>"AAA is trash!

>"AAA is trash! indie games will save gaming!"
>nothing but earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What do you want to play OP?
    You always b***h but you never explain what you really want

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      he wants to b***h
      his next post is gonna be "non pixelshit game" or something like that

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want to play something that doesn't feel like the same 10 games recycled over and over again but this goddamn industry doesn't have a drop of creativity in it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But what do you want to play, no one is ever specific, which is why no one listens

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I mean if I knew what the game was I'd make it and be fricking rich
          I'm just tired of people acting like indie games are immune to trend chasing and content recycling when often they are even worse than the AAA industry they're meant to be an escape from

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You sound like a woman. You don't know what you want so you take it out on everyone else by being a bitter butthole and blaming the world instead of realizing you are just a moron who refuses to be happy.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Trend chasing is always going to exist you moron. Play original indie games instead of ones chasing trends?
            >return of the obra dinn
            >legend of grimrock
            >outer wilds
            >gorogoa

            And there are the OBVIOUSLY creative indies like minecraft or rocket league that you probably avoid because you're a homosexual that can't appreciate games

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            indies are still made by humans bro if they want a bigger chance of selling the game they're gonna be inspired by the market even just a bit

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            fricking moron

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        just get over yourself and accept that pixel art is easier for indie studios. play with an open mind instead of rolling your eyes like a homosexual when you see a metroidvania tag. Try a roguelite, I hate them but who knows maybe you'll like them. Try a few metroidvanias, try boss rush games, try twin stick shooters, try 2d or 3d platformers. there's plenty of variety if you know where to look and don't judge a book by its cover/a game by its artstyle

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah low effort is easier, we know.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'd like to see you try to make a game with no budget on your own or with a small team. Make it as derivative as you want. See how low effort it is. moron

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569150/Glyph/
        Here, I liked this. There's even a demo, check it out.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        These dont exist now
        You have to play something before 2010s to get something new or innovative
        The "best" most innovative game to come out in the last 5 years is just open world dark souls
        We are fricked

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          kingdom come was a bit more innovative than elden ring impo
          but it's just "open world history sim with chivalry combat"

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Baba is you.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Gimmicks are not innovation

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Madman Muntz would disagree

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Define both

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Go play Suzerain

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        surely you will find that in AAA games

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's not what was asked.
        What do you want to play? What genre do you like? What features do you want from a game? What kind of setting?
        I don't think you even know what you like anymore, Anon. I don't know if you ever liked anything to begin with, you were just satisfied with games as they were because, they were new to you at the time you found them. Nothing ever stood out specifically as a niche you enjoyed. So, now that games are rehashing themselves over and over, you feel like no games are good. If you had found a niche you loved, you'd be excited to see it rehashed. But you didn't. So you're just a casual gamer, wanting more good casual games, and are left disappointed that nothing new is coming out.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Go play Charlie Murder on Steam

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        We don't need creativity, when we have diversity.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I want to play something that doesn't feel like the same 10 games recycled over and over again but this goddamn industry doesn't have a drop of creativity in it
        This era itself diminishes and stifles creativity like none before it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not OP but I would like a proper Devil May Cry / Ninja Gaiden clone.
      Yes, I know about Assault Spy and Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae, but those are pretty much the only indies that try to imitate those games.

      No, 2D games aren't the same, at all.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Genokids
        https://twitter.com/nukefist?t=AomdDrjkpgSbL5yY5YvUoA&s=09

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Uninspired troony shit

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >funny troony buzzword
            lol

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              very smart post anon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        not any out, but here's a bunch in the works:
        https://twitter.com/rootpilot/status/1543322750818742272?t=qGItv8reGlc6_GKZVMPEGw&s=19
        https://twitter.com/LithPyro/status/1540647859607031810?t=b_4haI0JC7JmaTBbLFg0dw&s=19
        https://twitter.com/Hayd__n/status/1538344022057574400?t=f4mp6MARl7XFMHZ7qvc7bg&s=19

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Genokids
          https://twitter.com/nukefist?t=AomdDrjkpgSbL5yY5YvUoA&s=09

          >work in progress, not even an alpha
          >work in progress, not even an alpha
          >work in progress, not even an alpha
          >work in progress, not even an alpha
          Please.

          Given the amount of time between my post and the replies, I can't help but think that you didn't even know about the existence of those projects until 10 minutes ago and only actively searched for them so you could somehow counter my post.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            nah, i've been following them all for a while. genokids is actually closer to a beta, it's been in development forever and actually had a kickstarter at one point. jamphibian was actually pretty far along as a turn-based game before the dev decided to make it a 3D game instead.
            there's also kings of hell, but it's closer to a Power Stone clone than devil may cry and is also made by gay furgays so all of the designs are about as close to furbait as you can be without the game just becoming an outright eroge
            https://twitter.com/StrawberryOctii?t=F_kqqbYwSSxZJigaslyI1g&s=09

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              The only thing that looks cool in this entire thing is the demon car.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've been working on one for a while, but even after investing so many hours into it, there's still a huge mountain of hours left before I could possibly have a worthwhile webm to show off. I haven't touched the project in a few months now because it's hard to stay motivated.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've been working on one for a while, but even after investing so many hours into it, there's still a huge mountain of hours left before I could possibly have a worthwhile webm to show off. I haven't touched the project in a few months now because it's hard to stay motivated.

        I'm working on one of those with a friend, for several years now.

        You will have to push past it, sometimes months, even without motivation, if you want to reach any goal. You will have to (or had already) plumb through so much shit, bugs, bad design, redoing stuff, doing stuff that feels like the task of a machine, mindless unoriginal stuff that is just needed for the cool stuff to work, optimizations... you can't just stay motivated for all of that, it just has to b0S0e done.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Spark the Electric Jester 3 is like DMC and Sonic Adventure combined. It has a demo.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The characters are deviantart-tier

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I thought you wouldn't mind since you played Assault Spy.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              That guy isn't me. And no, it looks like a Sonic game rather than an action game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >is like DMC
          no the animations and combat mechanics are very sloppy. it's nowhere near that level.

