One of These Playable Indie Games May be the Next Portal
One of These Playable Indie Games May be the Next Portal
Posted 01/22/2010 at 8:01pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The Independent Games Festival just went down, and as usual, the Student Showcase is knocking everyone’s socks off. The Student Showcase has a history of producing some amazing stuff. In fact, Valve’s uber-successful Portal was a product of the Student Showcase in 2006. Several more recent entries are about to be released on WiiWare and the Xbox Live Arcade.
The ten winners are certainly upholding the tradition of excellence in the Student Showcase. If only you could sit down and experience them now... good news, you can. Only one of the ten is not yet available for public play, but even it should be out soon.
There’s something for every taste here. For the casual gamer there’s “Paper Cakes, where the player must sketch a path for their avatar to reach the goal. Paper Cakes is especially great if you have a Wacom tablet. If you fancy yourself the artsy type, try “Dreamside Maroon” and grow a vine to the moon. Want something fast paced? Download “Igneous” and stay ahead of the lava. Just check here for the full list complete with download links. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have some games to play.
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nadako
January 25, 2010 at 7:13pm
Igneous is a great game i personaly tested it and watched it last semester become what it is today. Even though the game is short it is very fun and did i mention RANDOM and beautiful also. The random part is when your going across the bridge in the second level to where flying rocks from behind you hit the path infront of you never gets old since it is random. Oh and expect more great games to come out from digipen.
Modred189
January 23, 2010 at 9:09am
Dreamside Maroon was very fun, and has a lot of potential. I realize that it was meant to be an 'indie' game and therefore has to be deep and artsy, and while that was fun, I wish there was a little more play to it. For example, there are floating islands that split apart, and expand. Which is cool and all, but it served no purpose. I would have liked there to be a few puzzles, etc.
But for a first-off project, it's great.
keithfreitag
January 23, 2010 at 8:21am
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