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"Indie Games [May] Now Voting - Post 573!"
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It looked interesting from the first screen I saw.
Oh, and you could include games from the IB8 in the next thread, from what I remember only two of them showed up here, this way we would get more votings next time.
They were all pretty popular and released a while ago, though. I'd include Little Inferno maybe, but if we include more of those games, the voting will probably be dominated by the likes of Hotline Miami (which was a good game, dont get me wrong).
On a different note, I just noticed that The Swapper and The Yawhg release tomorrow and Gunpoint releases June 3rd (and Reus is going to pop up in june too). That makes for some packed june releases already.
Edit: Currently at 15/18 for the next thread, stopped at page 7.
Edit: Currently at 15/18 for the next thread, stopped at page 7.
Wok
Member
I am buying it for $5. No idea how the game will turn out though.
One Foul Note
Member
On the subject of payments, I had this thought. I used the paypal option when I brought Yawhg, does that mean the developers get a small cut of the profits because both paypal and BMT Micro will take a slice of the profits.
Dust has just been released too, and I'm still waiting for some Papo & Yo and Dyad sale, but they could find their home in the next thread as well, despite the fact that nobody wrote any impressions for them here.
Certainly, will include them in the next thread as well.
Cool, I would really like to check out P&Y, but I heard so many contradicting opinions, that's why I decided to wait a little bit longer. Hope it will be on sale in the near future.
Btw, did we ever mention that Dog Sled Saga made the 14k goal (and therefore the complex breeding mechanic)? Just noticing that again after going through the SS posts and seeing those lovely DSS gifs.
That must be the most random game I've ever been interested in before release.
I don't think so - that's great to hear they reached the most crucial goals from the player's perspective.
On another note, every month I fear I might not have enough games for the next one and the next month currently looks like it might contain more than may, which was the biggest thread so far. Geez. 27/28 for now.
No worries then.
Two months ago I made a list of my most anticipated indie games, about 20 of them, and I'm quite sure it would be twice as long now.
From the depths of Devlogs
Some interesting random or less known games found on TIGSource forums.
All descriptions written by their authors.
The Wild West
Voyager3
Remnant
Scheherazade Machine
Terror Okkulta
Ultima Ratio Regum
Some interesting random or less known games found on TIGSource forums.
All descriptions written by their authors.
The Wild West
Voyager3
Think Minecraft mixed with Proteus and Zelda, with Tolkien, Miyazaki and Hiroshige in there as well. Think of a world that exists despite of the player and is on the whole indifferent to their existence.
Remnant
Remnant is a sidescroller adventure game where you explore, craft, survive, and research.
Remnant is about a young man who awakens several hundred years after falling unconscious. The young man awakens only to find himself amidst the ruins of three empires, which has fallen to decay and ruin. The last of his kind, the young man is the only remnant of his people. With hardly anyone in sight, the Remnant sets forward, hoping to understand what happened to his people, and why he had slept for so long.
Scheherazade Machine
A non-interactive, procedural painting. A narrative machine.
A woman, to some degree, continuously relives walks with her sister as various narrative elements come in and out.
Terror Okkulta
Terror Okkulta is a single player action/adventure game with an emphasis on exploring and horror elements.
Synopsis
You are Colin, 19, living in a small town. When your rebellious sister does not come home on time from a friend's party, you decide to go and find out what happened.
You find out that the group of friends actually are at the abandoned mansion near the swamp, and that they're going to evoke the spirits, you're determined to get her home. When you arrive at the mansion something terrible needs to be stopped..
Ultima Ratio Regum
Ultima Ratio Regum is a middle-ground between roguelikes, RPGs and strategy games. It has no fantasy elements and seeks instead to be closer to a realistic history simulator, and a strategy/4x game which just happens to be in ASCII. Combat is rare and deadly whilst these mechanics are modeled in detail, exploration, trade and diplomacy factors will have just as much effort put into them.
BomberMouse
Member
That Wild Wild West game looks like a ton of fun.
From the depths of Devlogs
Some interesting random or less known games found on TIGSource forums.
All descriptions written by their authors.
The Wild West
Voyager3
Remnant
Scheherazade Machine
Terror Okkulta
Ultima Ratio Regum
You deserve a medal. I was planning to do that at one point as well. Awesome, thanks
BomberMouse
Member
All of your hardwork deserve to be somewhere else than this page. I love this thread but you guys deserve your own web. Every other blog out there is so juvenile.
