Sneak peek at September's Artist Alley featuring work from Dark Meadow!!!
Issue #019
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29.10.2025 16:07 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Is this a doodoo stinky hot take or are you reading this nodding your head thinking "yeah you know what, they ARE a Christmas food?"
More hot takes and debates in the Dumpster Fire section each month!
Issue #019
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27.10.2025 15:07 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
This month's column features a breakdown of the Chicago Indie Game Showcase. If you didn't go this is the article for you
Article: CIGS Lights Up, Crashes Servers
Issue #019
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PC: Jonah White
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23.10.2025 15:07 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Card battler? Die trying?? Say less π
Article: Avitium, Dev Log
Issue #019
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PC: Splash art c/o Studio MiK
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20.10.2025 15:32 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Speaking from experience, you're gonna want to pick up this game the SECOND it drops
Article: Cold Calling, Dev Log
Issue #019
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PC: Cold Callingβs standard play area (c/o Canβt Get Enough Games)
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16.10.2025 15:03 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
A snippet of the devlog for Dock King!!
Article: Dock King, Dev Log
Issue #019
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PC: In-game screenshot (c/o City Wizard Games)
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13.10.2025 21:49 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
September's issue is LIVE NOW and this is our CIGS issue! That means this month's edition is LOADED with devlogs, reviews, and more featuring work from the 2nd annual Chicago Indie Game Showcase.
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10.10.2025 21:01 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Screencap of a doodle showing clawed hands and glowing eyes poking out of a mailslot, grabbing a letter off of a heap of letters outside in an alley way. The text reads SUBSCRIBE TO BACK ALLEY GAMES
Cooking up some extremely cool shit with some extremely cool people that I cannot wait to yap about more
22.08.2025 19:30 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A sneak peak at July's Artist Alley featuring work by Vaaasm, bangin as always
Section: Artist's Alley
Issue #017
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PC: Unused Assets (c/o Vaaasm)
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18.08.2025 21:49 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Check out the devlog for this year's AllStars champion, Hotdog Heaven: Chicago!!
Article: Hotdog Heaven: Chicago, Dev Log
Issue #017
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PC: An average Chicagoan orders a hotdog (c/o Crowseeds and friends)
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17.08.2025 15:44 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Check out the exclusive dev log on Pan, an alt-ctrl fantasy beat-em-up!!
Article: Dev Log: Pan
Issue #017
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PC: Some of the gameβs enemies and melody-combos (c/o Miki Straus)
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16.08.2025 15:07 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Is it getting HOT in here cause our dumpster fire takes are HEATING UP! (sry for that, truly)
Want to see more terrible takes? Check them out in each month's issue of Back Alley Games!! (link in bio)
Issue #016
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20.07.2025 15:44 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
ANOTHER BANGER BY NEE
Check out more of her work and her thoughts on the Mayterials challenge at Back Alley Games!! (link in bio)
Section: Artist's Alley
Artist: Nee
Issue 016
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19.07.2025 15:07 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our monthly columnist popped off on this one
Column: Overthinking and Analyzing
Title: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Homo War
Author: Jesse Boruff
Issue #016
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PC: Fire Emblem CYL
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17.07.2025 15:04 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"To be blunt about it, indie games are pretty fucking gay. However gay you think they are, make it gayer. Trust me..."
Article: The state of gaymes in 2025
Issue #016
PC: BOSSGAME fanart (c/o MarshMelody on Steam, using assets by Lilycore Games)
#indiegames #zine #gamereview
13.07.2025 15:44 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Fiction has always been humanity's most honest mirror, reflecting back the wars we wage within ourselves long before we have the capacity to understand them..."
Issue #016
Image Credit: In-game still from Cartethyiaβs story cutscenes (Original Image from Kuro Games)
12.07.2025 15:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Buy tickets β Chicago Indie Game Showcase 2025 β Hairpin Arts
Chicago Indie Game Showcase returns for its second year, this time at The Hairpin Arts Center in Logan Square! C.I.G.S.Β is a on...
Tickets for CIGS 2025 are LIVE! We're thrilled to get to bring it to you for our second year running, showcasing guest speakers and over 30 indie games from Chicago and Midwestern devs! Use early bird code CIGS2025 for 20% off! (ends July 19th)
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07.07.2025 21:42 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
"Any true crime fanatic will tell you that they know what it takes to make a sociopath. Theyβll rattle off sentences from the DSM and gesture vaguely to figures like Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy.
Swanchime Thien is different..."
Article: Remora Dev Log
Issue #016
PC: In-game screenshot of REMORA
07.07.2025 21:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We got socials!!! Take THAT mom (indie city games). For real though, we're psyched to be here as we release our end-of-June edition of Back Alley Games, an independent games magazine focused on platforming the INCREDIBLE creators of the Midwest. #indiegames #zine #midwestlove #notinthatway #unless
06.07.2025 16:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
