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  • SparrowSparrow Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Holy shit, Tag is amazing.

    The loading screens seem screwy on my comp though.

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  • Nimble CatNimble Cat Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Impersonator wrote: »
    It's called The Swan. It's made with Unity but it's only available in Macs. :(

    About Guardian of Paradise... I played it and really liked it but got stuck and gave up. I had no clues :|

    Link for The Swan?

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  • LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Wow. Tag was fantastic. Loved the concept, and the art direction was pretty superb too. Shame it's so short.

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  • ValkunValkun Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    carmofin wrote: »
    so why isnt guardian of paradise in that list?
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    http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=rakuga

    I'm going to second this one. It's very Zelda-esque and fairly well polished. The game revolves largely around its magic system to solve puzzles. Each enemy drops different colors of mana which you use to cast various spells. But the trick is that the spell you can cast is the one you just grabbed.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nimble Cat wrote: »
    Impersonator wrote: »
    It's called The Swan. It's made with Unity but it's only available in Macs. :(

    About Guardian of Paradise... I played it and really liked it but got stuck and gave up. I had no clues :|

    Link for The Swan?

    (Apparently the correct name for the game is The Unfinished Swan, I lost some time trying to find it because of this :P)

    The Unfinished Swan

    Seriously, go check the video. O_o

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  • DeswaDeswa Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    aBlank wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure if this counts, but Altitude! is in beta testing right now and free to play. It's basically a 2d air combat multiplayer game. Fairly small community but really damn fun IMO.

    http://www.altitudegame.com/
    This is actually rather fun.

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  • AJRAJR Some guy who wrestles NorwichRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I played through a few levels of Eversion on the weekend, but I got stuck at the uh... “hands” (is that being spoilery? I don’t think so). I just can’t get the movements right. I might plug my 360 controller in tonight and try it out with that.

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  • LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    AJR wrote: »
    I played through a few levels of Eversion on the weekend, but I got stuck at the uh... “hands” (is that being spoilery? I don’t think so). I just can’t get the movements right. I might plug my 360 controller in tonight and try it out with that.

    You should be able to do it with the keyboard.
    The only bit that damages you is the red bit. You have to jump through the black part at some point. Apart from that just be careful around the red parts. It is slightly tricky, but be careful and it's not too bad.

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  • carmofincarmofin Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Lly wrote: »
    AJR wrote: »
    I played through a few levels of Eversion on the weekend, but I got stuck at the uh... “hands” (is that being spoilery? I don’t think so). I just can’t get the movements right. I might plug my 360 controller in tonight and try it out with that.

    You should be able to do it with the keyboard.
    The only bit that damages you is the red bit. You have to jump through the black part at some point. Apart from that just be careful around the red parts. It is slightly tricky, but be careful and it's not too bad.

    no you shouldnt. i am SO thankfull to get to play all these little gems by mapping keyboard keys to my gamepad. a keyboard just doesnt do platformers justice.

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  • BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Deswa wrote: »
    aBlank wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure if this counts, but Altitude! is in beta testing right now and free to play. It's basically a 2d air combat multiplayer game. Fairly small community but really damn fun IMO.

    http://www.altitudegame.com/
    This is actually rather fun.

    This game just makes me laugh everytime I can cause another player to crash into something. Good fun.

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  • LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Impersonator wrote: »
    Nimble Cat wrote: »
    Impersonator wrote: »
    It's called The Swan. It's made with Unity but it's only available in Macs. :(

    About Guardian of Paradise... I played it and really liked it but got stuck and gave up. I had no clues :|

    Link for The Swan?

    (Apparently the correct name for the game is The Unfinished Swan, I lost some time trying to find it because of this :P)

    The Unfinished Swan

    Seriously, go check the video. O_o

    There was a video of the creator (or one of them) presenting the game in Japan, I can't remember where I saw it though. It does look amazing. However it is pretty much under development with no word of a release yet isn't it? And I don't know where the whole Mac but not PC thing came from, I certainly can't find info saying that.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I interviewed the guy a while back, although we never put the review up.

