Random game names (Part 1)

[Robin-Mk0.5]

I think achievements can be good if they’re ones that encourage you to play the game in some way that you might not have otherwise and can also be enjoyable to do so. Like, say, pacifist runs or Spelunky’s ‘never pick up any gold’ achievement.

(Honestly, I also like silly achievements for ‘thing that is very unlikely to happen, but is hilarious when the game actually notes that it has’, but those often tend to be terrible ones to actually hunt for. Which… people will inevitably do.)

And really, that’s the biggest problem (imo) with achievements: how many damn people feel the need to actually get them just because they’re there. Even the ones that are awful. Why do you torture yourself so? Like, the sheer number of times I’ve tried to get friends to stop proverbially whipping themselves because some dev somewhere lightly suggested that they should max out their gold counter or something. Ugh…

Be kinder to yourselves, please T.T

[Tulpa]

@shrug

Joe Dever’s “everything I ever needed to know I learned from ACE reprints of Conan” style is fucking masterful compared to the work on display in an app store near you

had this exact same experience and reaction

the Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! games drift a bit from their gamebook origins by having art and some game-y aspects but they’re about the only other gamebook on phones that was somewhat readable.

[username]

What I wonder more than anything is how long does it take to program in 5000 achievements vs. how long it took to program the actual game.

• Dark Grim Mariupolis
• What is love?
• Horizon Source
• ToaZZle
• Google Spotlight Stories: Rain or Shine
• Relaxicon
• Stickman Backflip Killer zone

Introducing “Dark Grim Mariupolis”, a point’n’click adventure game set in a world, combining noir, Greek mythology, magic, mysticism, hopeless entourage of Greco-Roman Age of Decadence and stifling everyday routine. Encourage yourself and step into darkness…

Okay, that is certainly a mix of things.

Enter Mariupolis, a dark place accompanied with confusing, strange music of no visible source. You are some sort of a detective, and therefore you need to investigate, but why? That’s the thing you’re going to find out… or, maybe not. Everything depends on you and sudden whims of Pentaculus, a grim god stretching its hands out over the whole city.
Investigate and solve puzzles, while resisting dark and obscure grasp of Mariupolis, where the only things guarding you from its baneful influence are sarcasm and arrogance. And be aware – your hero might actually die.

Sarcasm and arrogance are the body’s best defenses.

Steal another’s property to find out the truth.
Solve puzzles and conduct investigations.
Reply in appropriate manner in dialogs to achieve your goals.
Sometimes you’ll have to make a moral choice.
Deceive and hide your true intensions.
Complain about life, work and social order.

I feel like this is the same set if bullet points many games throw at you, just stated in the most straightforward way.

I suspect this might be another Russian game as the two languages it supports are English and Russian (this is true of probably half the games I mention here) but it seems to have had actual effort put into it which is… atypical.

[Iacus]

@username

What I wonder more than anything is how long does it take to program in 5000 achievements vs. how long it took to program the actual game.

Tales of Maj’Eyal has 1638 achievements (by far the game with most cheevos in my library). A lot of them are the same achievement repeated for different combinations of game modes and difficulty settings. I suspect this would be something similar or even lazier.

[u_u]

@username

hopeless entourage of Greco-Roman Age of Decadence

Stoked about sb meetup 2k18

[username]

• Achievement Lurker: Easiest Cosmetic Numbers
• The Works of Mercy
• The Villa: Allison’s Diary
• Russian Prisoner VS Nazi Zombies
• GOHOROBO
• Sword With Sauce
• Exterminate the world
• Blood Moon: The Last Stand

Some quick hits.

In the magical land of cosmetic items our hero must battle monsters in breathtaking turn based battles, in order to win cosmetic numbers.

I have lost the ability to differentiate between cynicism and satire.

The exciting and refreshing VR game is coming, and in the dying you will play a demon that will destroy the world.
Destroy the houses, the cars, the planes, the tanks, even the corpses!!! You can choose different weapons.
Take out the dark energy of work and life, of course, and you can do it with bare hands.

Global destruction is pretty refreshing.

It is a puzzle game that manipulates robots that can move only 5 steps and leads them to the goal. Also, every time I take actions such as lifting or lowering besides walking
Because we consume one step of electricity, we must think and act actively.

Rough translation aside, a puzzle game built around characters who can only perform five actions before ceasing to be is actually a pretty solid base to build around.

I should, you know, play one of these games at some point.

