Easily one of the best games so far this month, but I still got 30 or so to go
Try out Glitchspace, people!
...and you all should anticipate FRACT OSC next month.
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Easily one of the best games so far this month, but I still got 30 or so to go
Try out Glitchspace, people!
...and you all should anticipate FRACT OSC next month.
OP impressions, KiloBite:
Well, you cant describe it better than Snake in a 3D space, but the devs deserve a huge thumbs up for offering the ability to disabling any stylistic graphical options like scanlines and whatnot, as those gave me slight headaches. Other than that.. it works and is a good highscore game. Going through the level once you played for a while is also decently interesting and challenging with yourself obstructing so much of the path. Certainly came out well and is surprisingly polished, especially option wise. If you like the sound of that, you'll like this too, although I wished it had more gameplay options/modes.
Lennas Inception:
This game is VERY ambitious and also succeeds at its ambition. I am incredibly surprised at how good this actually is. Its a free randomized, highscore, permadeath (if you want) Zelda game, that creates the dungeon layouts, item placement, puzzles and enemies on the fly for you. It even accomplishes throwing in different randomized puzzles for the plethora of items you acquired and adjusts the difficulty of the enemies as you go along by adding more and stronger enemies. I just played my first round (permadeath) and died to some skeletons in dungeon 3 that ganged up on me after being a bit too "brave" (read as: stupid) for rushing into a pile of them instead of taking them on one by one. Additionally, it also has certain challenge modes that present you with other options like highscoring a only-1-life attempt or some other crazy permadeath challenges. Very, very cool.
Lift
Plane sandbox builder that recently added some challenges to actually use the built planes in. I find it very interesting that the actual vehicle design (wing length, weight, etc) actually can make a huge difference. You know not just "giving" a vehicle a certain speed and turn range, it just naturally gets it based on its physical features. However, I really wish they would add easier options to shape planes in forms other than pipes. Furthermore, the game is currently not much more other than the sandbox builder and they really need to add more challenges/modes to offer more actual "content", especially a decent tutorial with tutorial challenges to try your vehicles in. Games like this are always cool to see, but I'd really love more of them with actual levels/content. Until then, its probably safe to say that not many people will get too much out of this.
Magic Book
Lite sidescrolling roguelike that seems more fitting for the mobile platform because its simple, probably a bit too simple. You do pick up items like potions and fireballs, so its a huge step up over the lite ones that dont even have an inventory but its just not enough. The options presented in this game are too limited making you too often feel helpless instead of being able to prepare for situations. I dont see how I could have done my last run any better, because you dont have any major possibilities to improve yourself, and if I dont get the feeling that I could have done any better and still die in that very same space... then the game kinda fails.
>----------< Highly Recommended >----------<
1. Card City Nights
2. Cubesis
3. Glitchspace
4. Black Ice
5. Lennas Inception
6. Cosmochoria
>----------< Recommended >----------<
7. Banished
8. Box Out!
9. Heroes of Steel
10. Blue Saga
11. Action Painting Pro
>----------< Decent-ish >----------<
12. Lift
13. Izbot
14. KiloBite
15. Clockefeller
16. Bosses Forever
17. Astrovoid
>----------< Bleh >----------<
18. Magic Book
19. Guild of Dungeoneering
20. Grabbles
21. HOMEunculus
22. Cubrick
23. Goofball Goals
24. Cloudbase Prime
Well, you cant describe it better than Snake in a 3D space, but the devs deserve a huge thumbs up for offering the ability to disabling any stylistic graphical options like scanlines and whatnot, as those gave me slight headaches. Other than that.. it works and is a good highscore game. Going through the level once you played for a while is also decently interesting and challenging with yourself obstructing so much of the path. Certainly came out well and is surprisingly polished, especially option wise. If you like the sound of that, you'll like this too, although I wished it had more gameplay options/modes.
Lennas Inception:
This game is VERY ambitious and also succeeds at its ambition. I am incredibly surprised at how good this actually is. Its a free randomized, highscore, permadeath (if you want) Zelda game, that creates the dungeon layouts, item placement, puzzles and enemies on the fly for you. It even accomplishes throwing in different randomized puzzles for the plethora of items you acquired and adjusts the difficulty of the enemies as you go along by adding more and stronger enemies. I just played my first round (permadeath) and died to some skeletons in dungeon 3 that ganged up on me after being a bit too "brave" (read as: stupid) for rushing into a pile of them instead of taking them on one by one. Additionally, it also has certain challenge modes that present you with other options like highscoring a only-1-life attempt or some other crazy permadeath challenges. Very, very cool.
