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 What the HELL is a Micro Indie Game?!?
 Download Demon Dread Here What Do We Eat for Dinner? by Phyllis Douglas (@goofander) and Andrew Elliott  Download What Do We Eat for Dinner? Here Dullahan by like, a hundred bears (@like100bears), Young Modulus (@YoungModulusYo), Cody "BlueThunder" Armstrong (@Bluethunder555), and CJ "Storne" Curtis (@storne3)  Download Dullahan Here Smoothie Planet by Pixel-boy (@2Pblog1) and Romain (@Noiracide)  Download Smoothie Planet Here Dolphin Island 2 by Jan Marcano (@aldiansolkai) and James T (@jtangc)  Download Dolphin Island 2 Here Sneakr by Joseph Gribbin (@JoeGribbs)  Download Sneakr Here MangoMan by Joseph Gribbin (@JoeGribbs)  Download MangoMan Here Horikawa Otane fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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 Demon Dread is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself So, Demon Dread... It's an interesting game in some ways. I really liked seeing the creative sprites and the music/environments blended super well together I thought. I really liked the visual design of the enemies and the rich colours all throughout. I also liked that it had the self-awareness to kinda make a joke of the boss. However, there's this really unfortunate lag when you do anything. Like jumping and throwing knives is one of the worst things. Your character has about a half or a quarter second throwing animation and only throws knives at the END of it, meaning that there's a delay between when you press the button and the knife gets thrown. If you're on the floor, that's nbd, but if you're trying to time it with a jump... It's kinda the worst thing. There's also similar input lag with your axe, but it's much less harmful once you get used to it imho. The other major problem with this game, at least in my opinion, is the length of your iframes - it's really easy to get into a situation where you're combo'd by enemies into a pit and there's not much you can do about it. Anyway, people seem to be pretty negative on this game in my comments lately, and I kinda see why, but... I genuinely think it's a really good attempt to do a Micro Castlevania. It's just got a couple things keeping it from greatness. At least, in my opinion. Horikawa Otane fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Jul 17, 2016 12:54
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SSNeoman posted:Being able to be knocked back into a pit is really cool. Also there are no health pick-ups anywhere it seems Man... This game would be totally different with health pick-ups. I was hoping for some wall-turkey or something, but NOPE. chrisoya posted:Devilboxes are cool and good. Sadly I no longer have my raw footage! But I think it was something like... 35 minutes of raw footage for about a 12 minute video? So I cut about 2/3 of the raw footage? But it's really not much... It was basically me being silent and walking back to where I was and dying.
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Jul 19, 2016 19:41
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 What Do We Eat for Dinner? is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself I actually really liked this one! It's a super clever little puzzle game, where you try to find the optimal place to eat based on social cues, net investigation, and other things. It's hella short (even for a "micro indie game"), but then again maybe I just got lucky. I like little logic games like this. I wish we saw more of them - though I suppose games like Phoenix Wright and all are kind of expansions upon this? But this felt a bit more like those sorts of "logic game books" or whatever than that... Hmm... Either way, please do try this one! I thought it was very well made - and, hopefully, randomized so you won't just get the answer from my LP. (...But seriously, gently caress Madeline) Horikawa Otane fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Jul 22, 2016 17:55
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 Dullahan is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself Another super deserving game - in a good way! This is a really solid clone of Castlevania, with really interesting puzzle twists based upon swapping your head out with specific items and then THROWING THEM AT THINGS. I really liked it! I'm super interested to see what more this guy has to produce! Though I'm very sad there wasn't really a boss or something to end it...
