Weltall Zero
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So, um, anyone knows how should I contact a mod, or what mod to contact? I'm kind of sweating about that... :S
So, um, anyone knows how should I contact a mod, or what mod to contact? I'm kind of sweating about that... :S
Contact Duckroll. He is one of the nice guys.
Of course. Hotline Miami and the Bit.Trip saga are probably my favorite indie games.This and Bit TripHotline Miami
DROD series
Cave Story
Passage
Braid
Tower of the Sorcerer
Treasure Adventure Game
Desktop Dungeons
The Fool's Errand (does this count?)
SubTerra
Frog Fractions
Wow don't click the link to the Tower of the Sorceror.
Instant eye rape.
Matt Thorson's works never get the recognition they deserve on GAF.
Give Up Robot 1 and especially 2 were outstanding (Seriously, indiegames.com gave GUR2 their game of the year, yet I've never seen anyone else on here even mention it)
My favourite game of his is An Untitled Story.
Deepak Fights Robots and Runman by Tom Sennet are also great and get no love on these boards.
Runman:ROTW is what 2D sonic should be IMO.
Just tried Give Up Robot 1 and 2 (got to stage 40 in GUR2 in fact); they're the second (second and third?) surprisingly good indie game I've tried today (the other was Super House of Dead Ninjas, which is even better IMHO). What's up with that?
Also, I would be lying if I said I'm not itching to tally up the results, I think they're going to be pretty cool. Lots of both "greatest hits" and "hidden gems" in this thread. I love that limiting it to 10 games per poster really brings out the cream of the crop.
I'm going to list ten random games for these two lists, plus a few titles before and after their years:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46616203&postcount=1406
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=34136032&postcount=1464
Serious Sam 3
Bayonetta
Akai Shin Katana
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Dark Souls
SpaceChem
Hard Corps: Uprising
Resident Evil 6
Catherine
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Maybe not the 10 best indie titles, but among the best.
(EDIT: Thought I would spread out the developers more, so replaced some)
You need to play Runman: Race Around The World next! It's made by both Matt Thorson and Tom Sennet, it's freeware, and it's fun as all hell. As I said above; it's what I wish 2D Sonic games played like.
Also, Untitled Story! It's like Metroidvania + a children's storybook, really nice level of difficulty, and dripping with charm. Gives me the warm fuzzies, kinda Knytt-esque.
Great post. I love to read such detailed stuff and appreciate your effort!So 10 games, i'm not entirely sure what constitutes Indie in the grand scheme of things and i'll probably end up throwing on something that isn't particularly Indie but oh well, just think of it as 10 quality downloadable titles, a lot of them from last year in fact.
[whoa]
Should a Indie game thread really have games that have been published by companies such as MS, EA & Nintendo?
Great post. I love to read such detailed stuff and appreciate your effort!
Cheers! I feel that a list of names alone doesn't really explain what makes them "essential" to anyone who hasn't played them so even a sentence is worthwhile.
I guess freeware games made by hobby / independent devs also count as indie, right?
I'm going to list ten random games for these two lists, plus a few titles before and after their years:
Witcher 2
I'm sorry but Hotline Miami is not in your list and it's pretty much the sweetest indie game in a top 10 list.
Does Serious Sam 3 count as indie?
I always wish these threads required a justification for peoples' recommendations. I'll be including mine when I post my list after I get some sleep. If someone says something is the best, I want to know why. What good is a list if there is no visible reasoning behind it?
EDIT: A really good reason for CDProjekt not being included is because they're a publisher. If I remember right, they handle the distribution of all Blizzard games in Poland, for instance. Plus, they own GoG. So, yeah, Witcher wouldn't make sense.
I don't know how useful this is, because I tend to only pick up games on the basis of GAF recommendations anyway, but:
Avadon: The Black Fortress
Binding of Isaac
Braid
FTL
Hotline Miami
Mark of the Ninja
Recettear (indie?)
Space Pirates and Zombies
Spacechem
Trine
Wikipedia said:Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is a role-playing game developed by Japanese dojin maker EasyGameStation for the Windows operating system.
Will have to update a bunch of times but so far I have this (in no particular order):
My favorites are bolded
Welltall, check your PM.
They started as a four-employee company, and apparently they still consider themselves as so, so go ahead. My policy for this thread (to avoid derailing discussion) is that if a game is "disputably" indie, you can vote for it.
I do realize that "disputably indie" and "obviously not indie" are themselves arbitrary definitions and part of a continuum; this is an inherent problem; just use your best judgement. For example, I did not count Double Fine games as "indie" for my top ten list, but I do realize some would consider them as such. Just don't expect me to accept a game made by a company with 200 employees.
This is not a recommendations thread, but a vote thread. The objective is to tally up the votes to give new gamers into the indie scene a "very best of" list to start testing the waters. When I do the tally, the top ones should definitely have descriptions, images, videos, etc. Whether I get to do that (if I have the time), or scam others into doing that for my lazy ass, remains to be seen.
So, to sum it up, this thread is not yet in the stage meant to raise awareness for indie games yet. That will come later.
Aggressive Sokoban
The problem with this thread is you have nearly the same list in nearly every post.
The problem with this thread is you have nearly the same list in nearly every post.
The very fact that ten games are required to be accounted for should make it easier for less known games to get into the list at respectable vote counts. Again, I urge you to look at the "Essential RPGs" list and see what a solid, comprehensive list it is. I just want the same for indie games.