Anyone play any of these Indie games?
July 31 — A deadly green protoplasm undergoes mitosis at a horrific pace. Your mission: Punish the invading ooze with withering fire from your micro-gun. The game play is addictive. The soundtrack is awful, but in that self-aware “we know we’re being cheesy” sort of way. As for the graphics ... well, it looks like a blob. INDEPENDENT COMPUTER GAMING. It’s not always pretty, but ask any one in the biz and they’ll say that it represents the purest form of game development. And sometimes the cheapest. A check for ten bucks sent to a site called Cheap Ass Games buys you “Dr. Blob’s Organism.”
And because indie gaming lies outside of the publisher money train — and all the corporate pressures to follow trends — it often delivers some of the most creative PC games available to an audience far beyond your typical 19-year-old gamer.
“Teenage Lawnmower,” from Robinson Technology, a Japan-based husband and wife team, plays like a Gen Y afterschool special, with an alcoholic mother, an abusive boyfriend and a lawnmower gig.
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