Aaron Potter, Author at Film Stories

Rewriting the survival game rule book with Nightingale

by Aaron Potter | Aug 18, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Why did the Inflexion Games CEO choose a shared-world survival game for the studio's debut title?

Taking a serene look at the end of the world with Highwater

by Aaron Potter | Aug 04, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Picture yourself in a boat on a river in Demagog Studio’s upcoming turn-based strategy adventure

Deliver Us Mars preview | Journeying to the red planet

by Aaron Potter | Aug 03, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews, Previews

Deliver Us Mars sees developer KeokeN Interactive follow up its 2019 sci-fi hit with a high-stakes interstellar adventure.

Aspyr: The studio answering the industry's port of call

by Aaron Potter | Aug 02, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Aspyr delves into the secret of a successful video game port

Beauty in the barren: Revisiting the world of 2015's Mad Max

by Aaron Potter | Jul 28, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Aaron sets eyes on the fury road, hoping people “witness him” in thus underrated adaptation

Morbid Metal: all you need is a one-person mech army

by Aaron Potter | Jul 27, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Felix Schade discusses his future-set shape-shifting actioner, which gives players their own one-person mech army

Kao the Kangaroo review | Punch-drunk on nineties nostalgia

by Aaron Potter | Jul 19, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews

This 3D platforming throwback has us somewhat hopping for joy

Dive into a world of pure imagination with point-and-click adventure Lost in Play

by Aaron Potter | Jul 13, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Happy Juice Games introduces Lost in Play, its interactive point-and-click adventure that functions like a playable cartoon

Exploring un-fur-miliar territory in Stray

by Aaron Potter | Jul 08, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Survive a dystopia of cat-astrophic proportions in BlueTwelve Studio’s feline adventure-platformer

Battle-ready beats: Scoring the world of Warhammer 40,000

by Aaron Potter | Jun 30, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Veteran composer and audio auteur Doyle W. Donehoo discusses his work on Warhammer 40K’s sprawling sci-fi universe

How I became... a Creative Director at Supermassive Games

by Aaron Potter | Jun 22, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews

Will Doyle from Supermassive Games talks to us about his arcade origins, team leadership, and Indiana Jones...

Tearaway: how one portable papercraft adventure took touch sensitivity to an all-new level

by Aaron Potter | Jun 17, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Media Molecule's 3D Vita adventure is all fingers and thumbs - in the best way.

The key to keeping quirky students happy in Two Point Campus

by Aaron Potter | Jun 16, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Moulding the minds of tomorrow one unconventional college course at a time

Walking the voxelated city streets in Shadows of Doubt, a fully simulated detective thriller

by Aaron Potter | Jun 07, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Cracking the case in the most unpredictable manner possible

Exploring ancient ruins from a reptilian perspective in The Gecko Gods

by Aaron Potter | Jun 03, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

How a developer’s respite from university work led to a relaxing, 3D Zelda-like adventure

The Last Worker | Poking fun at the consumerist future

by Aaron Potter | May 31, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

The Last Satire is a hand-crafted satire of late capitalism. Developers Jörg Tittel and Ryan Bousfield tell us all about it design and real-world inspiration.

Getting hooked by Fish Cymophis, a PSone-like underwater horror

by Aaron Potter | May 24, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

One developer’s mission to make the underwater world even more terrifying in a fishy brand of retro horror

How I became a... QA Analyst

by Aaron Potter | May 19, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews

Pieces Interactive’s Helena Hansen tells us about the important art of Quality Assurance

Soundfall preview: Music to our ears

by Aaron Potter | May 11, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Turning everything up to 11 as we blast to the beat in rhythm-driven dungeon crawler, Soundfall

Eternal Threads preview | Saving lives one decision at a time

by Aaron Potter | May 06, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

Exploring the boundaries of cause and effect in Cosmonaut Studios’ tightly-knit time travel story

How I became a... Senior Character Artist

by Aaron Potter | May 04, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews

Nele Steenput from nDreams talks indie meetups, self-confidence, and VR challenges

Killer Feature: Shadow of Mordor's nemesis system reinvented NPC rivalries for the better

by Aaron Potter | May 03, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

How Monolith’s imaginative mechanic helped changed the open-world game, and then went away.

Happy Indie-versary to the Nintendo Switch

by Aaron Potter | Apr 25, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

With Nintendo’s hybrid console recently turning five, the indie devs who were there from day one recall their excitement and experience in the lead-up to launch