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Jul 30, 2016 01:24
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 Smoothie Planet is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself I apologize for disappearing and not responding to peeps. I had a sudden medical emergency, so I had to drop off the planet. Apparently I was redtexted during this. *shrug*. Anyway I'm back now with a new episode! Smoothie Planet is a HELLA neat 2D Zelda clone. Which I'm a bit surprised we don't see more of. It's an iconic style of gameplay and, honestly, it seems easier to make than a lot of the generic shooters and stuff we're seeing a lot of these days. The gimmick of this one though is that it takes place in spaaaaaaaace! It's sadly too short though... JamieTheD posted:Cool and interesting thread idea, like it! If you like logic puzzles (Esp. procgen ones, like that food one appears to be), then one I remember quite fondly was "The Inquisitor." Murder mystery type dealio, where you get people's statements, ask if anyone saw anyone else being suspicious, root through things to try and establish what's suss... And yes, there are red herrings. Huh! The Inquisitor looks SUPER interesting.... I might just LP it! Lotish posted:You could have all manner of head based power ups, too. Like a hand or catchers mitt so you can grab enemy projectiles. Or maybe a mirror or tennis racket to reflect things like in a game of pong. Or just put enemies in your head hole and throw them like a pokemon when you need a minion. A magnet for clinging to the ceiling. I mean the mind boggles. Oh yes definitely! Having your head as a 'slot' for powerups is super neat as concept. I want to say it hasn't been done before, but did Dynamite Headdy work in a similar fashion....?
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Aug 7, 2016 03:57
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Carbon dioxide posted:Why did you not put on your Dalek voice when you said you wanted to kill everything in the universe that's not like you? That's what the Daleks are all about. I-I'm a failure. ＿○／|＿
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Aug 7, 2016 10:08
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 Dolphin Island 2 is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself This game felt a LOT like Momodora to me. Probably the vaguely Cave Story-esque vibe to the art? idk. But it has this interesting shield mechanic in a similar vein to Halo or other games like that. I do think it'd be nice to have some health though rather than being one-hit-kill once your shield goes down. Apparently, the original "Dolphin Island" doesn't exist? Someone made like... A mock box art for a fake game called "Dolphin Island 2" and this dev team ran with it and made it into a game. Supposedly this will be expanded into a full thing eventually. I'm certainly excited to see what the final product will look like once they add more content and polish!
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Aug 12, 2016 18:00
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Dr. Buttass posted:I'm a little behind, but, fun facts! A dullahan is technically a fairy. Celtic Mythology is very clear: if it's magic and doesn't make any sense, it's a fairy. It probably hates you and wants to kill you. Dullahans hate you and want to kill you a lot. They usually carry their own severed head around with them, which is always grinning and apparently has a texture like bad cheese. They kill you with a whip made of a human spine, because they just hate you that much. HUH! So this game was actually more accurate than I thought it'd be! It's surprising how well that myth lends itself to "Castlevania clone" gameplay!
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Aug 13, 2016 11:58
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 Sneakr is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself I liked this game a lot~! It's hard to make a compelling Stealth game, I think. You need to make waiting interesting - that's hard to do! The way this game does this, at least for me, is by making the pace relatively quick. It's pretty fast-paced for a stealth game imho - almost frantic in nature! I think that the graphics are a bit meh, but they have their charm to them. Simple and boxy - certainly consistent, anyway! As for whether or not I'd play this if it were a full, say, 10-20 hour game? Maybe not. Unless it got more complex in some of its mechanics. But for its current state,I think it's kinda perfect the length as it is.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:46
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Mraagvpeine posted:When you shoot a robot, 3 stars pop up over their head. Does this mean if you shoot the same robot 3 times, you kill it? I think it's their stun time. So when the three stars go away, the robot is no longer stunned. Something like that, anyway.
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Aug 19, 2016 21:01
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 Sneakr is out! - Download the game here to try it yourself MangoMan is out - another game by Joseph Gribbs (the guy who made Sneakr)! Honestly, between the two of them, I think MangoMan is the weaker game. Still - it's a lot of fun. It's a megaman clone starring a man, who is also a mango. It's basically what it says on the tin haha. The music is nice, the pixel art is nice, and the game is pretty well designed imho (except for THAT STUPID TURTLE SHELL). It's a pretty perfect game for the Micro Indie Game LP series. Still, I kinda wish it had that special 'something' that I feel games like Sneakr or Dinner did.
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Sep 4, 2016 15:45
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Mraagvpeine posted:Can you charge your shots? Nah you can't, sadly. Ryushikaze posted:Are you sure the boss is an apple dude? He looks more like a habanero to me. Yeah, several people in the comments pointed out that he's probably a pepper of some kind. That would make a lot more sense. However, in order to get the pixels crisp and stuff, I had to play the game in 1x scaling - which made everything SUPER tiny (I do the scaling myself later in post). As a result, it was kiiiiinda hard to tell haha.
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