1999 was a weird year. Boy bands and Brittney Spears ruled the airwaves, the dot.com bubble was at peak inflation, the New England Patriots weren’t an unstoppable NFL juggernaut, and by the time the year was half over, people were getting seriously worried that January 1, 2000 would herald the end of the world thanks to a massive computer bug. Against this backdrop of global paranoi comes YIIK: A ...[Read More]
One more New Year’s celebration. That’s all gamers are going to have to wait before finally getting their hands on YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG. On January 17th, 2019, the indie Japanese-style RPG from Ysbryd Games and Ackk Studios will be available for the Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation®4, and PCs and Mac computers via Steam.
Y2K. For a time in 1999, these three characters could strike dread into the hearts of millions, possibly billions of people. Banking computers would forget their data. Air traffic control would go dark. Electric grids would fail! It was a doomsday scenario that everyone was going to live through, because the one that can never, ever be stopped is the inexorable march of time. Now Ysbryd Games is b...[Read More]