          >and Sonic Adventure
          it has very good sonic mechanics. better than adventure. the grind rails are especially good.
          I just wish for less automation in level design and the run turning was a little better. wall running from slopes feels a lot worse than utopia.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The Messenger

        This studio is also working on a Chrono Trigger Clone called Sea of Stars, due for release next year

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >"ninja gaiden" clone
          you probably should've been able to guess which one he was talking about from context, but fair enough

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's a pretty decent platformer that takes off in the second half at least to my interests because no seriously the reason I'd ever recommend this game is in this next spoiler
          I love bigger picture thinking and exploration, the first half being linear, by the book platforming with some good boss fights and interesting mechanics was enough to keep my attention but it unironically had so much soul at the end, ESPECIALLY the last story told by the shop keeper

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Cyber Shadow was another great 2D ninja game recently. Doesn't get enough attention.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        there is a guy making one in the game dev threads. go check those out sometime anon.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want to play a game that's exactly like these hundreds of roguelikes BUT AS AN ARPG INSTEAD.
      No permadeath, endless randomly generated bullshit, just handcrafted maps with combat-focused rpg gameplay.
      Kind of like they used to do in the past, but everything now must be procedural, with cards and shit, or else it's a huge snorefest with 250k words per event.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Blame normies who think rote replayability > handcrafted experience

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          you mean the same thoughtless npcs that see games as time wasters and get mad when they don't get 1 hour of gameplay for every $1 spent?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          why is Warcraft 3 on the left?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Arpgs suck.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dragon Marked for Death might interest you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Rts
      I WANT THEM BACK

      So pure kino?
      it's better than the 83 soulslikes clones anyway

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Then play call to arms. Litterally superior to any rts on the market

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's not even a strategy game lmao. You fricking tactics gays and your war games, you can never tell the difference.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >rts
            >real time strategy
            Dumb fricking homosexual
            You're so fricking stupid
            Who's a fricking moron? That's right, it's you anon! You're a big fricking idiot! Yes yes! Good boy!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want simple, straightforward arcade-style action games and tests of skill without RPG build buttdartery. Steel Assault was p good at any rate, looking forward to the beat ‘em up that the dev is apparently working on now

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ok, I'll humor you
      I want a good MMO. Don't care about graphic fidelity long as it doesn't look like west mocap troony goblins or soulless plastic korean models.
      Game doesn't need much content, just a big world to explore, quests that are sparse but had a good payoff and story to them (not endless reskinned WoW collect 10 cancer), some pvp at max level, no daily/weekly retention mechanics, and classes that are specialized at what they do.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >good
        >MMO

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >a good MMO

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You summed that up well anon. I'm quite interested in something similar, although if it did appear right now I wouldn't have the time for it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want another Twisted metal style game
      Or just comic book visual style videogames in general

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I just want Triple Triad but as a standalone game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Factorio combined with supreme commander.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Basically Dont starve but plays like BoTW

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A God Hand clone with plot and aestethics based on the og Dragon Ball.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't care about Dragon Ball at all but I'd buy that shit day one. I'm just that desperate for a God Hand like game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'd like to play something like Fairy Bloom Freesia but with actual level design instead of fighting a bunch of enemies in a small arena with different rules as you advance.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A real monster Hunter clone now that the series is dead and raped into an unrecognizable mess
      >um hello dauntless
      I said MONSTER. HUNTER. CLONE. NOT. GOD. EATER. YOU. FRICKS!
      Not a god damn series actually tries to replicate Mon Huns world, village, or hunt design.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want to play action games like dmc and ninja gaiden
      I want to play rts like starcraft and C&C

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i just played through all of dawn of war 1 and the expansions

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A Prototype-like. All these rip-offs on the market and nobody clones my favorite games!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >OP is about indie games basically ripping shit off
      >FPBP responses are all morons going UHH RIP OFF THIS GAME I LIKE
      You people are all creatively bankrupt morons. The game you like is already there so go play it instead of whinging over it not being remade over and over and over again. No fricking wonder everything is inundated with sequel cancer when you consumerist homosexuals just lap it all up.
      >Inb4 b-but I want more of good thing!
      Yeah and Black folk like you are why franchises like Pokemon do nothing but stagnant and regress despite being more expensive than before and having DLC. Why don't you just play some previous gens when the newer gens don't do shit? Because you're a dumb thoughtless b***h that's why.

      Lick my balls you normie fricking homosexuals.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        True and true
        >NOOOO wdym theres no clone of my dogshit game. Indie games are creatively dying

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >wdym
          Hello, zoomer

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The latest game in the "superpowered guy running around the city" genre is Spiderman
        >Prototype is dead
        >Infamous is dead
        >Saints Row only did it for one game
        Is it so wrong to want a new game?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Saints Row only did it for one game
          Technically Gat Out Of Hell did it too

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            True...

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Besides that, you're right. I miss bounding over tall buildings in a single leap in Protoype 2

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Prototype 2 had some really nice gameplay but the story was bad and they removed some of the cool things like the armor.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Agreed about gameplay and story but I never missed the armor because you get mutations to reduce damage (and even make you immune to bullets) which I liked

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Armor looked cool as frick though, running through cars and everything

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah it really sucked how running through traffic still made you lose speed as you hop over them in 2, even with full mobility upgrades

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                also replaced alex with some random frick, a Black, too

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      All I want is a simple platformer. No metroidvania shit though calling metroidvanias platformers is already a stretch so that's probably agiven, no rpg minmaxxing, no skill trees, no attempt at a big grand story. Just give me a character with a defined moveset and let the entire game just be having fun with said moveset.
      This isn't rocket science.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want a game where I can play as a mermaid. Not a dinky situational transformation just a full game where I can play as a fish lady.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      AA gaming

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want to play a non-h mahou shoujo game with fun combat and overall atmosphere. I can only name Mahou Arms and Alice in Cradle both of which are H games. Is there any game that is like two? or a mix of these two I am unaware of?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      In addition to wanting things I didn't even know I wanted, I DO want to play the same game recycled over and over. Just not the games that they're actually recycling.
      I want to play Valkyrie Profile clones, not quirky RPG maker games.
      I want to play Mega Man Zero clones, not charmless Mega Man clones.
      I want to play Sin and Punishment clones, not low-effort shooters.
      I want the level of art, polish, charm, and professionalism that the older games I loved had, not the level that most indie games can offer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And I want things I didn't even know I wanted, not things I know I don't want. I don't want corny shit that's unique for the sake of being unique, like most of the indies that pop up in gaming conferences.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So pure kino?
    it's better than the 83 soulslikes clones anyway

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      there’s like, what 10 souls clones in existence? wait until you hear about this call of duty game

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's a guy on youtube who reviews indie soulslikes and he showcased 112 games so far.
        https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuY9odN8x9pvIoTDtNOZxzo5m6EsBspAi

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Based, was going to say this, the amount of trash AND hidden gems is surprising

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you can have fun with a lot of indie games out there if you remove the dildo from your rectum

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You can have a lot of fun with indie games with the dildo firmly planted in your rectum too, if you stop being a gay, OP.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is that like diablo

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, that's my next indie game. You want to fight about it?

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >indies are creati--

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      which ones do you recommend?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Slay the Spire is the top dog of all those listed.
        So, you basically start from there find out what you like and dislike about it and choose the rest to your liking. Given you like deckbuilders.