Lift
Plane sandbox builder that recently added some challenges to actually use the built planes in. I find it very interesting that the actual vehicle design (wing length, weight, etc) actually can make a huge difference. You know not just "giving" a vehicle a certain speed and turn range, it just naturally gets it based on its physical features. However, I really wish they would add easier options to shape planes in forms other than pipes. Furthermore, the game is currently not much more other than the sandbox builder and they really need to add more challenges/modes to offer more actual "content", especially a decent tutorial with tutorial challenges to try your vehicles in. Games like this are always cool to see, but I'd really love more of them with actual levels/content. Until then, its probably safe to say that not many people will get too much out of this.
Magic Book
Lite sidescrolling roguelike that seems more fitting for the mobile platform because its simple, probably a bit too simple. You do pick up items like potions and fireballs, so its a huge step up over the lite ones that dont even have an inventory but its just not enough. The options presented in this game are too limited making you too often feel helpless instead of being able to prepare for situations. I dont see how I could have done my last run any better, because you dont have any major possibilities to improve yourself, and if I dont get the feeling that I could have done any better and still die in that very same space... then the game kinda fails.
>----------< Highly Recommended >----------<
1. Card City Nights
2. Cubesis
3. Glitchspace
4. Black Ice
5. Lennas Inception
6. Cosmochoria
>----------< Recommended >----------<
7. Banished
8. Box Out!
9. Heroes of Steel
10. Blue Saga
11. Action Painting Pro
>----------< Decent-ish >----------<
12. Lift
13. Izbot
14. KiloBite
15. Clockefeller
16. Bosses Forever
17. Astrovoid
>----------< Bleh >----------<
18. Magic Book
19. Guild of Dungeoneering
20. Grabbles
21. HOMEunculus
22. Cubrick
23. Goofball Goals
24. Cloudbase Prime
BabySlayer
Banned
Not sure if this is out of place but....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wm8-DsVqHE
looks awesome, Megaman and Gunstar Heroes fans will like it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wm8-DsVqHE
looks awesome, Megaman and Gunstar Heroes fans will like it
More_Badass
Member
Okay, the dev had posted this in the Feedback/Play Testing thread on TIGForums, and I'm really enjoying it
Corridors of Uncertainity - Free pre-alpha (PC)
This game is awesome. Already feels polished and fun for a pre-alpha. The shooting feels tight and satisfying, the powers are fun to use, the effects (love the destruction on the ground when you cause an explosion) and lighting is really good. It's inspired by games like Robotron, Hotline Miami, Loaded, and while the Hotline Miami-ness is evident, the game feels like its own thing, thanks to the sci-fi style, destructible environments, and powers. The game gets hectic, but still allows for tactics like staying out of sight and using cover to take out a tough enemy with a melee attack or blowing through a wall to make a last-ditch escape.
Edit: And his other games are really good too, all worth playing
Self Destruction - Free (PC)
Secret Formula - Free (PC)
(R,G,B) - Free (PC)
Protactor - Free (PC)
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From the developer of Postmortem: One Must Die
Karaski - ????
Corridors of Uncertainity - Free pre-alpha (PC)
http://frankforce.com/?page_id=4704
Corridors of Uncertainty is a top down arcade ction roguelike with huge procedural generated maps that are fully destructible.
This game is awesome. Already feels polished and fun for a pre-alpha. The shooting feels tight and satisfying, the powers are fun to use, the effects (love the destruction on the ground when you cause an explosion) and lighting is really good. It's inspired by games like Robotron, Hotline Miami, Loaded, and while the Hotline Miami-ness is evident, the game feels like its own thing, thanks to the sci-fi style, destructible environments, and powers. The game gets hectic, but still allows for tactics like staying out of sight and using cover to take out a tough enemy with a melee attack or blowing through a wall to make a last-ditch escape.
Edit: And his other games are really good too, all worth playing
Self Destruction - Free (PC)
http://frankforce.com/?p=4685
Self Destruction” is a game about being trapped in a time travel loop and needing to kill all previous versions of yourself to progress. Each wave you’re actions from all previous waves are layered on top of each other but instead of helping you, they are the enemies that you need to kill.
