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[Toma]

Should I make a thread for The Castle Doctrine? Worth the effort?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=522945

And I think there was another one in which I posted in.

 

[PandaPedinte]

Beat Estranged Act I, took me about an hour and half. It's another zombie shooter basically, which is kinda disappointing. It recycles many Half-life 2 game play elements, there are a lot of physics based environment puzzles, vents to crawl through and boxes to stack. The weapons also feel like HL2 weapons, they even reuse the HL2 smg. The level design is pretty decent, although having to crawl through various sewers and maintenance tunnels got pretty old.

Damn I was excited to play it.

 

[KodeAndGame]

I never realized Zachtronics released another game. Is Ironclad Tactics any good?

 

[Toma]

I never realized Zachtronics released another game. Is Ironclad Tactics any good?

Short: Yes.

If you want further feedback, give me a few minutes. I think I already wrote something about it in one of these threads.

 

[Toma]

I never realized Zachtronics released another game. Is Ironclad Tactics any good?

Quick and dirty: Ironclad Tactics is great. I am not sure about the value/game length ratio yet but its quite amazing how deep the customization tactics can go if you try to equip a deck for a certain level or even a certain task within a level to unlock more cards.

Setting is cool, the story comic is very well made and the deck building painless. Didnt try the MP yet, but the game is great fun.

Edit: Actually plenty of content in the game, great value/length ratio.

I’ve only put three hours into Ironclad Tactic, but I’m having a lot of fun with it. The basic game is this mix of card battler and tabletop wargame where you have to summon these war machines and drive them over the grid map to the opponents side before they do the same to you. The thing that stops it from being all out mad is you get action points every turn which dictates how strong the cards you can use are. The thing that caught me off guard which I hated first but now kinda love is the entire game is played in realtime despite being turn based. The turns process automatically moving over different periods where the units move, attack etc and you have to keep up with the automatic speed because if you don’t perform your actions in time you basically miss a turn, although you are able to queue up actions and each turn has enough downtime that once you get you head around the system I doubt you would ever miss a turn by mistake. I don’t anymore and I am pretty slow with this kinda stuff.

Like all random card games this can sometimes suffer from the issue of ill hands. If it takes you 10 cards before you draw a unit you could end up with the computer with 2-3 Ironclad already halfway across the map and once you get map control it is very difficult to pull victory back from that, especially in the early game when you haven’t unlocked any of the cards that can counter that. Also, this isn’t an issue for me because I like the simplicity of this, but you only get 20 cards in a deck so there is a fairly low limit on how complex the deck building gets.

Overall though, I would say it’s a real cool game with a lot of potential character and strategy and there is a ton of single player content here to roll through.

If you have any other questions, shoot.

 

[KodeAndGame]

Edit: Actually plenty of content in the game, great value/length ratio.



If you have any other questions, shoot.

Hmm sounds awesome. I never finished SpaceChem so I'm in the middle of that now on my ipad lol. I just made it to Hephaestus IV so only 3 more planets left I guess. I haven't been doing the optional challenges lately. Maybe I'll come back to those - they're tough!

 

[More_Badass]

Didn't see one yet so

Nidhogg - $14.99/sale $11.99 (PC)

http://www.nidhogggame.com/

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning fencing tug-of-war, full of graceful acrobatics and clumsy stabs. IRL yelling and excitement may occur, in this ultimate two-player showdown of fast-paced fencing and melee attacks.
Beware, advantages in Nidhogg are often fleeting, as new opponents continually spawn in your way. Use a variety of fencing maneuvers while armed -- lunges, parries, and even dirty tricks like throwing your sword. If swordless, press forward with punches, sweep kicks, dive kicks, rolls, and wall jumps.

 

[Toma]

Hmm sounds awesome. I never finished SpaceChem so I'm in the middle of that now on my ipad lol. I just made it to Hephaestus IV so only 3 more planets left I guess. I haven't been doing the optional challenges lately. Maybe I'll come back to those - they're tough!

"Only", considering a level can take me a full weekend now, that isnt really "only"

I was vowing myself not to permanently change my avatar until I've beaten SpaceChem, so ... yeah.

