GamesRadar - Let’s face it: Your monochromatic game diet as of late has been abysmal. The cure? Hero Core, a black-and-white shooter that marries simplistic graphics to fantastic shmup gameplay. As the dinky rocketeer Flip Hero, you’ll explore a massive Metroidvania-style space station, encountering some reflex-testing bullet walls along the way. Incredibly, the game’s layout is completely up to you--but good luck taking on the game’s final boss right out of the gate. It’s the kind of engrossing indie game that reminds us that great things can come in visually stark packages.
GamerLive.TV draws some attention to five games everyone should play, and won't cost a dime. There are a couple cliches on the list, but also some you might not have heard of.
I thought it said I Wanna Be Gay and not I Wanna Be the Guy lol.
Octodad had me thinking about some estrange father who go around having a bunch of kids not an octopus lol
Cave Story for sure. It'll probably forever sit in my top 5 games (paid or otherwise).
While I Wanna Be The Guy is an interesting experience for certain, it honestly isn't difficult but a matter of silly design. It's a sequence of trial and error matched with memorization and sequence repetition. Good difficulty is fair; the game allows you to develop the necessary skills to survive. It essentially means you're capable of living through some of the challenges without having to try and try again because the game teaches you how to succeed. Sometimes (see: Demon's Souls) the punishment for failure is brutal, but learning the basic mechanics and protocols means that you only have to learn the same lessons once or twice.
Trial and error is all about learning how to avoid each individual death trap by experiencing it, perhaps more than once. There's not much elegant or subtle about it. That's not to say that IWBTG is at all bad, but the general design and gameplay is pretty much a large series of grinding trial and error.
Bitmob editor James DeRosa: So here we are at the start of another year, lists aflutter. And this is one more (list, that is): the five best free indies of the last 12 months. By my own count, I've played over 60 of these cheap, stupid, uninspired games. What can I say? I'm a poor, cheap bastard myself. But that does not denigrate the quality of these five titles; in fact, it uplifts them.
Everyone needs to play "One Chance" a.s.a.p
Once you beat the game, you cannot replay it.
You can play it again just by erasing your cache and changing the amount of data the site can store in your PC to zero.
I just googled it, came across a flash game with the same name, i am assuming thats what you were talking about?
http://www.newgrounds.com/p...
I need to check these games out. I've heard so many good things about Digital and Devil's Tuning Fork.
@Garos82 Give it a sec, and it should work. We're doing some maintenance over at Bitmob.
thanks
works now
great article! do you have anything similar for android phones?
Always been a bit of a Daniel Remar fan, love the two Hero games.