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pnutz
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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Greetings everyone.
Here's three games I didn't see mentioned that are non-free, indie, and non-casual.
Flatspace II
Wik
Mexican Motor Mafia
And I'd like to second at least one Spiderweb game. Geneforge 4 has my vote. |
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Inane
Joined: 06 Jul 2006
Posts: 173
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Semi-related to this topic:
I notice Alien Shooter is now purchasable at Moonpod.
You guys slowly transforming into a publisher? |
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Poo Bear
Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 4107
Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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The PC TryBeforYouBuy indie scene, as it used to be, is shrinking and everyone needs to do what they can to help promote it. By pushing what we see as the best in indie gaming we'll do our bit to help indie gaming in general (and help ourselves too).
Sadly, if someone wanted to make a living as an indie developer now and asked my advice, I wouldn't recommend traditional PC indie development (i.e. arcade games, rpg's, shootemups, etc).
p.s. we need better terminology here - we've got flash games, console downloadables, casual games, free games and indie games. None of those names are very good really.
p.p.s slightly ironic that the only way to ensure a reliable download and purchase experience while also making a bit of money is to use reflexive arcade links i.e. one of the big casual portals luring away all the developers. Still, at least reflexive will host non-casual games. Good luck getting a non-casual game on any of the other portals. |
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Evil Lorax
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
Posts: 3
Location: Wisconsin, USA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:51 am Post subject: |
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Aquaria was just recently released, and it definitely definitely definitely deserves a very high spot on this list.
www.bit-blot.com |
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
Joined: 25 Apr 2003
Posts: 1139
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Aquaria looks beautiful, thanks for the tip. I think I'll probably buy it, although I've not yet managed to find my way to the limits of the demo. |
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Crussh
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 149
Location: Somewhere?
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Hehe i bought Aquaria a week ago, its an awesome game with just some tiny graphic bugs. |
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Poo Bear
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 4107
Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Just added "Threadspace: hyperbol" to the list, nuts name but a sweet game. Suffers from all the usual problems of multiplayer indie games i.e. few players, the odd idiot. I still put many hours in and had a lot of fun. |
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Poo Bear
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Venture Arctic goes on the list. Took me a while to get into it, I was looking for the objectives and waiting for the pay off, but it's actually a Sims-like experience of slowly nurturing and watching this mini ecosystem. After a while I couldn't stop. A game where killer whales come right onto the beach to try and grab the new polar bear cubs - cool! |
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Poo Bear
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Darkside enters the hallowed halls of gaming greatness. Easy to get into and quite simple, I loved it and was soon sucked in and suffering RSI in my fire button finger  I haven't played a good shmup in a while so this was a welcome change of pace. |
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