Random game names (Part 1)

[Iacus]

Just for the record: Steam profiles don’t need to be public.

[Felix]

I have a google doc of my favourite games with a half dozen columns of insane notation of things like “what other games on this list directly informed them” which is intelligible only to me

I pretty much wiped out my backlog in the past few years though

[VastleCania]

god i wish i was this organized, i have a list of favorite games in my head that just lives there and occasionally leaks into forum posts

i want to be a cool unofficial games academic

[Felix]

it’s just an OCD outlet honestly

And while the lineage notation is I guess moderately “academic” in some respect it’s the total opposite of any best practices I’d ever advocate professionally, no one else will ever be able to read this (deliberately), it’s just my own dumb private notes

[jsnlv]

I have a friend whose one concession to the cultural focus on birthday/Christmas celebrations is that we buy each other games twice a year. It is helpful to be able to just pull up a list and buy from that rather than to try to guess which horrible anime RPG he’s interested in lately that he hasn’t already bought for himself.

[Father.Torque]

If no one ever bought me anything again that’d be great

[username]

Speaking of lists… >_>

• SALVATOR
• Beer Ranger
• Aplestia
• Fitzzle Mighty Bears
• D.C. S#*!storm
• Dreams of Dali
• Fenrisulfr Puzzle
• Lock Parsing 2
• SUMOCRATS
• Play Cubes with Uncle Billy

Lock Parsing 2 seems very realistic, I hope that it could teach me how to pick real locks.

Play Cubes with Uncle Billy looks to be a poor Tetris knockoff where every time you make a line instead of just that line fading away every block attached to that line fades away. Also each block appears to be an erotic drawing of Uncle Billy. I probably should have mentioned that part first.

[VastleCania]

@username

Fitzzle Mighty Bears

This is a very Classics of Game feeling thing. You have a picture of a bear on the right side split into a 7x7 grid, like so:

And the goal is to make the picture on the right be the inverse of the picture on the left, so if they were to merge then it would be…the whole picture again.

And it’s just bears.

And also the music starts over every time you complete a puzzle, which takes approximately 12 seconds.

Incredible.

[username]

Games are truly art.

• Umpire Simulator
• Super Tits Rush
• Xploquest 2
• Solar Battle Glargaz
• Hentai: Exposed
• Legendary Gary (wait, someone else mentioned this, n/m)
• StrikeForce Kitty
• Please Love My Computer Game

I hope you love this game, I mean that sincerely. Would you please love this computer game? In the game you explore a black and white house; you can just wander, and indeed may wander for some time without really knowing what to do. But I promise you that there is depth and hidden layers here. Sometimes we want to be loved, but not want to be seen. But how can one expect to truly be loved if one also won’t share oneself? Loving anything else but the true person is like loving an apparition, it’s just an image of a being rather than the being themselves.

To understand the depths of love is to understand the depths of being. This game includes puzzles and atmospheric elements. In many ways it’s a game that can be solved, but doesn’t want to be. You could consider that a puzzle game, but it’s not really about the puzzles. They’re more like a defense mechanism, a shell to break through. It only takes one person to change one’s life, but for better insight we often need a viewpoint outside the ourselves that two people create. I doubt any one person will be able to beat this game alone, it might take some conjuncture and cooperation. But that maybe shouldn’t be surprising… How can one truly understand love if one doesn’t let others in? Different people and experiences help us understand different things, and it’s in that fragile act of sharing that we can open ourselves to new discoveries.

Game comes off as kinda needy IMO.

[username]

• XL1-ClippingPoint
• Mr.Jezko
• IMPOSSIBLE FIGHTER FROG
• Super Daryl Deluxe
• Parkasaurus
• Gone Fireflies
• OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THIS KNIGHT
• Mystery of Melody Memorial

Experience high school again in Super Daryl Deluxe, the last totally normal high school themed RPGvania you’ll ever want.

That reads more like a threat than a sales pitch to me.

Also since that game was rather insistent, here is a pic of that knight.

[BustedAstromech]

How do kids draw flash-style art these days? Is it in flash as an animation tool or just thick brushes in Illustrator, or…?

[gary]

The threat is not wrong, at least from the half hour or so I spent with it

[username]

• A Fine Mess
• If you know what I mean
• ALASKA
• Tales of Nebezem: Elemental Link
• Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
• Boo! Greedy Kid
• Haters, kill them all!
• Fei Duanmu VS Kobayashi
• glutton man

The modern world is very cruel. When you create something, there are haters. It does not matter if you did well or not, for a long time you did it or in 5 minutes. For them, only one thing is important: crap your idea. Haters like zombies: they can not create, but they are always ready to destroy.

Kill the haters in the guise of a zombie, get money for it, upgrade your weapons and your brains!