Secret Formula - Free (PC)
http://frankforce.com/?page_id=4385
Secret Formula is the winner of Indie Speed Run 2013!
Secret Formula was created by the team IDK composed of Saam Pahlavan, Jerry Uan, and myself. We created the game in 48 hours based on the theme “Secret” and the element “Vines”. The gameplay is a mixture of rope swinging action and stealth mechanics.
(R,G,B) - Free (PC)
http://frankforce.com/?p=3829
(R,G,B) is a minimalist adventure game I made for Ludum Dare 26. The theme was “Minimalism”. My goal was to experiment with pure color values and explore the flat 2D space while keeping the game itself very simple. The gameplay is physics based, the only buttons are left, right and jump. It also supports keyboard or gamepad. There are no upgrades, weapons, powerups or anything to collect, though there is a potato at the end.
Protactor - Free (PC)
http://frankforce.com/?page_id=1897
Protractor” is a katamari shmup that I originally made for Ludum Dare 18. The theme was “enemies as weapons”.
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From the developer of Postmortem: One Must Die
Karaski - ????
http://koobazaur.com/
It’s a highly stylized Slavic-steampunk RPG emphasizing dialogue, stealth and not-getting-spotted-doing-illegal-stuff – think less-shooty Deus Ex meets Thirty Flights of Loving.
More_Badass
Member
Lemma's slo-mo predictive system
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Glitchspace
Seeing the programming breakdown on the Greenlight page shows the depth and possibilities you can achieve with the mechanic
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Glitchspace
So I've been playing the alpha and I have to agree with Toma, this game is great. The visual style reminds me of Mirror's Edge. with the stark white-red color scheme and minimal aesthetic, but gameplay is unique. While it's certainly a puzzler platformer, it feels more puzzler than platformer. Yes you need to jump over gaps and between platforms, but the core of the game is the visual programming mechanic. It took quite some time for me to wrap my head around the mechanic, and I'm still learning, but it lends itself so well to that sense of playful exploration and discovery, just learning what different variables do by testing and playing with them.
Seeing the programming breakdown on the Greenlight page shows the depth and possibilities you can achieve with the mechanic
That last one makes me excited to see how the game progresses and what kind of challenges the developers create.
i have no clue what is going on here. What is that predictive system supposed to do? You can run through a level and the game creates walls to get you to the end safely? Seems kinda... beside the point of a parkour game, but maybe I am just misunderstanding this.
More_Badass
Member
One Foul Note
Member
The lovely people at TinyBuild sent me an email the other day saying that Speedrunners is 50% off this week. I've had a lot of fun with this game and for the price it is currently (about £3-4) then I would highly recommend it to anyone who ever played Super meat Boy and wondered what it might be like if you could play it multiplayer, and shoot rockets at your friends. Also has local play and online and level building and all that jazz.
So.. did I miss this?
Windforge is now available to buy on GoG - did this come out already?!
Edit
Comes out today - I guess GoG were first
Windforge is now available to buy on GoG - did this come out already?!
Edit
Comes out today - I guess GoG were first
One Foul Note
Member
Take this with a grain of salt because I have played this one alpha release behind the current one (might go back and dig into the latest build for sure), but I can't recommend Windforge at all. Every character movement and UI interaction has a clumsiness to it which makes the game just constantly irritating to play.
PandaPedinte
Member
I also recommend Speedrunners, I haven't played in a while but the game is very fun to play with friends and the developers updates the game constantly.
One Foul Note
Member
That's disappointingLooks like it has so much potential as well
Yeah, I must admit I was super bummed out. I just was really ready to love a game where you kill whales and ride their corpses around as cadavar airships. On a positive note though, the humble release hasn't been updated since the end of January so hopefully they've spent some of that time tightening up the controls and general performance of the game. I'll write up some impressions once I have given the steam version a fair go.
Thanks man, appreciate it. I'll file it under "maybe" for now - I have both Dark Souls II and (potentially) infamous SS over the next couple of weeks to play.
And HAWKEN. Love me some Hawken.
