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Indie Games 2016 [January] New Year, New Games, New Discussions
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Wow this one is looking great! I believe I know one of the guys working on the backgrounds, but had not seen the actual game yet!
Also, Qasir al-Wasat got officially announced, and the release will be January 19th!
Last but not least, you guys are aware of Slipstream's Kickstarter, right? It has roughly 2K to go in just 8 days, but I believe this game really has some great stuff going on, not just another shallow retro-racer.
Also: happy new year y'all!
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The Thin Silence - PC
Exemplar - PC
Blazons and Bastards - PC
The Scape - ????
Delusional - ????
Darkness Anomaly - PC
Dropcore - PC, Mac, Linux
Dungeon Rushers - 2016 (PC, Mac, Linux)
Tricky Towers - 2016 (PC, Mac, Linux, PS4)
Unnamed Game - ????
Previously Mentioned
Heart & Slash
Illusion of Beast
Subterrain
Death Trash
Wizard of Legend
Dying Ember
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=31994.0
A narrative-driven atmospheric, puzzle-platformer based on a mechanic of collecting and combining items to create tools you use to manipulate your surroundings. You begin deep underground and must work your way back to the surface and the past you left behind.
Exemplar - PC
http://www.onecoincreations.com/
In Exemplar, the player takes the role of the head of a government organisation established after an unexplained surge in the number of people being found with extraordinary abilities. Many of these present a threat to those around them and in some cases, the planet as a whole. Others are willing to join the agencies to help keep the world safe. Gameplay itself is broken into two parts. The procedural card game, and the procedural comic.
Blazons and Bastards - PC
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52222.0
Blazons and Bastards is our love letter to 80's RPGs, with a little mix of FTL and a Choose Your Own Adventure book. The idea for the game is that you are a wizard tending to a group of adventures (in proxy) using magical cards on your table. As they meet obstacles in the dungeons they crawl, the results of their actions will be written into a quest book.
The Scape - ????
http://noahvn.wix.com/welcome-to-the-scape#!blank/qacga
The Scape is a Doom inspired, action packed top down metroidvanian shooter, set in an alternate future, aboard an abandoned space station packed with aliens and strange creatures.
Delusional - ????
https://twitter.com/dlsnl_game
Welcome to Memnon City. Neon lights, gruesome murders, a flashy hitman and a dark psychopathic world!
Darkness Anomaly - PC
http://www.indiedb.com/games/darkness-anomaly
In your role as a detective it is your task to solve a crime happened in your hometown. The scenery takes place deep down in the woods, which makes the strange and disturbing things that happen during your stakeout even more frightening. It's a compelling story that is driven forward with every decision you make
Dropcore - PC, Mac, Linux
Dungeon Rushers - 2016 (PC, Mac, Linux)
Tricky Towers - 2016 (PC, Mac, Linux, PS4)
http://weirdbeard.nl/tricky-towers/
Tricky Towers is a frantic physics action puzzler. You have to build a tower with tetromino bricks and make sure it doesnt topple. To spice things up, use magic spells to either support your structure or mess up the towers of your opponents. With spells flying everywhere and bricks dropping like flies Tricky Towers gives a chaotically good time
Unnamed Game - ????
Previously Mentioned
Heart & Slash
Illusion of Beast
Subterrain
Death Trash
Wizard of Legend
Dying Ember
More_Badass
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Another look at the sci-fi game from the dev of NEO Scavenger
Messofanego
Banned
Anyone played Wheels Of Aurelia? Mostly asking how long is it.
More_Badass
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I don't even know that came out already
Messofanego
Banned
Gave 30 min to Wheels of Aurelia, got 2 endings. There are 10. This is actually fun to play! Getting quite addicted now, want to do all of them.
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Kaidan - 2016
http://www.kaidangame.com/
An asymmetric multiplayer survival horror and role-playing game inspired by the collective experience of telling scary stories.
A game about the obscure pleasure of scaring others and being scared. Be the villain in your own horror story and let other players engage in your story. Explore, discover and share your fears, and you may overcome them.
Looking forward to the Moobspressions.
As am I! I didn't do enough towards the end of last year, but I've resolved to give myself a bit more "me" time this year.
I've already played 2 games from the OP and, thanks to Baddy, made a change to my site so I now have the most recent articles on display on my landing page.
Most productive.
