[Zero-Crescent]

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The latest Indie Royale is live, the May Hurray Bundle! The headliner is Dungeon Defenders, which combines of Tower Defense and Action-RPG elements. Another game with positive impressions in the bundle thread is Weird Worlds, a space exploration game that looks like a combination of SPAZ and Flotilla (or Star Control 2 and Flotilla), judging from the video they have up there. The others, I don't know much about, but impressions are always welcome.

Extras included right now are the freeware game Dr. Blob's Organism, the Voodoo Interface OST, and the Temporal Logic Grid Blues OST. People who spend at least $7 also get a chiptune album.

Duration: May 3-May 10
Platforms: DRM-Free, Desura, Steam
PC: All of the games
Mac: Dungeon Defenders (Steam), Brainpipe

The Indie Royale game bundle site is in full bloom with its May Hurray Bundle, offering five fantastic independent games available at a bargain, fluctuating price. Headlining the bundle is Dungeon Defenders an addictive tower defense RPG by Trendy Entertainment that Rock, Paper, Shotgun called, "A superb thing: gloriously colourful, robustly made, filled with tonnes of loot and skills and towers." Next up is Digital Eel's grand space opera Weird Worlds, set in a randomly generated universe of endless possibilities. Also featured is Boot Snake Games' radical puzzle title Containment: The Zombie Puzzler, featuring integrated leaderboards so you can make sure that your past glories are more glorious than your friends'. In addition, fight the system as you plunge down a continuously twisting and turning three dimensional retro wireframe landscape in Data Jammers: Fast Forward. Rounding out the bundle is the otherworldly mind control device, masquerading as a seemingly quaint computer game, Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity. Finally, those who pay $7 USD or their currency equivalent during the May Hurray Bundle get Starscream's 'Future, Toward the Edge of Tomorrow' music album - the first full length album from the NYC chiptune futurists. So check out the May Hurray bundle today, before it's too late! Thanks again! Scott, John, Simon, Bethany and Max Desura & IndieGames.com

[Stumpokapow]

I started to check out because I wanted to play Dungeon Defenders, but I looked into the amount and cost of all the DLC and kinda felt like this was a trojan horse. :p Might jump in later.

[RetroGreg]

I started to check out because I wanted to play Dungeon Defenders, but I looked into the amount and cost of all the DLC and kinda felt like this was a trojan horse. :p Might jump in later.

That's excactly what I thought, too. The DLC list is HUGE!

[Gav47]

Prepare to waste gigs of data updating Dungeon Defenders. It feels like the devs push out a 4-500mb patch every couple of days, sometimes twice in one day.

[Slightly Live]

Dungeon Defenders is awesome, even without the DLC.

I burned almost 100 hours away with DD before touching any of the DLC - also they give away free DLC a ton too during a specific window, like Halloween and Xmas.

[Kuro Madoushi]

Prepare to waste gigs of data updating Dungeon Defenders. It feels like the devs push out a 4-500mb patch every couple of days, sometimes twice in one day.

You can set up steam to not auto update.

[Hitmonchan107]

I started to check out because I wanted to play Dungeon Defenders, but I looked into the amount and cost of all the DLC and kinda felt like this was a trojan horse. :p Might jump in later.

Our holiday DLCs were free for two weeks when they launched, but I could see how it could be daunting for people just now jumping in. :^p

None of the DLCs are necessary. The base game is completely standalone.

[SteveWinwood]

You can set up steam to not auto update.

And steam quickly ignores your set up to do that!

[zulux21]

I started to check out because I wanted to play Dungeon Defenders, but I looked into the amount and cost of all the DLC and kinda felt like this was a trojan horse. :p Might jump in later.

to be fair the list looks far worse than it really is.
First off a lot of the DLC was originally given out for free... it's not amazing stuff and can easily be skipped (the seasonal themed stuff)

Beyond that aside from the eternia shards levels, you can play all of the other dlc levels as long as you play with someone who has them.

As for the extra character choices, they are nice but not a must, I haven't tried the series ev yet but all of the other ones could easily be skipped if you didn't want to spend the money.

So that just really leaves the Eternia shards stuff, of which the nightmare mode can be played with others as long as the host owns it. so it's just the few levels you would have to pay for if you wanted to experience everything. Thus while the DLC list is large, as long as you have a friend who has most of it you can get away with out buying most of it.

[Captain_Spanky]

I have the required system stats but Dungeon Defenders lags like hell and is basically unplayable. This makes me sad as it was the main draw of the bundle for me.

[AndyD]

Any feedback in Weird Worlds? That's what caught my eye.

