Indie Games Your Thoughts & Recommendations
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I believe that indie games are just as important for the industry as big mainstream titles - if not more so. When you can do a game in any genre and without any pressure from publishers, yet have limited resources... this is where true creativity shines. And i like that.
If you are going to go for controversy, at least don't make typos. Please.Knunis said:
-http://www.konjak.org/
I love most of the stuff this guy made, the boss battles, the animations, and the game-play are just fun and insanely polished for a platform game
-http://www.origamihero.com/games.php
Also another guy who makes fun platformers
-World of goo
-Cave Story
-http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/
must buy, a game I truly like to support, great music done by the programmer as well
-Samorost
I realized that most of the games I liked on this list are 2D and platformers
I love most of the stuff this guy made, the boss battles, the animations, and the game-play are just fun and insanely polished for a platform game
-http://www.origamihero.com/games.php
Also another guy who makes fun platformers
-World of goo
-Cave Story
-http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/
must buy, a game I truly like to support, great music done by the programmer as well
-Samorost
I realized that most of the games I liked on this list are 2D and platformers
I support them and if they are free I will sometimes toss them on my laptop when I'm bored but I don't often get around to playing them. Though some I have play are entertaining.
Good indie games explore different areas of gaming that the major companies are too afraid to bet money on. They might have beautiful graphics or sound, unique stories, creative game mechanics, and so forth. I am more inclined to call indie games art, than the other more mainstream games.
I Like the fact its a good stepping stone for some developers to get more into the mainstream or Just to get there idea's turned into a game and put out there. Its always nice to see a mix now and then and fills the void in gaming that mainstream games just don't fill.
There's a game called "Digital" floating around out there. It's free, and if any of you are old enough to remember dial-up modems and the days of local BB chat rooms, it'll be a serious nostalgia trip... ESPECIALLY if you used Linux.
I don't know. Achron is going for $30 USD. And that's to get in the Alpha and have the game. And it looks good. If you recall, The Escapist Show did an interview with the team. Of about 4 people.AjimboB said:
http://db.tigsource.com/
That's a database of tons of different indie games, most are freeware too
http://gamejolt.com/
Another website that hosts indie games, which gives devs a share of the money made by advertisement
onto my thoughts: I personally love indie games as they usually focus on unique, original gameplay and they do not suffer from over-hype. Although the fact that I am planning on entering a career in game design probably influenced my opinions.
That's a database of tons of different indie games, most are freeware too
http://gamejolt.com/
Another website that hosts indie games, which gives devs a share of the money made by advertisement
onto my thoughts: I personally love indie games as they usually focus on unique, original gameplay and they do not suffer from over-hype. Although the fact that I am planning on entering a career in game design probably influenced my opinions.
I see no-one has mentioned Minecraft yet. That is one awesome game in the works.
Minecraft is the closest thing you have to building a world out of Lego from a first person view. Without the Lego that is.
Everything is build up by blocks, which you can remove and add.
At first it only had a creative mode, where you could remove and add like you pleased. But now the creator is working on the proper survival mode. He basically have several versions of the game available right now. SP and MP Creative mode, which is the freebuild mode. This is free.
Then you have a Survival Mode, which is also free. But this is just a proof of concept. It has enemies, but that's it.
Then you got the indev (in development) Survival version. This is where you can mine, craft tools, build a home for the night when the creatures come out etc. It works pretty well, but he has gone to work on the infdev (infinite developer version or something). This is the same, just with an "infinite" map. Which means that it creates more land as you walk around, which means you can end up with a map 8 times the size of the earth. Yeah, you heard me, eight times the surface of the earth. That is kinda huge. This mode lacks water physics and creatures for now, and I think he broke the lighting code recently, but he is working on it. The reason why the water physics are out so far is because he is going to make currents and everything.
You have to buy it to get access to the indev and infdev versions though, but it is a small cost to be able to play an awesome game as it is made. When the Survival mode has a MP ability, I would love to join a server with Escapist people.
Go to Minecraft.net [www.minecraft.net] to try this baby out
Minecraft is the closest thing you have to building a world out of Lego from a first person view. Without the Lego that is.
Everything is build up by blocks, which you can remove and add.
At first it only had a creative mode, where you could remove and add like you pleased. But now the creator is working on the proper survival mode. He basically have several versions of the game available right now. SP and MP Creative mode, which is the freebuild mode. This is free.
Then you have a Survival Mode, which is also free. But this is just a proof of concept. It has enemies, but that's it.
Then you got the indev (in development) Survival version. This is where you can mine, craft tools, build a home for the night when the creatures come out etc. It works pretty well, but he has gone to work on the infdev (infinite developer version or something). This is the same, just with an "infinite" map. Which means that it creates more land as you walk around, which means you can end up with a map 8 times the size of the earth. Yeah, you heard me, eight times the surface of the earth. That is kinda huge. This mode lacks water physics and creatures for now, and I think he broke the lighting code recently, but he is working on it. The reason why the water physics are out so far is because he is going to make currents and everything.
You have to buy it to get access to the indev and infdev versions though, but it is a small cost to be able to play an awesome game as it is made. When the Survival mode has a MP ability, I would love to join a server with Escapist people.
Go to Minecraft.net [www.minecraft.net] to try this baby out
Was able to crash it within minuites.Jaqen Hghar said:I see no-one has mentioned Minecraft yet. That is one awesome game in the works.
Minecraft is the closest thing you have to building a world out of Lego from a first person view. Without the Lego that is.
Everything is build up by blocks, which you can remove and add.
At first it only had a creative mode, where you could remove and add like you pleased. But now the creator is working on the proper survival mode. He basically have several versions of the game available right now. SP and MP Creative mode, which is the freebuild mode. This is free.
Then you have a Survival Mode, which is also free. But this is just a proof of concept. It has enemies, but that's it.
Then you got the indev (in development) Survival version. This is where you can mine, craft tools, build a home for the night when the creatures come out etc. It works pretty well, but he has gone to work on the infdev (infinite developer version or something). This is the same, just with an "infinite" map. Which means that it creates more land as you walk around, which means you can end up with a map 8 times the size of the earth. Yeah, you heard me, eight times the surface of the earth. That is kinda huge. This mode lacks water physics and creatures for now, and I think he broke the lighting code recently, but he is working on it. The reason why the water physics are out so far is because he is going to make currents and everything.
You have to buy it to get access to the indev and infdev versions though, but it is a small cost to be able to play an awesome game as it is made. When the Survival mode has a MP ability, I would love to join a server with Escapist people.
Go to Minecraft.net [www.minecraft.net] to try this baby out
Then again my computer has been freaking out recently and so I do blame that rather than the client...
/sigh the joys of reinstalling... esp after ive installed a DRM Game today with limited activations >.<