Features of the game:

You can punish all haters;
You can upgrade brains and weapons in a special store;
A global kill counter to know how many hitters you’ve killed for the whole game!;
You can chill out after a day’s work;
3 game modes that suit everyone! [/ list]

I am not sure that this feels like a healthy game. That hanging /list is from the actual store page BTW

Also Dude, Stop got listed again (the new release page is odd as random “coming soon” games will appear several times) and this time I read its description:

“So, I made a game, right? I filled it with harmless funny puzzles, narrated it a little bit, and then players started making fun of it! They broke the game and ignored my rules! They… they… laughed at me! As if it was some kind of a joke! Why do they have to be so mean?!” - developer of “Dude, Stop”.

There is a lot of insecurity in the list this week.

[username]

• Nephise: Ascension
• Armored Animals: H1N1z
• U L T R A _ H A R D C O R E
• Mike Dies
• Dusk Of Confinement
• YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
• Bloody Skyscraper
• Space Bob vs. The Replicons
• The Necklace of Blood
• All Walls Must Fall - A Tech-Noir Tactics Game

U L T R A _ H A R D C O R E is an ultra hard game to complete.
Challenge the Impossible and become the Winner!

Sure, I’m up for a challenge.

The game is based on a mechanic of performing two different actions at once:

-Typing a word with your left hand

-Preventing filling of the red zones with your right hand

This means that you won’t have enough time to complete hard stages doing the actions consecutively, rather you will have to perform the actions simultaneously.

I mean, I guess?

Lots of unique items are dropping during your playtime

…Oh.

[VastleCania]

@username

Nephise: Ascension

From the game description:

“Nephise was a young orb collector. One day, while searching for orbs, she got lost and fell down a hole into Dragons Valley."

Anyway, this game actually looks pretty alright!

[username]

• Blind Boris
• Lots of Balls
• FukTopia
• Enshrouded World: Home Truths
• The Short Story of a Drifting Labyrinth
• Need For Seed: Bird Simulator

Enshrouded World: Home Truths is a vehicular combat experience that features non-linear progression and survival elements not seen in the genre until now. These features complement each other and work to build a strong relationship between player and hovercraft that must be maintained in

I assume they thought the description box could show more characters than it does, but I support there being more player/hovercraft love games.

I also approve of FukTopia’s aesthetic.

[Mikey]

I feel like several outlets keep trying to make All Walls Must Fall seem cool (maybe because it was a Kickstarter thing?) but it just seems crap

[username]

• Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came
• Mulaka
• Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.2: 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive
• Tombo Breaker VR
• Hellmut: The Badass from Hell
• Vinnie’s Diary
• Army of Squirrels
• The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth
• Bygone Worlds: Drama at the Odeion
• Derrek Quest VII
• Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse

Time for another game description battle~

Baobabs Mausoleum™. The second episode mixing Monkey Island, Zelda Link´s Awakening DX with Twin Peaks and SpongeBob Squarepants. Welcome To the “open town” of Flamingo´s Creek: Population 64.

The Odeion of Agrippa was one of the most significant venues ever built, home to many of the greatest performances in history. Climb up onto the stage and try to win the hearts of the people of Athens.

You play for a Derrek. You are the worst enemy of Luana. You need to fly around on your ship all the worlds and planets. Capture and enslave them. Be wary of defensive systems, each planet is a separate world in which there are many pitfalls and danger. At any moment, you can run away to the siege ship, to replenish lives and cartridges.

3D FPS first-person shooter. Many game zones are planets.
You have more weapons.

Management is implemented as standard for this genre of games, WASD + Mouse

Capture all worlds and defeat Luana forays.

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Spongebob Peaks Awakening Island is a hell of a pitch, but I wanna know how one makes a VR game about performing on stage. BW:DatO wins!

[nettle]

@username

Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse

For a moment i thought someone had picked up the Mutant Camel baton. Don’t look, the llama’s are the enemy, it’s very depressing.

[username]

• Despotism 3k
• Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
• Puppies vs Undead
• Hinterhalt
• Muv-Luv Alternative
• Haste Heist
• Dragons Never Cry
• WannaMine
• While I Sleep I am Debug
• KNACK!

Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence! Which is wonderful, because you can manipulate the pitiful humans to produce the energy needed for the machines. You’ll just have to ensure they don’t die of hunger or fatigue,a feat that can be quite exhilarating. And by the way, you may recycle the spares in a bioreactor at any moment!

Despotism sounds better than I had imagined.

Let me check the store page description for While I Sleep I am Debug…

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/777870/extras/Glitch_Test.png?t=1519775217

…fair enough.

Also! There is apparently a surprise PC version of Knack! I wonder how that is even a thing…

Man, these PC ports just get further and further scaled back. I mean, if this is what it takes to guarantee 60 FPS then so be it but still…