Monday nights, 6PM, at Awesome Inc., we meet up to expose ourselves to indie games. C’mon out and look at how small game designers are pushing the medium, or bring something we can play!
Tonight we played Rogue Legacy, Don’t Shit Your Pants and Tempus Fugit.
Details after the jump.
Rogue Legacy
A PC based “Rogue-Lite,” Rogue Legacy plays on a couple of the rogue-like conventions. The game features permadeath and a new character each time, but has its own unique gimmick — your new character is the heir of the previous character. Each time you choose a character from the list of three potential heirs (each with their own unique attributes) and you rush them through a castle of horrors.
The game is available on PC. And in the future will be on Mac and Linux. The site is here.
Don’t Shit Your Pants
Inspired by the previous Cellar Door game mentioned above (Rogue Legacy), we also played another offering : Don’t Shit Your Pants. A silly, irreverent title available on Kongregate, Don’t Shit Your Pants is the text based adventure about not shitting your pants.
There are multiple achievements and it’s sure to have a room full of grown men laughing uproariously.
Tempus Fugit
A game created for the Asylum 48 Game Jam, Tempus Fugit is about a labyrinthine FPS game where you run from a monster that you cannot see, and whose only indication of his presence is that time is slower around him.
Tempus Fugit is, at its heart, a surreal sort of horror game where you run from an unknowable terror and right when you need to run is when time has turned to jelly around you. Your only “weapon” is a rock, and you can only really use that for detection. Your real tool for finding the monster is through the slow down around its presence.
As it is a game jam game, the game is relatively short. But that isn’t to say that it is easy. You can find it here.