artist, she is helping revise our UI and background graphics. Finally, we have three 3d artists, Sid, Melissa and Rob. They are in charge of creating our game-ready 3D models and texturing them to compliment our current art style.

The Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y7EeYO2vxmE

The Demo:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/flfmz8n7450x24w/deploy%20-%20jan%2023%2C%202013%20-%20playtest%200003a.zip

The Site:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92971046

[The BIAB Blog is presenting the Indie Dev Grant nominees that Bundle In A Box will be funding. Voting for the IDG winner will begin as soon as the Cerebral Bundle bundle goes live.]

The Project:

“Oh man, this game has everything. It has dinosaurs and dapper gentlemen.
IT’S A JURASSIC GENTLEMEN SAFARI” – TIGForum quote

The Curious Expedition is a roguelike-strategy-puzzle-game set in the late 19th century in which you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never seen before.

Put on the pith hat and khakis of a famous explorer and make your way through a lush, procedurally generated world full of wonder and mystery. Visit and interact with the land’s natives. Enter villages to trade and communicate with local tribes that are unknown to mankind.

Interact with exotic natives and wildlife. Battle jaguars and gorillas and, yes, dinosaurs and zombies. Loot mysterious temple ruins to gain fame and treasure, but watch out for deadly traps and curses that will compromise your men and the whole world around you.
As you explore and interact with the world, your actions will cause the region to gradually go out of balance, until the trail of chaos you left catches up and forces you to run for your life.

Adventure awaits!

The Team:

We’re two guys, working on a game we love for more than 1 year now, while still having our regular 8 hours day jobs.

Our goal is be able to go full time with The Curious Expedition. We want to quit our day jobs and work on games that would never be funded by a big publisher, but inspire us as gamers, developers and human beings that like to dream.

The Site:

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=30016.120

[The BIAB Blog is presenting the Indie Dev Grant nominees that Bundle In A Box will be funding. Voting for the IDG winner will begin as soon as the Cerebral Bundle bundle goes live.]

The Project:

“Vertigo” is a vertical platformer viewed from a top-down perspective where you flee the formless mass that chases you up out of the darkness. The journey upwards through infinite space will be made easier by collecting lost souls that can be heartlessly traded in for powerups that can boost your ascent.

The Team:

Take Two Tablets is a one person who is following their dream of creating games for their own selfish pleasure. Some day others may play these games and join my pleasure so I don’t feel selfish. Sometimes friends get involved to donate music, audio, art and so forth but these relationships are fleeting.

The Demo:

http://tinyurl.com/blbedxv

The Site:

http://www.taketwotablets.com/