    It is in XNA, and he was thinking about a release as an Xbox Live Community game

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  • SueveSueve Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The OP needs an update its looking like!

    I'll try and dwnld Eversion and Gravity Bone tonight, both sound really cool.

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  • Grub GrubGrub Grub Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm so angry Dyson isn't here,this will be an ANGRY link.:x
    http://www.dyson-game.com/

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  • AJRAJR Some guy who wrestles NorwichRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    carmofin wrote: »
    Lly wrote: »
    AJR wrote: »
    I played through a few levels of Eversion on the weekend, but I got stuck at the uh... “hands” (is that being spoilery? I don’t think so). I just can’t get the movements right. I might plug my 360 controller in tonight and try it out with that.

    You should be able to do it with the keyboard.
    The only bit that damages you is the red bit. You have to jump through the black part at some point. Apart from that just be careful around the red parts. It is slightly tricky, but be careful and it's not too bad.

    no you shouldnt. i am SO thankfull to get to play all these little gems by mapping keyboard keys to my gamepad. a keyboard just doesnt do platformers justice.

    Yeah, I played a quick burst of it last night, and I found it a little easier with a gamepad.
    I know only the red parts of the hands hurt me, and I know what I need to do to get past them, but I have a habit of jumping too early or too late. The one where you have to creep to the end of the ledge (so the hand jumps out) then jump, stumps me completely. Even a gentle tap of the right key seems to send him hurtling forward a couple of feet.

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh man Gravity Bone was awesome.

    I wish it was longer, but being so short it was such a great little trip.

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  • CohsaeCohsae Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Grub Grub wrote: »
    I'm so angry Dyson isn't here,this will be an ANGRY link.:x
    http://www.dyson-game.com/


    YES Dyson is totally rad! I would describe it as some sort of crazy simplified fast-paced version of Sins of a Solar Empire. There are little planets, and you have ships (called seedlings) and you send them off to attack other planets. It reminds me of Sins in that combat only takes place at the planets, and in the way that you have to slowly progress through the galaxy/universe/whatever. So you send your seedlings off to a planet, they attack and take it over, then you use up some of your seedlings to plant a tree which then creates more seedlings.
    It's pretty awesome, and I think it's still a work-in-progress so if they could somehow implement multiplayer it would be the best thing ever.

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  • JubehJubeh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    aBlank wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure if this counts, but Altitude! is in beta testing right now and free to play. It's basically a 2d air combat multiplayer game. Fairly small community but really damn fun IMO.

    http://www.altitudegame.com/

    This game is super rad but my ping is really high. ):

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  • VerrVerr Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh god, Dyson is like crack.

    I want to see my precious tree's grow more babies.

    More for my army. Mwahahaha.

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  • ZandraconZandracon Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh god. Dyson is awesome. Spent 10 minutes just massing a huge fleet of seedlings.

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  • MorkathMorkath Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    jesus altitude just sucked up like my whole day.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Provided this is the first level and also the final asteroid, I still think that was a lot of seeds:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/Hesh1990/Dyson_Domination.png

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  • SueveSueve Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    yeaarragghhh i updated the OP and safari crashed before i could post it

    yearhaahgh



    anyone check out http://tigsource.com/articles/2009/01/10/smokin-guns yet?

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  • ilmmadilmmad Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    GUNLIMB!

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  • JubehJubeh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Whoa Smoking Guns is out!?

    Edit: Wow I was super late. Came out at the beginning of the year.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Smoking Gun's <3

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  • JubehJubeh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Wow SG is super fun but super confusing. I wish there were some form of waypoint for finding the money bags.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    When I recommend Transcendence to my friends and coworkers, should I describe it as the sexy lovechild between Asteroids and Nethack or Asteroids and DnD?

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    RoyceSraphim wrote: »
    When I recommend Transcendence to my friends and coworkers, should I describe it as the sexy lovechild between Asteroids and Nethack or Asteroids and DnD?