        If you really want something different than the usual deck builder shtick, I can recommend Chrono Ark.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Chrono Ark.

          Looks good, is it a rouge lite/like?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >games of the same genre are similar
      Whoa no way

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why are card deck building games so popular now I hate hate hate them

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Childrens Card games are expensive.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don't forget Ring of Pain. I've been having a lot of fun with it lately.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I love this game, be sure to get your diamond spoon.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >slay the spire has a unique gameplay loop
      >everyone tries to copy them
      lmao

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        not looking forward to the wave of lofi space exploration puzzle games in 2-3 years

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They're still the king.
        None of the clones feel as good to play as that

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        at this point it's not copies, but just additons to a genre that slay the spire created. we don't call every platformer a mario copy, just because they used jumping and traveling from the left side of the screen to the right, do we?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its not Slay the Spires fault that shitters made a million inferior copies.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This phenomenon isn't exclusive to indies and has existed within the industry since before you were born. Street Fighter 2 doing gangbusters? Time for a billion fighting game clones.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >popular game starts its own genre
      I see nothing wrong here. The number of clones only shows how good the original was.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hearthstone died, did you expect devs to just let that money go?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And still just a drop in the bucket

      Fights In Tight Spaces is pretty frickin cool

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I was just thinking the other day "why is it always cards".

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >racing game
        >"why is it always cars"
        >sports game
        >"why is it always balls"
        >first person shooter
        >"why is it always guns"

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          these are valid questions, and if developers sincerely asked themselves these questions it would lead to creative new games.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          for most of those games you can replace the cards with anything and it wouldn't make a difference

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not really. They are deckbuilders. Removing the cards fundamentally changes how the games function

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              for most of those it's just some rng bullshit that can be tied to anything. the real reason is probably because the devs came up with the idea while playing some lame board game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >that can be tied to anything
                Not without fundamentally changing how the game is played. They're StS clones. Cards are integral. You add/remove cards all the time and typically the cards can have interactions with the deck (drawing, put cards back on top, etc).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is Griftlands any good? I've liked some of Klei's other games but at the same time I've already played a few other deck builders

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Unfortunately no. The art is quality as always but card battles and machine through 5 minutes of traveling and dialogue mixes like oil and water.
        The card portion is also extremely badly designed, so much that a noob like me instantly got it. Everyone has WAY too high HP so defense while you whittle then down with basic attacks is the only option. Also there's trillions of keywords and zero natural synergies between cards, it's the definition of clunky.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          thanks, anon.
          I'm not that anon but I am a big fan of deck builders. so Griftlands has been on my radar, but I guess I'll just ignore it from now on.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ups all Slay the Spire
      i really hate this kind of games with lazy mechanics

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I like Skul, Rabbi Ribi, Boomerang X and Neon White

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Does anyone know what the bottom one on the left is? Less importantly, the second one on the left as well.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fights in Tight Spaces is pretty neat but I pirated it. Was looking to buy it but it's overpriced and the summer sale discount was 10%.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ate any of these good other than slay the spire?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm surprised you didn't put Potionomics in there because that game's actually using deck mechanics in a really fricking cool way

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Some of these try harder than others
      Some just literally copypaste spire cards and mechanics, sometimes without even bothering to change the names

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fricking nice, I wish there were more deck builders.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Now do a compilation of FPS, Platformers, Racing games, match3s, fighting games, etc.
      Every indie game has to be a new gernre or else they are not creative! how hard can it be to invent a new genre!?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/ytXzNve.jpg

      >"AAA is trash! indie games will save gaming!"
      >nothing but earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements

      mfw I fricking love card battles

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No Library of Ruina? Or not clone enough?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >tfw AA/AAA card games died out before the indieshit card revolution took over
      Lost Kingdoms 3 never... Baten Kaitos 3 never...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      idk if this was your intention but I actually like the different art styles in those screenshots, I wanna play them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      give me something that apes Chain of Memories combat, its moronic but fun card based combat

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Make the game that will save the industry yourself then.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Even if he did make a unique game, it's just going to flop because morons are too scared stepping out of their comfort zone

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    earthbound is mid and most indie games are trash. here's a good one
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/814370/Monster_Sanctuary/
    have fun

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Chrono trigger is shit too

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        absolute shit taste

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Reddit game

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yeah okay redditor

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            what games do you like?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Not him, but I dont play video games anymore

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Why even bother then?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it's a mediocre jrpg with bland characters, no side content aside of giving money to a poor family, combat is so fricking easy that techs (the only cool thing the game does) are wasted, etc

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This game is garbage though. Filling in skill charts instead of having monsters evolve is soulless

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Monster Sanctuary is quite good

      I mean if I knew what the game was I'd make it and be fricking rich
      I'm just tired of people acting like indie games are immune to trend chasing and content recycling when often they are even worse than the AAA industry they're meant to be an escape from

      >I'm just tired of people acting like indie games are immune to trend chasing and content recycling
      nobody pretends that there aren't bad indies out there.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >nobody pretends that there aren't bad indies out there.
        He's a homosexual without critical thinking and just wants (you)'s. People enjoy hating things and are literally too stupid to realize they're using an ecological fallacy

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here OP, is this indie game more to your liking?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it's less than 5 bucks right now and will run on anything
        https://store.steampowered.com/app/1954750/Acquitted/

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          So is Alien Shooter 2 and it has the benefit of not looking like absolute dogshit

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >the benefit of not looking like absolute dogshit
            Where

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >hotline miami but shit and political
      Lame

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's Intravenous

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        miami
        way to out yourself as a moron before you revealed yourself to be an even bigger moron.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Alright fine, homosexual. It's Hatred but even shittier.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            ty

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Looks like a game made on the premise of hatred rather than any fun, one that was made to piss people off rather than entertain or provoke thought. The work for what is presumably a one-man project is impressive in the span of a year though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's more akin to those old flash games depicting Bush, Kerry, Osama, etc.
        Don't take it so seriously

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I kept playing the first levels of this game, I don't know why

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Classic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I told you last time to change the blood to red. At least one of the three of you saw my post

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements
    name one game

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      imagine buying a PS5 to play this cheap copy of zelda

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've bought 50 games on steam this sale the vast majority being virtually unknown indie games. And none of them are dumb bs pixel dodge roll and press a to attack type games. You just need to look deeper.

