By: Adam Kearny
I originally intended this article to be a full-fledged review of the recently released…thing, Vidiot Game. After playing it for a couple of hours, though, I’m convinced that there’s no way I could actually review this “game.” I’m sure you’re thinking to yourself, “Addam, it can’t be that hard to review a game, even if this one is kind of weird.” So, let me ask you this: how do you articulate the quality of a game where the chief gameplay elements consist of burying dead horses to appease the gods, running away from time vortexes, injecting yourself with strange drugs you find in the desert and merging your body with a swarm of hornets?
'[This editorial was originally published in issue 31 of The Indie Game Magazine in March 2013]
The Indie Difference is a new editorial series intended to highlight specific elements that make independently-developed games special. The series is a celebration of the indie gaming hobby, with a particular focus on what differentiates indie games from their big budget, AAA counterparts. This time it is Comedy that falls under the spotlight.
If you’re reading this, then you’re presumably a pretty avid fan of indie games. We all have our own reasons for getting into the wonderful world of independent videogames, but it is likely we all have one thing in common — we turned to indie games because they offered something that mainstream releases didn’t. For me, indie games provided an escape from the po-faced, humorless realism with which the AAA industry has been obsessed this console generation. My discovery of the smaller, self-funded projects opened my eyes to the fact that there was more out there besides hokum, gritty action — videogames could actually be funny!' - Matt Suckley
The Indie Ocean's captain casts his scathing eye over surreal indie minigame collection Vidiot Game. Is he enough of a vidiot to appreciate it?
The bleakly named recession bundle has just been released, and it aims to beat the average indie game bundle price by giving you six games for nothing.
As their bundle name suggests, the good folks over at Indie Game Bundles believe in tightening the belt so they’re giving gamers a price they can handle in these tough times. Their Recession Bundle is described as an ‘experimental part-charity part-awesome project’. It consists of six freeware titles and two games that will be made available for donators. The freeware titles are pretty notable works that have all received positive reviews:
This game needs a new title...like Lucy in the Sky with Video Games.