Posts Tagged ‘Indie Flux’

Announcement: Winners of the Indie Flux Banner Drawing.

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

The winners are in the banner now. Koonsolo with Mystic Mine, glpeas with Carcophony, and Vacuum Flowers with Star Guard! I’ve decided I would leave them up there indefinitely (that means I may change them after a reasonable period, or I may just leave them there).

Because there were so few entrants, I’ve decided to give everyone who entered a review. The link to each review will be in this post, and the post will stay up until the end of January 2010. Please check back soon if you entered to see your review.

Thanks to all who entered.

Update: I’ve decided to extend this until the end of February, since I didn’t get this last one (EUO on the last line) till just today February 6th 2010. So these links will be up another month.
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Entrants:
Awesome Soccer is Awesome
Mayhem Intergalactic – or – Stuff blows up in space!
Bauble Play – Match-3 with an eye-patch!
Mystic Mine – Mystically fun maybe?
Space Spy – Way way too far out in space
Star Guard rocks your retro world!
Pikgem – A cute little maze game
Anirah – Riddle of the Pharaohs (with no riddles or Pharaohs)
Carcophony or “Sim-Traffic Light”, you decide!
ColorRide – Rainbow manipulation
Meteors – First their came Asteroids, then there came METEORS!
The Cherokee Indian – It’s a game as well as a people!
Entropy Poker A.I. – Sounds very umm… computery
Awesome Tank and A Game of Tennis
Invadazoid – Part Space Invaders, Part Arkanoid, all game!
EUO – No funny title for this MMORPG (Sans the Massively)

Cat Mario! (Syobon Action?)

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Nov24 Everyone loves Mario!  You do, don’t you?  You know Mario, the little Italian plumber from a series of games from Nintendo that goes back to the ancient Donkey Kong, and still 20-30 years later we’re still enjoying him.  You know, Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario World, and on and on.  Spin-offs of spin-offs, tv shows, and what have you, he’s become almost as recognized as Mickey Mouse the world over, and maybe even surpassed (I can’t remember but I might have read an article where he surpassed Mickey as the most famous fictional character), but I digress… There’s been a ton of fan games and rip offs.  Now let’s talk a little bit about cats.  Okay so they’re not as exciting.  But a lot of us love cats, take the characters in John Wizard Game’s Dawn’s Light for instance, or Cat Ladies.  So it makes some sense that someone, somewhere would create a game that has both CAT and MARIO elements.  It’s by some Japanese person, whom I don’t even know the name of because I can’t read Japanese.  This only makes sense though because Nintendo is a Japanese company.  What makes this game unique though (aside from the fact that you play a cat in what looks like a rip off of Super Mario Bros)?  You’re about to find out…

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PREVIEW: Chris Unarmed for XBLIG

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Our next preview is a platformer called Chris Unarmed by Chris Hughes.  This guy doesn’t even try to fake a company name, which is a good thing, since I think half the XBLIG developers use non-existent company names.  So that’s one point for him.  In Chris Unarmed you “Journey through a world of powerful wind currents, levers, conveyor belts, keys and much more, on a quest to save the world.”  Graphics look fairly simplistic, but because of all the things like said wind currents, etc, it looks like it will have good variety in the levels.  Unfortunately in the video it looks a little “floaty” and I don’t mean when it’s in stuff like air or water, I mean when it’s on regular platforms.  So here’s the trailer without sound:

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