February's Indie Games Review

cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has just published its February Independent Video Games Round-Up. This article looks at ten indie games from the last month with four different people reviewing and rating each game to provide a variety of insights into what was and wasn't great in Indie gaming in the last month. This month's review is highlighted by Tower Defence, Tube Twist and Wrestling Encore."

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Re:Not every Indie is crap

[Repton]

Interesting quote from the GalCiv2 FAQ:

Q: Galactic Civilizations I got some attention because you didn't have any CD copy protection. Aren't you afraid of piracy?

Our primary concern is our customers - the people who pay my salary. They're my overlord and I don't want to inconvenience them. Moreover, piracy is really about how many sales are actually lost. What we do is put out free updates after release. We got Editor's Choice Awards from most of the major game magazines for the original Galactic Civilizations, and that was on the 1.0 version in the box. However, we put out tons of updates after release that greatly enhanced that experience.

So let's say someone got a "warez" copy. If they like the game, they're going to want the updates, and to do that, they have to have a valid serial number that is verified on the server side (i.e., no cracks). So at that point, we're going to get that sale or we would have never gotten the sale.

I don't like game companies treating me like a criminal. If I'm paying $50 for a game then I better well be able to put it on my laptop and PC and not have to futz around with keeping track of the CD. Besides, I end up losing my CDs anyway.

(still looking for the system requirements on the website.. <sigh>)