Take the twitch out of platforming with
Bump, a delightful new little turn-based randomly-generated roguelikelike by clever game dev and creative fellow
Aaron Steed. Jump at or on or over things! Collect diamonds with head-bumping! Avoid and/or destroy spikes and bad guys! Try not to die! Die anyway! It's a good time.
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posted by cortex
on Mar 17, 2013 -
12 comments
If Doom and Nethack lived in Estonia and had a baby, it'd be named
Teleglitch, a recently released pixelated action roguelike that will completely murder you if you're not
very careful about how you explore its procedurally-generated corridors, fighting off former coworkers, crafting spare parts into new stuff and hunting for ammo and food and clues as to what the hell went so terribly wrong at the Militech R&D facility on Medusa 1-C. The game has a 4-level
demo (Windows and Linux,
Mac too apparently) which will probably kick your ass plenty all by itself.
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posted by cortex
on Feb 26, 2013 -
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The 80s horror film genre called, and then you got a beep and turn-based squad tactics video games were on the other line, and it was a pretty confusing phone call basically but in the end you got the message that someone wanted
Camp Keepalive back. Because it is awesome. And it runs on Windows
and OSX and you should download the demo right now.
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posted by cortex
on Feb 23, 2013 -
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Take a copy of Monopoly, cover it in lye for a few days, boil from off the bones whatever flesh remains, and give the clean white skeleton a tasteful, minimalist paintjob, and you end up with
ONOPO, an extreme reduction of the original boardgame by Metafilter's own Matthew Hollett, aka
oulipian.
Via mefi projects, hat tip to fastcodesign c/o Rock Paper Shotgun's always-lovely Sunday Papers feature.
posted by cortex
on Jan 20, 2013 -
56 comments
