I’ve been playing some older indie games and was shocked to find out they haven’t released anything in a decade. To name a few: Campo Santo (Firewatch), Subset (FTL, ItB), Giant Sparrow (Edith Finch), Johnathan Blo (The Witness) Hoping to see any follow-up from these amazing talents.

trying to learn how to code, and made a game a few days ago- did a big update by learning variables and stuff, used that to add pronouns, gender and how choices now affect future passages with the if and else variables, im trying to figure how i can learn to add an affection bar for each character for the mc to romance them

text based adventure game- royalty + romance

feedback would b super appreciated + please do leave a review!
https://euiooo.itch.io/blood-to-bone

using twine as of now but also really struggling to learn how to do the coding to make it more visually appealing- using sugarcube 2

but please check out the game and leave a review

r/indiegames – Blood to Bone

After 3 months of work. I have finally finished this 30 minute horror game, I really hope y'all enjoy it, this was a blast to work on! Here is the store page:

https://karimisreal.itch.io/dont-turn-around

I don't care if its good/bad/trash I am really happy with the results and it's my first time working with 3D animations anyway.

Last year's thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/10g1tsp/best_of_indie_games_2022_what_were_some_of_your/

Hey reddit, I am currently looking for a Indie game title, for which i have seen several advertisements on reddit during the last year. Unfortunately, I couldnt find it by googling it. Here are the fragments that i remember:

• Its a point and click adventure
• The trailer reminded me of the deponia series
• There was a gag about waiting in line, while the line was empty
• There was something about an alien artifact
• There was a scene in the desert

I googled for several hours now but i coudnt find it. Im not even sure if its released yet. I feel like the trailer was all over the place on reddit a few months back.

If 2024 should be defined by a game genre description. Which one would be your dream year?

Mine would be an action adventure narrative driven RPG with puzzle elements.

I recently played Pokémon and I like to search for perfect stats (IV's) ,training them (EV's) and select perfect attacks for them, but the game itself isn't hard, so im wondering if exist a game like that, i ve found Fear And Hunger kinda similar cause is hard.

playing this on the xbox now and im loving it. any tips or tricks to those that have beaten it. im playing in warrior mode if that matters

Hey guys.Recently I've become a fiend for games such as GRIS, To The Moon, Unpacking, Inside, The Gardens Between, Firewatch, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Short Hike, Florence, Little Nightmares, Old Man's Journey and my new favourite game of all time – The Last Day of June.

Basically, story heavy (especially sad af), often artsy games that usually hit around the 3-4 hour mark.Is there any other hidden gems of this kind on the eShop that people can recommend? Is there even a name for this genre of game?

Generally not really into pixel art style games but everything else is pretty fair game.

Hey! I’m extremely excited to announce I finally have a release date for Floramancer.

The game will have : – 5 to 9 hours of content – 15 spells, seeds and flowers with 4 levels each – 10 Enemy types, 3 bosses and 1 final boss – Procedurally generated areas for replayiblility

It will be $8 and on sale at every opportunity

Thanks!

I’m a game developer from Aroko Game Studio, and I’m thrilled to show you the trailer of our upcoming game, Shoot On Sight. It’s a game that combines isometric action, competitive multiplayer, and a gripping story.

Shoot On Sight is set in a world where corruption is rampant are the only way to survive. You can play as one of the 6 characters, each with their own skills and weapons, and team up with other players or fight against them in various modes and maps. The game also has a lot of cool features, such as interactive objects, destruction, blood tracking, melee combat, abilities, NPC defenders, toon art, gear customization, and background story.

The game is expected to launch in Q2, 2024, for PC platforms. You can watch the trailer here:
Shoot On Sight Trailer

If you want to know more about the game, you can follow us on social media:

Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Steam.

We appreciate your feedback and support, so please leave a comment or contact us directly. If you like the game, please consider wishlisting it on Steam. Thank you for your support!

My cousin and I have always loved video-games since we were kids. Back then, our favorite games were Digimon World 2, Yugioh Forbidden Memories and the Megaman X series. We also really liked the mechanic of combining things, like the dna digivolving in digimon or the fusion mechanic in yugioh. We even made our own little card game, even though we didn’t understand the math behind it and just kepting creating new stronger cards to one up each other.

Fast forward many years into the future. I started really getting into card games, my favorite being the Yugioh TCG. Back then we didn’t have master duel or even duel links yet, so to play online I used a non-official simulator called Ygopro. The cool thing about that simulator is that the card effects were coded in Lua, my favorite programming language, so it didn’t take long until I started creating my own custom cards and coding them.

I wanted to make my custom cards balanced, so I had to study the math behind card games, concepts like card advantage and tempo. Then I finally had an idea: a card game where the main mechanic would be fusing cards, and the math of the game worked elegantly so that the trades in resources were fair and both players would always have a play for the next turn.

Having the idea, I implemented a prototype in Ygopro. I had to code every single rule of my game as if it was a Yugioh card effect. Back then my cards didn’t even have effects yet, it was just the plain rules of the game, but even like that I could see that the game was fun. Then I showed it to my cousin, and we decided to turn it into a full game.

After the prototype phase, we started implementing the game in several engines, including Love2D, Solar2D (former Corona SDK) and finally landing on Unreal, combined with a plugin to run Lua scripts (I sticked with Lua in the end). Many people played the game, and we made drastic changes to the mechanics several times, to the point that the game is unrecognizable from the prototype, but still keeping that elegant math I mentioned.

Another cool thing about the game is that we revived our Megaman influences and went for a rock/metal style music, instead of the typical calm/atmospheric style that most card games use. That choice might seem counterintuitive at first, but it makes the game feel really fast-paced and fun to play.

And now, we are finally here. The game will be released in January 8 (a week from now), so it would be great if you guys could check it out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1397130/Primateria/

Please wishlist it if you like it, and feel free to comment any feedback here.

A few months ago, I picked up this game called 'A House of Many Doors'. And when I say this game is a masterpiece, I mean it.

The idea is that you are living in a parasite dimension (in the sense that it steals things, people, and resources from other worlds) and are trying to find a way out.

And sometimes in choose-your-own-adventure games, you run into the issue of a lack of range in your choices. They're too similar to one another. Not A House of Many Doors. You can make some straight up unhinged choices if you so desire. You can be a total jackass of a captain. Or, you can form close bonds with your crew and help them with their questline. And you don't have to go to either extreme (unless you want to).

The written narration is witty and entertaining, and the writing has this unique visceral quality to it that I've never seen before.

The horror elements are mostly environmental and body horror, with an occasional mild jumpscare here and there.

It's on sale right now for about $3CAD, you can find it on Steam.