More_Badass
Member
Yeah, I was always excited for the game, and happy it was funded on KS, but idk, something always kept me from pre-ordering. So I'm interested in those impressions as well
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So saw this game Dead Years yesterday. Huge Project Zomboid influence, obviously. Maybe a bit too much, even the website is set up similarly (Here's PZ's site for comparison)
But the art style looks so good
The hook here is that you travel with a dog as your companion and the open world has everything from small to large cities, highways, forests, towns, etc. More details will be coming soon, but I'm anticipating the game
More_Badass
Member
RPS's impressions of Windforge are not very promising
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/11/wot-i-think-windforge/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/11/wot-i-think-windforge/
Krystof Koreni
Neo Member
Although if the website layout and language are that derivative, it doesn't exactly bode well for the project as a whole, right? Hope to be proven wrong, of course...
Kind of feel the same. The game has such great promise but after spending a good few hours in the beta I came out feeling like the game requires massive amount of polish for it to get to the point where I'd actually enjoy playing it beyond just mucking about.
Was hoping they would address it but since the early alpha it's been pretty much just about adding in content rather than go back to the initial systems and fix on it.
The graphic style also doesn't lend it self well to the viewpoint. the odd 3D way of showing layers doesn't mix well with the static 2D front of the rest of the game.
The team seems passionate though, so really hoping they take all of this to heart and work on it as it's stand now it'll go down as an average experience.
GOD DAMMIT
More_Badass
Member
Think I'm going to take a leaf of Toma's book here. Will flesh them out with some summaries soon
1. Glitchspace
2. Cosmochoria
3. Nothing To Hide
4. Grabbles
5. Xaxi
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6. Retrobooster
7. Box Out
8. NeonXSZ
9. Lift
10. Bosses Forever 2.Bro
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11. Tesseract
12. KiloBite
13. Mirage
14. Maverick Bird
15. Action Painting Pro
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16. cubrick
17. HOMEunculus
18. Offworld
19. Black Ice
20. Walk
1. Glitchspace
2. Cosmochoria
3. Nothing To Hide
4. Grabbles
5. Xaxi
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6. Retrobooster
7. Box Out
8. NeonXSZ
9. Lift
10. Bosses Forever 2.Bro
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11. Tesseract
12. KiloBite
13. Mirage
14. Maverick Bird
15. Action Painting Pro
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16. cubrick
17. HOMEunculus
18. Offworld
19. Black Ice
20. Walk
PandaPedinte
Member
Bosses Forever 2.Bro - Played it for a bit and I wasn't able to notice the boss adapting to my moves and strategy, some times he seemed a bit dumb like going flying and staying at the top while I was under him just shooting without any peril. Maybe I'll give it another chance later this month.
Surprised you dont like Black Ice at all. Its a randomized 3D FPS roguelike...RPG... thing. Whats your issue with it?
I mean, it has plenty of issues, but I think its unique and interesting enough at least.
More_Badass
Member
The shooting, the enemies, just overall, I didn't find the game that fun or enjoyable. But it does have promise; it's a game I'll come back to in a few months to see how it's improved
One Foul Note
Member
I had the same experiences, the concept was fun but the moment to moment gameplay was really dull and uninspiring. Hopefully they can tighten it up a bit.
One Foul Note
Member
Put some time into the final release of Windforge and sadly my impressions echo that of RPS. It's a poor experience that is far greater as a concept then as a game. They appeared to have fixed relatively little of my complaints with the alpha. The feeling of control is still really loose and offputting and the world is still stuck in this odd limbo where it is nether open world madness (of a Minecraft or Terreria) or a tight scripted experience so it just sits somewhere between and results in you wandering around a lot and not really knowing what you should be doing. If you only play one whale hunting game this month then it looks like it should probably be From Hells Heart (of whatever it was called.)
PandaPedinte
Member
Nothing to Hide - Along to Cosmochoria I can say it's one of the best games I played this month. When Messofanego said it was an anti-stealth game I had a totally different idea about what this game could be about, I thought it was a game about some girl sharing things in social media websites, but for my surprise it has little similarity to what I was expecting from the game. I don't want to spoil nothing of this game so go play it, and don't try to lie to me I know who is playing this game right now and who's only pretending.
