sNeaksieGarrett on 12/7/2010 at 15:10
Cool!
Haha, I saw a game called Merry Gear Solid 2! I'm gonna download that.:cheeky:
Zerker on 15/8/2010 at 11:38
Since nobody has posted it yet, (
http://www.frogatto.com/) Frogatto and Friends is an open-source, multi-platform 16-bit style platformer released recently. I've been playing it on and off lately; it's pretty fun, with some some gorgeous pixel art.
Oh yeah, there's also a level editor.
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http://www.frogatto.com/screenshots) Direct link to the screenshots page.
henke on 15/8/2010 at 17:42
Under the GardenNot so much a survival horror game as just survival game. In Under the Garden you play a dude who lives out in the wilderness. You have to collect wood and bring it back to you cabin to keep you warm, and hunt animals to keep from starving, as well as keeping your cabin in in shape to withstand blizards and foul weather. The weather plays an important part in this game, when it's raining or snowing your stamina will deplete rapidly, on those days it's best to just stay indoors. Also in some places you will have to stack piles of wood to get over certain obstacles but if there's a storm the whole pile can blow over, preventing you from traveling in that direction until the storm has ceased. The game is not without it's faults though, the jumping doesn't work very well and often you will plunge to your death even though you
know you pressed the jump button in time. And ofcourse the core gameplay can feel very grindy. Actually it's fair to say that 90% of the game
is grinding, the rest is exploration.
But yeah, give this game a go. It's not quite like anything else out there. And also you get to bash bunnies brains in with a pickaxe! :D
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http://www.paul-greasley.com/garden/garden.zip) Download link 10MB
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YuWjskL3M) Gameplay video
edit: that comment about grinding was perhaps a bit unfair, I just played a bit further and it seems that more focus is placed on exploration once you get equipment to stay alive longer in the wilderness.
henke on 5/9/2010 at 10:51
Well I finally got around to playing a few of the games from the 235 free indie games video and here's Wot I Think.
10800 Zombiesnot very good.
UberlebenSort of a theird person version of
AAAAAAaaaa - A Reckless Disregard For Gravity. Unique, a bit fun and very nice to look at.
Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghosts of Christmas PastNow this was good. The graphics are nice, the voiceacting is good. The soundtrack features some kind of Hans Zimmer-esque take on Wham's "Last Christmas". The writing is good. Anyone who's played the MGS games will get a chuckle out of the dialogue and plottwists. The gameplay is remarkably solid for what I expected to be a little throwaway gag of a game. Also, it's very long. I just played it for 1-2 hours and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through the game yet.
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http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/?page_id=663) Download link
demagogue on 8/9/2010 at 20:54
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http://www.doppelscope.com/) Doppelscope - This is a sort of artistic puzzle game where you're clicking and dragging cubes and finding hidden connections between things to restore balance or something.
Edit: (
http://www.swimbots.com/) Gene Pool -- This is one I've had on my harddrive for a while and never posted it because it's not really a "game". But it's nerdy and interesting. In a nutshell it's a "Natural Selection Sim" ... You have a pool of microbe-critters following their simple DNA instructions, over time they swim (if their movement instructions let them), eat shit, mate, reproduce, and eventually you'll see a few of them really start to outcompete the others and dominate... You can follow along by different variables ("follow drama"), tweak variables, vary the environment and see how that affects things. Not sure "fun" is the word, but it's enlightening because you can pretty much directly see how different variables affect populations over time, from individual critters to neighborhoods to the whole pop. You can get a schadenfreude kick if you've found a really aggressive critter & save him, introduce him into a fresh new population, and watch how fast he dominates.
gunsmoke on 27/10/2010 at 23:20
Enchantermon: So is their soon-to-be-released 'Back to the Future' adventure game. Check their store at the above link.