 

[KodeAndGame]

"Only", considering a level can take me a full weekend now, that isnt really "only"

I was vowing myself not to permanently change my avatar until I've beaten SpaceChem, so ... yeah.

LOL yeah, I was definitely using "only" loosely. I've made a lot of progress in the last two days but yeah, this game is TOUGH. I started breaking out paper and pen and I bet I'm gonna need that a lot soon.

 

[piratepwnsninja]

The Forest - PC/Oculus Rift Support

The Forest
The Forest is an open world survival horror game currently in development for PC.

Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

 

[Toma]

The Forest - PC/Oculus Rift Support

Awesome, that is the correct way to post Thanks for editing the post.

 

[More_Badass]

Not sure if anyone posted about this game yet

Rockets Fucking Everywhere - $1.50+ (PC, Mac, Linux)

http://phobos001.itch.io/rfe

ROCKETS FUCKING EVERYWHERE is a top-down bullet-hellish dodge-em-up with vicious...erm...viciousness. Travel and explode entertainingly in over five stages while listening to the awesome chiprock tracks by Graham 'Pitfall' Baker.

Impressions:

How could you not like a game called Rockets Fucking Everywhere? The title tells you everything you need to know about the game in one short phrase, from the whole tone of the game to the your main objective. There are rockets fucking everywhere so you better start dodging.

There isn't a story in RFE nor is there a need for one. An expansion of the original Gamejolt Contest version, this is pure twitchy evasion, and would feel right at home next to games like Super Hexagon, Goscurry, and Hyper Gauntlet. Your ship boosts forward into what is essentially an ocean of rockets. Why are there are dozens and hundreds of rockets flying through space? Who cares, just know that one hit will end you. Split second evasion is the only way to survive. And this explosive maze isn't your own obstacle; asteroids fly across the screens, lasers create deadly patterns to avoid, and later stages introduce new obstacles to evade. Clear a stage and you unlock an even more difficult version of the stage, known as "Balls To The Wall" mode. A pulsing soundtrack complements your difficult journey.

Rockets Fucking Everywhere isn't very subtle, and it probably won't be seen on many Game of the Year lists. But it excels at its singular goal of delivering a brutally challenging, fun, and addictive experience.

 

[Dascu]

Early #screenshotsaturday

Been doing some thinking on the pacing and structure of the castle. Might go for something a bit more open, akin to Super Metroid. Well, not that comparable, but I always liked how your way was blocked with those ominous big statues of the bosses you had to beat before you could go fight Mother Brain. Something similar to that would be neat. This would require an extra bossfight or two, but I love designing that.

By the way, I'm still waiting for feedback on the demo from some of you guys! You can always down the newest build here (quote to see):

 

[Toma]

Early #screenshotsaturday

Been doing some thinking on the pacing and structure of the castle. Might go for something a bit more open, akin to Super Metroid. Well, not that comparable, but I always liked how your way was blocked with those ominous big statues of the bosses you had to beat before you could go fight Mother Brain. Something similar to that would be neat. This would require an extra bossfight or two, but I love designing that.

By the way, I'm still waiting for feedback on the demo from some of you guys! You can always down the newest build here (quote to see):

What progress did you make in the meantime?

And seriously, give some feedback guys, I did already

 

[Dascu]

What progress did you make in the meantime?

And seriously, give some feedback guys, I did already

Difficulty settings, some controls adjustments, intro screen, other various things.

 

[More_Badass]

Somewhere - ????

http://www.indiedb.com/games/untitled-game-project

Somewhere is a first person exploration game.
A player travels through the game by becoming other people.as you navigate identities, you realize that each person you become, is a figment of another character's imagination and a part of yet another story.
Somewhere is therefore, most of all, a collection of stories, a collection that spawns characters through which a player might comprehend this town.

 

[PandaPedinte]

I just realised that this year there are lots of crowd-funded games being released, be it the final version or an alpha/beta just in January we got Broken Age, Divine Divinity: Original Sin and The Banner Saga, likely there are more games being released that I didn't list.

Still talking about indie games releasing this month, Octodad release date is January 30th. This month is crowded with releases.

 

[daydream]

Just in time for the end of the voting period, I finalised my list. Fantasic year, has to be said. Looking back via everyone's votes, I can only smile.

