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[Tizoc]

Toma, does Tormentum not count?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335000/
I'd like impressions about the full game as I wanna buy it soon, but some of this month's highlights in the OP are quite exciting.

BTW Toma use GFYCat.com to change these bigass GIFs to WEBM and save bandwidth!

 

[More_Badass]

Jenny LeClue - PC, Mac, Linux, IOS

http://jennyleclue.com/

A love letter to games like Professor Layton, Ghost Trick, and Broken Age, as well as TV shows like Veronica Mars, Sherlock, and Twin Peaks.
This coming-of-age narrative follows Jenny LeClue, a young detective, living in the idyllic college town of Arthurton. Jenny takes on the case of her life when her mother is accused of murdering the beloved Dean Strausberry. She soon discovers that nothing is what it seems…

Event[0] - ????

http://event0game.com

First person. Retro sci-fi. Digital thriller. Artificial intelligence. Natural language interaction. On the very frontier of video game narrative

Courier - 2015 (PC, Mac, Linux)

http://www.couriergame.com

Experience a role-playing game where the focus is on the world, exploration, characters, puzzles, and avoidance instead of battling. Peacefully reverse an evil plot to bring a kingdom to its knees while uncovering ancient secrets, hidden conspiracies, and helping the lives of all in Veilend. Communication routes have been severed and all signs point to retaliation by Veilend's neighboring enemies, the Ignetiles. Help restore routes and stop the conflict from the inside before it erupts into a second war between the two kingdoms.

Scrap Mechanic - 2015 (PC)

http://www.scrapmechanic.com

Scrap Mechanic is a multiplayer survival game with creativity and ingenuity at its core. In Scrap Mechanic’s interactive open world, you explore, scavenge and collect objects and then use them to build shelters, impressive moving vehicles and other machines that will help you survive the treacherous adventures lying ahead! Team up with friends or fight against robots and other players who are out to steal your stuff.

Flotsam - ????

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=45955.0

Flotsam is a building sim where you try to survive and build a functioning society in a world flooded by water.

Cohorte - PC, Linux

http://www.indiedb.com/games/cohorte

Cohorte is an isometric tactical with some role playing component which takes place in a medieval fantasy universe. You must recruit and advance your units, buy and equip items and of course win battles agains various enemies. Under certain conditions you can unlock and recruit new units with specific skills.

A Dragon Named Coal - PC, Consoles, Mobile

http://playadnc.com

A Dragon Named Coal is a dark fairytale with gameplay from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and branching story mechanics of Dragon Age: Origins.

Simon's Lament - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)

http://wanderingroad.itch.io/simons-lament

See if you can outrun the world's collapse as you collect artifacts to pull it back together

Empyrios - PC, Mac, IOS

http://www.creoterra.com/games/

Empyrios is a tactical strategy game set in the fantasy world Borealis. Ally with a faction and recruit your squadron of soldiers from between the eight major races that inhabit the realm. Each race provides six distinct units, with each unit having three powerful abilities.

Talus - ????

https://twitter.com/secretlyagoblin

*No info yet*

Previously Mentioned

Slain!

Rituals

SuperHOT

Lakeview Cabin

InnerSpace

 

[More_Badass]

New game from the creative director of The Banner Saga, he's working independently on this project while Stoic works on Banner Saga 2

Killers & Thieves - ????

http://www.killersandthieves.com

In Killer and Thieves, control a feudal thieves' guild, preying on the riches of an old and corrupt city. Recruit randomly generated thugs and crooks and turn them into master thieves and skilled assassins, with unique abilities, traits, and appearances.
Pull off heists on procedural city blocks. Controls multiple thieves in real time and gather as much loot as you can. Just don't overplay your hand. Capture leads to prison time, or death. And death in these parts is permanent.

 

[Tizoc]

OK i like Aurion and want to just pre-order it
NOW!

 

[Toma]

Toma, does Tormentum not count?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335000/
I'd like impressions about the full game as I wanna buy it soon, but some of this month's highlights in the OP are quite exciting.

