Freitag, 17. September 2010

Presentation of the Indie game: Cave Story

Cave Story, developed by Studio Pixel the one man studio consisting of only Daisuke „Pixel“ Amaya, is a 2D Action-Adventure sidescroller.
This game is available for the PC (for free) and WiiWare (for 1200 WiiPoints).


Well that aside, the game itself is just level-like build as Metroid with its caves.
You start as Qoute the protagonist of the game, who lost his memory apparently (silly jrpg clicheé :D) and starts to delve into the cave.
Also you will find weapons laying at each corner right down in the caves.


As the story progresses you will find yourself in a village inside this cave, which villagers, the cute little mimigas, are living in fear of the Doctor.
This maniac sets his minions out to kidnap the villagers, to transform them into beasts.


That all said you, the protagonist, are then about to vanquish the plans of the Doctor and his minions with your weapon arsenal of mass destruction.




Donnerstag, 16. September 2010

Review of the Indie game: Cloud

Cloud or Cloud Game is a non-violent game made by students of the USC EA Game Innovation Lab.
The game itself is simply said like Katamari Damacy, but with clouds.
It also has a beautiful soundtrack to relax yourself while you play.
The Protagonist is a little boy, who is hospitalized and  is asked in the hospital by a little girl what he sees when he closes his eyes.
This leads him right to fly in his imagination. 

There is no real goal in the game, you can play it as you see fit and you can do all kinds of things you want with the cloud.
Just like that and you have one lol face more. :D  


With the help of the backspace button you can open the modification mode and add different clouds to your liking.
"1" for white clouds, "2" for grey ones, "3" for black ones and "+" and "-" to alter the shape of the clouds.

 
The clouds themselves are divided into 3 different kinds.

·         Grey clouds - grey clouds are collectable with white ones and are needed to have a bigger cloud.

·         Black clouds - swallow up your white clouds, if both white and black clouds intertwine. This dissolves both clouds and makes it rain underneath the clouds.

·         White clouds - the ones you can swallow with shift and place with strg. These clouds also are your main clouds to gather more grey clouds and decompose black ones.

 

And here is some action you can do by intertwining black and white clouds.