GUBS
Posted by Alehkhs Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
If you are looking for a computer game that is indie to the core, look no farther than “GUBS: Pixel Edition.”
What makes this an indie-game of indie-games is the past of the project. “GUBS” started around 1992 as a series of doodles in the margins of a child’s homework. That child, a young Cole Medeiros, 
went on to make a home-made deck of cards created with pencil on squares of index-card. The cards depicted small creatures that would take the title ‘Gubs,’ and other cards depicted the world of these creatures.
Through the game that took shape over the following years, with cards being added and scraped, a story began to take shape, of Gubs and the timeless wars fought between them. With each new version, Cole would play GUBS with his brother Alex and their friends, trying to find a balanced game.
As the years passed and the game developed, Cole looked into printing a professional deck of his cards. After years of trying different processes and even sending sample decks to publishing companies, Medeiros decided to self-publish the game, and in 2007, the “GUBS: A Game of Wit and Luck” went on sale as a finished project.
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