Ah well, one thing at a time.
And the first thing seemed to be reuploading HD version’s of some of my videos.
Here’s one of my animation projects from uni
If that didn’t do it for you, here’s a few of my favourite videos since I last appeared.
Some nice portal related ones seeing as my last post was portal.
If you haven’t already purchased/played those games, you should get on the humble bundle wagon (if the promotion hasn’t ended already :S). It’s pay what you can and comes with some of the most popular indie games, plus if you pay over $8 you get the humble bundle pack #1 too. Oh and did I mention there’s steam integration support too .
Every once in a while I get linked or research whats going on in the Indie Game scene, I love it so much because this scene isn’t bound by investors or publishers opinions (*cough* Call of Duty *cough*), but they are able to explore different and innovative game play, as well as re-define what a game is!
I do honestly believe that games can be a form of art, but if the commercial gaming world is constantly putting out the same types of games over and over because that’s what people “want”, then the general public is always going to think of games as just toys, and those that play/develop them as just a bunch of big children with no intellectual merit.
Now thanks to this new wave of causal games, brought about by the mobile gaming market, we have seen glimpses of innovation coming back into games, which was lost during the “console” era and not seen much since the PC gaming’s dominance days, and hopefully will promote indie gaming into the public eye.
Now the indie gaming scene isn’t all that new, but recently I’ve needed to seek it out, as a way to reinvigorate my spirit for gaming. We all know why modern games have lost all they once were, and don’t get me wrong, a lot are still great games because of: their simulation factor, multiplayer capability/social gaming, graphics realism, and sometimes its just fun to shoot a guys head off. But what I used to love about games was:
the challenge, the problem solving, the new worlds, the fun, the characters, and mostly the “OMFG I’ve never seen that before, that was fucking amazing” (innovation).
Some game developers like, Valve Software (Half-Life 2, Portal), are still making great games out there that come with all these things, but really the best place you can find them, without waiting several years “valve time”, is through indie games.
Thankfully, thanks to Valve and the Steam Platform (and the iPhone App Store), indie games are now supplied to the masses, giving them the attention they deserve. Other places like Kongregate, where you can find some pure gems, and a new up starting community called IndieCity are helping to bring more attention to these games, and giving them a place to be found and loved.
So back to Gaming as an Art, here are some games that remind me that this type of gaming isn’t dead.
Just genious, who said games need to be complex, challenging or long. I know it goes against a lot of what I discussed above, but this is Indie Gaming, there are no rules.
Just wow, I love it, the gameplay, the storytelling, the pace, and even the story behind the game. One word to sum it up, “beautiful”. Funnily, it involves a lot of aspects which I wanted in DoubleJump, maybe one day I’ll have the resources to finish it (or even start it for that matter).
looks absolutely awesome. Kind of reminds me of Max and the Wild Things 
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