More_Badass
Member
Crowdfunding ends tomorrow, still has little over a thousand left to reach its funding goalNothing to Hide - Along to Cosmochoria I can say it's one of the best games I played this month. When Messofanego said it was an anti-stealth game I had a totally different idea about what this game could be about, I thought it was a game about some girl sharing things in social media websites, but for my surprise it has little similarity to what I was expecting from the game. I don't want to spoil nothing of this game so go play it, and don't try to lie to me I know who is playing this game right now and who's only pretending.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Year Walk left me feeling unsatisfied, it feels like a series of totally incomplete thoughts that never amounts to anything. It's going for some kind of metaphorical punchline but leaves with a rather expected ending. I think reading the journal in NG+ was the best part of the game. It is very pretty and the music is well done but all I can think of is the squandered potential behind a few really annoying puzzles and the reworks that had to be done since the game was no longer on a machine with a gyroscope and multi-touch interface.
PandaPedinte
Member
I think they can reach it.
More_Badass
Member
Hey Toma, looks what's coming to Steam this month
Hey Toma, looks what's coming to Steam this month
Haha, good thing I have it on the best platform for it already anyway
More_Badass
Member
Wok
Member
Hey Toma, looks what's coming to Steam this month
Great news, the game is very good indeed. Beware, The Witness!
More_Badass
Member
Have you guys heard of Starship Corporation?
http://www.starshipcorporation.com
Or am I late to the party here? Any impressions?
http://www.starshipcorporation.com
Or am I late to the party here? Any impressions?
PandaPedinte
Member
The name sounds familiar but I don't think it was talked in any of the indie threads.
More_Badass
Member
Well then...
Starship Corporation - Free alpha, $5+ to preorder (PC)
http://www.starshipcorporation.com
Starship Corporation is a Realtime Strategy Game that contains 4 Elements: Ship Design, Crew and AI Tactics, Ship Building and Trade.
The player is able to create the layout for Spaceships and Planetary Installations with multiple decks within the boundaries of existing fuselages. A completed design can then be challenged by playing a series of missions to test the crews reaction to emergencies and the ships combat capabilities.
One Foul Note
Member
Sounds quite fun, it's almost like they made a game version of Galaxy Trucker.
I leave for a day and Black Ice hate is what I have to come back to, smh.
Seriously, some interesting releases happened. I'll be getting Towerfall for sure, I'm rather interested in Dominique Pamplemousse, same with Frozen Endzone. I'm also tempted to look through my posts and find my critical statement on the Windforge KS. Sad I wasn't wrong, but that game looked rough from the outset.
Edit: Nothing to Hide made it, yay!
Seriously, some interesting releases happened. I'll be getting Towerfall for sure, I'm rather interested in Dominique Pamplemousse, same with Frozen Endzone. I'm also tempted to look through my posts and find my critical statement on the Windforge KS. Sad I wasn't wrong, but that game looked rough from the outset.
Edit: Nothing to Hide made it, yay!
More_Badass
Member
I'm thinking of picking up The Banner Saga, any IndieGAF thoughts on the game?
The combat isn't too deep and it has supposedly some pacing issues (I'm not too far in), but the worldbuilding is really well done, game's looks and sounds gorgeous, and is absolutely fun to play, imo.
macfoshizzle
Member
Wow Infested Planet is great. Surprisingly the gameplay is pretty deep and addictive.
More_Badass
Member
Yeah, sacrificing a marine to build a turret in a key position and then regreting that ten minutes later when you're low on points and you're getting overwhelmed, your decisions can really have long term consequences deep into a mission. I just love the visual of seeing your team holding off thousands on enemies.
Is there a way to counter the poison spewing enemies? Other than dragging a med pod around?
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Okay, decided to pre-order Starship Corporation
Along with the premise and alpha, these videos sold me on the game
Major Collision
Magnetic Storm
Drone Attack
Also it was Greenlit a while ago and will be coming to Steam/Early Access
macfoshizzle
Member
the only way i found is the have a medic with you or heal at the spawn control. i always try to keep away from the toxic gas or the sniper turrets range. you can see their range when you click on each one. Then have airstrike take care of it..
This looks unreal. I've been sent a key as well - installing. Will post impressions soon.
More_Badass
Member
Toma, mentioned your comment about GIF in the Lemma Devlog. Dev's response:
More_Badass
Member
is coming to Early Access tomorrow
Twitter said:
PandaPedinte
Member
Mercenary Kings is getting out of Early Access on 25th.
More_Badass
Member
Soon cool news: Pixel Piracy is now being published by Re-Logic