God, I love when the Factorio production cycles kick in:
That looks nothing like how I remember it did when you guys spoke about it last. I remember it looking like this:
That looks nothing like how I remember it did when you guys spoke about it last. I remember it looking like this:
Just look at the cute little lightning thingies in the lab! How could you possibly resist.
PandaPedinte
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Convoy
I bought Convoy because it's marketed on the store page as being inspired by FTL and Mad Max, so the mix of the two brought some curiosity to myself. While it indeed has some similarities with FTL, most of the core mechanics are different, like the combat the way you navigate through the map, etc.
The plot is the following, your ship was damaged and had to land on a desert planet called Omek Prime that is dominated by three factions that fight between themselves and will try kill you whenever is possible. Since your ship was damaged, you need to retrieve four components to fix it and get out of that planet and the main objectives are randomly choose when you start a new game. The map is fixed, so the roads will always be in the same place as well the place where your ship is landed (center of map), the navigation is the first difference form FTL, while on FTL you jumped through beacons on a zone, in Convoy you drive through the map and the terrain influences the amount of fuel you spend, driving on roads makes you go fast and save fuel, driving on elevated parts of the map will make it goes slower and consumes more fuel.
About the combat, you have your MCV that must be protect because if destroyed you get an automatic game over, so you need to protect it using the other vehicles. The take on the battles in interesting, you can't control the MCV, it's always going to move on a straight line during battles, so you need to position the other vehicles because their weapons have a range and to attack an enemy vehicle it need to be inside your range and can't be obstructed by another vehicle. What I found interesting in the battles is the need to pay attention to your environment, because there are debris on the roads and letting your cars hit means it's going to get destroyed.
As you progress on the missions the factions becomes more strong raising their influences over zones and making the random encounter harder, so you need to stop on an outpost to upgrade your vehicles, buy new weapons replenish the fuel too keep going. As FTL you can unlock other starting cars by fulfilling certain criteria.
One point that I really disliked on the game were all the pop culture references it's going to make, the ones I found were blatantly in my face, like being a point on the main quests. I can appreciate references and easter eggs but those felt like trying too hard. Just to give an example on the main quests there were references to:
and it goes for the random encounters, so in the end instead feeling like a homage all those easter-eggs/references felt overdone.
I recommend the game, because the way the combat works is interesting and can get very chaotic.
I bought Convoy because it's marketed on the store page as being inspired by FTL and Mad Max, so the mix of the two brought some curiosity to myself. While it indeed has some similarities with FTL, most of the core mechanics are different, like the combat the way you navigate through the map, etc.
The plot is the following, your ship was damaged and had to land on a desert planet called Omek Prime that is dominated by three factions that fight between themselves and will try kill you whenever is possible. Since your ship was damaged, you need to retrieve four components to fix it and get out of that planet and the main objectives are randomly choose when you start a new game. The map is fixed, so the roads will always be in the same place as well the place where your ship is landed (center of map), the navigation is the first difference form FTL, while on FTL you jumped through beacons on a zone, in Convoy you drive through the map and the terrain influences the amount of fuel you spend, driving on roads makes you go fast and save fuel, driving on elevated parts of the map will make it goes slower and consumes more fuel.
About the combat, you have your MCV that must be protect because if destroyed you get an automatic game over, so you need to protect it using the other vehicles. The take on the battles in interesting, you can't control the MCV, it's always going to move on a straight line during battles, so you need to position the other vehicles because their weapons have a range and to attack an enemy vehicle it need to be inside your range and can't be obstructed by another vehicle. What I found interesting in the battles is the need to pay attention to your environment, because there are debris on the roads and letting your cars hit means it's going to get destroyed.
As you progress on the missions the factions becomes more strong raising their influences over zones and making the random encounter harder, so you need to stop on an outpost to upgrade your vehicles, buy new weapons replenish the fuel too keep going. As FTL you can unlock other starting cars by fulfilling certain criteria.
One point that I really disliked on the game were all the pop culture references it's going to make, the ones I found were blatantly in my face, like being a point on the main quests. I can appreciate references and easter eggs but those felt like trying too hard. Just to give an example on the main quests there were references to:
The Breaking Bad, Back to the Future, A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek
I recommend the game, because the way the combat works is interesting and can get very chaotic.
More_Badass
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Hieroglyphika - early 2016 (PC)
http://www.hieroglyphika.info/
Hieroglyphika is a new take on the hardcore roguelike formula.
