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Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Remember that Indie bundle site that only offered one game for a ridiculously low minimum price and started off with awesome games like Gnomoria and SpaceChem? After weeks of uninteresting stuff, its back with BRIDGE IT.

Think World of Goo with trains.
Here is the link to purchase it:
https://indiegamestand.com/

Feel free to use this thread to give impressions, links, gameplay hints etcetc. I loved this series when i was younger but never actually got to play this one. This game is usually VERY expensive, still sitting at 20$ if you buy it off Gamersgate and more than worth $0,25. In this game you create bridges with a certain amount of money and need to make them last a certain stress test with cars or trains. Highly addictive.

Its currently on Steam Greenlight, so chances are owners might get a steam key down the line, but no word on that by the developer.

Current offers:

$0,25 - get access to the Bridge It Installer)
$1,00 - Get the game key (could be used for later verification in case the dev decides to give out steam keys)
$1,99 - Get the addon pack with 2 more bridges.)
$10,00 - Get Pixelry, Bridge It AND the next game they put up (not yet known)

All are super awesome deals and I highly recommend grabbing this game. If you like my usual recommendations, grab it. You now have 83 hours to grab this game from the time this post has been made.

Also, more Indie games to try (most of which are free):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=517647

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Some pictures:

Nimajneb · Mar 5, 2013

It's the worst in the series, but definitely still worth checking out for $0.25, especially if you haven't played the earlier games. The lack of a level editor and community map packs is such a huge let down. There were so many great challenges available for Pontifex II, I can't believe they cut it out of the sequel.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Nimajneb said:
It's the worst in the series, but definitely still worth checking out for $0.25, especially if you haven't played the earlier games. The lack of a level editor and community map packs is such a huge let down. There were so many great challenges available for Pontifex II, I can't believe they cut it out of the sequel.

Yeah that is disappointing,but the most annoying thing was the nVidia exclusivity on launch though. Glad they patched it to work with all graphics cards since version 1.2
But I loooved Pontifex so much back then, I'll definitely try this (didnt have an nvidia card back then) and give a few impressions. I mean it cant be THAT bad.

Messofanego · Mar 5, 2013

Bridge simulators, ok now I've seen it all. But I liked World of Goo XD

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Messofanego said:
Bridge simulators, ok now I've seen it all. But I liked World of Goo XD

Its really a fun series and basically is sort of a more in depth World of Goo. Give it a shot for $0,25!
And its not really a simulator, and more a puzzle game. You need to use the resources available to create a bridge that holds up.

ultron87 · Mar 5, 2013

I know I played a ton of one of these games a long time ago. Maybe Pontifex 2? It was quite entertaining and I'd be willing to play something similar for a dollar.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

ultron87 said:
I know I played a ton of one of these games a long time ago. Maybe Pontifex 2? It was quite entertaining and I'd be willing to play something similar for a dollar.

Yeah, its from the same developers. Unfortunately its missing the editor/community packs but it still cant be NOT worth $0,25.

I'll give more impressions later.

NIN90 · Mar 5, 2013

Messofanego said:
Bridge simulators, ok now I've seen it all. But I liked World of Goo XD

I think bridge simulators are as old as PCs.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

NIN90 said:
I think bridge simulators are as old as PCs.

I knew some people would know World of Goo but not this series >_>

L00P · Mar 5, 2013

So..do the trains crash and burn? Might get it depending on your answer

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Also: entering a 20 digit key code without being able to copypaste is highly annoying.

Neuromancer · Mar 5, 2013

If I built a bridge it would probably end up like this

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Neuromancer said:
If I built a bridge it would probably end up like this

The anticipation of a bridge crashing sometimes is half the fun really

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

L00P said:
So..do the trains crash and burn? Might get it depending on your answer

Well, you can drown them:

notoriousKTR · Mar 5, 2013

Reminds me of that West Point Bridge Design contest.

http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

notoriousKTR said:
Reminds me of that West Point Bridge Design contest.

http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/

That is seriously cool. I wish my teachers would have done stuff like that with us back then.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Btw half of the fun in these games is improving the contructions for better scores or coming up with completely ridiculous designs.

Flunkie · Mar 5, 2013

In for a dolla. cmon steem

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

I dont think you can improve much on the Easy bridges, this was my last one:

Looking forward to trying the huge 240 meter bridges later.

fushi · Mar 5, 2013

Down for 2 bucks and 11 cents.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

fushi said:
Down for 2 bucks and 11 cents.

Funny how the price goes up constantly through rising average prices. I would think more people are cheapskates.

OrangeYouGlad · Mar 5, 2013

I used to play Pontifex in class during College. My friends would laugh at me when I played it until they tried it and eventually our whole group would be silently building bridges during our boring classes.

I hope they put it on Steam too.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

Desura Keys added for anyone with >$1 payment.

fushi · Mar 5, 2013

This has to have been one of the worst CD-key entering experiences I've ever had.

- superlong (6 times 5 characters)
- no clear distinction between O and 0, I assume all to be 0.
- key is all caps, entry screen allows both caps and no caps
- if you open the game for the first time and alt tab out it will have a small standard resolution and bork your applications' positions.
- this also ruined my chances of entering the key while having it open on my second screen
- and there is obviously no copy-paste'ing enabled.

P.S. You have to enter the key even if you install the game from Desura.

chiablo · Mar 5, 2013

Isn't Bridge-IT nVidia only?

trinest · Mar 5, 2013

Is this like that flash game? (I think it was?) which was a grid and you put bridges in on the axises etc.

It looks like that.

mrklaw · Mar 5, 2013

Wasn't there one on console where you had elephants going over your bridge?

fushi · Mar 5, 2013

chiablo said:
Isn't Bridge-IT nVidia only?

Playing it on my AMD card, but just noticed a silly Nvidia logo in the top-left corner.

Toma · Mar 5, 2013

chiablo said:
Isn't Bridge-IT nVidia only?

Not anymore. That restriction was being lifted with the 1.2 patch.

trinest said:
Is this like that flash game? (I think it was?) which was a grid and you put bridges in on the axises etc.

It looks like that.

Could be yeah. But there are many different materials and some mechanisms, for $0,25 its pretty easy to just try

Wibblewozzer · Mar 5, 2013

mrklaw said:
Wasn't there one on console where you had elephants going over your bridge?

Elefunk on PS3.

vulva · Mar 5, 2013

notoriousKTR said:
Reminds me of that West Point Bridge Design contest.

http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/

I remember playing with something like that (it may have been that, not positive anymore) as a kid. We would spend one class a week doing that, then after a month we were brought to a technical school and we soldered together our own bridge. It was the coolest thing ever and we were only in grade 6. It was the best.

notoriousKTR · Mar 5, 2013

vulva said:
I remember playing with something like that (it may have been that, not positive anymore) as a kid. We would spend one class a week doing that, then after a month we were brought to a technical school and we soldered together our own bridge. It was the coolest thing ever and we were only in grade 6. It was the best.

Yea, I did the same thing in physics in high school. Fun times.

vulva · Mar 5, 2013

notoriousKTR said:
Yea, I did the same thing in physics in high school. Fun times.

It was the coolest. We also made towers to see how they held up in an earthqake simulator and made CO2 charged racers. So damn cool

Toma · Mar 8, 2013

Bum because the deal is still going on.

Toma · Mar 9, 2013

3:30 hours left!

Ms. Tea · Mar 9, 2013

I'm not sure I'm playing this game right.

Toma · Mar 9, 2013

Ms. Tea said:
I'm not sure I'm playing this game right.

That looks painful. Maybe you should look at other examples to get an idea how to build one of these bridges

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