[username]

• Lazy Galaxy
• The Last Rolling Hero
• Cloud Chasers - Journey of Hope
• Survive in Angaria
• Crazy Dreamz: Best Of
• Dungeon Gambit Boy

[username]

• Shrouded in Sanity: Freebirth
• Genius Calculator
• Annwn: the Otherworld
• His Chuunibyou Cannot Be Cured!
• REVENGER: Age of Morons
• Endless Fun The battle for peanuts

WHAT YOU SHOULD EXPECT:

• YOU WILL BE IN A CASTLE INVADED BY MORONS. YOUR JOB IS TO ELIMINATE ALL OF THEM
• EXPLORE AND TAKE BACK THE WORLD FROM MORONS
• FINDING AND KILL THE ENEMIES
• BATTLE A BUNCH OF MORONS

I love how this is somehow 4 different bullet points.

[LWJoestar]

Makes me wonder how the game signals that the targets are, indeed, morons.

[shrug]

I tried watching the available video and the only audio was generic symphonic scoring. The enemies didn’t seem to have many distinctive visual traits. One of them… wore suspenders?

I mean my paternal grandfather does love fox news but I don’t think his habitual suspender use is related?

[username]

• The Rhys510 Flash Back
• Chicken Labyrinth Puzzles
• Tisnart Shapes
• Go Go Poncho!
• Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
• Murnatan
• I Hate Running Backwards

This week in Russian gaming:

The confrontation between the socialist and capitalist bloc is coming to an end, but the confrontation between socialist and capitalist Germany is not. The old party leaders are still sitting in their offices, not changing anything and waiting for exclamations from Moscow. But their end is close – Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl shake hands, unleashing unexpected consequences even for themselves.

— Lead East Germany, fraternal Bulgaria or save the Genius of the Carpathians in Romania.

— Conduct the country through a series of reforms, leave everything as is or look for opportunities to build new formations of socialism.

— Fight with westalgia in all available ways or lead these initiatives and lead the country closer to the western neighbors.

— Serve the people and party officials, manipulate the elections, make adjustments to propaganda.

— And watch out for the distribution of budget funds.
The world does not stand still. And radical changes have already begun.

Can you withstand it?

This one is actually interesting and seems to have effort put into it, what a decent surp… wait a minute!

— Serve the people and party officials, manipulate the elections, make adjustments to propaganda.

OMG I knew it! Alert Mueller!

[username]

• Round Mars
• The m0rg VS keys
• Sunburnt
• Sounds of Verity
• Opus 1 - Social Justice War
• Anamorphine
• Marginal act
• Pukan Bye Bye
• Kawaii Rainbow Portal
• Quirky Crook
• BoyAndLabyrinth

You know, initially this seemed like it’d be a fun day of game descriptions thanks to gems like:

After many years, Earth has started to deform and shrink in size. Spin the run on your native land until the planet is gone!

and

In this game you have to collect as many keys as you can. They will fly around in a location with ever increasing complexity. Beat the records! Be the best!

Features:

• Casual game

• Achievements

• Nice graphic and music

• Hardcore

…but instead I gotta talk about Opus 1 - Social Justice War.

Opus 1 is an indie, oldskool, retro-inspired, open-world shmup/visual novel/rpg hybrid with deep and satisfying combat and a unique and emotional storyline that will have you crying the whole way through.

Key Features

Created by a team made solely of talented female developers!

Deep and emotional storyline that deals with politics, feminism, feminicide, misogyny, transphobia, antisemitism, gun culture, conspiracy theories, “fat” hate, intolerance and gender theory

Diversity is our strength! This game includes: an asexual protagonist, two transgender persons, a lesbian, a feminist, a black person and an androgynous deity

Experimental pixel art inspired by Cubist, Suprematist, Constructivist and Abstract Expressionist art

Outstanding soundtrack which includes famous compositions from classical music

Game engine coded entirely from scratch! That’s right! No 3rd party engine has been used! Just SDL 2!

Source code will be released under a permissive license shortly after launch!

Additional Hard Mode DLC will be available shortly after launch, with an all-new storyline (and a few surprises ^_^)!

