<p>"It’s a good time to make satire," joked Nerial’s Francois Alliot, as he picked up the top award for Reigns at this year’s Ludicious, the Zurich Game Festival.</p><p>Held on Friday night at the Alte Kaserne of the Zeughaushof Areal in Zurich, Switzerland, the awards celebrated the best international indie games. They honoured small studios and developers trying novel ideas with small budgets. There were four categories, the International Competition (won by Reigns), a Student Competition (won by Nocturnal Hunt, developed by Wolf Pack of the Games Academy in Berlin), an audience vote taken live on the night (won by Deru from Schlicht) and a Main Award (which also went to Deru).</p>...

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<p>During the first LaunchPad, Thunderbox Entertainment announced that their digital adaptation of The Captain is Dead would be heading to mobile. Today we can exclusively reveal that it will be arriving on 1st February alongside the PC and console versions of the game.</p><p>As mentioned, it's a digital adaptation of the board game it shares a name with and will see players put in charge of their crew members on board a besieged ship. They must work together to repair the critical systems whilst also having to fend off alien hostiles or they'll end up like the captain, who is dead, as you've probably inferred from the title of the game.</p>...

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A WOLF coming out of a field of oats met a Horse and thus addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is full of fine oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend whom I would love to hear enjoying good eating." The Horse replied, "If oats had been the food of wolves, you would never have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly."...

"It's so beautiful that it hurts me," said Anne softly. "Perfect things like that always did hurt me--I remember I called it `the queer ache' when I was a child. What is the reason that pain like this seems inseparable from perfection? Is it the pain of finality--when we realise that there can be nothing beyond but retrogression?"...

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Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil....

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