MrHoatzin

Fresh Indie Game Compendium Extraordinaire

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It seems since I don't have time to play games as much as usually, a royal shitton of important, interesting, weird, under-the-radar little indie games came out. It would be nice if we had them all in one place, for reference. And also so that I and others may search them out and play them more easily. Might be best if we stuck to games that can be played, as in have been released, as opposed to are still being worked on.

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Here, I'll start it off:

:buyme: BRAID

By: Jonathan Blow and his artist dude

Available: XBLA Marketplace, Steam, etc.

Synopsis: Paying around with time integral part of platforming. Plot has something to do with princesses, marriage, stalking, the Manhattan project, Milorad Pavic and David Lynch.

More: http://braid-game.com/

More: Idle T Braid Thread

Edited by MrHoatzin

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:buyme: And Yet It Moves

By: Broken Rules

Available: direct purchase from the website, Steam, etc.

Synopsis: A unique platformer where you rotate the world by ninety degrees with arrow keys and move the character with WASD. The visual style is a collage of ripped photos and pencil-drawn characters.

More: http://www.andyetitmoves.net/

More: [thread]6434[/thread]

Edited by Erkki

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:buyme: THE MAW

By: Twisted Pixel

Available: XBLA Marketplace, Steam, Greenhouse, etc.

Synopsis: Move around with a cute purple translucent blob, and eat things. Solve simple puzzles, and eat things.

More: http://www.mawgame.com/

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:buyme:Tag: The Power of Paint

By: Students at the DigiPen Institute of Technology

Available: Free download on their website

Synopsis: A puzzle FPS with a paintgun, spray different color paints around to give the affected environment new properties (Green lets you jump real far, red gives you a speed boost, blue lets you walk on walls and ceilings). Combo them in interesting ways and have lots of fun, like spraying a big line of red with some green at the end for a super-fast long jump!

More: http://www.thepowerofpaint.com/

(first real post woop woop)

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:buyme: Zeno Clash

By: ACE Team

Available: Steam, Direct2Drive

Synopsis: Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal.

More: http://www.zenoclash.com/

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:buyme: CASTLE CRASHERS

By: The Behemoth

Available: XBLA Marketplace.

Synopsis: Retro style sidescrolling hack and slash with HD cartoon aesthetics and lots of humour. Up to 4 player (mostly) coop, either locally with controllers or online.

More: http://www.castlecrashers.com/

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:buyme: TEEWORLDS

By: Magnus Auvinen

Available: On their website (free)

Synopsis: Cartoon side-scrolling platformer and shooter onlyne, using mouse to shoot and keyboard to move..

More: http://www.teeworlds.com/

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:buyme: The Path

By: Tale of Tales

Available: Steam, Tale of Tales website

Synopsis: Impressionistic horror exploration game, based on a modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

More: http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/

Edited by DanJW

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:buyme: Space Giraffe

By: Llamasoft

Available: XBLA Marketplace/Llamasoft website (new PC version)

Synopsis: Tempest reinvention. Utterly outstanding and extremely clever, or a huge pile of poo, depending on who you ask (I'm in the former camp). Very cheap (on XBL). Having the patience to fully understand it rewards you with a finely-honed arcader.

More: http://www.llamasoft.co.uk

Edited by ThunderPeel2001

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:buyme: Large Scale Vehicular Stealing

By: Zombie Cow Forumites

Available: zombie-cow.com/lsvs

Synopsis: Bootleg demake of GTA4, written for a TIGsource competition. Satirical/comedy angle mixed with NES gameplay.

More: Written for Windows by Seregrail 7 and Nickenstein.

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:buyme: Carrion Reanimating

By: Lemmy And Binky

Available: theindiestone.com

Synopsis: Platform puzzler based on Re-Animator, written for TIGsource competition.

More: Voiceover by Jon 'Log' Blyth, games journo extraordinaire!

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:buyme: Jumpman

By: Andrew McClure

Available: Free download

Synopsis: Trippy platformer that takes retro game mechanics and expands them in unique and mind-bending ways.

More: http://runhello.com/

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