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INDIE GAME THREAD
Newest Game Addition::!!:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
Survival Crisis Z
Fantastic Contraption
Alternate Path
Iji
Iji is a Stealth-rpg-action-platformer sorta. Basically you're a girl caught up in an alien invasion who was conveniently turned into a nano-cyborg superwarrior. The game is split up into levels with varying paths that lets you decide if you want to hack your way through, sneak around the baddies or go in with guns (and feet) blazing.
You collect nano-thingies to upgrade your stats such as health, kick strength (for kicking down aliens and doors) ability to assimilate health packs better, hacking (which is a nifty little minigame) and more.
I'm not to far into it yet, there's plenty of story there, though I'd say the writing is "just okay".
Overall though Iji is pretty damn fun and worth your time. Easily the best indie game I've played in the last few months
Get Iji Here!
Final Ninja
flowers of error
BRING ME YOUR BEST
YOUR FUNNEST
YOUR BEST
GAMMMESSS
Flywrench
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
For those who haven't played it (shame on you,) it's an RPG in which you play as Charles Barkley in post-cyberpocalyptic Neo New York, after Manhattan has been destroyed by a Chaos Dunk, and the blame has been placed on Barkley, seemingly the only man capable of performing this Verboten Jam.
It's hilarious, epic, and has a more in-depth battle system than your average RPG, so it's actually pretty fun.
Well... it doesn't hurt to have it here too I guess. :-D
Teewars!
Teewars!
What if Worms, Soldat, and Kirby had some sort of weird threesome? The result would be Teewars. The cutest little buggers with guns ever.
What is it?
This is a mutliplayer, 2D, stylized deathmatch game with five weapons. Characters look like they would fit in any Kirby game, except for the guns they carry around to blast each other. The levels are bright and cheerful, with an anthropomorphic sun grinning in the background as you rain death on your opponents below.
Pick up health, as well as armor in the level to keep dealing out death for longer. In addition to the ninja rope, characters also have a double jump to help them navigate the levels.
http://www.teewars.com/
CURSOR*10
Aquaria COSTS MONEY!
Download Links:
Demo here
Purchase and download full version here
So, there is this game by an independent company called Bit Blot. It is called Aquaria, and it looks gorgeous. It is an undersea side-scrolling Metroidvania-esque adventure that is going to be released on the PC and possibly other platforms in the future.
[EDIT: Ambrosia Software is handling the Mac port of the game. Glee!]
From wikipedia:
Did I mention it looks gorgeous?
Feast your eyes!
Some videos:
7 Minutes of Aquaria
Trailer
Retro Sonic
RETRO SONIC (beta) by Taxman
I consider this to be the best sonic fan game made so far (although Pro Sonic might give it a run for it's money when it's released). This is still a work in progress... this is the third public beta, I believe. Fucking FANTASTIC program, made by a bang up guy. He's the person who I've been turning to when I need help in making my own sonic engine. Fantastic work.
N
N is an award-winning[1] freeware Adobe Flash computer game developed by Metanet Software. It was inspired in part by Lode Runner, Soldat, and other side-scrolling games, and features a realistic physics engine. The name is derived from "The Way of the Ninja," which is described in the background story. N features a ninja, who is the player-controlled character in the game.
It's definitely one of the harder games out there, but that might just be why I love it so. You really get a high when everything comes together juuuust right.
http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html
NIJUKIN The Game that Inspired this thread!
TYPE: Ninja Platformer
Size: Small
Price: Free of Course!
Download Link for Ninjukin:: http://my.vector.co.jp/servlet/System.FileDownload/download/http/0/345493/pack/win95/game/action/nikujin.lzh
Ninjukin is all about the gameplay. I think of it as how the 2d Ninja Gaiden should have played, with smooth transitions between all your ninja movements. Even with very basic controls, a huge variety of movements are at your disposal to help you traverse the small interconnected levels.
Controls:
Arrow Keys: Movement
Shift: Jump
Control: Sword Swipe
Moves:
Press against a wall, and then the opposite direction to run very fast.
Jump at a wall while pressing up to run up the wall a small distance.
The game is another language, but since there is no real story, this is a non issue. On the main menu when you open it up:
New Game
Load Game
Timed Tutorial (recommended!)
Protect the sleeping teacher (pointless?)