 

[PandaPedinte]

Just in time for the end of the voting period, I finalised my list. Fantasic year, has to be said. Looking back via everyone's votes, I can only smile.

2013 was an full of awesome games, 2014 only started and its already promising.

 

[More_Badass]

I just realised that this year there are lots of crowd-funded games being released, be it the final version or an alpha/beta just in January we got Broken Age, Divine Divinity: Original Sin and The Banner Saga, likely there are more games being released that I didn't list.

Still talking about indie games releasing this month, Octodad release date is January 30th. This month is crowded with releases.

Kickstarters I've backed/preordered that are releasing 2014
- Hyper Light Drifter
- Confederate Express
- Distance
- Dex
- Rimworld
- Catacomb Kids
- Scraps

 

[Toma]

Kickstarters I've backed/preordered that are releasing 2014
- Hyper Light Drifter
- Confederate Express
- Distance
- Dex
- Rimworld
- Catacomb Kids
- Scraps

I have serious doubts that HLD will see a full release in 2014.

 

[phantomspiker]

2013 was an full of awesome games, 2014 only started and its already promising.

The amount of Early Access games on my voting list has me pretty excited for 2014.

 

[ChosenPredator]

Really like the pictures or gifs along with the games because sometimes i have no idea if i want to research it without those but the forest looks so damn good

 

[Wok]

Pillow Castle looks like a copy of SCALE.

Pillow Castle - PC

http://pillowcastlegames.com/hamlet/

Hey! We're Pillow Castle Games from Pittsburgh, PA. We're a team of students from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center developing a new First Person Puzzle game built around Forced Perspective - here's a demo of the technology at work. "The Museum of Simulation Technology" is our playground we're using to wrangle our brains around using your perception as a weapon. Think of it as a "proof of concept".

By the way, this formatting can be copied and pasted, without the need of adding any dot to it:

[B]TITLE[/B] - PLAT
[QUOTE][IMG]IMG[/IMG]
[URL="LINK"]LINK[/URL]

DESCRIPTION TEXT
[/quote]

 

[Toma]

Pillow Castle looks like a copy of SCALE.

Pillow Castle - PC


By the way, this formatting can be copied and pasted, without the need of adding any dot to it:

What is this magic?

 

[More_Badass]

Too late

This is pretty cool. It's a tech demo for an upcoming game called Museum of Simulation Technology, and the core mechanics is all about forced perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfll06X16c

I think it uses the idea of perspective even better than SCALE

 

[Wok]

What is this magic?

It can be done recursively:

[plain]
[B]TITLE[/B] - PLAT
[QUOTE][IMG]IMG[/IMG]
[URL="LINK"]LINK[/URL]

DESCRIPTION TEXT
[/quote]
[/plain]

Too late

Dammit, lol.

 

[Throwaway123456789]

We ran a game jam a few weeks back, and actually got to officially borrow the LEGO license for the compo (crazy, I know!).

Here are the games we got in: http://www.123spill.no/ngjam
Some of the games contain Norwegian text, so you might have to go through some trial and error to find out the controls.

 

[Toma]

I just started playing Dwarf Fortress again and watched some more lets plays.

Still. Best. Game. Ever.

 

[r3n4ud]

Conspirocracy is on sale over at Desura for $2.49. Sale will be going on for awhile.

No clue if it's decent or not, but it's one of the games Toma listed in the 'Recently Released Indies' section.

 

[PandaPedinte]

Don't Starve is getting a expansion Reign of Giants.

 

[PandaPedinte]

The Rapture Is Here And You Will Be Forcibly Removed From Your Home - Free (PC/Mac)

Site

You’ve 20 minutes till the world ends. A great black disc fills the sky and looking at it fills your head with the sound of the void. It’s Lovecraftian in the simplicity of its horror. It is otherworldly power made real.

P.S: Description is from PCGamesN

 

[More_Badass]

Lakeview Cabin sequel - ????

http://hypnohustlergames.tumblr.com/

No details, play the first Lakeview Cabin here

Office Management 101 - PC

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=37780.0

The game will put you in the shoes of a regional branch manager of a consumer electronics company and you will be responsible for designing and building the office, hiring the staff and starting different projects that will go through the cycle of research, development, design, testing and marketing to be put on sale on market. The game will feature weird and humorous characters, corny jokes and some unexpected unlikely events happening while you're playing. In addition to the staff that works on products, there will also be supporting staff like managers, human resources, accountants, lawyers, janitors etc. that might not be required, but still strongly suggested to keep the office working smoothly.

