The Gamer's Quarter

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:52 am Post subject:

i actually stumbled on that game a few days ago, and that's what it immediately called to mind for me too. i managed to get past the apple screen, died immediately, and did not have the energy to complete the apple screen again.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

rose & camellia is a new game by nigoro (formerly gr3 project). it's about ladies slapping each other. that's something i can always get behind.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Man, what did Camellia ever do to Rose anyway.

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:16 am Post subject:

the crypts of despair is so cute i could just eat it.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

http://www.crimsonengine.com/R/

R is like Knytt, except more awesome.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

powder game: now with tiny people who go around kicking each other. pretty much the neatest thing ever.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

ON THE STAGE OF HISTORY
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

this is actually exactly what soul caliber looks like now
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

too many ninjas!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Dess, did you see that Dungeon Master DS stuff?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Riot Act is a short Half-Life 2 mod which I have not, unfortunately, been able to play. But the game looks solid in itself, and I'll give it a go as soon as.

P.S. Rose and Camilla has been translated into English.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject:

shoot 'em is pretty much the coolest thing ever. it runs at a completely improbably resolution, though, so i can only have half of the game on my screen at any given time. if anyone has any suggestions, they would be appreciated!
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Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

the grow games might be the most perfect use of flash i've yet seen.

i get the impression they aren't too new, though.

Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

They've been around a while, yeah. I think (?) I first stumbled onto them back when Lore Sjöberg's site littlefluffy.com was still updating daily. Grow and the others are pretty decent optimization challenges. It always kind of reminded me of the stuff at Vector Park.

Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject:

ÉPÉE is a real-time 3D fencing game. I haven't tried it yet.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject:

sexy hiking is the canonical masterpiece of the neo-expressionist game movement.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject:

interview with the author of alex-adventure.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:

i am (probably predictably) totally in love with punishment. the original, not the sequel (which doesn't give me the feeling i'm being punished for my own mistakes). they both invoke a different kind of masochism than the kind strict machine was trying to tap. somewhere between the two is, probably, my next game.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:32 am Post subject:

graham goring complained that knytt gave him the impression that nifflas had come up with some good mechanics but was too lazy to make a game out of them. i disagree - i think knytt is a game about quiet exploration - but knytt stories is the game he was probably looking for.

actually, knytt stories is modular - a level editor (which i have not tinkered with yet) and a bunch of games built around it. i just finished the included story - "the machine" - and it's definitely a product of the creator of within a deep forest. there are some wonderfully tricky parts and a big world that opens up as the player unlocks more abilities (it has the same sort of 16-bit sensibility i saw in deep forest. no mine carts this time around, fortunately). and it's every bit as gorgeous as knytt - it's been a long time since the ending of a game made me gasp.

i havn't played any expansions yet. there are a few available on the website. i will soon, though.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:05 am Post subject:

also, nigoro's new game is adorable.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That's pretty great, except I find it pretty difficult to distinguish food from not-food, and which thing you can jump on top of without dying.

Do you know who I think is great? EYEZMAZE.

http://www.eyezmaze.com/chronon/v0/index.html

Chronon is wonderful.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:28 am Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:42 am Post subject:

an underwater adventure might be my favorite of the bunch. it is so perfect.

the third-party adventures aren't nearly as polished, but they have some clever ideas for using the editor.

i'd definitely like to make an episode at some point.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Fileplanet.com has ad-supported copies of Ubisoft's Far Cry, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Rayman Raving Rabbids available for download. You need an account at Fileplanet.com and Ubi.com. The downloads are lengthy, as you might expect. I'm about to fire up Far Cry to see how the ads are placed.

Also! Command & Conquer Gold - the original that works under XP with some finagling - was also made free by EA for the series' 12th anniversary. Command & Conquer's official site has the links to ISOs for discs 1 and 2, as well as instructions on getting the game running properly in XP.

** Update: I played Far Cry for about 10 minutes and didn't see an ad. I read that it happens during respawns in Prince of Persia, so I'll go back in a bit to see if anything pops up when I die.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:33 am Post subject:

do you remember sumotori dreams - or, as i like to call it, "sumo learns to walk"? in the same vein is nekofight, or (as i like to call it) "depressed robot breakdancer".

use the arrow keys to make your polygon person shamble listlessly around. the x and c keys kick with the left and right legs respectively. hold them both to do a backflip. tap them both to make your person fall flat on its back and refuse to get up. hold z to grab your opponent. you can turn off gravity and float in space forever.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject:

my pick of the independent gaming source's b-game competition is mario inna space.

of course the 100-in-1 klik & play pirate kart is the best though.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

i wish nitrome could produce a decent game. their games always have such good ideas (even when they steal them from other people), and their pixel art is so earnest, i wish they could make games that are actually snappy and tight instead of plodding and glitchy.

also, the girl is yang and the boy is yin?
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captaincabinets · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The final map in the current arc of the brilliant Half-Life 2 mod, Minerva, is out since 8:00PM.

Time to give it a whirl.

For those not in the know, think System Shock 2 fucking Marathon at knifepoint in the Half-Life 2 engine. Heavy influences also include Halo: Combat Evolved's The Silent Cartographer map (as it turns out, it's the demo map, so give it a whirl, it's worth the while).
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:35 am Post subject:

redrunner is a c64 homebrew game, the sequel to the earlier greenrunner, an homage to jeff minter's gridrunner. like the yak titles that inspire it, it is the kind of shooter which reinvents itself with every stage.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:51 am Post subject:

"my name is randolph. randolph clark rodriguez. they call me “the invincible randy” on the space convoy circuit, but you can just call me randy."
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject:

there's a new version of toribash out. it's free again.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Anyone here tried out Rorschach? it's technically still in development, so it's short and doesn't have a climatic ending, but the premise and visuals are alluring and the dialogue system is worth exploring. It's made by one Jens Andersson from Starbreeze Studios.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

guys help me out

i need to do my freeware pick again, and i can't find anything all that great

i need three games and right now i have the dwarf fortress update.

have i missed anything else?
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ApM · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

The Zoo Race?
Gunlimb?
The 100-in-1 Klik & Play Pirate Kart plug plug plug?

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

alarmingly these are not lovesick zombies.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

Uncanny! All the levels are the best level I have ever played in a game.
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wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

Garden of Coloured Lights is an attractive scrolling shooter inspired by Rez.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Half-Life 2: Wars. An RTS mod for Half-Life 2, where you can play either the Rebels or the Combine. I can't run it yet, but go ahead and post impressions.
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Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

Lost in the Static is a kind of platformer. It is immune to screenshots.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:

i like the idea, but i wish it'd do more with it. there's no real logic to the way the world is laid out.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Yahtzee's made a new Trilby game, titled The Art of Theft. It's a stealth platformer, which is pretty impressive considering it runs under the Adventure Games Studios engine. Has a few minor foibles, but is otherwise good stuff. The story is horrendously weak though, but that's unimportant. What's more amusing is Yahtzee using gameplay elements he'd otherwise bitch about in his neckbeard wankfest Zero Punctuation, like button mashing.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That is definitely the problem with trying to wear the twin hats of critic and artiste. I thnk you can just about get away with it if as a critic you only talk about things you like (which he doesn't).

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Don't worry: The fans will lap it up like vomit from Heaven.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I was about to edit my post to say 'it would also help if your game wasn't fucking shit'. I haven't played a game like that in years. It was like an old Commodore Amiga game that would have scored 74% in Amiga Format. It's got the most over-complicated and unintuitive control system ever, and for a game that has about 10 minutes of 'how to' text I managed to get stuck on the first level. It's without charm!