BTW Toma use GFYCat.com to change these bigass GIFs to WEBM and save bandwidth!

Not everybody has webm enabled, but you are still right, maybe we should switch to keeping at least the first posts completely gif free.

And of course TOrmentum counts if someone makes a proper post for it. If you follow the formatting guidelines in the first post, it will be included next month.

 

[Phawx]

Nabs is saying that the latest Canary build of Chrome runs gifs smoov

Edit: Can confirm the latest canary build runs like a hot knife through butter.

Edit edit: Version 43.0.2321.0 canary

 

[PandaPedinte]

Chrome is making these threads nearly impossible for me to participate in. I'm also pretty behind on games. I did finally make a video of The Next Penelope.

.

Try this fix http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=502191

 

[PandaPedinte]

IGF Awards show is up

Edit: Ignore twitch chat

 

[TwistedSyn]

New trailer released for Redout.
If you were a fan of Fzero then you'll enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2rLPu2rkDs

 

[AcridMeat]

Regeria Hope - PC/Mac/Android

Kickstarter page

Regeria Hope is a Phoenix Wright inspired adventure game on Windows, Mac, and Android. Looks like a pretty good one. It's on Kickstarter ($12 for all 5 episodes). You can try the first episode for free on Itch.io.

 

[INTERNET]

I would like to take back my criticism of A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, played the uh second quest and found it far more engaging. All I really wanted was something that made the world map more than level selection.

 

[timetokill]

Fucking Chrome :\

Anyway, I'll do a write up on Frozen Cortex at some point. Really enjoying that game, and I know a lot of indie-type people will avoid it because they are allergic to sports.

 

[Wok]

IGF Awards show is up

Edit: Ignore twitch chat

Results:

To recap, your 2015 IGF Award winners are as follows:

Excellence in Visual Art ($3,000)

Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)

Nuovo Award ($5,000)

Tetrageddon Games (Nathalie Lawhead)

Excellence in Audio ($3,000)

Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)

Excellence in Narrative ($3,000)

80 Days (inkle)

Best Student Game ($3,000)

Close Your (Goodbye World Games - University of Southern California)

Audience Award ($3,000)

This War of Mine (11 bit studios)

Excellence in Design ($3,000)

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($30,000)

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)

 

[More_Badass]

Outer Wilds! Wow! Now I really can't wait to see how they've improved upon the game

 

[Toma]

Outer Wilds! Wow! Now I really can't wait to see how they've improved upon the game

Is the new version already out somewhere? Or did it have a release date set?

 

[More_Badass]

Is the new version already out somewhere? Or did it have a release date set?

I don't think so.

And yes, 80 Days won for Narrative! Very good.

 

[Toma]

I don't think so.

And yes, 80 Days won for Narrative! Very good.

I think you mentioned it before, but I just realized again that 80 days is out for Android as well now:
http://www.inklestudios.com/80days/

Need to check that out at one point.

 

[More_Badass]

Nice, devs of Dark Echo are bringing it to PC
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=399984439

I have a spare IOS code. Anyone interested in checking it out, posting impressions? It's part of the Featured games this month

 

[Toma]

Some opinion comments I gave on Cities: Skylines

I understand your concerns, but this game makes the SimCity devs look incompetent. Individual agents DO travel according corresponding ways (from production to cargo port for example) and you can follow cars on their travel and they do exactly what you'd expect. You do have issues with traffic from time to time, but usually only because you didnt understand how traffic needed to be handled yet, there are so, so, so many solutions to approaching traffic, I'd have bought a game for the traffic management component alone tbh.

However, if you have no idea what you are doing and you carry low level mistakes along without taking care of them eventually, your bigger city WILL run like shit, but the streams made it so obvious that you can also just... be good at building your city to avoid all that.

I was in the "reserved" camp at first as well, but believe me, this game is nutty good.