    Nethack, it makes the most sense and if you friends aren't mega nerds(i.e post on PA) then they might be afraid of anything D&D relation.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    JamesDM wrote: »
    RoyceSraphim wrote: »
    When I recommend Transcendence to my friends and coworkers, should I describe it as the sexy lovechild between Asteroids and Nethack or Asteroids and DnD?

    Nethack, it makes the most sense and if you friends aren't mega nerds(i.e post on PA) then they might be afraid of anything D&D relation.

    If they play and are familiar with Nethack...then fear of D&D is unlikely.

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    JamesDM wrote: »
    RoyceSraphim wrote: »
    When I recommend Transcendence to my friends and coworkers, should I describe it as the sexy lovechild between Asteroids and Nethack or Asteroids and DnD?

    Nethack, it makes the most sense and if you friends aren't mega nerds(i.e post on PA) then they might be afraid of anything D&D relation.

    If they play and are familiar with Nethack...then fear of D&D is unlikely.

    Well if they play and are familiar with Nethack then I think the choice is obvious.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    JamesDM wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    JamesDM wrote: »
    RoyceSraphim wrote: »
    When I recommend Transcendence to my friends and coworkers, should I describe it as the sexy lovechild between Asteroids and Nethack or Asteroids and DnD?

    Nethack, it makes the most sense and if you friends aren't mega nerds(i.e post on PA) then they might be afraid of anything D&D relation.

    If they play and are familiar with Nethack...then fear of D&D is unlikely.

    Well if they play and are familiar with Nethack then I think the choice is obvious.

    I was just pointing out that Nethack falls much further down the geek spectrum then D&D does.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    JamesDM wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    JamesDM wrote: »
    RoyceSraphim wrote: »
    When I recommend Transcendence to my friends and coworkers, should I describe it as the sexy lovechild between Asteroids and Nethack or Asteroids and DnD?

    Nethack, it makes the most sense and if you friends aren't mega nerds(i.e post on PA) then they might be afraid of anything D&D relation.

    If they play and are familiar with Nethack...then fear of D&D is unlikely.

    Well if they play and are familiar with Nethack then I think the choice is obvious.

    I was just pointing out that Nethack falls much further down the geek spectrum then D&D does.

    This all seems a bit silly. I would never recommend a game as a sexy lovechild between a ridiculously old game and a ridiculously hard/nerdy game. Just say it's really good and describe what it's about. It's not as if you're making a life choice.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm thinking I should start a thread that encourages small competitions in free indie games, so that everyone can take part. Accomplish X in game Y. There were a number of threads that did this, a series run by one user, but I can't remember what they were called.

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  • LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Sounds swell to me. Although my gaming skills are lacking so i'll never be able to win, but fun nonetheless.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Lly wrote: »
    Sounds swell to me. Although my gaming skills are lacking so i'll never be able to win, but fun nonetheless.

    Well, it'll be more of a case of a small challenge that everyone attempts and then posts evidence of. It was done before with things like levels from Sonic, I believe. It's the kind of thing you can attempt again and again to get better at.

    I just want it to be free, and fun.

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  • LanrutconLanrutcon The LabyrinthRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Centipeed wrote: »
    I'm thinking I should start a thread that encourages small competitions in free indie games, so that everyone can take part. Accomplish X in game Y. There were a number of threads that did this, a series run by one user, but I can't remember what they were called.

    First challenge: Full spelunky run, no shortcuts used. Go!

    i can't do it

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  • DeswaDeswa Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The key is getting good gear from stealing from a shop. That and not having any dark rooms on the final section. Nothing like falling into a pit of lava to fuck you over.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Lanrutcon wrote: »
    Centipeed wrote: »
    I'm thinking I should start a thread that encourages small competitions in free indie games, so that everyone can take part. Accomplish X in game Y. There were a number of threads that did this, a series run by one user, but I can't remember what they were called.

    First challenge: Full spelunky run, no shortcuts used. Go!

    i can't do it

    Bolded for "This is exactly the opposite of what I mean".

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  • Panda4YouPanda4You Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Shouldn't we also include FUMBLL Bloodbowl in this list? It's almost a sorta' free MMORPGRPGRÖRGP.

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