Increpare Games Ltd is a British video game developer based in

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, founded and operated by Stephen Lavelle. Lavelle uses the

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"Increpare", the

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word for "rebuke". Lavelle has released over 425 games since 2004, mostly small

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games and often at the rate of several projects per month. With 178 games released between 2008 and 2014, Lavelle was named the "most prolific independent game developer" in the 2016 iteration of the ''

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''. Notable commercial releases include ''

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'' (2011) and '' Stephen's Sausage Roll'' (2016). In October 2013, Lavelle released PuzzleScript, an open-source scripting language for puzzle video games made in

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Selected works

* ''MathCIV'' (2004, first freeware title listed) * ''Opera Omnia'' (2009, freeware) * ''

'' (2011, commercial) * ''Slave of God'' (2012, freeware) * ''Cooking, for Lovers'' (2014, freeware) * '' Stephen's Sausage Roll'' (2016, commercial) * ''Quiet City'' (included in the August 2017

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as a "Humble Original") * ''Hypnocult'' (2019, commercial)

References

External links

* 2004 establishments in England Video game companies of the United Kingdom {{UK-videogame-company-stub