PandaPedinte
Member
A Hat in Time launched a Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-time-3d-collect-a-thon-platformer?ref=banner
Greenlight page http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92952101
Greenlight page http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92952101
Maybe its something we deserve, but not something we need. *strikes dramatic pose*
I agree that these threads should be way more popular and more linked everywhere else, but the forum layout works awesomely well for this kind of thing. Hofmann and me are doing tons of work, but with only us two, the thread would be only half as full content wise and its really hard to keep up that kind of community on a single new website in blog format. Speaking of format, the forum layout works pretty nicely too, other Indie blogs are doing the "write a blog post about every game out there" already.
I guess my idea was using the program eventually (Sorry Bombermouse) to give these games some more widespread acknowledgment. The next implementation would be something along the lines of a list of this months games that you havent played yet and which games you should check out each month.
Or something similar.
BomberMouse
Member
No need to be sorry, just write a mac version too!
Could you give me a short description of the game? Already forgot about it again for the next thread and the Steam description just reads like nonsense. Also the average rating is surprisingly low.
You burn all kind of things in a fireplace, which gives coins to buy more things to burn. Don't know why, but it's extremely fun, really.
Oh, and it's not really a game - more like a nightmarish toy for adults, with some dark and disturbing elements thrown under the hood of a fun mindless activity.
Added some games to the gift pile, only bought the Humble for Inferno:
Dear Esther
Capsized
Thomas was alone
Awesomenauts
Hotline Miami
Proteus
And I finished creating the game posts for june. About 38/39 or so.
Dear Esther
Capsized
Thomas was alone
Awesomenauts
Hotline Miami
Proteus
And I finished creating the game posts for june. About 38/39 or so.
One more thing about Little Inferno. It seems there's a lot more depth to it than you might think reading a short description. Some of the things you burn are really bizarre and you can even do combos with them to create some messed up results. So, if you like dark humour you should definitely check it out.
PandaPedinte
Member
I hope to have the time
and money
75% are free or have a free demo, so I think it "just" comes down to time. It always seems to come down to time.
My Voting:
7 Grand Steps
Too unique not to include it here. A boardgame style life simulator? Awesome.
Draconian Wars
Sad people missed it this month, but this TCG definitely deserves some love for not going the Microtransactions route and being generally very inexpensive.
Fez
Best puzzle platformer ever. The way it structured into this enigmatic work of gaming art is just incredible. Cant wait to continue playing on Vita.
La-Mulana
Really, really, really great adventure platforming action game. Too bad its a bit on the expensive side still.
Pioneers
I feel it deserves a mention here for what they are trying to achieve with this game, even though they are in dire need of some UI improvements. The sense of adventure/wonder to explore new worlds really shines through here.
TowerClimb
Flawless combination of roguelike ideas, platforming gameplay and good controls. Really fun game.
2x0ng
No one beat my record this month! How could I not include it here?
7 Grand Steps
Too unique not to include it here. A boardgame style life simulator? Awesome.
Draconian Wars
Sad people missed it this month, but this TCG definitely deserves some love for not going the Microtransactions route and being generally very inexpensive.
Fez
Best puzzle platformer ever. The way it structured into this enigmatic work of gaming art is just incredible. Cant wait to continue playing on Vita.
La-Mulana
Really, really, really great adventure platforming action game. Too bad its a bit on the expensive side still.
Pioneers
I feel it deserves a mention here for what they are trying to achieve with this game, even though they are in dire need of some UI improvements. The sense of adventure/wonder to explore new worlds really shines through here.
TowerClimb
Flawless combination of roguelike ideas, platforming gameplay and good controls. Really fun game.
2x0ng
No one beat my record this month! How could I not include it here?
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Thanks for the great review. Just like you wrote it looks like a perfect game to play with your friends, too bad that the language could be a problem for some non-English speakers.
One Foul Note
Member
Interested to see how to get on with that. There is a point in that game when it gets extremely unenjoyable and I'm not sure if it is by design in the sense that it is a parody of a cow clicker game or if it is just misuse of mechanics.
What do you mean? Spoiler it if necessary, but I am curious. Played it myself for a while zesterday until I could do the first combo. The game has something hypnotic to it. I'd love it as a screen saver actually, with randomly burning items, even though it's not really a good "game".