Download it, this game is absolutely awesome, and is great for 15 minute runs. It gets hard though, so you have been forewarned.
Zelda The Community
Babo Violent 2
Cha Ren Sha
Hero Zoom
Cave Story Limed, enuff said
Everything you wanted to know and more (stolen from the fan site):
Punishment Incredibly Frustrating, Incredibly Fun
Punishment may make you cry. Why?
Because its hard. A seemingly basic platformer, the controls are rock solid. The graphics are fun. But if you fall, be prepared to often fall all the way back to the start. The world spins in 360 degrees, but gravity stays the same. Hit a political symbol, and you change color, and controls.
Ill say it right now. I love this game. In a hateful way.
But either way you should, and have to play this.
Site: http://www.messhof.com/games/ (scroll down, there is also a sequel)
Blue Wish Resurrection Fast Paced Shooter Action
Masq Interactive Story. SO GOOD IT GETS LIMED
Site: http://www.alteraction.com/
Even games with branching plots don't really qualify as interactive stories. Masq, a line-drawn Flash game, does, because of its sheer breadth. You're a fashion designer with a big show to stage in a few days. Everything that happens before then - the sex, death, betrayal, divorce and fame - is up to you.
Tom:"Your choices might be comparatively few at each juncture in Masq, but every one of them is tempting, interesting and has serious consequences. It leads to a complexity of plot and interaction that virtually no other game can match."
Plasma Pong Liquid Pong
“Play Pong in a plasma-filled environment”
I've never played Pong while on an LSD trip, although if I did I'm sure it would be very much like Plasma Pong. The game takes the old classic and puts it into a psychodelic liquid enviroment, adding the colour and graphics that the original so desperately lacked. Plasma Pong plays very much like the version we know and love, only this time the ball is replaced by a wad of goo.
Plasma Pong has epic music, epic fluid dynamics gameplay, and epic graphics. One of the few indy games that require a pretty decent pc graphics card to get the best of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGU0PWDmr4E
Download it here:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html
(the main site got taken down, "pong" is a registered trademark of atari. What douches.)
Chzo Mythos Quality Indie Adventure
Notrium Adventure Survival, lots of different gameplay types in one
And Yet it Moves Paper Graphics, Cool Gravity Switching Gameplay Platformer
Soulfu "Multiplayer Realtime Rougelike minus random rooms"[/COLOR]
Frazy Awesome Shooting with User-Made Bosses[/COLOR]
XKobo Arcade Shooter[/COLOR]
Seiklus Relaxing Explore a World Game
Battle for Wesnoth Hexagonal Turn based Game (multiplayer/mac,pc,linux/fun)= Game On Candidate)[/COLOR]
Crayon Physics Drawing Physics Erryday[/COLOR]
Cloud Flying in the clouds game!
Epyreal Nocturne Awesome Artsy 3d Game[/COLOR]
Type: ... Hard to explain. You fly around a huge stormy area as a blue triangle with birds in toe, defeating huge red beasts. Almost Shadow of The Colossus style, but different. Hard to explain thats for sure.
Its really awesome feeling though.
Download etc: http://empyrealnocturne.com/index.html
Soldexus Hard n' Funny Castlevania
When I played this game every time I entered a room my character would run in the opposite direction- a rather game breaking bug. According to some other people I talked to, it works fine for them, but I can claim its awesomeness, so ill let strifer:
Trilby: The Art of Theft Sideways Elevator Stealth Game
The Real Meat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSpPIBvjN4&rel=1&border=0
Download the Game yourself!: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/games/yahtzee/artoftheft
DEATH WORM The really strangely fun Desert Worm Game
Youtube Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RepgRLg-QUs&feature=related
http://www.savefile.com/files/1021864
Deathworm is a 2d game where you are a Deathworm in a Deathworm arena. And you eat and fight increasingly more powerful pitiful humans.
Death Worm is great fun in short bouts, and a two player mod is in the works according to the Game Maker Community.
Knytt Stranded Platforming on Strange World -Kazhiim
"A fun, uniquely styled metroid-esque exploration game with a level editor and lots of custom scenarios."
Download Link: http://nifflas.ni2.se/
Easily Recommended.
Crayon Awesome Drawing-Action Game
Download: http://www.konjak.org/chalk.zip
Titanion Pretty Exciting Vector Shooter
Battleships Forever! Polished Tactical Space Warfare.
