Tag: indie

Gamescom/ Dreamhack Beyond 2023 Demo Showcase

This is a showcase of my favorite demos from the dreamhack beyond and gamescom online showcases.

0:00 Intro
00:21 Mechinus
1:25 Stellar watch
2:55 Prison City
5:07 The Fall of Aether Station
7:00 Odinfall
8:27 Aestik
9:54 Towerful Defense
11:16 Core Devourer
12:34 Destroy the Monoliths
14:30 Astrobit
15:48 I Need Space
17:53 Somnipathy
20:35 Complex Sky
23:09 Gift
24:31 Constance
26:33 Footgun Underground
27:53 Need for Cheese
29:25 Light of Atlantis
30:30 Turbo Shell
32:02 Soulslinger Envoy of Death
34:21 Bobls
35:47 Savant Ascent Remix
37:47 Selini
39:11 Spellcats Autocard Tactics
40:49 Terror at Oakheart
42:09 Kind Nature
44:38 Parry Nightmare
46:00 Afterdream
47:31 The Edge of Allegoria
48:50 Drova Forsaken Sin

Daylight Basement Studio Developer Interview

For this Perceptive Podcast, I’m talking with Christopher Bischke from Daylight Basement Studio to discuss their game Rightfully, Beary Arms that just released on early access. We spoke about making their first rogue-lite and the challenges of balancing the elements there.

Indie Showcase For 4/9/24

The indie showcases highlight the many indie games we play here on stream, all games shown are either press key submissions or demos. Please reach out if you would like me to look at your game.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Overrogue
2:02 Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
3:37 Wizordum
5:11 Only Lead Can Stop Them
6:41 VergeWorld
8:20 Biocrisis: Return 2 the Lab

2 Great Indie Platformers

This is a double review of Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara and Super Catboy, both played with press keys provided by the developers.

0:00 Intro
00:18 Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara Review
4:36 Super Catboy Review

Indie Showcase For 4/2/24

The indie showcases highlight the many indie games we play here on the channel. All games shown are either press key submissions or demos.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Tater Spud
1:50 Zor: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs
5:09 Recursive Ruin
7:31 Backpack Hero
9:58 Incision
11:55 Elementallis

Picotron

I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, but one thing I can post about today is Lexaloffle’s Picotron, kind of a successor to their Pico8, except instead of a fantasy console, it’s a fantasy workstation, with tools for making games that run under it. It’s currently about $12. Here’s Lazy Devs’ introductory video (one hour long):

That should be good enough for now. Maybe by tomorrow my brain will have unpacked enough to say more of interest!

Indie Game Adventure Reviews

This is a double indie game review of the Bookwalker and Bone Stasis Totem, both played with press keys provided by the developers.

0:00 Intro
00:14 The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
4:51 Stasis Bone Totem

4D Golf Releases on Steam

4D Golf, from CodeParade, responsible for the similarly mind-bending Hyperbolica, is amazing because it doesn’t cheat. It provides a genuine 4D-world in which to play the game of golf in. Not in the sense that time is a fourth dimension; time passes in this four-dimensional world too. It basically asks, what if our normal world were four-dimensional. And had a mini-putt course in it. So, here is the release trailer on Youtube:

The trailer has an especially intriguing aspect to it because it promises a big feature that hasn’t been revealed publicly yet outside the release of the game. To find out what it is one will just have to buy and play the game to find out… or read the comments, where a couple of people have spoiled it. It’s possibly best that they did though, because it suggests that 4D Golf is even more amazing than it seems at first.

4D Golf (Steam, $20)

Indie Showcase For 3/25/24

The indie showcase highlights the many indie games we play weekly on this channel. Get in touch if you would like to submit a game. All games shown are either press key or demo submissions.

0:00 Intro
00:14 The God Unit
2:06 Redshot
4:07 Hex of the Lich
6:26 So to Speak
8:11 It’s a Wrap
10:08 We Took That Trip

Indie Game Showcase For 3/23/24

The weekly indie showcase highlights the many games we play here on the channel, and I’m taking submissions for future ones. All games shown are either press key or demo submissions.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Endling Extinction is Forever
2:32 Myth of Mirka
3:32 Fabled Lands
5:35 Kokoro Clover Season 1
7:32 Affogato
9:27 Rogue Genesia

Two Slices of Indie Platformers Review

This is a double indie game review of Forza Polpo and Doomblade, both played with press keys provided by the developer.

0:00 Intro
00:14 Forza Polpo
7:38 Doomblade

Demoscene: La Linea

The demoscene is a rich source of awesome, and at times ridiculous, imagery and sounds. Once in a while we sift through it to find things to entertain you with.

Demos aren’t necessarily out to wow you by pushing a computer’s hardware to its absolute limits. Sometimes one will just present something that was obviously (to people who understand the platform) challenging to do, but is fun for its own sake.

La Linea is a series of short films made for television created by Italian animator Osvaldo Cavandoli. They may be familiar to 80s kids who watched a show called The Great Space Coaster, as they were in regular rotation as segments on that show. They feature an expressive and excitable character, known as “Mr. Linea,” who speaks gibberish and has a variety of adventures, despite the fact that he and his world are represented (with some cheating) as contortions of a single horizontal line. The character often speaks to the off-screen animator, asking for various items, devices and, occasionally, other characters to interact with. Every cartoon ends with the main character falling off or through the line in some way. Some of them are collected on Youtube. Here is an example (2 1/2 minutes):

In 2002, the demogroup Breeze made a tribute to Cavandoli’s work in the form of a full-length La Linea cartoon running on a Commodore 64. It doesn’t have the distinctive music or the gibberish, and there’s no photorealistic hand that reaches in to draw parts of the scene, but the style is otherwise faithful to the original. It is a remake of La Linea #10. Please, enjoy (3 1/2 minutes)!