Favourite inspiring/unique games

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Re: Favourite inspiring games

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I was inspired by a game called 'Songbringer'. It's a procedurally generated Zelda-like game. I was impressed with how, despite the overworld and dungeons being randomly generated, it was done in a way were things still maintained a sense of cohesion. If you didn't know that it was procedurally generated, you probably wouldn't guess that it was. I actually played that game so much a couple of years ago that I ended up getting the speedrun record. And I'm not a speedrunner, so I was kind of proud of that.
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Speaking of procedural generation...
I came across this kingdom management game with meaningful choices in ASCII called warsim. This game procedurally genrates a lot. It has 75 million races that can be procedurally generated and ontop of that it has a face generator that can in turn generate ~300 000 faces for each race.
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Orc faces!

Progen to the max!! :P
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I have another one!!
Today I accidentally(?) downloaded the rom Tengai (arcade) and I'm here to sight it with having some cheesing (really) good enemy design, though it's so hard and is (apparently "almost") a bullet-hell, I kept "continuing".

But still, the steampunk feudal japan is portrayed with some of the best parallax scrolling and character animations and portraits.
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I also "accidentally" got this : P
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Comix zone appeared pretty amazing to me, well its not a great game, but the grapics and storytelling, they just dont make such games anymore :D

Candy box! This one is addictive. It actually inspired me to do my own Ascii art game.

Last year i made a game inside the mouse pointer, is that creative?
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I've heard of candy box, and I'd always avoided Comix Zone because of the name, but now I'll check it out :P
BrotSagtMist wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:58 pm Last year i made a game inside the mouse pointer, is that creative?
What? How?
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Mostly by being drunk. But also someone from a forum wanted to join this low res game jam and one thing lead to another.
See for yourself tho https://pmprog.itch.io/desktop-labyrinth

Has someone already mentioned not Tetris? Or MariO? Ive played not Tetris on a screen at a convention and it blew some ppls mind.
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Haha, not Tetris
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Only heard of it now seems cool, plus mari0 and it were made by love2d , nice.
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To blow your mind, like, REALLY blow your mind, try Catacombs of Solaris. It's written in a framework somewhat similar to Löve, but with a built-in scene graph, called Amulet. It's more of an interactive kind of caleidoscope than a game, but still. It takes a while to understand what's going on. A very clever mechanic.
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Gunroar:Cannon() wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:50 am Haha, not Tetris
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Only heard of it now seems cool, plus mari0 and it were made by love2d , nice.
You know https://xkcd.com/724/

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I just found out that Outcast is currently FREE on GOG! https://www.gog.com/game/outcast
It's a FPS with a non-linear storyline, and I absolutely LOVED it back in its heyday! Check it out!!
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