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August's Best Indie Games

Posted by Zonk on from the indie-four-eva dept.

cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has just published its August Independent Video Games Round-Up. This month's article looks at ten indie titles and is highlighted by the seemingly Katamari-inspired freeware game The Blob, Kudos, from the same mind as last year's amazing Democracy, and DevastationZone Troopers, a 3rd person shooter that lets you redefine your landscape by blowing holes through the walls to get into and out of tough scrapes. A panel of four game industry veterans reviews and rates every game giving a variety of opinions on each of them."

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  1. "da blob" install error and fix. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    After reading TFA, I downloaded "da blob".

    When I tried to install it, I got some obscure error about a missing DLL. After reading a little about the issue I realized I needed the .net framework. So I went and grabbed that. The .net framework needed "windows installer 3.0", so I followed the link and grabbed that (after doing some "windows genuine advantage" non sense).

    After all that was installed, the game works great.

    Just thought I would mention it since the project website seems to be slashdoted, leaving no other obvious help form for anyone else that might run into the same issue.

  2. Re:Best Place to Find Independent Games? by i.of.the.storm · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://happypenguin.org/ has a lot of open source games, mostly indie and mostly linux, although some have windows ports.

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  3. Re:Best Place to Find Independent Games? by Lerc · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well there is Gametrove which is a fairly good place for the shareware titles.

    If you want to see some more radical or experimental ideas, try Ludum Dare which is for the 48 hour game development competition. The site isn't 100% at the moment, but the competitions have turned out some great ideas. The Games are not totally polished and some aren't very finished, but there are some gems to be had.

    My own past LudumDare Games: ( Not the best ones out there, I've yet to win a LudumDare)

    A lemmings style game only the critters are even smaller, and they are Ninja!
    http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/Cruft/TTN.zip

    This one was actually a 12 hour game written a week before the LD48 as a warmup
    http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/Cruft/LDWarmup. zip

    Same as above only for linux.
    http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/Cruft/TailV.tar .gz

    Urm.. Not sure how to describe this one.
    http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/darkvslightinst aller.exe

    All free. I do shareware games too but I'll plug those another time :-)

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  4. Submitter links with referals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative


    Get the game Democracy direct from the authors and avoid giving the submitter a referal cash.

    Greasy greasy greasy...

  5. Re:Best Place to Find Independent Games? by MiceHead · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm very much into independent/homebrew games... is there a site that's "the place" for the indie/homebrew scene?

    It's not quite "the place," but Indie Superstar (shameless plug) does video webcasts (iPod video podcasts too) about games that mainstream media doesn't cover.

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