I watched 20 hours of streams by now, so I feel informed enough to give you an opinion without linking a preview (that I havent read any of anyway).

In short: Yes, it seems like the dev team was like: "Well, damn, SimCity burned huh. How about... we take the concepts they were striving for and just... make the game good?"

And then did exactly that.

This game is bonkers good, with years of planned support, free modding, an utterly fantastic traffic management component, zoning, the standard game being 9x the size of SimCity (with modding up to 25), more organic city space building, different city themes (buildings & vegetation), a map editor, public transport, many many simulation elements, and tons more.

I am going to be so deep into this. I need to play some March Indies before it releases.

 

[PandaPedinte]

I don't know if this game was talked about here before, but else Heart.Break() looks promising and the visual caught my attention immediately because it seems unique, and the description plus the feature list hyped me up.

else Heart.Break() - PC, Mac

http://elseheartbreak.com/

Sebastian has just landed his first job in the distant city of Dorisburg. He moves there to start his adult life and figure out who he really wants to be. Among a strange collection of people, hackers and activists he finds some true friends – perhaps even love. But can they stop the terrible deeds of the people ruling the city? And who will get their heart broken in the end?

 

[Phawx]

My Let's Play of Ubinota:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNi0Xj73ho

https://i.imgur.com/d6qIFdJ.gifv

There is a civilization in the clouds, made possible by using paint that can fix the clouds in space. As the levels progress you're given more and more types of paint colors that need to properly anchor to the correct fixed clouds.

It's almost like solving multiple mazes in a 3D space. Extremely relaxing and zen-like. Well executed.​

As a bonus I have one Steam code (for Ubinota) to give away to some indie friends. Whoever wants it, let me know and I'll randomly select a person.

 

[More_Badass]

Lorn Vale - ????

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=44896.0

Lorn Vale is a systems-driven top-down action roguelite set in a low-fi/fantasy universe
The game has a world map and you explore the city, using different bounty hunters and mercenaries and collecting bounties. Between exploring, there's the tavern, which you manage.

 

[Nabs]

My Let's Play of Ubinota:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNi0Xj73ho

https://i.imgur.com/d6qIFdJ.gifv

There is a civilization in the clouds, made possible by using paint that can fix the clouds in space. As the levels progress you're given more and more types of paint colors that need to properly anchor to the correct fixed clouds.

It's almost like solving multiple mazes in a 3D space. Extremely relaxing and zen-like. Well executed.​

As a bonus I have one Steam code (for Ubinota) to give away to some indie friends. Whoever wants it, let me know and I'll randomly select a person.

This looks pretty relaxing. I'll definitely add it to the wishlist.

I don't know if this game was talked about here before, but else Heart.Break() looks promising and the visual caught my attention immediately because it seems unique, and the description plus the feature list hyped me up.

else Heart.Break() - PC, Mac

I love the look of this. I hope it's fun to play when it comes out.

 

[One Foul Note]

I have a spare IOS code. Anyone interested in checking it out, posting impressions? It's part of the Featured games this month

Where are you based? I would totally ask for that, but unless I've remembered incorrectly I think Apple codes are region locked and I'm a pesky European.

Also loving that Outer Wilds won in the IGF, that little demo they put together was really really impressive.

 

[Phawx]

This looks pretty relaxing. I'll definitely add it to the wishlist.

I can give you a code. I can send it to you via Steam chat.

 

[More_Badass]

Where are you based? I would totally ask for that, but unless I've remembered incorrectly I think Apple codes are region locked and I'm a pesky European.

Also loving that Outer Wilds won in the IGF, that little demo they put together was really really impressive.

US. Although that just might be for gifting games. I've received promo codes for games before they've launched so I don't region is linked with promo codes

Edit: yup, promo codes can be redeemed in any store. I'll PM you the code.

 

[Nabs]

I can give you a code. I can send it to you via Steam chat.

Sure, I'll take it. Thanks!