Project Sky (working title) - ????

http://magnesiumninja.com/

Project Sky is a game of pirates, both in the sky and on the ocean. As the captain of your own ship, you must form and maintain a crew that is strong and loyal enough to fight with you through a perilous, shifting world full of raiders, monsters and traps.

Each time you play, the world that you traverse will be completely different. Locations will yield different results, and raiders could attack at any time. You must always be on your guard for anything, because if you die the game is over.

Frog Sord - PC

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=35723.0

World 3 preview

Tesla Breaks the World! - 2014 (PC, Mac, Linux)

http://www.indiedb.com/games/tesla-breaks-the-world

Tesla Breaks The World! (lovingly paraphrased as 'TBTW!') is a 2D platformer developed by Archetype Global for the PC, Mac and Linux. TBTW is a combination of platforming,
puzzle solving, randomly-generating levels, inventions and of course, zombies!

Paragon - ????

https://googledrive.com/host/0BzN5ZIZr-WtnVGgwNkZNaUw2LWM/index.html

Paragon is a PC game currently in production, more information coming soon!

Shadow Lab - ????

http://www.sparkypants.com/

In Shadow Lab™ is Jason Bourne meets Sarah Connor in an intense stealth game set in a bizarre underground research lab. Neither guns nor bows can help you in this dark place. You'll need to rely on quick wits and keen observation if you want to uncover the truth. Get spotted even once and it is game over. Thanks to procedural level generation you'll never play the same mission twice. When you never know what is around the next corner it is time to start improvising instead of just memorizing.

Joe X - Free (Browser)

http://joex-game.com/

Joe X is a 2D arcade spectacle fighter. Blair and I started working on this over Christmas 2013 to support the development of Specter (Blair also wanted to make a gift for his little brother).

Runers - ????

https://twitter.com/LGKGames

Runers is a top-down rogue-like shooter where as you advance you create more powerful spells and fight fierce monsters and bosses.

Forward To The Sky - PC, Mac, Linux

http://www.magic-nology.com/#

Forward to the Sky is a fast paced action game, an adventure in the sky ruins.
Balloon up into the clouds and dash forward! Explode the path, punch the enemies, break through the wall and beware of the traps.

Path To The Sky - PC, Mac, IOS

www.pathtothesky.com

A procedurally generated platformer/roguelike fusion. You are a force knuckle pilot and propel yourself towards the Sky through aerial combat. The higher you manage to climb, the harder the enemies and challenges will become. The world is being generated around you as you move, there are not doors or portals to higher "floors". I am trying to create a fun game for short but challenging rounds of arcade gameplay.

 

[More_Badass]

Eidolon sounds more survival intensive than I thought. I was expecting something more like Dear Esther with some light survival elements

When asked about dangers in the game:

Freezing cold waters, foodborne illness, bacterial infections, starvation, exhaustion, and a variety of predators (currently it’s just bears, but with plans for others, some much more exotic). Potentially a lot more or less after several cycles of playtesting and revision.

And how complex is survival:

1) We likely won’t kill you in your sleep, but you can die from cold, hunger, festering wounds, and illness from eating uncooked meat. Or at least, that’s the plan for the next build! Cooking on your campfire will likely be optional but a good idea for meats. Foods will spoil if left in your inventory too long. It’s not an insanely in-depth system, but it should be enough to be interesting.

And combat

The combat (and I hesitate to call it combat) is completely bow-and-arrow based right now. It's not combat exactly, because there are only two classes of wildlife: prey, which you can hunt, but which runs from you, and predators, which are nigh-impossible to kill, and are terribly, terribly dangerous to be around. So basically you're either hunting or running, never fighting.

Some new images:

Part of I-5 submerged in a mudslide

Bear

 

[Toma]

Quick note on the voting:

We have exactly 200 games in the point range for the votes, which is amazing, considering there were 200 Indie games in 2013 that people felt worth mentioning them in their GOTY.