A prussian adventurer gets lost in an ancient egyptian pyramid buried deep under the sand of the desert and full of traps and monstrous beings. He must decrypt hieroglyphs to learn spells and to understand the magical nature of armor and weapons.
More_Badass
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Revamped melee in SuperHOT
Looks weird, but whatever. SuperHOT in VR was amazing. Cant wait for it.
One Foul Note
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Honestly, looks a bit rubbish. Looks like the main character is just swinging their fists towards the enemies and they are breaking apart. Would be nice to see a little more impact with the melee.
More_Badass
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Yeah, that's the thing that stuck out to me. Seems to be hitting enemies that aren't in range of his fists
More_Badass
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Did anyone ever get a chance to check out Pictures Of A Reasonably Documented Year?
It's free, psychological horror, and should scratch that "Her Story" itch
It's free, psychological horror, and should scratch that "Her Story" itch
Did anyone ever get a chance to check out Pictures Of A Reasonably Documented Year?
It's free, psychological horror, and should scratch that "Her Story" itch
Yep, it was cute, but in the end way too linear and not really all that interactive.
Nabs
Member
TinyBuild (SpeedRunners, Lovely Planet) is announcing 4 new games this week, one each day: http://tinybuild.com/fournification
It looks like we're going to get our first taste of Lovely Planet 2. I really hope it's as good as the first.
It looks like we're going to get our first taste of Lovely Planet 2. I really hope it's as good as the first.
Busy bees. I'd love if someone could throw each announcement in here, so I dont need to remember checking the site
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The first one is The Final Station
http://thefinalstation.com/
The second one is Roll Playing Game. Played the alpha demo last year, was a lot of fun.
http://roll-playing-game.com/
Nice to hear! We actually renamed the game recently, so don't be surprised if "Roll Playing Game" won't be the title of the second game.
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It was a nice pun thoughNice to hear! We actually renamed the game recently, so don't be surprised if "Roll Playing Game" won't be the title of the second game.
Yeah, I am really curious as well. Might need to skim some user reviews later to decide if I bite.
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Too. Many. Clients.
Yeah, I loved it, but it was too misleading as there aren't really any RPG elements in the game. And Google simply redirects to Role Playing Game.It was a nice pun though
I'm curious now what games 3 and 4 will be.
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Third one is likely a Lovely Planet sequel, that bright colorful artstyle is a dead giveaway. You can even see the purple finish line marker and similar cloud shapes
The fourth, I have no clue
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Wish there was an easier way to learn about alphas/betas/etc. that are only available through a dev's site. Some of my favorite indie purchases were of games before they were on Humble or Steam. Door Kickers, Broforce, Factorio, etc.
It's easy to learn about new releases on Steam, Humble, GMG, but the only way to learn about site-only games are either through these threads, articles on RPS and other PC related sites, and coming across it on TIG, Tumblr, itch.io, or emails
It's easy to learn about new releases on Steam, Humble, GMG, but the only way to learn about site-only games are either through these threads, articles on RPS and other PC related sites, and coming across it on TIG, Tumblr, itch.io, or emails
One Foul Note
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In a move that shocked no one, TinyBuilds first game is 'The Final Station.' It now has a trailer and some other details on the site.
http://tinybuild.com/thefinalstation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1gmBupfIZg
http://tinybuild.com/thefinalstation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1gmBupfIZg
More_Badass
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Now this looks really cool
Humqn Fishbowl - ????
Seems simple? Well....
Who knows what secrets await?
Humqn Fishbowl - ????
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=46036.0
An experimental game where you interact with the figure. Different body parts and interactions cause different animations to play. There'll be more to it
Seems simple? Well....
Who knows what secrets await?
More_Badass
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Got $$ set aside for The Witness, now there are still way too many interesting games coming out in January and February
Probably going to pick up The Deadly Tower of Monsters and Firewatch
Thankfully, I learned I could stream my brother's Xbox One to my laptop so I don't have to pick up Rise of the Tomb Raider
Probably going to pick up The Deadly Tower of Monsters and Firewatch
Thankfully, I learned I could stream my brother's Xbox One to my laptop so I don't have to pick up Rise of the Tomb Raider
PurpleMoustache
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Do we have a price on The Witness? I'm personally estimating $30
More_Badass
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I'm expecting as high as $40, but hoping between $20 - $30
I'd be happy with £20-25 I think. £30 might be pushing me a little, especially because I expect Firewatch to be £20 ish as well.
Nabs
Member
I could see $40, especially after Talos hit and did pretty well.