    Copy Kitty
    Traction control
    Swarmlake
    Mu Cartographer
    One way heroics
    Ballistic craft

    To name a couple

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fumiko!
      Data Dream
      Suzy's Cube
      All 3d platformers if you like that. And all toss two more in
      Acid Spy
      Sombre Scanner (this game looks amazing but it's a walking sim, but check out the visuals)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Any good co op game?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well i just happen to know copy kitty is rad as frick so ill check out your other finds

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're the guy that shilled me copy kitty the other day. I spent less money than I thought I would so I ended up buying it. Haven't played it yet but I always wanted an actually good game to have kirby 64's copy mechanics so hopefully it's good.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      gonna toss out Salaryman Shi, five bucks on steam/switch. Made by a Gankergay.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >aieeeeeeeee give me more raytraced hyper realistic shit with mocaped faces with ugly Black folk like on my kinosovl AAAs
    I, for once, love all these small indie pixel/hand-draw games.
    If you disagree you are either a normalBlack person or a paid shill from a blackrock backed company, simple as.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      trying way too hard to fit in

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >with dating sim elements
    need more of that part
    with furry characters

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      based

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      based

      Fellow HMoFA chads

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Im more of a Human [anything] on [anything] Anthro

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          She's eating him!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            And then she's going to eat me, too!

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              OH
              MY
              GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Don't worry anon, that's just a normal human on anthro tongue kiss

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          GIWTWM

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Which one

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              the human. I dont care so much to be an anthro, only if it meant my wiener was bigger. But,
              >tfw you will never have a catgirl gf that will keep you warm all night and vibrate you to sleep with her purring
              >tfw i will never have doggirl gf that likes bad smells and i can fufill my musk fetishes

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Based
                I don't care if you are a furgay or just a furchaser, human males are disgusting, i only wanted to check that part.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          that's a copy of one of nezumin's drawing
          you thought i wouldn't see that ?

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    what's wrong with pixel art, souls like and metroidvania? there's plenty of great games with those qualities

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ok Ganker. Let's say you're trying to make your own indie game and you've got an amazing game idea, but you have basically no budget so 95% of the work is done by just yourself.

    How do you make your indie game stand out despite not having a high budget artstyle, while also not looking so confusing and convoluted that you immediately turn off anyone who glances at some screen shots?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've already prototyped a game with none of the things OP described, I just have to go back and finish it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you can't. making a good game with no friends or budget is like making a good film with no games or budget. Almost impossible. You're more likely to win the lottery.

      your chances go up significantly if you're extremely smart, talented and driven, but since you're asking this question it sounds like you're just average like the rest of us. If you wanna stay delusional, go to the /agdg/ general on /vg/. Of the countless amount of people who have been active in that general, only a few have made it. The Risk of Rain devs used to be active there. but note the keyword "devs". not dev. having a team or at least a friend makes a huge difference in productivity

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        most gamers genuinely have no idea how much work goes into games. if they did, they would never call devs lazy. it's a miracle that there are any good solo indie projects at all.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I intentionally turn off people who glance at screen shots, invest fully into gameplay systems, and market on gaming forums and wait for word of mouth to do the rest.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You find a good artist and you blackmail them.
      You find something embarrassing and career ending and threaten to post it on the internet unless they cooperate alternatively you outright make some shit up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Making some kind of interactive book.
      However I would obligatorily have to hire people. I'm incapable of making good music for my ideas to work.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don't even bother, you were either born with talent and tempered with a flawless work ethic as a child, or you can't compete.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        pixel art platformer in 8 months? ok

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          where's your game?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            google "The Witness"

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              google "soulja boy braid"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Is it HP SWORD? Is it finally released or it's still a vaporware?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You need tons of experience to make a game like that in 8 months, whoever did that definitely made a lot of games beforehand.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No you don't. Top picture and bottom picture are the same gameplay wise.
          It's just churning out assets to make it not ugly.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        HP sword can do art fast because the art is that bare minimum, very small and flat indie style with no line work, animated at low framerates.
        you can get away with using lots of low detail blob shapes. it's copying momodora and cavestory. the game peppergrinder does this too.
        devs like Konjak and Snakepixel have real talent. when it comes to pixel art this dev is average. I wouldn't even call indie pixel art real pixel art.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          God tier, truly. Maybe the only developer who I genuinely think does not get enough recognition for their skill level.

          ?t=1306

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Making good pixel art environments takes so long, there's so many assets you need to make.
            I don't know how he gets it done.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            what the frick why have I never seen or heard of this game

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              because the dev made decent stuff like that before sharting out that abomination iconoclasts ruining any reputation he might've made

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >that abomination iconoclasts
                is a great game

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're right that's why everybody's heard of it and it was definitely worth the dev spending the better part of a decade to "finish" it
                >I can't wait to get home from school to play iconoclasts!
                said many children of this great game

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The problem is that most stop at the very first picture.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I copy the visual design of Pachinko machines to filter out the weak and epileptic.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you remember who you are making the game for andhate anyone, so you only do it for the money really, but you are better off learning SAP then.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >How do you make your indie game stand out
      I don't, I make my game as obscure as those weird japanese playstation games, so it will haunt that one unlucky player who decided to play it for rest of his life

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Either go furry/anthro or make a game that makes people go UOOH
      Bam, instant support from the infinite well of degenerates.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I just want a combat-focused dungeon crawler JRPG that either copies Grandia or FFX-2's combat

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >while also not looking so confusing and convoluted that you immediately turn off anyone who glances at some screen shots?
      I skip this step
      Those who know will know

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm pretty confident i can come up with a decent enough story, characters and advanced combat mechanics that don't go into autism territory, I could also do an ok art style that isn't too time consuming to make and is easily readable, but i don't think those will appeal to, appreciated or be understood by anyone ever.
      It will only be mediocre.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm pretty confident i can come up with a decent enough story, characters and advanced combat mechanics that don't go into autism territory, I could also do an ok art style that isn't too time consuming to make and is easily readable.

        quit wining and do it already homosexual.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i'm not making a game for anyone other than myself

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Unironically do the community footwork. Talk to people find people who understand what you're aiming to do and make a steam page or something. Other than that the answer is always have great attractive art design. Great art design alone continues to sell people mediocre experiences

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Design, then think more about the design, then keep at it to solve all your problems. Make something you would want to follow the second you see it, that doesn't require lots of money and many not even lots of time to develop, but it will take your all to think about something you can do that fits all the requirements.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      POOOOOOOOOORN
      FOCUS ON YOUR FETISH
      QUANTITY IS A QUALITY OF ITS OWN

      >make game
      >put in lots of your fetish, and I mean LOTS
      >it will stand out

      Easy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I will rip off stalker mod that has no translation so you burgers won't know about similarities

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >rip off russian mod to dab on americans
        >a russian notices and goes 'anon you're a fan of mod I see? that's cool'
        >you go 'no I'm just tricking burgers into thinking I'm a good writer lmao you know how it is'

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      First of all I already make one with no budget . And secondly I don't care if people play it I want to make my game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Go the way of landfall games and just make that shit fun as frick so the artstyle matters less