Intricate and rewarding combat (for true gamers only!)

and then…

POLITICAL DISCLAIMER
In difficult times like the ones we’re going through, it is the duty of every morally upstanding citizen to support works of art like this one which are made by oppressed and marginalized minorities. Before buying a product, you should always ask yourself: “Am I enabling bigotry by giving money to these people?” Sadly, humanity still hasn’t acquired the intellectual maturity to realize that no one should be able to freely spend “their” money as they wish, but rather there should be a central authority preventing hateful people to be paid and prosper. Thus, as long as we live in this anarchic capitalistic regime, it’s up to each one of us and to our moral conscience to be mindful of how we use our money. If you see a game you like on Steam, consider buying our game instead so that you can support an all-female game studio!

Then there is the trailer than doesn’t appear to show the game but has an illustrated lady giving a sales pitch that spends time on how Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy initially.

Made by GoGirl Studio BTW.

…This feels like a trap, right?

[Felix]

@username

Just SDL 2!

learning an open source graphics framework to own the libs

[username]

• Sloppy Goat
• Golfing Over It with Alva Majo
• Road Scars: Origins
• OF MICE AND SAND -REVISED-
• while True: learn()
• Panic Pump - Can you save them ALL?
• Spadyssey
• Annotation of Love
• Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries
• various fighters

Golfing Over It with Alva Majo is a discouraging game about climbing a surreal mountain with a golf ball, a different take on 2017’s hit Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Experience the challenge of climbing an unyielding mountain without infuriating controls being part of that challenge.

Bennett Foddy has played this game and granted it his blessing.

I want Foddy’s blessing to be a big game bullet point moving forward.

In Road Scars: Origins you play as Adam, an aspiring motorcyclist, fighting to join the Road Slicers, the biggest motorcycle club on the town. Do you have what it takes to reach your goal?

I really love the term “aspiring motorcyclist”.

[Felix]

[boojiboy7]

I mean, I just assumed that was desert golfing

[username]

• Coin Pusher
• Beer and Skittls VR
• Music Boy 3D
• SCALPERS: Turtle & the Moonshine Gang
• DESOLATE: Clone Catastrophe
• Filthy Hands

Filthy Hands is a good name, I wonder what it is about.

Experience the multiplayer action of an armed robbery where a hostile intruder will do everything he can to steal the safe from a wealthy family. Play as a family of 3 or as a brutal home invader attempting to steal the family’s hard earned savings.

That seems less fun than I was hoping for.

[username]

• Choo-Choo! Train Rides!
• Black Death: Divarication
• Aquaponics Life
• I Saw Her Standing There
• TERRORHYTHM
• Austen Translation
• Ratergy
• Lethal Lawns: Competitive Mowing Bloodsport
• Try To Fall Asleep
• Endless Fun The battle for peanuts

Austen Translation is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game which borrows heavily from the visual novel tradition. It can be played solo against bots or as a multi-player match with up to five players. Randomly combined plot elements, settings, endings and rivals make each playthrough feel fresh.

Multiplayer strategy/visual novel hybrid based on Jane Austen novels is a heck of a game pitch.

This is a better one.

[username]

• How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness
• Dark Romance: Heart of the Beast
• Differently Fast
• Super Lula Escape From Prison
• Are You Alone?
• Burak Bahar’s Unseen Anchor
• Frol Blok
• Space Vomit
• The Lonely Gorilla
• Whack the Serial Killer

Hello. I’m Nigel Wimble.

Tonight I am filming my final episode of How to Cope with Boredom and Loneliness: A Guide for the Isolated. I am meeting with Harold Fletcher, a 43 year old man who has been grounded to his bedroom for over 30 years.

Help me create an award winning documentary by picking the right scenes to shoot. Explore Harold’s bedroom to find items that might shed some light on how he’s coped with the boredom and loneliness from 30 years of isolation. Then we’ll get the camera rolling!

Meanwhile, I appreciate The Lonely Gorilla’s attempt to sell me on their game.

REVIEWS
“Early Access Steam Release”
Early Access – The Indie Game Website

That’s a pull quote if I’ve ever seen one.

[username]

• Twilight Phenomena: The Incredible Show
• Forgotton Anne
• Bounty Hunter: Ocean Diver
• Nobody Knows
• Night of the Shrub Part 1
• Epic Dumpster Bear: Dumpster Fire Redux
• +1s
• Downhill Deceits
• Her Lie I Tried To Believe

Battle for best game description opening.

Epic Dumpster Bear: Dumpster Fire Redux:

An evil corporation destroyed his forest, now it’s his turn to take out the trash.

vs. Downhill Deceits:

The world has ended.

That is enough exposition.