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May's Best Independent Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the play-the-indies dept.

cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has just published its May Independent Video Games Round-Up. This month's article looks at eleven indie titles including the extremely innovative The Odyssey, the overly bloody Gibbage, and the way too-cool Eets, the later of which walked away with the Game of the Month award. As always the article includes four different viewpoints on each game, giving you a variety of different opinions to agree and disagree with."

12 comments

  1. Re:FIRST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Congratulations, here's your reward! http://amishrakefight.org/gfy/

  2. Boo-yah, bitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Rawk! \m/

  3. They missed stuff from Ambrosia by hotspotbloc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IMO two of the best indie games ever: Harry the Handsome Executive and the EV series. Sadly both are Mac OS 9.x or less (though "EV Nova" is Mac OS X/WIN compatible).

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    1. Re:They missed stuff from Ambrosia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here's the full list: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/all.html

    2. Re:They missed stuff from Ambrosia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY! The EV series has been great ever since the first one.

      Ever use the cheat to get the forklift? there's a whole MST3k theme song parody, and then a soundfile from MST3k of the gang saying "They'll try to kill him with a forklift!" It was uber powerful. Not to mention the sattalite of love was in the game as a hidden ship.

    3. Re:They missed stuff from Ambrosia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pretty sure they mean games released in may.

    4. Re:They missed stuff from Ambrosia by 4D6963 · · Score: 1

      What about Ferazel's Wand? That game is so cool I would almost buy it.

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    5. Re:They missed stuff from Ambrosia by MysteriousPreacher · · Score: 1

      Ambrosia are definitely one of the best small software houses. Freeverse are another good one. Burning Monkey Solitaire is an amazing time sink and Comic Life is pretty innovative.

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    6. Re:They missed stuff from Ambrosia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      both are Mac OS 9.x or less

      Wow - I'm surprised they didn't make a NeoGeo or Windows 3.1 port!

  4. Odyssey game by cliffski · · Score: 1

    You should give that odyssey game a try if you like something different. You are a god who has to steer ships around obstacles from A to B by generating wind through mouse movements, and waving your hands over the seas. Its quite a nicely coded little physics thing, and a superb idea. That sort of thing should have been coded into games like Black and White or age of mythology.

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