The indie game thread

[OneQuarterPower]

That "someone" was probably me. Something about keeping a limited soundtrack for battles helping people acclimate to higher difficulties more easily, since they're already familiar with most of the blah blah blah. Look, I loved the game, and I'm not a rhythm-games kinda guy. What really sold it for me, oddly enough, was the writing - not only did they heap on that wry humor and wordplay I oh so love¹, but the characters seem reasonably real under the circumstances to boot².
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¹"Polish Remover" is perhaps a darker example, but it's one of the ones that'll stick with you.
² After waking up in mysterious environs, with no memory of how he got there, one of the main character's first questions to the omnipresent narrator is, "did you steal my wallet?" See also: wry humor.

I pretty much agree with everything in this and the previous post. My only real kvetches with it are practically the same ones already mentioned, especially since the really fun songs like Piano Jam and Guitar Sound were only introduced at the very end. I really wish there could have been a couple more songs that messed with the tempo or rhythm more, as well. The characterisation was actually remarkably solid, and I too was sold on the dry humor of the story. I wish I remember more of the item descriptions from that. I'm sure there's a wiki with all of them catalogued somewhere out there.

[Graknorke]

Guys. I think I found: SWEEB BRO AND HELLE JEFF;;; THEG AME

Here is a link to a download and review.
And a video of Pewdie playing it.

[MobileMammal]

I just finished Ib, and I just got OFF, based on the suggestion of Triangle Man.

Ib was actually pretty cool! I'd say it and Yume Nikki are requirements to play if you are into that sort of suspenseful game. Lone Survivor was pretty good in that field, too.

I just started OFF, so nothing to report yet.

[Solaris]

So I just finished Sword and Sworcery EP.

I need a shoulder to cry on, who volunteers?

*raises hand however many moons later*

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Hey, quick question, did anyone else find and use the Time Paradox Moon Room place?

[deathsbuddy]

No, how do you do that?

[Solaris]

I think that this is a thing where the "oh i can't get the thing until the Bright/Dark moon so I might as well not go try" hurts you? Because it was really easy for me to do and figure out...

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I went to sleep the dreamworld when there wasn't a Dark or Bright moon and I followed the Bear Warrior that you see from the first time that you go in the dreamworld until he entered the the big tree that you find the Blue Trigon at. I fought him and won, and it gave me the option to finish him. I let him live and he left, but he dropped a key.
I woke up, entered the forest and unlocked the steel door after you enter the dark forest but before you reach the rainbow. Inside there was a starry room with a place to sit down, if you sat then you gained the ability to change the moon phases and cause a time paradox that let you continue the session without losing completion percentage or waiting.

[deathsbuddy]

I might go back and do that anyway.

[OneQuarterPower]

Guys. I think I found: SWEEB BRO AND HELLE JEFF;;; THEG AME

Here is a link to a download and review.
And a video of Pewdie playing it.

I downloaded and played the game for a lark. This game is what SBaHAJ the gmae would be like, for sure. An evil doctor even says the infamous "HE HE HE". It doesn't get any less surreal after the lewd keyboard section. I have to give it the credit that it had more continuity than I thought it would, seeing as eventually you actually fight a sunfish.

[Karhs12]

"Collect all the hearts to progress furher"?
New favorite game

[CapnCourage]

Super Crate Box. Sweet mother of all things that are right in this world. This game is so dang addicting, but the ambush mode man... THE AMBUSH MODE.

http://supercratebox.com/

EDIT: I wish I knew how to hide the link in normal words instead of the actual URL appearing, cause I'm a newb that way

[baxbound]

Super Crate Box. Sweet mother of all things that are right in this world. This game is so dang addicting, but the ambush mode man... THE AMBUSH MODE.

http://supercratebox.com/

EDIT: I wish I knew how to hide the link in normal words instead of the actual URL appearing, cause I'm a newb that way

1) Omg I love super crate box. That is what I did when the internet went out for three days.

That. Is. What. I. Did.

2) To link something within text, highlight the text and press the link button. Enter in your link, and it will do all of the work for you.

[Graknorke]

That is what I did when the power went out for three days.

I am suddenly incredibly confused.
Does it have some sort of card game adaption?

[Reecer6]

I am suddenly incredibly confused.
Does it have some sort of card game adaption?

Of course! Because everyone knows that 1. to play it, you must have 8 hands at least and 2. that bax is an octopus.