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Attach some anime to it
      >Get comparisons to Omori
      >Profit

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When the developers make something that isn't any of those things, you don't buy it. You only look at what's top selling on Steam and rush to play that.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Post actually innovative indies

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I agree with you OP, I've been saying for years that the indie scene has been suffering from what I would call a "cover band" syndrome; basically they're just making shitty versions of mainstream games. True indies do exist, but the majority are just copycats with no originality to them.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nothing but
    look harder moron
    your thread is shit and you are shit

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >know how to draw, 3D model, make pixel art, UIs, promo art
    >know how to program, have a grasp on game design
    >know how to write and make music
    >can't make my own game because the ideas I want to work on would take too long for one man
    >too broke to hire other people and wouldn't trust them with stuff anyway

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >have entire stories written
      >can't get an artist to team up with me because they all want to do their own thing
      >they never actually do their own thing

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >just do nothing
      >whine on Ganker
      >buy rope
      >hang self
      frick off whining b***h

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >implying he can afford rope
        Another life saved by poverty. Well done, israelites.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >have entire stories written
      >can't get an artist to team up with me because they all want to do their own thing
      >they never actually do their own thing

      Share your ideas. At best you'll find people who can help you fulfill your vision, and at worst someone will steal your idea and make it into a game but your vision would be materialized anyways.
      I personally only have a plot concept but it would work better as a conceptual album than a game.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've shared them in the threads about sharing ideas. But ideas are easy. It's about how you execute the idea. And I'd need programmers and artists to do that. Or I could just write a comic, but that still needs at least one artist.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Share your ideas.
        Traditional Chrono Trigger style RPG in story, characters and gameplay. But when you're on the overworld, it uses 2D similar to Oregon Trail or Theaterhythm. Combat on the overworld plays out like Dragon Quest I with a pop up window.

        Whenever you reach a location like a town, cave, castle or whatever, it then goes into a traditional isometric view like Chrono Trigger or Suikoden. Combat is a fusion of Suikoden and Dragon Quest (with higher difficulty).

        Of course, ideas are a dime a dozen. What would make this work is the actual content of the game. Which would be dependent on who does the art and coding.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >wouldn't trust them with stuff anyway

      Typical problem of antisocial people.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        *typical problem of people who used to contract work out to freelancers before

        Almost all good and successful indie games are made either by one person or a tightly knit team, and that's for a reason

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I wish I was an ideavirgin like you.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Scale down. Do some small proof of concept to prove that you actually can do it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      same-ish boat here
      >can literally program anything myself
      >know if i applied myself I can make my own assets too
      >don't know what i even want
      >spend my freetime just making it look prettier and adding in low level features

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not them but start small anon.
        For example I really want to make a mon hun clone game.
        The way to start that project would make one map (probably one of the earlier ones) make 2-4 monsters then 4-6 weapons.
        From there you constantlu just work over the animations of the hunter, small wildlife and large monsters till everything flows well.
        Once that is done make another 5 monsters and 3-4 weapons. Maybe the second map, ad again just tool it out, and repeat.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      have you ever actually made a game

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Let me be yours ideas guy.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I fricking hate pixeshit so much. There is not a single more homosexual, soulless, aids, unoriginal, troon, reddit and s0i artstyle than pixelshit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Post a style you like

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Vector, celshaded, quake 2 like

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >celshaded, vector
          >Not homosexual

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      cry and piss your pants

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I fricking hate pixeshit so much. There is not a single more homosexual, soulless, aids, unoriginal, troon, reddit and s0i artstyle than pixelshit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >you HAVE to be a flaming homosexual like me or you are LE israelite

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Mr Noseberg is salty because people are playing based indies instead of possed AAA

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            When did I say that AAA games are good, homosexual?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >AAA
              >Who said AAA
              >I NEVER SAID AAA
              >OY VEY, ANUDDA SHOAH!
              >MOOOOOODS

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Show me where I said that AAA games are good you autistic aids ape

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          if an indie game turns you into a flaming homosexual, maybe you were a gay all along lol

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Pixelshit is a troony artstyle and no amount of crying will change it

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >game looks like something
              >troonyS DID THIS
              rent free

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Pixelart is pretty popular among decepticons

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >person likes x therefore it is bad
                you sound like a troony anon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm honestly starting to believe some of the posts crying troony around here are falseflags. Sure they could just be shitposts but they all have the same MO
                >I like x
                >you can't like x. x is troony shit.
                Like they want everything to be associated with trannies until the non trannies have nothing left.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Optimus pls

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So is breathing air and sleeping.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >deck-building games

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Hollow Knight
    >Cuphead
    >Rainworld
    >Outer Wilds
    >Cruelty Squaf
    >Superliminal
    >Dead Cells
    >Disco Elysium
    >Stray
    Indie and AA have been pretty good for me so far.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      oof

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ganker hates disco elysium though
        It has no gameplay and it's woke and commie
        It is the complete antithesis of Ganker

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Hating a game is implicit approval, bad games don't get hate

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Ganker hates disco elysium though
          are you stupid? Ganker is tsundere

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        most of the games there are shit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        fixed

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          AHHHHH!! SAVE US, POWERMAN!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Am I missing a joke here? Ganker underagegays hate all these games

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Anything else you recommend? I didn't like Hades. I'm just saying that I've found a lot of recent games from smaller teams/budgets that I've enjoyed.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Your question is too open, i dont like tennis doesnt suggest you will like baseball or basketball. Gotta say what you want.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >No Max Payne in sight
        Fake and gay.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why is disco Elysium on there. There is nothing but threads about it being a game about communism fellating communism by communists. and Ganker hates the left.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >and Ganker hates the left.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Except Ganker hates Metal Gear Solid V, Dark Souls 2 and 3, Devil May Cry 5, vanilla Skyrim and Resident Evil 2 Remake so they should be removed from that chart.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Ganker hates
          >dmc 5
          >also v: made to sings vids
          Nice reviosionism

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ganker doesn't play almost any of these games. they're too moronic for smash, they just meme about rosterhomosexualry. almost no one here actually beat a fromsoft game. many got filtered by fricking Mario Odyssey too.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why is Sonic Adventure 3 there?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dunno about that.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's a nice list, Anon.
        Any more games you would like to recommend?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >No Isaac
        One job, anon.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Played the ones I've played from this list before they became popular on Ganker
        Checkmate
        I'm the one telling you which games are good

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I played demo of this game. Seemed awesome.