Echoes Asteroids on Neon Crack
http://www.binaryzoo.com/games/echoes/index.htm
Newest Game Addition::!!:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
Survival Crisis Z
Fantastic Contraption
Here's why you should play it immediately:
1. It's superb fun
2. It's really elegantly designed: the 4 tools are versatile enough to build a huge variety of crap
3. After you solve a puzzle, you can see other players' solutions, many of which are genius.
give it a try. I haven't enjoyed a Flash game this much since N.
1. It's superb fun
2. It's really elegantly designed: the 4 tools are versatile enough to build a huge variety of crap
3. After you solve a puzzle, you can see other players' solutions, many of which are genius.
give it a try. I haven't enjoyed a Flash game this much since N.
Alternate Path
Shhhh i havn't even tried this game, heard its gooddd
Iji
Iji is a Stealth-rpg-action-platformer sorta. Basically you're a girl caught up in an alien invasion who was conveniently turned into a nano-cyborg superwarrior. The game is split up into levels with varying paths that lets you decide if you want to hack your way through, sneak around the baddies or go in with guns (and feet) blazing.
You collect nano-thingies to upgrade your stats such as health, kick strength (for kicking down aliens and doors) ability to assimilate health packs better, hacking (which is a nifty little minigame) and more.
I'm not to far into it yet, there's plenty of story there, though I'd say the writing is "just okay".
Overall though Iji is pretty damn fun and worth your time. Easily the best indie game I've played in the last few months
Get Iji Here!
Final Ninja
flowers of error
I like the scoring system, too. Instead of getting points you get letters that complete a poem.
I think I may be close.
Anyways, it's a nice way to relax.
Here's a vid.flowers of error
I think I may be close.
Anyways, it's a nice way to relax.
Here's a vid.flowers of error
BRING ME YOUR BEST
YOUR FUNNEST
YOUR BEST
GAMMMESSS
Voxelstein
http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/
Download it here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=224163
The level is pretty short, but I have loved voxels since playing Outcast.
Voxelstein 3D is an FPS game inspired by Wolfenstein 3D. The game uses Ken Silverman's VOXLAP engine to render voxels in software. The levels in the game are fully destructible - and by fully we mean fully.
The game world is built from tiny cubes called voxels. There are over 37 million in the first level. Rendering a world like this is slow (especially without hardware acceleration), but there is an advantage: voxels can be added, removed or otherwise altered very very quickly. This enables all kinds of cool stuff, including fully destructible worlds!
Features
-Weapons: knife, pistol, chaingun, C4
-Enemies: guard, officer
-Many treasures to collect
-Fully destructible world: blow holes in walls, ceilings, enemies, anywhere!
-Loads original sounds and music from Wolfenstein 3D
Download it here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=224163
The level is pretty short, but I have loved voxels since playing Outcast.
Flywrench
Video Of Game In Action
Flywrench is a short action game by Mark Essen which involves using the cursor keys to navigate around mazes. Tap the up arrow key repeatedly to fly upwards, or hold the down arrow key to row. Use the left and right arrow keys to direct your ship's direction.
Certain obstacles can only be passed through by holding down an arrow key. Later levels include moving obstacles or switches, but restarts are quick so very little time is spent on waiting for your ship to respawn.
THE FLYWRENCH IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO AN EQUATION WITH NO OPERATORS
THE FLYWRENCH IS THE MATHEMATICAL FORM OF PURE TENSION
THE FLYRENCH HAS NO MOTHER OR FATHER
Flywrench is a short action game by Mark Essen which involves using the cursor keys to navigate around mazes. Tap the up arrow key repeatedly to fly upwards, or hold the down arrow key to row. Use the left and right arrow keys to direct your ship's direction.
Certain obstacles can only be passed through by holding down an arrow key. Later levels include moving obstacles or switches, but restarts are quick so very little time is spent on waiting for your ship to respawn.
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
For those who haven't played it (shame on you,) it's an RPG in which you play as Charles Barkley in post-cyberpocalyptic Neo New York, after Manhattan has been destroyed by a Chaos Dunk, and the blame has been placed on Barkley, seemingly the only man capable of performing this Verboten Jam.
It's hilarious, epic, and has a more in-depth battle system than your average RPG, so it's actually pretty fun.