 

[More_Badass]

Standpoint - $12.99 (PC, Mac, Linux)

www.unrulyattractions.com/standpoint

Manipulate the world's orientation and discover the truth of the voices around you in this First-Person Puzzle Platformer

Cylne - $11.99 (PC)

www.cylne.com

Cylne is a first person surreal exploration game, in the form of a visual poems collection. Choose a chapter to explore and feel unreal worlds filled with psychic/environmental enigmas and platforming. Surrounded by a dark halo, dive into ethereal ambience to find meaning...

Chronoclysm - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)

http://surger1.itch.io/chronoclysm

Time compresses in this paradox battle arena.
Gameplay consists of short quick paced action rounds. Each one echos forward. Every missile summoned, bridge built, bomb laid, or sword slashed plays out again. Unless you stop it.
Round after round the battle builds up. Selecting a new class to utilize in the fight for victory.

 

[One Foul Note]

US. Although that just might be for gifting games. I've received promo codes for games before they've launched so I don't region is linked with promo codes

Edit: yup, promo codes can be redeemed in any store. I'll PM you the code.

It totally worked as well, scratch what I said.

Anyway, thanks for the code brother. I'll be sure to give Dark Echo a go and write up some impressions here.

 

[More_Badass]

Great, my laptop finally died so I'm stuck with relying on my free time and campus computers. So that means no Steam releases and no games that need to be installed. Thankfully most free games and most of my Humble library (and Rain World) is good.

But damn, no Hotline Miami 2... ;_;

It totally worked as well, scratch what I said.

Anyway, thanks for the code brother. I'll be sure to give Dark Echo a go and write up some impressions here.

Have fun!

 

[MrNinjaSquirrel]

Jenny LeClue - PC, Mac, Linux, IOS

Fully on board with anything citing Professor Layton as an inspiration.

New trailer released for Redout.
If you were a fan of Fzero then you'll enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2rLPu2rkDs

Suddenly this might be my most wanted game of the year. *prays to finally have a good Wipeout clone on PC*

 

[More_Badass]

Fully on board with anything citing Professor Layton as an inspiration.


Suddenly this might be my most wanted game of the year. *prays to finally have a good Wipeout clone on PC*

Check out the Red:Out pre-alpha footage. Shows off some more of the wild track design possibilities
http://youtu.be/PlTCky7Ek2Q
http://youtu.be/ykByK5JO_Qw

 

[MrNinjaSquirrel]

Plug & Play - $2.99 (PC, Mac)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/353560/

Explore the universe of Plug & Play, an interactive animation drawn by Michael Frei and coded by Mario von Rickenbach. An unashamedly surreal play with plugs.

I don't know what this is, but I want it.

 

[More_Badass]

Plug & Play - $2.99 (PC, Mac)


I don't know what this is, but I want it.

Also on IOS
https://appsto.re/us/OLQp2.i
Takes about 10-15 minutes according to the App page

 

[More_Badass]

New screenshot of Proven Lands

 

[Toma]

Great, my laptop finally died so I'm stuck with relying on my free time and campus computers. So that means no Steam releases and no games that need to be installed. Thankfully most free games and most of my Humble library (and Rain World) is good.

But damn, no Hotline Miami 2... ;_;


Have fun!

Ouch, that sucks. Already know for how long?

 

[More_Badass]

Hets wasn't paid before, right?
http://ditto.itch.io/hets
Game's $3 now

Still definitely worth checking out if you haven't

Ouch, that sucks. Already know for how long?

Nope. Been having issues for a while now, but was hoping it would hold out till the end of the semester.

 

[atomsk]

hyped for Hotline 2 and Flame Over on tuesday.

 

[More_Badass]

New screenshots of Beacon

 

[PandaPedinte]

Great, my laptop finally died so I'm stuck with relying on my free time and campus computers. So that means no Steam releases and no games that need to be installed. Thankfully most free games and most of my Humble library (and Rain World) is good.

But damn, no Hotline Miami 2... ;_;


Have fun!