    Frick women and fricking transsexuals.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the videogame industry is worried about trying new shit because players are being pussies and just want something safe
    players have become too much of a pussy to see a game fail for trying something new
    and the developers know that

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can play Caves of Qud on rpg mode if you're too much of a b***h OP
    also Cult of the Lamb August 11

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >it's just my art style

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        cult of the lamb has a good artstyle that looks satisfying
        caves of qud is for people with an imagination that can enjoy games that genuinely look and feel like early computer games
        cry more, 5

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If you say you are 1, you are lying

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            2 on a good day

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not that anon, just curious about what you think that 1 cannot exists

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              *why

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            ok 5let

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            if you can't recall that very image in your head flawlessly you are not human

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Where synesthetes belong on this picture? I can smell music

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I see 1 but in a fruit basked with a kitchen background.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I had a lot of fun with Caves of Qud, you can do a lot of different builds and the graphics aren't that bad in my opinion. Only didn't like minor things about it, like that moronic random crime solving quest in that one centaur village, that shit never makes sense and always feels more like a fever dream. I didn't try that many different builds but one was clearly superior to all the others I tried. For example I went for multi-armed mutant axe-build cleaving shit off left and right with tons of AV, it was a solid build but never really safe against tougher enemies and then it died suddenly getting one-shot at level 27 on D17 or so buy a chrome pyramid off screen, kind of bullshit, but whatever.

          Next I went for a True Kin tinker and while weak in the very beginning, eventually I could shit on everything. Look at how decked out this fricker was. I first went for rifles and a bunch of tinker skills and then I went into longswords and then whatever, also I went for max DV instead of AV and it's just better in my opinion. This guy also had a ton of cybernetics installed, a true aristocrat and towards the end I just alternated between going to D30 killing everything effortless there, I killed someone Sky Bear clones (+the original) and searching for eater nectar so I could push my Dex further to eventually hit a certain DV threshold I think it was something in the mid 30, where nothing can hit you anymore not even chrome pyramids, the only danger then are explosions in tight spaces really.

          But I haven't played in a while maybe they changed some things around in the meantime.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I still don't understand what this image is trying to convey. Are there people out there with no imagination?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >literal NPC's walk among us
              Scary

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Are there people out there with no imagination?
            when i think of apple i think of the taste, smell and sound of biting apple.I have to concentrate for a rudimentary image

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I've always thought these pictures are only memed for Twitter and Instagram likes from people saying "i'm unique and speshul"

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If you say you are 1, you are lying

          I still don't understand what this image is trying to convey. Are there people out there with no imagination?

          are you braindead bros
          I just imagined a photorealistic red apple moving in a circular motion and disappearing bite by bite
          then I imagined a green one

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How can people not be at 1? I refuse to believe there are humans with a level of sentience this low, even literal babies can visualize things in their mind.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Even one is smooth brain to me. I can literally see the field, breeze, and tree it's in.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nothing but earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements
    Can you even give a clear definition of half of these buzzwords, you bandwagoning zoomer?

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Only big dick titles for me although I don't think all indie games are shit. Bloodstained hollow knight ori and hyper light drifter were fricking great.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nothing but earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements
    low and behold, indie games saved gaming

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    dumb moron

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    show me one game that fits your description

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    hey man that's bullshit, I made a lot of games that aren't like that
    https://pricklypeargames.itch.io/

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe thats what we fricking want but on an actual budget?

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Force of Nature
    Kromaia
    OS Omega
    W.O.R.L.D.S
    Self Shot
    All Day Dying

    I admit they're quite hard to find though.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Can most indie game studios even still be considered indie. Wouldn't be amazed if Kojima called himself indie after leaving Konami.

    Even games made by a single developer nowadays use million dollar middleware, game engine, IDE, Adobe CS Suite, Autodesk, Audio software, premade assets, libraries and a distribution platform like Steam.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what the frick are you talking about mate
      "it's not indie if it's released on Steam"
      ???
      i agree that the term "indie" is overused (no, it's not an indie game if you're published by a publisher like Devolver) but you're moronic

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes I like indie games

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    there are games completly outside that like
    point&click are still made by indies when AAA gave up on them. A few do unique shit like opus magnum&shenzenIO from the same dev i forgot. Even mobile games have some solid gameplay for free but these games are all hardly known.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Indie games are literally on par with the free flash games you would play on websites in the 2000s. Prove me wrong

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Agreed. They're pretty good.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't really give a frick about pushing gameplay boundaries or making novelty gimmicks like indie devs usually try to, I just have a story I want to tell in game format since I think that's the best medium to house it along with being the best way to make money off of it, but I've calculated it and it'd take me at least 10-12 years to finish it the way I envisioned it and I can't accept devoting such a large chunk of my life to it, only to find out if flops on release.

    If there was a way to release it in episodes and do one a year I'd be doing it already, but game development doesn't work that way.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Man looks only at the top sellers under the indie tag, wonders why he only sees mainstream indie games.
    >Sky Rogue
    >Ravenfield
    >Hrot
    >Angels Fall First
    >Astroneer
    >Stormworks
    >Abandon Ship
    >Duskers
    >Into the Breach
    >FTL
    >Scavenger SV-4
    >Iron Lung
    >Rebel Galaxy
    >Chroma Squad
    >Art of Rally
    >Horizon Chase Turbo
    >Slipstream
    >Life Goes On
    >Noita
    >Reignfall
    >Dread X Collections
    >BPM: Bullets Per Minute
    >Dusk
    >Satellite Reign
    >Cathedral
    >Wildermyth
    inb4 "i dont like this specific game" Sucks to suck. You're welcome for the recommendations.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Thank you for the recs and cute pic!

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A lot of words to say "normies ruined this website"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's not what the pic is saying though.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, it is

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >first reply is a perfect example
        Is he using normies because hes new?
        Is he using it because he knows it will rile some people up by pretending hes new?
        The world will never know.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this

      A lot of words to say "normies ruined this website"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Cringe

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    AA will save gaming. Indies and AAA are the same, mentally speaking.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      AA barely exists outside of Eurojank like Elex

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >earthbound-inspired
    >doesn't actually play anything like earthbound
    Every time.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    does this count as indy? If it does then why does it make the rest look like lazy garbage

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >took literal years to create
      >creators already had the talent/training going into it
      >had to be crowdfunded (to massive success) AND bailed out by microsoft
      It doesn't count as indie anymore. It's AA in all but name, but people have forgotten what AA even is.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >creators already had the talent/training going into it
        Not really, the early prototypes were rough as shit. They learned as they were going along, which was part of the reason it took so long. Hell, just look at the DLC, the animation and mechanics are leaps and bounds ahead of anything in the base game because of how much they learned.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Crowdfunded
        Wait, I don't remember Cuphead being crowdfunded, I remember they sold their mortgages or some shit.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I STRONGLY remembered a kickstarter but apparently nope. I guess I just associated prerelease hype of the length Cuphead had with crowdfunding, my bad. Still, it was absurdly expensive to make and ultimately had to be bailed out by a big company- so not proper indie.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You have to dig depper anon.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What's that?

