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All expect for Rime are on or coming to PC. Rime is PS4.Uh, I don't recognize even one game in OP's list. Are these mobile or pc only?
None are mobile
All expect for Rime are on or coming to PC. Rime is PS4.Uh, I don't recognize even one game in OP's list. Are these mobile or pc only?
A few more free ones, from the awesome student games of the Digipen Game Gallery.
Fragment - Free
Incandescence - Free
Inaris: The Cloud Temple - Free
These are nice attempts and all, but the Mascot has to be appealing. That rabbit game is overly simplistic. It's like you play as the easter bunny. Even for an Indy stand point that's too basic.
What are you seeing?I guess I really don't grasp what other people are seeing with these titles so far. Because I feel like I'm seeing something else entirely here.
I guess I really don't grasp what other people are seeing with these titles so far. Because I feel like I'm seeing something else entirely here.
Is RIME a lifetime PS4 exclusive? It looks so good
Is RIME a lifetime PS4 exclusive? It looks so good
Sony is publishing it, so almost certainly yes.
What are you seeing?
Yes, we understand. You've said that a few times over the course of this thread. If you've convinced yourself that there's nothing to see here, why are you still checking in? There's got to be threads full of things you're actually interested in.
The devs have been working on Shiftings which was recently announced as coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U too. So I imagine that might have something to do with the lack of recent O&S infoIt's being published by Sony themselves. While that's not a definitive no to releasing on other platforms, it's at least far less likely.
I'm more worried about Oliver (Olivia?) and Spike. It was announced for a ton of platforms, then was confirmed as an Amazon Fire exclusive game and being published by Amazon themselves, but now I can't find any platform info and their website/facebook are practically dead.
Only Grow Home, Zineth, and Hover are open world. I think maybe Rime as wellOpen World Exploration titles.
To see if anything else grabs me. And I guess... that didn't happen. I'm just starting to feel like "3D Platformers" were never really dead. They just ended up in a different genre.
Open World Exploration titles.
To see if anything else grabs me. And I guess... that didn't happen. I'm just starting to feel like "3D Platformers" were never really dead. They just ended up in a different genre.
The devs have been working on Shiftings which was recently announced as coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U too. So I imagine that might have something to do with the lack of recent O&S info
It's being published by Sony themselves. While that's not a definitive no to releasing on other platforms, it's at least far less likely.
I'm more worried about Oliver (Olivia?) and Spike. It was announced for a ton of platforms, then was confirmed as an Amazon Fire exclusive game and being published by Amazon themselves, but now I can't find any platform info and their website/facebook are practically dead.
Well, that's definitely true. I think the cutesy 3D platformer bomb scared big publishers away with no indies left to fill the gaps at the time, but the platforming itself has been integrated and juxtaposed all over the place, for better or for worse. Now that we have smaller devs comfortable enough to tackle the "nostalgic" platformer of a few hardware generations ago, they're specifically targeting 3D mascot platforming with the type of blatant... jumping and object collecting that seems so essential to those mascot-based platformers but virtually died elsewhere.
That probably comes across as stale, especially to those who didn't harbor much love for the genre in the first place, but as you say, there's plenty of more "evolved" forms of platforming gameplay in other places. These games are for those who want to get in touch with the arguable golden age of platformers, even if it's unappealing to most. I think it's rather comparable to the distaste on display for indie 2D platformers these days, but that bubble's not nearly ready to burst yet in this case.
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Only Grow Home, Zineth, and Hover are open world. I think maybe Rime as well
the last update on facebook is two weeks old, and they've been posting updates rather regularly since November (after their partner project was canceled).
I'm more worried about Oliver (Olivia?) and Spike. It was announced for a ton of platforms, then was confirmed as an Amazon Fire exclusive game and being published by Amazon themselves, but now I can't find any platform info and their website/facebook are practically dead.
I hate to be that guy, but a lot of those games look like trash.
Hopefully at least a few of them that turn out to be good/successful.I wonder how many of the PC titles will make it to console.
No love for Crackdown?
It's just one of the greatest olatformers ever released...
Some people acted like I was crazy when I said Crackdown was my favorite platformer on the 360. Not that it had a lot of competition, they argued it wasn't a platformer. It was surreal.
Have you seen Vane?
The funny thing is that it's from ex-Last Guardian developers.Oh god ! It looks gorgeous ! Thanks I add it to my wishlist
I suppose that I will need a new laptop to play (I'm on Surface Pro 1).
Hopefully at least a few of them that turn out to be good/successful.
I hate to be harsh, but while you may see a ton of quantity in PC indie titles, its easy to forget that a lot will likely turn out to be mediocre or just plain bad. It seems consoles tend to get a lot of the higher quality indies that stand out. Not all of them, of course, but enough.
I played it for an hour and a half so far, its linear and a bit simplistic but on occasion theres larger areas to explore and the game makes good use of its glide move (theres been some Spyro-esque "to get to the platform you want, you need to find a higher one and glide over" moments)
Platforms?? Until this hits console I don't see a renaissance happening.
Zineth is still really good. Won Best Student Game in IGF 2013So i'm downloading one of the free ones today. Any suggestions?
Zineth, Tiny & Big, Rova's Adventure, Deadcore, Drew and the Floating Labyrinth, and Forward to the Sky are on MacI know quite a few of them are for PC but I was wondering if any of them, that are currently released, also available on Macs?
Ha, trust me, you don't have to worry about 2D games going anywhere.Ehh to unfortunately it indeed looks like it, I just hope that many indie devs still stick to making 2D games, which I personally prefer by far. Don't really like 3D platformers at all.
And if this indie dev cycle is cyclical and resembles console generation trends, I really do hope in ten years we're gonna be getting cinematic games with high production values from the indie devs of today :-D