Posts Tagged ‘reviews’

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)

(XBLIG) RC-Airsim: A model of a model airplane?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

I don’t think there are many flying (plane, jet, etc) games on XBox Live Indie Games, but then again, I guess I haven’t played all that many.  So when I heard about RC-Airsim I decided here was something I haven’t tried yet.  Actually that’s not what I thought, the creator was on twitter, so I heard about it through that, and decided to review it for my next XBLIG game.  However I hadn’t tried it yet, so I could have thought that.  But I didn’t.  But I could have.  I could go on forever like this.  Okay so I wasn’t expecting much with the title.  RC-Airsim meaning a simulation of radio controlled planes.  And I didn’t get all that much.  Now before I go on, I’m not trying to slam this, but it’s gotta be said.  This is not a game, it’s a simulation.  That was my first mistake, thinking of it like a game.  So let me give you my thoughts briefly before I get into the details of the review.  Unless you’re a radio-controlled plane enthusiast, you probably won’t care about this that much.  Like I’m not.  Watch the video to get an idea, and if that interests you, go ahead and read the rest of the review by clicking Read More below.

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Dawn’s Light – I’m actually playing an RPG, Japanese style no-less!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Yes you read that correctly. I (Keith Weatherby II) am actually playing a Role Playing Game which I said I would never play ever.  Okay that’s not true, I said I never get into RPGs because of their pointless side quests and anime characters.  I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again, I hate anime/manga.  However the graphics in here are on point as we would say in the US or “spot on” as the English would say.  Before I get more in depth I gotta say I really dig this game.  The name of the game is Dawn’s Light by John Wizard games.  (The website has a nice easy to read layout with nice colors, but this isn’t a review about websites).  It started out with an easy tutorial.  The controls are simple.  And it does basic hand-holding in the beginning.  I don’t know if it changes later on because my Trial expired.  I feel that I got enough of an idea of the game with the trial, which makes me think you should try it then buy it.  Here’s a video of the game in action:

The in-depth review after the break.

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