[carbonbased]

dungeon defenders has some of the worst inventory management imaginable and vomits loot at you like it's going out of style. there's some fun to be had with friends but i found sifting through all the shit they throw at you to be way too tedious to be worth the effort.

that being said, still in for this bundle for the other games, and the spare dungeon defenders key could be useful if a buddy shows interest (and doesn't own it yet which seems rare at this point).

[Captain_Spanky]

Containment is a fucking awesome game by the by. A lot of fun, and a rather creative take on the puzzle game.

[Fewr]

Nah I'm probably not getting this bundle.

DDefenders looks good, but I think I can get a better DDefenders deal for $5 in the coming steam summer sale.

[eldoon]

Knowing past royales they will probably throw in some DD dlc in this.
Groupees bemine 3 will probably suffer because dungeon defenders was meant to be in it.

[chubigans]

Knowing past royales they will probably throw in some DD dlc in this. Groupees bemine 3 will probably suffer because dungeon defenders was meant to be in it.

DD is in Indie Royale, it's the IGN Prime free game of the month, and it's in Groupees 3?

Geez, I bet none of them knew the other were offering this game on their respective service, hah.

[ZenaxPure]

I started to check out because I wanted to play Dungeon Defenders, but I looked into the amount and cost of all the DLC and kinda felt like this was a trojan horse. :p Might jump in later.

I wouldn't worry too much about that, I play the game with a friend and we put over 60 hours into it barely touching any of the dlc (and not even finishing all the unique challenge levels in the base game). Seems like the devs just really want to keep supporting it for those few thousand people or so who play the game like 8 hours a day.

Only real problem with it is the game is boring alone, if you don't have friends to play with I would not bother at all.

[linko9]

I saw "Datajammers" and got real excited for a second because I thought it had something to do with Windjammers :(

[Fredescu]

Bought. This is the first Indie Bundle in a while that hasn't been full of games I already own. I've wanted Brain Pipe for a while and Weird Worlds and Containment look cool.

[Zero-Crescent]

Any feedback in Weird Worlds? That's what caught my eye.

As I said before, it's sort of like a mix between SPAZ and Flotilla, but it leans very heavily towards the Flotilla side of things (Though I guess it would be more accurate to say that Flotilla takes after Weird Worlds, considering that WW was originally released in 2007). Much like in Flotilla, you are put onto a galaxy map with a career time limit (based on the size you chose for the galaxy), you travel to solar systems where you can usually do only one or two things (make contact with another ship, grab an item or equipment from a planet, hire a mercenary, trade items/equipment to buy other equipment, or encounter a random event). The top-down combat is technically real-time, but you'll probably want to pause it every so often so that it's easier to give your fleet new movement/firing/turning orders.

From what little I've played of it, it seems like an okay game. The time limit and scoring system encourage multiple playthroughs, and the random universe generation means that there are quite a few secrets to be found. I don't think it's worth the $25 that they normally ask for, but at ~$5, it's worth checking out. It also has some mods available, but I haven't tried any yet.

Fake edit: I think I just finished what will probably be my best WW playthrough:
Found a colony and their homeworld, got an ambassador, got Damocles, used it to destroy the undead lord's space station, bought the warp drive (Which pretty much nullifies the time limit), got a bunch of really strong weapons and systems for my lead ship, destroyed the fleets at two hostile homeworlds, and returned to the starting point after exploring every star on the medium-sized map.

Ah yes, I also played Brainpipe for a bit. Odd game, reminds me of this for some reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZT2u3gYQI

[Zero-Crescent]

Also, two more "extras" have been unlocked: Soup Du Jour (Another freeware title), and some music from Data Jammers.

[mrgone]

Just want to also toss in that Weird Worlds is pretty rad. It's like a rogue-like-ish boardgame in spaaaaaaace. In fact, I think Digital Eel's made a boardgame several boardgames based on it

[Monroeski]

Weird Worlds: I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but I can't figure out how to return to Glory for the pirate mission. I'm in the system and I've tried clicking everything possible but the gangster doesn't trigger and I just keep being overdue.

::edit::
Nevermind, I guess you're supposed to just retire? I assumed from the story text earlier about keeping the ship that the game would have gone on longer.

[Zero-Crescent]

The 20,000 sales point has been hit, so some more stuff has been added:
- Another Digital Eel freeware title Big Box of Blox
- Dungeon Defenders OST

[Zero-Crescent]

Backlog Journey put up a write-up of the games included in the bundle, for those who are interested in knowing more about each game:
http://www.backlogjourney.com/2012/0...ale-round.html

[Zero-Crescent]

Just a quick bump to remind everyone that today's the last day for the bundle