Well... it doesn't hurt to have it here too I guess. :-D
Teewars!
Teewars!
What if Worms, Soldat, and Kirby had some sort of weird threesome? The result would be Teewars. The cutest little buggers with guns ever.
What is it?
This is a mutliplayer, 2D, stylized deathmatch game with five weapons. Characters look like they would fit in any Kirby game, except for the guns they carry around to blast each other. The levels are bright and cheerful, with an anthropomorphic sun grinning in the background as you rain death on your opponents below.
Pick up health, as well as armor in the level to keep dealing out death for longer. In addition to the ninja rope, characters also have a double jump to help them navigate the levels.
http://www.teewars.com/
CURSOR*10
CURSOR*10
[/COLOR]
This may be the most incredible game you play this year.
It probably will, in fact be the most incredible flash game you play this year. And it's only about two minutes long.
It's called Cursor*10, and for what it's worth, it's my current contender for GoTY outright. Of course, we're only four days into 2008, but for what it's worth, the game is that good. You will be blown away by the simple genius of it.
Really.
I can't and won't spoil it for you, because that's part of the game itself. So just try it.
http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html -Recoil42
[/COLOR]
This may be the most incredible game you play this year.
It probably will, in fact be the most incredible flash game you play this year. And it's only about two minutes long.
It's called Cursor*10, and for what it's worth, it's my current contender for GoTY outright. Of course, we're only four days into 2008, but for what it's worth, the game is that good. You will be blown away by the simple genius of it.
Really.
I can't and won't spoil it for you, because that's part of the game itself. So just try it.
http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html -Recoil42
Aquaria COSTS MONEY!
Download Links:
Demo here
Purchase and download full version here
So, there is this game by an independent company called Bit Blot. It is called Aquaria, and it looks gorgeous. It is an undersea side-scrolling Metroidvania-esque adventure that is going to be released on the PC and possibly other platforms in the future.
[EDIT: Ambrosia Software is handling the Mac port of the game. Glee!]
From wikipedia:
So there isn't much there yet on Wikipedia. Very well, I will feed you information directly from Bit Blot.Aquaria is an upcoming 2D sidescrolling computer game by independent game company Bit Blot. It won the Seamus McNally grand prize from the Independent Games Festival in March 2007
Lonely, restless Naija has spent her entire life wrestling with questions about her identity. We join her as she takes her first steps away from the comfort of home and into new, potentially dangerous waters. Through exploration and magical combat, Naija will unearth the history of Aquaria and connect with beings lost in the depths of time. On the search to discover the fate of her people, her destiny and that of Aquaria's will be forever altered.
Did I mention it looks gorgeous?
Aquaria is an action-oriented, non-linear 2D side-scrolling game. Using an intuitive and fluid mouse control system, Naija can deftly swim through and explore a massive, handcrafted world that is teeming with undersea life. Along the way, she will encounter literally hundreds of different types of plants and animals and explore many ingame miles of hidden caves, lost ruins, and other strange places.
Feast your eyes!
Some videos:
7 Minutes of Aquaria
Trailer
Retro Sonic
RETRO SONIC (beta) by Taxman
I consider this to be the best sonic fan game made so far (although Pro Sonic might give it a run for it's money when it's released). This is still a work in progress... this is the third public beta, I believe. Fucking FANTASTIC program, made by a bang up guy. He's the person who I've been turning to when I need help in making my own sonic engine. Fantastic work.
N
N is an award-winning[1] freeware Adobe Flash computer game developed by Metanet Software. It was inspired in part by Lode Runner, Soldat, and other side-scrolling games, and features a realistic physics engine. The name is derived from "The Way of the Ninja," which is described in the background story. N features a ninja, who is the player-controlled character in the game.
It's definitely one of the harder games out there, but that might just be why I love it so. You really get a high when everything comes together juuuust right.
http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html
NIJUKIN The Game that Inspired this thread!
TYPE: Ninja Platformer
Size: Small
Price: Free of Course!
Download Link for Ninjukin:: http://my.vector.co.jp/servlet/System.FileDownload/download/http/0/345493/pack/win95/game/action/nikujin.lzh
Ninjukin is all about the gameplay. I think of it as how the 2d Ninja Gaiden should have played, with smooth transitions between all your ninja movements. Even with very basic controls, a huge variety of movements are at your disposal to help you traverse the small interconnected levels.