One Foul Note
Member
It's not really spoiler worthy, in fact the spoiler potential story stuff is all rather good and worth playing the game through for. The issue I had with Little Inferno is that as the game goes on it makes increasingly large demands in regards to paying coins and wait times (some as large as 5-10 minutes near the endgame). This causes you to have to grind out money from lower costing burns and the strength of that game really is the constant discovery of new things to burn, new effects and the like. Being forced to grind and/or just wait makes it a bit of a bummer really. As I mentioned, I think it is bad in the same way that Cart Life is bad, it is trying to make a point but unlike Cart Life the final message feel unclear and end up making Little Inferno unpleasant for no real reason.
That said, I checked out my steam listings and apparently I only put 3 hours into Inferno so I might be disproportionately remembering how long the bad portions of it was. That's why I'm interested to see how other get on with it really. This post is fairly negative, but just to make certain, I don't hate Little Inferno, I sorta think it is a real interesting game. But it just ended up a little disappointing. Although it is definitely not the worst game on that bundle.
Well I only played 30 minutes and already noticed that it had the tendency to drag on. I guess it was their way of making the game a bit longer, even though it cost the game some quality. Too bad really, because it was rather hypnotising to watch things burn and crumble.
I am super, SUPER interested in that Ultima Ratio Regum game.
Messofanego
Banned
I just would like to send my gratitude to Hoffman and Toma, incredible work you're doing. Just because I might not post often, I'm still trying out the games in these threads.
Then how about a voting ballot, hmmm? ;p
The most enjoyable element in Little Inferno is not the mechanics itself, from what I remember the game even says it's not about scores and points, but how it works as a social commentary. In a a similar way Katamari was about consumerism, how addictive it is to add more objects to our lives without much thought beforehand, Little Inferno deals with those kind of issues through the combo micro-stories and throwing away, destroying things, memories, etc. mechanics to make a place for something new. I haven't finished it yet, but so far that's how I see it and that's what I find so impressive about it.
From the games posted Voyager3 and Scheherazade Machine are the ones I'm looking most forward to, URR looks amazing too.
It's incredible how vast the library is over at TIGS. I've founded more games, but I probably wait for the next thread to post them.
Oh, and guys you could bumb a little The Novelist thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=557452 to give the game more exposure, of course if you think it deserves it
Hi guys! Just wanted to say that we just put last week our game for voting on greenlight and for crowdfunding on indiegogo.
Just wanted your opinion about it guys.
Its called Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel, and its an adventure game themed on a black and white cartoon world in the 1930's. In that world, Fleish the Fox, star of famous cartoon shorts, has been kidnapped by the villian, Mr Mintz. Cherry, his girlfriend, its this time the one who has to muster all her courage to save Fleish from the top of a crazy hotel.
It mixes graphic adventure dialog system and action adventure puzzles like in Zelda or Little Big Adventure, adopting an isometric view.
Here is some images:
And heres is the gameplay trailer:
http://youtu.be/1Gv-rSnZV6U
Hope you like it and any opinion is appreciated. And you can ask me anything about it if you want.
You can also vote in steam Greenlight for it:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=147168486
Theres also more much info about the game and music in our indiegogo page:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fleish-cherry-in-crazy-hotel
That looks like a lot of fun, with the music, the 30's cartoon visuals and the silly story.
Do have a few questions, I think I'll pm you about later.
Rehearsals and Returns - Found it over at Notgames Forum - new intriguing game from the creator of The Cat and the Coup. Link to a Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1231818830/rehearsals-and-returns.
The core mechanic of Rehearsals and Returns involves saying something explicitly nice, mean, or wise to various people alive and dead such as Mao Tse Tung, Richard Pryor, Margaret Thatcher, The Pope, Hillary Clinton, Nikola Tesla, Leni Reifenstahl, Tiger Woods, and Rosa Parks. These are some of the figures in the game.
The game asks player to imagine conversations with people who are gone or out of reach.
In Rehearsals and Returns, you explore each level in order to literally pick up things to say - these collectables the game's primary resource. At the end of each level you encounter a person. This is when you have an opportunity to quote someone (see Rewards and Rules, below) or, instead, you can choose a kind or hateful statement to say to that figure.
What if you had a brief moment with Einstein? Or George W. Bush? What would you say to him?
Luxuria Superbia - New Tales of Tales' game, playable at E3.
http://www.indiecade.com/2013/E3_Games_2013/
http://www.indiecade.com/2013/E3_Games_2013/
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Luxuria Superbia - New Tales of Tales' game, playable at E3.
http://www.indiecade.com/2013/E3_Games_2013/
Bientôt lété did pretty much nothing for me but I kinda like the way this sounds so far.