[baxbound]

Shit, I derped. I meant internet. :P

[-Benedict]

AAAAGHHGAAHAGJJAGHGH

So I've been playing myself a lot of VVVVVV, having not played it until it went on sale on steam and all. So far I've explored the entire left side of the map and nabbed all its trinkets (including Purest Unobtainium), and cleared out the Tower. Only now I'm going through that lab with the weird Kid Icarus screen wrapping mechanic, and I'm stuck on one trinket in particular. Anybody ever manage to nab the one in Edge Games? FUCKING edge games? Where you need to rapid-fire flip between like fifty little pink Pac-Man dudes in order to maybe not die assuming your flips were pixel-perfect? It doesn't look like it should be so hard but it SO IS, EUUGUHAGAH
seriously if any of you people actually managed to grab that thing
seriously

[deathsbuddy]

I just unlocked the Nemesis Challenge in Cave Story+

Noooooooooooooooooo

[Softspoken]

AAAAGHHGAAHAGJJAGHGH

So I've been playing myself a lot of VVVVVV, having not played it until it went on sale on steam and all. So far I've explored the entire left side of the map and nabbed all its trinkets (including Purest Unobtainium), and cleared out the Tower. Only now I'm going through that lab with the weird Kid Icarus screen wrapping mechanic, and I'm stuck on one trinket in particular. Anybody ever manage to nab the one in Edge Games? FUCKING edge games? Where you need to rapid-fire flip between like fifty little pink Pac-Man dudes in order to maybe not die assuming your flips were pixel-perfect? It doesn't look like it should be so hard but it SO IS, EUUGUHAGAH
seriously if any of you people actually managed to grab that thing
seriously

The rapid fire flips are very tricky, but they're the same timing through each set of them! You can do it!

[-Benedict]

[6:55:05 PM] Benedict: just... "beat" sword and sworcery
[6:55:13 PM] Benedict: i understand even less jack shit than before

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[6:55:47 PM] Benedict: at the ending there was this big apparently meaningless clusterfuck of symbolism and weird things and you die or something and
[6:56:04 PM] Benedict: there's a voice clip that says "begin transmission" and then reads out a list of numbers
[6:56:29 PM] Benedict: i was wondering what it was and thought well it's ten digits maybe it's a phone number
[6:56:34 PM] Benedict: so i called it
[6:56:47 PM] Benedict: it played about half a minute of weird music, then made a beep sound and went silent
[6:56:52 PM] Benedict: over the telephone

[6:56:59 PM] Benedict: I CAN'T

okay listen this game is really atmospheric and lovely and impressive but seriously i understand less about what is going on than when i started
more like gogolithic ass

[Triangle Man]

I just finished Ib, and I just got OFF, based on the suggestion of Triangle Man.

Ib was actually pretty cool! I'd say it and Yume Nikki are requirements to play if you are into that sort of suspenseful game. Lone Survivor was pretty good in that field, too.

I just started OFF, so nothing to report yet.

Hey, you took my recommendation!

I finally got to the last parts of the game, and I'm going to warn you...

...All I'm going to say is that it gets pretty damn crazy near the end. It never becomes 'HOLY SHIT' at all, but it remains vaguely disturbing the entire time, like something is seriously... 'off' about everything in the game...

Also, make sure you know where the 'Flee' button is because you will need to use it at one point.

(Hint - The working one is on the Batter's Menu.)

Edit - I am also obsessed with the game's regular battle music...

Edit Edit - Beat the game...I feel very unsettled right now...

[deathsbuddy]

-Benedict, put that shit in a spoiler!

I dunno, just interpret it how you like. We are cosmic friends forever, ok?

[Draco18s]

Indie games, eh?
I suppose I might be a little biased--and also a little questionable for my first post--but I helped design Velociraptor! Cannibalism! Which you're unlikely to have heard of before, unless you either a) saw it on kickstarter (we got featured in a weekly newsletter, and were on the front page for a week) or b) saw my posts on it on the Bay12 forums.

I've also been playing Endless Space recently. As well as getting back into AI War: Fleet Command.

[Devieus]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Distorted Travesty is a pretty neat metroidvania, that actually features Metroid, and Castlevania, and Super Mario World, and that's just the first 3 or so levels. I figured it might've passed people's radar, it got released 2 months ago.

While I'm plugging, Treasure Adventure Game; which I guess has been mentioned? The search function is maladjustfunctioning somehow.

[Stij]

DUDES

If you are a fan of oldschool Sonic than you need to try Freedom Planet immediately

It's derivative of the 16-bit Sonic games to the point of being an outright copy in some ways (graphics, animation), but it's really well-made. Even this one-level demo is very replayable. The stage is huge and there's a ton of routes and hidden stuff to find. The graphics and music, unoriginal as they are, are really nice too. My only complaint would be that it doesn't have the sheer sense of speed that the Sonic games do; many parts of the level are broken up by puzzle-y bits that force you to slow down. Still, really fun. Right now the full version has the distant release date of 2014, but hopefully they'll try to solicit Kickstarter support or something to get it made faster. I feel like this is a game to watch.

[Draco18s]

AI War: Fleet Command.

Speaking of, Arcen Games just released the beta of the 4th expansion, Ancient Shadows. It's currently 20% off, so $4, which is a great price for the content.

Someone compared it to smashing together SPAZ with the base RTS.

[CancerliciousLuna]

I have played the horror indie game slender and slenderman... They are pretty funny i must say.