I was expecting my laptop to die before yours :/

 

[More_Badass]

I was expecting my laptop to die before yours :/

What issues are you having? Mine was practically falling apart: had to be constantly plugged I'm to even turn on, made a sound like a cross between a jet engine and a velociraptor, and suffered from a blue screen of death at least once a day. It was only a matter of time; hell I'm surprised I made it through all of last semester

I feel sorry for my experiment participants. One group had to use my laptop because I couldn't get a certain program to work on the school computer.

 

[More_Badass]

New Humble Bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

$1
The Bridge
Closure
Dominique Pamplemousse

BTA
NaissanceE
Betrayer
Oquonie

$10
Neverending Nightmare

Edit: NaissanceE and Betrayer are very much worth that BTA deal. Qquonie is weird and abstract, I have it on the mobile. It's from XXIIVV, the dev of Hiversaires and a ton of other super-intriguing and abstract freeware games I hadn't heard of till now
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/Desktop

 

[PandaPedinte]

What issues are you having? Mine was practically falling apart: had to be constantly plugged to even turn on, made a sound like a cross between a jet engine and a velicoraptor, and suffered from a blue screen of death at least once a day. It was only a matter of time; hell I'm surprised I made through all of last semester

I feel sorry for my experiment participants. One group had to use my laptop because I couldn't get a certain program to work on the school computer.

Almost the same of yours except I was able to track down what was causing the BSOD with the help of a gaffer that I can't remember the name now. :/

 

[BlastProcessing]

I don't know if this game was talked about here before, but else Heart.Break() looks promising and the visual caught my attention immediately because it seems unique, and the description plus the feature list hyped me up.

else Heart.Break() - PC, Mac

My game's booth is actually directly across from else_Heart.Break. It is rad.

It was super surreal for Ephemerid to win for best audio. A sick part of me wants to go back and watch the twitch chat...

 

[FreedomFrisbee]

Night Shift - $4.99 (PC)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/301050/

The sun has disappeared from the sky! Darkness chokes the land, depriving it of all things good. Now it’s time for you to figure out how to bring the sun back! Get behind the wheel and find the sun in Night Shift!

This came out of Early Access at the end of Feb. I only know about this because I liked 1000 Amps and it's made by the same guy. Best description I've got is 'Like Myst but on wheels' so if that sounds cool you might like it.

 

[MrNinjaSquirrel]

Played through Off-Peak tonight. Still trying to wrap my head around it, but I wrote a thing (I call it a review but that's probably not quite appropriate for how it turned out).

In a lot of ways Off-Peak seems to draw inspiration from last year’s Jazzpunk, only far more cynical and disturbing in its madness. This isn’t satire, but a distorted snapshot existing on the fringe of society. Its exact meaning isn’t often clear, whether an analogy for the hopeless grind of the working lower class, or an experiment to test our limits when there are seemingly no consequences for our actions.

http://kritiqal.com/2015/03/06/off-peak-review/

 

[titch]

. Qquonie is weird and abstract, I have it on the mobile. It's from XXIIVV, the dev of Hiversaires and a ton of other super-intriguing and abstract freeware games I hadn't heard of till now
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/Desktop

Shame its Mac only

Now I want to look out for 3d isometric games like head over heels

 

[More_Badass]

Shame its Mac only

Now I want to look out for 3d isometric games like head over heels

Band Saga fit that description?

 

[titch]

Nice cheers baddie!!!!

Looks pretty efn great I want it now!!!

Cheers baddie

 

[SerTapTap]

I gave Standpoint a spin earlier. Not quite in the mood for puzzles but it plays pretty well. It's got a good number of tricks up it's sleeves.

Oh wow, Chrome Canary fixes the gif stuff. Now to see what it breaks in it's place.

I made a thread about itch.io's open revenue sharing, think it's pretty cool of them. I really like itch.io, they're my go-to if a game isn't on Steam--if a game's on Steam I usually list them as a DRM free option too.