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Where is the lie?

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ultrakill would like to have a word with you.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know what anons have against pixelshit, i won't vouch for every game out there that uses it but most of the time people post pics complaining about it and it usually looks just fine, at worst it looks serviceable, not something to get mad about
    On that subject, the game in OPs pic looks cute, im going to try it
    Pic unrelated

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      People here fell for the contrarian meme, they have to hate on everything.
      Btw, gonna give it too a chance later
      Pic very related

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I cannot wait for fricking
    B E A S T
    S O C K E T

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >code video
      >and making a cool monster RPG
      actually based

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I used this guy's tutorial gif to make the animals for zoo zeaugh zeaux

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >soulslike
    >metroidvania
    >deckbuilder
    >roguelikes
    >dating sim elements
    I like all of those things

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What genres you hate then?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why hate genres without exception? Video games are fun.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >hate
        I don't think i hate any genre in particular, but i have never been fond of point and click adventures

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't really hate any genre, but I'm not interested in detailed strategy and autism engineering games and simulators
        I want to play games, I don't want to have an actual job

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >AAA games
    >strong lesbian black woman defeats patriarchy

    >indie games
    >strong lesbian black woman defeats patriarchy (with pixel art)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Stop playing gayms and get some vidya

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >indie games
      >LG protag
      wtf where do I find the indie games with mature women?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Cute and funny meets sovl
        I will now buy your indie, when it releases

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        bawd.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >strong lesbian black woman defeats patriarchy
      name one game that does this

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I want indie games to be straightforward experiences about cool fictional worlds and stories and experiences like GTA, Jak and Daxter, 3D Zeldas etc. The gameplay should be a vessel rather than the end point, there are basically no indie games like this.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want the exact opposite. Guess I win.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Enjoy your trash gimmick half baked experiments I guess

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Enjoy your gameplay-focused games
          Thanks, I will.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >GTA, Jak, Zelda aren't gameplay-focused

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There are tons of story driven indie games. Especially RPGs and visual novels. They're even more prevalent in indie games than AAA games.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        1. I want dynamic gameplay and not turn based combat or reading simulators otherwise I'd play one of the billions of better old JRPGs
        2. I want actually good stories and worlds like good old JRPGs and not the new derivative incestual garbage worse than fanfiction
        It's genuinely amazing how there's not a single good indie game with a good story that's not entirely in the service of a gimmick

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Play Examina

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I want a modern game that's like good old RPGs, but not like old RPGs

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I want good old RPGs with good modern gameplay

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Library of Ruina.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >person says he doesn't want a reading simulator
            >suggest a game where the story is conveyed entirely in VN format
            You didn't think this through also lobcorp is better

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              If he thinks "story conveyed through text boxes" = "reading simulator" he's too moronic to save.
              no the frick it isn't I like gameplay not platespinning

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You posted nothing like that, though.

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    play turnip boy

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    honestly I almost wish there were as many "quirky earthbound inspired RPGs" as people claimed there are because there'd be better odds that there's one worth playing out there

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What does Ganker think of Blue Fire and Crystal Project?

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I wish there was a comfy base building game inspired by LotR or such. Where you build beautiful villages, forest treehouse towns, mountain pass forts, etc.

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements
    Name 10 indie games that contain all of these mechanics.
    You can't.
    homosexual.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the joke
      >your head

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's pretty obvious both AAA and indie are trash.

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I bet the developers have spy face and drink Starbucks

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    look at this frickin game you dweeb. It's a first person puzzle game where you have colors representing differing time periods and objects change depending on what time they're in. Change the time fields to solve the puzzle
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/927840/Clinically_Dead/?curator_clanid=4777282&utm_source=SteamDB
    You need to look at more indie games OP although I definitely agree the pixel action platformers have beaten a dead horse for way too long.

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Indie games are always made by one shutin while the games with soul we love from the past were all made by small intimate teams of people.

    It's fricking hard to make a videogame so loners are forced to take the low hanging fruit of 2d pixel shit that's easiest to make

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why does this place love speaking in overly simplified broad statements?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you cant have any well made and nuanced arguments where 4 posts in everyone goes. "yeah that makes sense." you need divide and arguing to make a thread last here.

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    make your own shit.

    I'm making a MegaMan-like that has sex scenes in it.

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Play Kenshi or mount and blade warband with mods

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nothing but moronic generalization
    ok

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here is yet another amazing indie game. This is one of the coolest side scrolling SHUMP bullet hells ever made and is basically unknown. It has a mechanic where you can rotate the perspective to dodge bullets. Reviews praise it as one of the most unique SHUMPs ever and its only from a near unknown indie dev. Try HARDER OP
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/313400/REVOLVER360_REACTOR/?curator_clanid=4777282&utm_source=SteamDB

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    but earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements
    absolutely fricking based. i will never get tired of these games.

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why has there only ever been 1 AA+ rougelite?

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >indie game
    >costs at least 15$ and is in early access
    >never goes on sale for more than -30%

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what's wrong with that price tag
      it should be more, indie dev is a LOT of fricking work
      I don't get it
      >pay 10 bucks to see a 1.5 hour movie
      >15 is too much for a game
      >meanwhile AAA shit is like 60 bucks

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Games above those price points are often overpriced for how little they offer in gameplay, indie developers see other expensive indie games like Rimworld get away with it and then say "I can do that too", but then you end up with unfinished early access games sold at 20$. They pander to people in first world economies who only have to work 1-3 hours to buy the game but then more often not even the westerners want to buy the game because the looks don't match the price. Many of the indie games I liked playing go for lower than 15$, at or above that price you're far more likely to run into trash.

  72. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is there a list of good indie games?
    I've played cuphead, slay the spire, hat in time, omori, inscryption, omori, rabi-ribi and undertale.

    What else is there?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Also lobo corp

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      furi, necrodancer, fight'n rage, into the breach, baba is you, celeste, hotline miami, zachtronics, terraria

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I liked Underrail but it's hard as frick

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Zeroranger, Blue Revolver & Crimzon Clover if you're into shmups

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Stephen Sausage Roll, Baba is You, and La Mulana
      but you need a high iq

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ive been having fun with Crumble - don't get put off by its child friendly aesthetics, its brutally hard

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lobotomy Corporation/Library of Ruina

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I tested Rain World today and it's kind of fun.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Outer Wilds is a must play

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      FTL, hollow knight, mark of the ninja, darkwood, bastion

  73. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >earthbound-inspired
    kino
    >2d pixel art
    kino
    >soulslike
    kino
    >metroidvania
    kino
    >deckbuilder
    kino
    >roguelites
    kino
    >with dating sim elements
    kino

    What exactly is the fricking problem wienersucker? Not enough AAA movie shit for you?