And to show you a bit of the madness:

I really should make that automatic with a program next year like the other GOTY guys.

 

[One Foul Note]

We have exactly 200 games in the point range for the votes, which is amazing, considering there were 200 Indie games in 2013 that people felt worth mentioning them in their GOTY.

Wow, didn't expect that but happy news indeed. I've always been of the mindset that one of the major benefits of more small scale game development is that the final products can be designed to speak more personally to individuals over the more large scale games that through vast budgets have to be designed to appeal to a wider audience. Looking at the shear mass of games in the GOTY running, it seems like a lot of games have been speaking to individuals which I couldn't be more pleased with. Hopefully this trend can only continue and grow into 2014.

 

[daydream]

I know that Super Meat Boy comparisons are thrown around on a daily basis in GAF threads and the internet in general, but it seems to me that Frog Sord is actually the first game to follow in those footsteps. Not in terms of quality - nobody's actually played it yet - but in terms of mechanics and level design. You're basically Meat Boy holding a sword with the ability to air glide. If the gif in MBs post is indeed from world 3, it gives me the impression that the game, in its core, will solely consist of levels with spikes (and enemies) you have to navigate through.

Don't get me wrong, I look forward to it. It's just remarkable that it took 3+ years for someone to commit to that lineage (unless I'm forgetting something).

 

[Toma]

So here it is:

1 Papers, please! [DONE]
2 Gone Home
3 Gunpoint
4 Spelunky [DONE]
5 Rogue Legacy
6 Kentucky Route Zero
7 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
8 The Stanley Parable [DONE]
9 Risk of Rain [DONE]
10 Proteus
11 The Swapper [DONE]
12 MirrorMoon EP [DONE]
13 Guacamelee
14 FEZ [DONE]
15 Antichamber
16 Dust: An Elysian Tale
17 Full Bore [DONE]
18 Volgarr the Viking
19 Desktop Dungeons
20 Gorogoa
21 Outer Wilds [DONE]
22 Skullgirls
23 SuperHOT [DONE]
24 Little Inferno
25 Starseed Pilgrim
26 Card Hunter
27 Fjords
28 Teleglitch [DONE]
29 Monaco
30 La-Mulana
31 Factorio
32 Zeno Clash 2
33 Starbound
34 Divekick
35 Super House of Dead Ninjas
36 Don't Starve
37 Clairvoyance
38 Shelter
39 NEO Scavenger [DONE]
40 Knock Knock
41 Mercenary Kings
42 Broforce [DONE]
43 Reus
44 Gods Will Be Watching
45 Steamworld Dig
46 Depression Quest
47 One Way Heroics
48 Waking Mars
49 Cart Life
50 Door Kickers [DONE]

Now we need texts for each of those in the following format:

[b]NAME[/b] - Free Demo (if available)/PRICE (PLATFORMS)
[img]PICTURE1[/img][img]PICTURE2[/img]
[url="LINK"]LINK[/url]

[i]DESCRIPTION[/i]

[U]Defining moment:[/U] EXEMPLARY GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE THAT SHOWS WHY THIS GAME NEEDS TO BE CHECKED OUT.[/quote]

As before, copy the info and enter the proper info. In the voting thread, I'll put "[DONE]" next to all the games that Badass already covered and Badass, could you please also edit your previous posts with the platform/free demo/price info?

I will update this post over here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=97666943&postcount=108

Please also only post these impression posts over there in the thread. I'll put up the thread for it as soon as we have all texts, which also reminds me: We need a thread title.

50 Indie Games you could have played in 2013
IndieGAF recommends: 50 Best Indie Games 2013

etcetc. Shoot away.

 

[flowsnake]

Two Brothers is still buggy if anyone was wondering. I keep getting stuck every so often and unable to move, forcing me to reopen the game.

I'm guessing it's better than it used to be, but it isn't there yet.

 

[Toma]

Two Brothers is still buggy if anyone was wondering. I keep getting stuck every so often and unable to move, forcing me to reopen the game.

I'm guessing it's better than it used to be, but it isn't there yet.

Too bad to hear, did you still need to "hack" the savegame position to be able to access/continue the game?

 

[daydream]

Edit: Oops wrong thread.