Controls:
Arrow Keys: Movement
Shift: Jump
Control: Sword Swipe
Moves:
Press against a wall, and then the opposite direction to run very fast.
Jump at a wall while pressing up to run up the wall a small distance.
The game is another language, but since there is no real story, this is a non issue. On the main menu when you open it up:
New Game
Load Game
Timed Tutorial (recommended!)
Protect the sleeping teacher (pointless?)
Download it, this game is absolutely awesome, and is great for 15 minute runs. It gets hard though, so you have been forewarned.
Zelda The Community
Zelda Classic
Zelda Classic is a complete recreation of the original Legend of Zelda.
It started off as a simple clone of the game for the PC.
However, over the past couple of years its scope and scale has grown much larger thanks to the creation of the Quest Editor. Now, the ZC engine can be used by Indy developers to customize their own dungeons, over-worlds, and stories.
Eventually a small community sprung up. The ZC engine was worked on to allow near complete customization of quests. New graphics, animations and enemies were added. Better"Tile Sets" allowed ZC to look more like Link to the Past or Link's Awakening.
After eight years ZC is still pretty amazing. The engine has gotten to a point where completely original quests can be created. Hundreds of quests have been made and while only a few live up to Zelda standards there's a decent amount of fun to be had with this program.
Quests You Should Try:
Lost Isle
Isle of the Winds
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
All three Castle Haunts(play them once you get some experience with custom quests)
Origin
Requiem for Hyrule(Personaly haven't played. It got great impressions though)
and more...
You really need to get an idea of what kind of quests you like before you try some of the other quests. Do you like classic style or remixed style? Do you want a more action oriented or puzzle oriented quests? Generally the ones listed above are the kind that anyone can like.
Development has slowed down a lot in the last couple of years even though a new version was just released. There's still a lot of limitations to the engine that I feel need to be worked on. Hopefully, if I get some more new blood in the community we'll start seeing Armageddon release more improvements.
It started off as a simple clone of the game for the PC.
Lost Isle
Isle of the Winds
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
All three Castle Haunts(play them once you get some experience with custom quests)
Origin
Requiem for Hyrule(Personaly haven't played. It got great impressions though)
and more...
You really need to get an idea of what kind of quests you like before you try some of the other quests. Do you like classic style or remixed style? Do you want a more action oriented or puzzle oriented quests? Generally the ones listed above are the kind that anyone can like.
Development has slowed down a lot in the last couple of years even though a new version was just released. There's still a lot of limitations to the engine that I feel need to be worked on. Hopefully, if I get some more new blood in the community we'll start seeing Armageddon release more improvements.
Babo Violent 2
Cha Ren Sha
Hero Zoom
Cave Story Limed, enuff said
Everything you wanted to know and more (stolen from the fan site):
Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by StudioPixel. It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations and will have an official translation script published sometime in the near future.
This game has fansites, yo. just play it and stop being a loser.
Get it here (and don't forget the english patch!): http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/
This game has fansites, yo. just play it and stop being a loser.
Get it here (and don't forget the english patch!): http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/
Punishment Incredibly Frustrating, Incredibly Fun
Punishment may make you cry. Why?
Because its hard. A seemingly basic platformer, the controls are rock solid. The graphics are fun. But if you fall, be prepared to often fall all the way back to the start. The world spins in 360 degrees, but gravity stays the same. Hit a political symbol, and you change color, and controls.
Ill say it right now. I love this game. In a hateful way.
But either way you should, and have to play this.
Site: http://www.messhof.com/games/ (scroll down, there is also a sequel)
Blue Wish Resurrection Fast Paced Shooter Action
http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/Works/bw_re_link/bw_re_main.htm
There are 4 buttons:
- (Z) Regular Shot
- (X) Auto Shot
- (C) Bomb
- (A) Options
Download (~56 megs)
http://my.vector.co.jp/servlet/System.FileDownload/download/http/0/413558/pack/winnt/game/shoot/BWR1.02.lzh
Screens
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There are 4 buttons:
- (Z) Regular Shot
- (X) Auto Shot
- (C) Bomb
- (A) Options
Download (~56 megs)
http://my.vector.co.jp/servlet/System.FileDownload/download/http/0/413558/pack/winnt/game/shoot/BWR1.02.lzh
Screens
Masq Interactive Story. SO GOOD IT GETS LIMED
Site: http://www.alteraction.com/
Even games with branching plots don't really qualify as interactive stories. Masq, a line-drawn Flash game, does, because of its sheer breadth. You're a fashion designer with a big show to stage in a few days. Everything that happens before then - the sex, death, betrayal, divorce and fame - is up to you.
