Category Archives: Highly Recommended - Page 20

Linear Gear (Sophie Houlden)

Posted by Terry on February 12, 2013 7 comments

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“tl;dr: Leaper and “secret game” might be the last games I make as a full time indie, swift*stitch is free, Rose&Time is updated, Lottie is ?

for those specifically wandering about linear gear? shelved. really am sorry but I started it to get away from stress, but it’s taking time

story is about 2/3 mapped out, environments are super rough right now, and some camera bits are arse. but you can see what I was going for.

if you want it, this is as far as I’ve got with linear gear: – [Author's Tweets]

[Play online (Unity)]

SWIFT☆STITCH (Sophie Houlden)

Posted by Terry on February 11, 2013 9 comments

SSscreen02 “… as many people pointed out to me on twitter, sales, awards etc aren’t what is most important, what is important is working on a game you love and having fun doing that. In this sense, the game is a success. I love the game, I love how it turned out, I had a brilliant time working on it” – [Author's Postmortem]

[Play online (Unity)]

[Download (Cross Platform)]

You Will Select a Decision, № 1: Small Child in Woods (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)

Posted by Noyb on February 8, 2013 13 comments

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In 1987, an anonymous team of computer scientists from the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic wrote a series of children’s books based on the popular Choose Your Own Adventure series. The books were hastily translated into English and a small number were exported to America, but the CIA, fearing a possible Soviet mind control scheme, confiscated them all before they could be sold. – [Author's description]

[Play Online]

Split Fighters (Pierrec)

Posted by Noyb on February 6, 2013 1 comment

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It’s the story of a girl, Severine, who just broke up with her boyfriend. But the most difficult part isn’t the break-up, it’s what comes after, when you have to confront all your friends and family. – [Author's description]

[Download for Windows]

Art Game (Pippin Barr)

Posted by Terry on February 4, 2013 8 comments

art game Be an artist! – [Author's Description]

[Play online (Flash)]

A Slower Speed of Light (MIT Game Lab)

Posted by Aquin on February 3, 2013 4 comments

Custom-built, open-source relativistic graphics code allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed.

OpenRelativity is a set of tools for simulating the effects of traveling near the speed of light in the Unity3D game engine. The team is currently refining the documentation, usability and features in OpenRelativity, targeted for release as a free, open-source package in 2013, to allow others to produce more simulations and games about traveling near the speed of light. – [Author's description]

[Download for Windows]
[Download for Mac]

Heart the Beat (Nico Tuason)

Posted by Terry on January 31, 2013 11 comments

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The more coins you collect, the higher your score multiplier. Hitting a wall resets the multiplier. – [Author's Description]

[Play online (Flash)]

Super Puzzle Platformer Plus (Andrew Morrish)

Posted by Terry on January 29, 2013 11 comments

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Super Puzzle Platformer PLUS, and Super Puzzle Platformer DELUXE are not the same game. All will be clear in the very near future. – [Author's Tweet]

[Play online (Flash)]

The Great Work (Nifflas)

Posted by Terry on January 28, 2013 11 comments

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This game is closely connected to a documentary film by Bautafilm about Christer Böke who has has taken one year off from his well-paid job as an IT-salesman to become a full-time Alchemist. Watch this trailer! – [Author's Description]