Bummer about Two Brothers btw.

 

[flowsnake]

Too bad to hear, did you still need to "hack" the savegame position to be able to access/continue the game?

I haven't had to yet...haven't finished (or probably got very far) yet though.

 

[More_Badass]

Hey if you haven't seen, there's a new Full Bore screenshot in the game's thread

Shows off a new block

 

[PandaPedinte]

So here it is:

1 Papers, please! [DONE]
2 Gone Home
3 Gunpoint
4 Spelunky [DONE]
5 Rogue Legacy
6 Kentucky Route Zero
7 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
8 The Stanley Parable [DONE]
9 Risk of Rain [DONE]
10 Proteus
11 The Swapper [DONE]
12 MirrorMoon EP [DONE]
13 Guacamelee
14 FEZ [DONE]
15 Antichamber
16 Dust: An Elysian Tale
17 Full Bore [DONE]
18 Volgarr the Viking
19 Desktop Dungeons
20 Gorogoa
21 Outer Wilds [DONE]
22 Skullgirls
23 SuperHOT [DONE]
24 Little Inferno
25 Starseed Pilgrim
26 Card Hunter
27 Fjords
28 Teleglitch [DONE]
29 Monaco
30 La-Mulana
31 Factorio
32 Zeno Clash 2
33 Starbound
34 Divekick
35 Super House of Dead Ninjas
36 Don't Starve
37 Clairvoyance
38 Shelter
39 NEO Scavenger [DONE]
40 Knock Knock
41 Mercenary Kings
42 Broforce [DONE]
43 Reus
44 Gods Will Be Watching
45 Steamworld Dig
46 Depression Quest
47 One Way Heroics
48 Waking Mars
49 Cart Life
50 Door Kickers [DONE]

Now we need texts for each of those in the following format:

[/plain]

As before, copy the info and enter the proper info. In the voting thread, I'll put "[DONE]" next to all the games that Badass already covered and Badass, could you please also edit your previous posts with the platform/free demo/price info?

I will update this post over here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=97666943&postcount=108

Please also only post these impression posts over there in the thread. I'll put up the thread for it as soon as we have all texts, which also reminds me: We need a thread title.

50 Indie Games you could have played in 2013
IndieGAF recommends: 50 Best Indie Games 2013

etcetc. Shoot away.

I'll write impressions for some of the games once I'm back to my home later.

 

[More_Badass]

Please also only post these impression posts over there in the thread. I'll put up the thread for it as soon as we have all texts, which also reminds me: We need a thread title.

50 Indie Games you could have played in 2013
IndieGAF recommends: 50 Best Indie Games 2013

etcetc. Shoot away.

Did posts for Starbound and Gunpoint, added the info to my posts, and expanded a few of them as well

As for the thread titles, I like the IndieGAF Recommends suggestion. Well, at the very least, IndieGAF should be part of the thread title.

 

[More_Badass]

Since this was already featured in September won't do another post for it, but IRKALLA probably has the coolest menus ever

---

Forward To The Sky early gamplay video. I'm not much of an anime fan, but the graphics here are very vivid. Looks nice

 

[More_Badass]

Dusty Revenge Re-releasing on Steam, Includes Co-op and More

 

[More_Badass]

Quadrant - 2014 (PC)

http://hkfiftyone.wix.com/quadranthorrorgame

Quadrant is a first-person survival indie horror game, taking place in 1979, inside a calssified NASA research center. The game is based off of, and inspired by, a note that was given to us by an anonymous source. It was ours to use any way we liked. Our imaginations started filling in the blanks, and thus, Quadrant was born.

 

[alllen]

Not really a fan of horror, but the time and setting of that seem really interesting to me. Graphics really look nice too, they definitely improved a lot since their previous games.

 

[More_Badass]

Trying to remember the name of a game. Basically it was a racing game, and you'd control a sphere on a cylindrical track as it wound through abstract environments. You could rotate around the outside of the track to avoid obstacles that would slow you down. I remember it had a great sense of speed

The gameplay was similar to this game: http://demo.attractmodegames.com/taildrift-20140120/WebPlayer.html
But no planes, you controlled a sphere

Edit: nvm, remembered it. Game was Proun