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stoic
Thu, 03/15/2018 - 18:45 — wendywildshape
EXPLORE THE MAZE
AVOID THE MONSTER
STOIC
Buck Off!
Wed, 05/23/2012 - 20:50 — starflier
You are a cowboy! You must ride the bull and not fall off!
Demon Challenge
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 17:40 — bistouflex
A 2-player demon fighting game from Bistouflex Industries.
The Rat's Dream
Mon, 10/04/2021 - 01:15 — mutantleg
a rat dreams of crazy stuff
Gun Dream
Fri, 09/18/2015 - 02:43 — Blueberry Soft
I haven't posted a game on here is ages!
I tihnk my favourite things about this game is just watched the reflections and shadows and things move about. Filling a room with glittery bullets. Trappign furniature mid-air and spinning.
Also I think I'm going to be sevenzipping my archives from now on, hope that okay with people?
P🔫E🔫A🔫C🔫E🔫O🔫U🔫T
The Alien Zit
Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:36 — SpindleyQ
Alien Zit is a game nearly eighteen years in the making! Using the most advanced digitized speech technology that money could buy in 1989, you will become immersed in a virtual reality simulation of the zit cream bottle selection process unlike any other you have ever seen. Includes authentic WordPerfect 5.1 documents from 1993, and .wav files of 11 year olds saying "farrrrrt".
Ported to work on modern machines thanks to QB64.
Count the fridges in Fridgeland
Sat, 08/24/2013 - 02:47 — x
Please, don't give Agrias trouble. Please hurry... [A knight brings the prisoner
inside the goblin's forest. Six Goblins surrounds the enemy.] Ramza: It's
because of some elitist's ideas. Change the world? You think so? I doubt the
High Priest doesn't want to thank Ramza. -- Zirekile Falls --
==================== Teta: Let go! Wiegraf: Izlude, leave this area! 30... 29...
28... 27... 26... 25...System Error.
Thought I'd post this one up for rick. Rick you there? How many fridges did you want again? That sofa better not be in the fountain again or I'm gonna git mad.
Cernuno
Thu, 01/12/2012 - 15:32 — Pedro Paiva
Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the horned god of Celtic polytheism. Nothing is known about the god from literary sources, and details about his name, his cult or his significance in Celtic religion are unknown. Speculative interpretations identify him as a god of nature or fertility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos
Cernuno é o nome convencional dado nos estudos celtas às representações do deus com chifres do politeísmo celta. Nada é conhecido sobre o deus de fontes literárias, e detalhes sobre seu nome, seu culto ou sua significância na religião céltica são desconhecidos. Interpretações especulativas o identificam como um deus da natureza ou fertilidade.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernuno
Hecker's GDC Rant: Please Finish Your Game
Wed, 03/17/2010 - 03:28 — zumAt GDC, Chris Hecker (whom you may recognize as an outspoken commentator on games, a co-founder of the Indie Game Jam, and one of the driving forces behind Spore) delivered a rant about jams and compos that you might find relevant.
Watch. (The rant proper begins at 3:25, if you want to skip ahead.)
And, well, sure. There's much to agree with here. Fixation on time-on-task is a worrisome trend in the independent sphere. (Not to mention a firmly entrenched problem in the mainstream.) Games that explore mechanics to their fullest potential of expression -- to their aesthetic completion, as Hecker puts it -- are beautiful, important, hard to come by, and often undervalued.
Some of the other remarks are more difficult for me to get behind.
ExciteMike left a measured, thoughtful comment in the post about the rant over at Ludum Dare, and I largely agree with what he said, so I'm just going to quote it here:
I want to challenge the notion that games should be deep or fully explore a mechanic. It seems like it goes without saying, but a lot of games have not really done that, but are still things that we think are worthwhile. Braid was in at least in part Jon Blow’s reaction to Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time precisely because it was a very good game that many of us loved, but did not do much with it’s rewind mechanic. Ico didn’t really explore all the gameplay potential of guiding around a helpless girl, but was wonderful. I also loved Braid and I loved VVVVVV’s amazing use of what can be done with such a simple mechanic. The point of the examples is that great games can be made either way! A deep exploration of what one game mechanic is just ONE way to make a game that is interesting and worthwhile.Another point worth making, I think, is that when he talks about taking a game to it’s aesthetic, artistic conclusions or to explore it to the degree it deserves, it’s not really clear what that means. So like, Katamari Damacy comes along and explores an interesting control scheme and an interesting new mechanic, but how do you judge whether rolling things up was explored deeply enough?
It was one of the last few lines that really bugged me though. “We need more depth and understanding.
We don’t need more wacky ideas or shallow games.”That part is ludicrous.
I don’t say that because I’m angry or because I’m offended. I say it because it truly is silly to just dismiss such a broad category of games like that. You might as well say that more books should be nonfiction and we don’t need short stories, that paintings need to be more photorealistic and we need fewer sketches, that we need more prose and less poetry, that we need more stand-up comedy and less joking around with your friends, or “We need more GDC talks that are deep and insightful. We don’t need more rants.” (Please don’t think that’s what I’m saying. I like both kinds of GDC talks!) Liking a certain sort of game is completely fine and normal. But that doesn’t mean we need less of the other kinds.
I'll add this: I believe it's important to consider the creator and the process along with the creation. I don't mean this in a masturbatory or self-fixated way. I'm a firm proponent of the Crap Art philosophy that creation should be as much a process of discovery as of invention, and that cultures of exclusionary criticism are ultimately a detriment to artistic exploration. And I can believe this even while I hold true Hecker's "the good-enough is the enemy of the excellent."
In some ways, I think this is what sets us apart from a lot of other jams and communities. Check the manifesto on the frontpage: Glorious Trainwrecks has always been about getting out there and making something. Even if it's not good! We don't vote on submissions; we have yet to impose explicit themes or guidelines or constraints for jams. Hell, we hardly even care about the two-hour limit; it's mostly there to keep blind, hubristic ambitions in check. The hope is that you'll come out with something at the end rather than throw up your arms in exasperation.
I think the community understands this implicitly. Everyone is encouraging and welcoming to newcomers, and most of the fun of the Klik of the Month is is hanging out with folks on IRC -- or, increasingly and to my great delight, in-person. And I love it for this. At the same time, I think a lot of us care deeply about design and craft and, yes, art. I think we can still hold dialogue on these things.
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I made Jeremy a game for his birthday. I don't think it's a very good game -- I could go into how, as a score attack, the object spawning is too nondeterministic, how the scoring system lacks depth, how the notion of a score attack doesn't even work in that context without some kind of stress or time constraint. Nor do I think it makes some kind of grand statement. Both of these things are kind of beside the point. It was my hope that he saw that I thought of him, and that he got a kick out of it and out of some of the things in there that we both enjoy.
And, hey, if someone happened to think that it's even the slightest bit poignant that a T-Rex can't hold a birthday cake in his arms because they're too tiny, well, I wouldn't be displeased.