  74. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not everyone has the budget or time to make AAA graphics anon.
    Gameplay > graphics always

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Gameplay > Art direction > Graphics

  75. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's the best way to improve replayability without resorting to random generation?

  76. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm currently hooked on Northern Journey, I can't even describe it really, it's just special and might be straight from my dreams.

  77. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You see, 99% of AA, AAA, and Indie games are shit. But every once in a while there is a really good game made in each category. The only reason people think Indie is better, because they have more one hit wonders since Indie games are like fast food and get shit out at the speed of light, where as there are like 10+ AAA/AA games a year as opposed to the 10,000+ Indie games yearly.
    I don't know what hole these big devs fell into to make a game cost 200m+ and so long to make for such a shit product. But they really need to restructure.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the hole they fell into is the one filled with normalgays who buy shit solely for how hyped it is.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        True. The only reason a game is successful these days, is because some internet personality picks it up and it becomes popular, even if its shit.
        Look at the vampire survivor guy. Working on his game for years, literally like 50 purchases in a 3 year time span, then BAM. Internet fame because of a twitch streamer made him rich.

  78. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Has to combine multiple genres with ton of games each to even create an arguement
    Laugh at the AAAA game enjoyer.

  79. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Games haven't been good ever since the arcade era, what the frick were you expecting?

  80. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1866610/Traction_Control/
    this is sort of like rocket league and ssx combined. I wanna see more people on the leaderboards come on

  81. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Both are shit, gaming is dead and so every other entertainment industry

  82. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  83. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah man

  84. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What kind of pajeet fricking shill keeps making these posts.

  85. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >>"AAA is trash! indie games will save gaming!"
    but earthbound-inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelikes with dating sim elements

  86. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm making a game anon. Go support it on Kickstarter.

  87. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Indies have been nothing but trash since the entire trend of "indie games" began. All that's changed is going from badly emulated Atari and nes art styles with one gameplay gimmick to badly emulated snes and ps1 art styles with one gameplay gimmick.

  88. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is little witch in the woods good?

  89. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >wtf why arent these one man studios making 10 thousand 3d models with a trillion polygons??

  90. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love pixel games because my laptop's intel graphics card can't handle anything above that

  91. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Now i get it why normalgay says video gaming is a childish hobby

  92. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ganker can seethe all it wants but 99.9% of indie games are utter trash and there's no changing it, AAA isn't better but at least it has graphics as a shitty consolation prize. Face it, the whole gaming industry is fricked and the only way to unfrick it is to end this era.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >999 out of 1000 indie games are trash
      correct
      but keep in mind there's like 1000 indie games released every week

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I wouldn't mind most indie games if at least they were vastly cheaper, I played tons and tons of flash games that were literally free and the gameplay of a lot of indies are on par with flash games but with a price attached. Indies shouldn't cost more than 15$ let alone 20$. I ended up pirating a lot more indie games than any other game lately specifically because of the price being non-indicative of the gameplay.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what creative media isn't at least 99% composed of garbage? you can't tell me the vast majority of books or films aren't bottom of the barrel. it doesn't make sense singling out the games industry for this

  93. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >"why don't these indie games have the quality of AAA game?"

  94. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw learned about Angel Egg, Moonrider (Odallus, Blazing Chrome) and .webm related in the span of two days
    indies are fricking based
    this one doesn't have a name but here's the dev
    twitter.com/rootpilot

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sounds like someone played Sunset Overdrive

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        here's Moonrider, it's a Shinobi style 2D game but they threw in a Mach Rider segment

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          FF7 Motorbike theme immediately started playing in my head

  95. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The genre is dead though

  96. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Deckbuilders and rougelikes are still a broad genres that haven't been beaten to death like souls and metroidvanias so chill a bit anon.

  97. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >AI generated stories
    >AI generated graphics
    >AI generated levels
    It's only a matter of time before gameplay can be AI generated as well.
    We're gonna be in the age of 999999 in 1 games.

  98. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    indie games are breddy good
    they're not perfect but there's a lot of cool shit out there
    without indie games gayming would be dead

  99. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    OP is a homosexual but Outer Wilds is probably the best game released in the last decade and I would call it an indie.

  100. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Dating sim Elements
    Okay, Im hooked

  101. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I would've expected there to be a lot more story-heavy JPRG type indie games. I can barely think of 5 off the top of my head.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Writing story is hard. Much easier to just make a generic story and add some flashgame-tier gameplay

  102. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Dev here, I'm making a platformer but before I wanted to know the opinions between a side scrolling platformer or a top down one. I already have things set for the top down, but its easy to change it to a 2d in no time. Either way, the game is a parody of old games in general so it takes from atari, the nes, and the snes. This is the mechanic that I created for the game and in my opinion its pretty neat, it doesn't looks bad either. I want the game to evoke a feeling of Mario 64 at the same time that someone plays Earthbound(the game is not an rpg though).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don't fricking do isometric platforming.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ? It isn't isometric platforming though, it goes more to 3d platforming if that's the case. As I said, I wanted to try and make a feel of a top down Mario 64, and to achieve that the camera is set as the player wants it. In the second gif you can see that

        Other gif
        [...]
        So would a Mario like game be alright? I really like platformers so I'm focusing on making one.

        If anything, its a little bit more of a Paper Mario, where you can change the perspective of 2d to 3d. If just not sure if I should do a simple Super Mario like platformer instead for those levels.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          thats cool, I didn't mean like I was shitting on you, isometric platforming is just ass, I wanted to make sure you knew that. your game looks nice.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Thank, I didn't take it like that, and I also dislike isometric platformers. Its better when players have control of their own camera.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Other gif

      All I want is a simple platformer. No metroidvania shit though calling metroidvanias platformers is already a stretch so that's probably agiven, no rpg minmaxxing, no skill trees, no attempt at a big grand story. Just give me a character with a defined moveset and let the entire game just be having fun with said moveset.
      This isn't rocket science.

      So would a Mario like game be alright? I really like platformers so I'm focusing on making one.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And this is the RPG like levels.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And this is the RPG like levels.

        whats the donkey's name?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Mule, kind of of a reference to the Atari game of M.U.L.E

  103. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I want to play an earthbound inspired 2d pixel art soulslike metroidvania deckbuilder roguelike with dating sim elements.

    What are my options if any?

  104. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why can't an indie dev make a roguelike mother-inspired deck building porn game with dating mechanics? I'd actually buy that.

  105. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ENTER

  106. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Trannies love 2d pixel shit thats why Ganker loves them

  107. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ill keep playing crosscode and there's nothing you can do about it

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