Tom:"Your choices might be comparatively few at each juncture in Masq, but every one of them is tempting, interesting and has serious consequences. It leads to a complexity of plot and interaction that virtually no other game can match."
Plasma Pong Liquid Pong
“Play Pong in a plasma-filled environment”
I've never played Pong while on an LSD trip, although if I did I'm sure it would be very much like Plasma Pong. The game takes the old classic and puts it into a psychodelic liquid enviroment, adding the colour and graphics that the original so desperately lacked. Plasma Pong plays very much like the version we know and love, only this time the ball is replaced by a wad of goo.
Plasma Pong has epic music, epic fluid dynamics gameplay, and epic graphics. One of the few indy games that require a pretty decent pc graphics card to get the best of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGU0PWDmr4E
Download it here:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html
(the main site got taken down, "pong" is a registered trademark of atari. What douches.)
Chzo Mythos Quality Indie Adventure
I'm not a huge point and click junkie, but I LOVE 
5 Days a stranger
7 Days a Skeptic
Trilby's Notes
and
6 Days a Sacrifice
Play them in the order posted, and enjoy -Flick
5 Days a stranger
7 Days a Skeptic
Trilby's Notes
and
6 Days a Sacrifice
Play them in the order posted, and enjoy -Flick
Notrium Adventure Survival, lots of different gameplay types in one
Notrium
Fun little survival game, crash land on an alien planet and try to survive as one of three different races (game types). -Valkun
Fun little survival game, crash land on an alien planet and try to survive as one of three different races (game types). -Valkun
And Yet it Moves Paper Graphics, Cool Gravity Switching Gameplay Platformer
http://www.andyetitmoves.at/
"And Yet It Moves" is basically a mixture between a jump and run and a puzzle game, with the extra ability to rotate the world. The player can run left, right and jump, but can also turn the world clockwise and counterclockwise by 90 degrees. When this happens physics works the following way: as soon as rotation starts all objects get frozen and after rotation objects continue to move with their velocities (direction and speed) they had before. With this ability you can move objects and yourself but also need to keep orientation and watch out for dangerous situations. Don't worry though, you' re made out of paper so you can die as often as you want to.
The overall goal is to get through this collage of ripped paper. And if you are quick - and don´t die too often - you might get into the highscore list.
"And Yet It Moves" is basically a mixture between a jump and run and a puzzle game, with the extra ability to rotate the world. The player can run left, right and jump, but can also turn the world clockwise and counterclockwise by 90 degrees. When this happens physics works the following way: as soon as rotation starts all objects get frozen and after rotation objects continue to move with their velocities (direction and speed) they had before. With this ability you can move objects and yourself but also need to keep orientation and watch out for dangerous situations. Don't worry though, you' re made out of paper so you can die as often as you want to.
The overall goal is to get through this collage of ripped paper. And if you are quick - and don´t die too often - you might get into the highscore list.
Soulfu "Multiplayer Realtime Rougelike minus random rooms"[/COLOR]
SoulFu
The Secret of Ultimate Legendary Fantasy UNLEASHED!
Think a sort of cel-shaded multiplayer realtime roguelike, minus the random rooms. No netplay yet (though the code is written), but it's open source, so I'm expecting improvements any year now.
The Secret of Ultimate Legendary Fantasy UNLEASHED!
Think a sort of cel-shaded multiplayer realtime roguelike, minus the random rooms. No netplay yet (though the code is written), but it's open source, so I'm expecting improvements any year now.
Frazy Awesome Shooting with User-Made Bosses[/COLOR]
Fraxy
Ok, this one is less obscure; it had a thread a while back. It's sort of like Warring Forever, but with user-made bosses.
Ok, this one is less obscure; it had a thread a while back. It's sort of like Warring Forever, but with user-made bosses.
XKobo Arcade Shooter[/COLOR]
XKobo
A rather old and obscure Linux game. You fly around in a little spaceship and blow up gigantic bases made of nodes and walls. Quite fun to make "Death star runs" where you try to destroy as little of the base as possible and just blow up the core. It plays like an arcade game that never surfaced in arcades or something.
