AvatarCalum Fraser

Founder of Alpha Beta Gamer and all round video game enthusiast, especially quirky indies. Been playing games since the zx spectrum days, and aware that we're now in the golden days of video gaming. Part human, part wookie, far hairier than any human should be. Favorite game of all time has to be Super Mario World, closely followed by Super Mario Bros (still got a soft spot for Nintendo). Catch me at @hairycodemonkey

Wooden Nickel – Alpha Demo

Wooden Nickel is a very stylish narrative-driven Wild West adventure where you are a lone drifter who ends up shaping how the stories play out in an old West town.

Currently in development by Brain&Brain (creators of Burly Men at Sea), Wooden Nickel is a wonderful branching narrative adventure where your actions can have a dramatic effect on the events that occur in the … Read More

Spiritfarer – Alpha Demo

Spiritfarer is a beautifully animated 2D adventure where you explore new lands and manage a small seafaring community full of spirit friends who you guide into the afterlife.

In Spiritfarer you are essentially a much friendlier version of Charon (the ferryman of Hades), as you ferry the deceased across mystical seas into the afterlife. The spirits take on the form of friendly anthropomorphic animals who … Read More

The Drifter – Beta Demo

The Drifter is a fantastic pulp thriller point and click adventure where a drifter finds himself embroiled in a dark conspiracy that involves a shadowy organisation, the brutal murder of homeless men and his own death.

Currently in development by Powerhoof, creators of The inanimate Mr. Coatrack and Peridium, The Drifter follows a drifter called Mike Carter as he returns to his hometown for … Read More

Framing Dawes – Beta Demo

Framing Dawes is a Tim Burton-esque dark fantasy point and click adventure where a girl and her dead rabbit attempt to get to the bottom of the death of a young boy that she’s being blamed for.

In Framing Dawes you follow the adventure of Dawes, a young girl whose recently deceased mother was an alchemist and whose father seems to dabble in strange magic. … Read More

Not For Broadcast – Beta Demo

Not For Broadcast is an inventive narrative-driven TV show production simulator where you control the camera feeds, ads and censorship of a live nightly TV show.

Taking place in an alternate 1980’s where a radical government is about to plunge the country into dystopia, Not For Broadcast sees you taking a seat in the control room for a nightly news show that has the power … Read More