Vector is the new game from Nekki and retains its traditional visual style silhouettes. The gameplay is fantastic, recalling the 2D version of Mirror's Edge with a different visual style. The story itself has some similarities. It too is set in the future and also have to evade the authorities. The basis of the game is also parkour, based on levels where our athletic character has to run, jump and glide.
Hardcore Gamer: The fourth Humble Mobile Bundle allows you to get a slew of Android games for next to nothing. You can pay what you want and get Catan, Vector, Zombie Gunship, and the incredible Riptide GP2.
What do a Russian graffiti artist turned project manager of a major mobile gaming company, a veteran game journalist who holds fast to his challenging career choice, a young writer who’s worked at a host of writing-related gaming jobs and an up-and-coming, globe-trotting indie developer have in common? If you guessed: they are people who work in the video game industry or they are the same whose stories are featured in Hardcore Droid’s new series: So You Want to Work in Video Games? You would be right on both counts. But a better answer I think is that they are people who are doing what they love for money.
It wasn’t easy for a kid growing up in Russia to get his hands on video games. But like a lot of kids of Andrey Revenko's generation, he managed. In 1997 his parents bought him the Dendi Console as a birthday present. Dendi was an unofficial hardware clone of NES, which was very popular in Russia and other Post-Soviet countries. A couple of years later when computer clubs became popular in Moscow, he made them his second home. He remembers a small room with five old and malfunctioning PCs...