There's a fairly faithful port for Windows called Wkobo.
There is also a souped up version called Kobo Deluxe. It looses some of the nostalgia for me, but may run more smoothly.
A rather old and obscure Linux game. You fly around in a little spaceship and blow up gigantic bases made of nodes and walls. Quite fun to make "Death star runs" where you try to destroy as little of the base as possible and just blow up the core. It plays like an arcade game that never surfaced in arcades or something.
There's a fairly faithful port for Windows called Wkobo.
There is also a souped up version called Kobo Deluxe. It looses some of the nostalgia for me, but may run more smoothly.
Seiklus Relaxing Explore a World Game
Battle for Wesnoth Hexagonal Turn based Game (multiplayer/mac,pc,linux/fun)= Game On Candidate)[/COLOR]
Screenshots:
Site: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Haven't had much of a chance to play around with it, but it looks interesting enough. A sort of cross between Fire Emblem and Advance Wars on a hexagonal grid. Bonus points for internet multiplayer. Anyone want to try giving this game a shot? It seems pretty polished for a freeware(and open sourced) game.
Site: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Haven't had much of a chance to play around with it, but it looks interesting enough. A sort of cross between Fire Emblem and Advance Wars on a hexagonal grid. Bonus points for internet multiplayer. Anyone want to try giving this game a shot? It seems pretty polished for a freeware(and open sourced) game.
Crayon Physics Drawing Physics Erryday[/COLOR]
Fun music, Awesome (and UNIQUE) gameplay, and all around winner.
You draw shapes that gain wieght, and well, become objects that can be utilized as tools. Movie make clear 4 u: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI&eurl=http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/
You draw shapes that gain wieght, and well, become objects that can be utilized as tools. Movie make clear 4 u: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI&eurl=http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/
Cloud Flying in the clouds game!
Style: Free Flying in a Beautiful Cartoon like world.
Size: Medium ~33 mb
Picie:
As far as I can tell you fly around clouds collecting them and using them to attack darkish clouds. This creates rain. To be honest, I just flew around in the peaceful surroundings enjoying the scenery- quite relaxing. Ill update this when I've played more.
Download Site: http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/game.htm
Size: Medium ~33 mb
Picie:
As far as I can tell you fly around clouds collecting them and using them to attack darkish clouds. This creates rain. To be honest, I just flew around in the peaceful surroundings enjoying the scenery- quite relaxing. Ill update this when I've played more.
Download Site: http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/game.htm
Epyreal Nocturne Awesome Artsy 3d Game[/COLOR]
Type: ... Hard to explain. You fly around a huge stormy area as a blue triangle with birds in toe, defeating huge red beasts. Almost Shadow of The Colossus style, but different. Hard to explain thats for sure.
Its really awesome feeling though.
Download etc: http://empyrealnocturne.com/index.html
Soldexus Hard n' Funny Castlevania
When I played this game every time I entered a room my character would run in the opposite direction- a rather game breaking bug. According to some other people I talked to, it works fine for them, but I can claim its awesomeness, so ill let strifer:
My addition to this list would be Soldexus. It is basically a hard Castlevania clone done right. I especially like the controls because, after you get some upgrades, it seems like you are almost flowing through every room.
Trilby: The Art of Theft Sideways Elevator Stealth Game
The Real Meat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSpPIBvjN4&rel=1&border=0
Download the Game yourself!: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/games/yahtzee/artoftheft
Trilby: The art of Theft
A 2d Stealth platformer, it follows Trilby's catburgling exploits 2 years before 5 days a stranger, not only does it have nothing to do with the storyline of the Chzo quadrilogy, it isn't point and click. Very addictive, very replayable.
Though I'd still recommend playing through the adventure games first as it will instill a love of trilby in you that can't be conveyed through a simple post
DEATH WORM The really strangely fun Desert Worm Game
Youtube Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RepgRLg-QUs&feature=related
http://www.savefile.com/files/1021864
Deathworm is a 2d game where you are a Deathworm in a Deathworm arena. And you eat and fight increasingly more powerful pitiful humans.
Death Worm is great fun in short bouts, and a two player mod is in the works according to the Game Maker Community.
Knytt Stranded Platforming on Strange World -Kazhiim
"A fun, uniquely styled metroid-esque exploration game with a level editor and lots of custom scenarios."
Download Link: http://nifflas.ni2.se/
Easily Recommended.
Crayon Awesome Drawing-Action Game
Download: http://www.konjak.org/chalk.zip
Chalk is all about drawing your way to all the glory! Draw lines across shapes to destroy them, turn back bullets at enemies and thwart huge boss enemies by bouncing stuff back in their faces!
Titanion Pretty Exciting Vector Shooter
Battleships Forever! Polished Tactical Space Warfare.
" Battleships Forever or: Holy shit this game is cool!"
Echoes Asteroids on Neon Crack
Yeah, it's a bit like Asteroids hyperactive, drug crazed brother displayed in blur-o-vision© and viewed through psychedelic sunglasses in a cheap nightclub.
http://www.binaryzoo.com/games/echoes/index.htm
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A fun, uniquely styled metroid-esque exploration game with a level editor and lots of custom scenarios
Note, those are all 2007 releases, so there's plenty more from years past.
Personal favourites include Seiklus, Cave Story, and N (Ninja). No I can't be bothered to google those links.
Sheesh.
Also, N.
That game has lost me hours of my life.
Actually im adding games people recommend after i try them. The size a million font is a bit much though.
I played N for a while, but i found it terrible. Ill have to try again.
Go play these games. They're awesome. Especially Torus Trooper and Titanion.
oooh... Sorry, didn't notice that.
My bad Khaziim :oops:
JonnyRPGeewizz is another fun one. It takes a lot of inspiration from games like Gauntlet. It even has an online high score table.
soldier zombies rushed my barricades. My sawn-off shotgun did nothing, so I resorted to spraying my AK in the vain hope of killing them. The barricade was down to 2, my group of survivors abandoned me, and all hope was lost as I finished the last one off. What would I do now?
And then the sweet sound of helicopters stirred my heart. YES!
Somebody made a very thorough list of interesting free games on the above link.
I looked through the list, and while it did contain alot of gems, it also contained alot of crap in my opinion. I wanted to make a list for PA that perhaps spawns interesting Lets Plays and the like. If mods think this is a bad idea, then so be it.
Battleships Forever!
sooner, it's only been frontpaged for a month or two.
EDIT also everything at http://www.binaryzoo.com/site/index.php mainly Mono and Echoes.
K, ill update with BF and Echos.
Fun little survival game, crash land on an alien planet and try to survive as one of three different races (game types).
Unfortunately, having a hard time remembering the names of some excellent freeware games
Zombie apocalypse. Pick a class and try to survive while assembling a crew and maybe some city-wide supremacy amidst the carnage.
Every time I think "free indie games" I think of this. So delicious.
Oh, and Masq, which I know was a bit of a hit around here a little while back.
Choose-your-own-adventure-ish type multi-branching kinda game, with some murder and kidnapping and a ton of multiple paths.
I'm not a huge point and click junkie, but I LOVE
5 Days a stranger
7 Days a Skeptic
Trilby's Notes
and
6 Days a Sacrifice
Play them in the order posted, and enjoy
edit: also Dwarf Fortress needs to be mentioned, if you haven't seen the thread we have, once you get past the daunting learning curve and realize that gameplay > graphics you'll be hooked. Among the best games I've ever played.
Seconding.
Ninjah
The last scenario
No, I don't know where a working mirror for the latter game is. There are several, but they go up and down. Google around a bit. The author really needs to just stick up a website for it someplace.
There is a thread.
If you hate yourself
But it's actually kind of fun once you figure out how to get past a room
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also, I second dwarf fortress
also walaber's trampoline and jello car
Toribash is so hard to figure out. So many joints!
+ Dwarf Fortress well be added to op when i get home
Hell yes.
The jumping in the game is insanely hard to time. I'm finding the 3rd stage impossible to get through.
I downloaded the game and played it for a few minutes, flying around and not having the slightest idea of what to do. I noticed you can grab the clouds and drag them with you, but what do you have to do with them?
oh man, I remember that game
I loved it so much, back in the day
Does anybody remember how to get past level 7?
It does sound sort of like Crimson Room aside from the "teleported to an alien world" part.
I've never played Another World. The synopsis he posted sounded somewhat like it. just trying to help the dude.