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Important indie game things

I’ve let quite a few indie game items pile up, mostly non-Nintendo related stuff, so here’s all of them in one go!

First off, Giant Robot is hosting Game Night 8 at its L.A. location tonight, another collab with Attract Mode, Meat Bun, and other partners. The free event will feature Monaco, the much buzzed about stealth/heist multiplayer game — creator Andy Schatz and producer Andy Nguyen will be attending. Bring your 3DS for mad StreetPasses.

Christine Love has just released Analogue: Hate Story, a futuristic follow-up to Digital: A Love Story, which you may remember me raving quite a bit about. The full version is $15, but you can download a demo to get a taste of this “mystery featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay.” Those of you interested in the Love Plus phenomena might appreciate this.

Friend of the site Anna “Auntie Pixelante” Anthropy has a book coming up called Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, in which she writes about “how freaks, normals, amateurs, artists, dreamers, drop-outs, queers, housewives, and people like you are taking back an art form.” Need to finish The Corner and 1Q84 by the time this is out — and half a dozen games — so I can pick it up on my Kindle day-one.

tags / gaming / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / game night / giant robot / indie / attract mode / christine love / analogue / anna anthropy / auntie pixelante / rise of the videogame zinesters / ec

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Haggle Man and Demon cameos in Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 (skip to 2:52 - 3:06)!!! Okay, this video/indie project is so rad for dozens of reasons, but I can’t believe these two little-known heroes from Game Center CX and Retro Game Challenge’s fake retro titles made it into this thing! We’re told that they’re only alternate costumes for other characters right now, but they may become playable characters eventually.

Developer Jay Pavlina will release this as a Flash game some time during the first quarter of 2012 — why Nintendo hasn’t hired this man yet to design an official Super Mario Bros. remix for its consoles is beyond me. You can play the original version of Super Mario Bros. Crossover, which is amazing in its own right, over here.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX posts

[Thanks, Zach R!]

tags / super mario crossover / game center cx / game center cx 2 / indie / gaming / pc / homebrew / haggle man / demon returns / retro game challenge / exploding rabbit / ec

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Nicalis bringing VVVVVV to 3DS eshop

Cave Story WiiWare/3D/+ developer Nicalis still has NightSky on the way for eShop, and now it’s announced another indie port: Terry Cavanagh’s flippety platformer VVVVVV. Nicalis is acting as publisher for the port of the 8-bit-looking platformer, about “Captain Viridian” searching an open world for his lost crew, and using the ability to flip gravity to navigate that world.

The look is the same as the original PC title, but according to Nicalis, “full 3D awesomeness” has been added to the art. Other changes include “future content updates” and “new featured levels,” as well as, of course, a map screen. It’s also supposed to release before the end of the year.

The resolution on the top screen seems to match that on the bottom screen, even though the 3DS screens are different sizes. Maybe this has vertical black bars like 3D Classics Twinbee? Investigate for yourself after the break.

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tags / vvvvvv / indie / gaming / terry cavanagh / nicalis / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / ec / eshop / ec

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Win a copy of Cave Story+ for Mac

Nicalis has offered us five codes for Cave Story+, its updated Mac release of Cave Story based on the WiiWare version. Would you like to welcome fall with a nostalgic trip through Pixel’s masterpiece? Doesn’t that sound comforting, like a cool breeze coming in on a warm day? (Not that I’d know, we haven’t really had “cool” anything here in Austin in months…)

We’re giving away five copies of Cave Story+ this week, from now until Friday at 11:59PM EDT. All you have to do to win, is go into the comments section of this post, and … describe Balrog. We’ll pick our favorites and dispense codes. Good luck, and thanks to Nicalis for the generosity!

Preorder: Cave Story 3D

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More Cave Story posts

tags / cave story / contest / gaming / jc / nicalis / daisuke amaya / pc / indie

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'Indie 2D Bundle' on sale today on Steam →

It’s not often that we post about Steam deals or PC games, but this week’s “Midweek Madness” deal is something that will likely be of interest to a lot of you dudes. The “Indie 2D Bundle” collects Bit.Trip Runner, NightSky, NyxQuest, Swords and Soldiers, and World of Goo — all cool indie games that are, were going to be, or will be on WiiWare — for ten damn dollars.

All of them except NightSky are Mac/PC compatible (NightSky is currently PC only), and all of them normally sell for ten bucks each. You’d have to be a fool or someone with an old computer to pass this up! It expires at 4PM Pacific.

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More of our Bit.Trip posts

tags / steam / deals / jc / pc / indie / gaming / bit trip / nightsky / nyxquest / swords and soldiers / world of goo

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Surprise! Cave Story+ out for Mac

Out of nowhere, Nicalis has released Cave Story+, an enhanced port of last year’s WiiWare remake, to the Mac App Store (Windows release on Steam forthcoming).

Along with the upgraded “HD” graphics, remastered soundtrack, official re-translation, and bonus modes, Cave Story+ adds the Wind Fortress level, the first original area designed from scratch by Daisuke ‘Pixel’ Amaya since the original PC release. This version also has USB gamepad support, and will receive future content updates.

I wonder if Wind Fortress will make it into the upcoming 3DS remake? Anyway, you can download Cave Story+ right now for $9.99 — more screenshots after the break!

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tags / cave story / nicalis / daisuke amaya / pc / mac / indie / gaming / ec

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Debut trailer for Wizorb, the 16-bit-style RPG/Breakout hybrid from Jonathan Lavigne (Ninja Senki), Jean-François Major (Extra Heroes), Justin Cyr, Jean Chan, and Paul Robertson — most of these names also appeared in the credits for the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World game.

While this will be an Xbox Live Indie Games and PC release, there’s a bit of DS in here, in the form of a special cameo that you’ll see around the 00:38 mark. We are tremendously honored that anything of ours could appear in the work of these exceptionally talented people.

Just this one time, we’re thrilled to see our work destroyed by a magical ball. We <3 all you dudes.

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: Ninja Senki, Tiny cameo in Ninja Senki

[Thanks to our many readers who sent this in!]

tags / wizorb / xbox liv indie games / xbox live arcade / pc / indie / pixeltao / gaming / ec

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Minitroid demo available for download →

Hey, remember Minitroid, Tokinsom’s scaled-down, pixelated Metroid game? If not, watch the video. If so, watch the video! (It’s a new one).

Okay, now that we’re all just kind of staring at the screen in awe, here’s the rad news: you can download a playable tech demo now! The not so rad news (for certain people typing this post out right now) is that you’re going to need Windows to play it.

Buy: Metroid: Other M

See also: Lots more Metroid posts

[Via It’s Dangerous to Go Alone]

tags / jc / metroid / minitroid / tokinsom / gaming / indie / pc

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Classified Information: ”Double Strength Code” for Ninja Senki, the GBC-style platformer from Jonathan Lavigne (click for a larger, less blurry image).

Download the PC game for free and try out the cheat here!

Buy: Game Center CX (Haggleman, $13.99!)

[Via Pixeltao]

tags / pixeltao / jonathan lavigne / ninja senki / cheat / indie / gaming / ec

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Ninja Senki’s Super Limited CD-Rom Edition. This post is going up much too late to be of use to anyone, but Jonathan Lavigne was selling this (only 25 printed) and Hayate shirts at Geekfest Montreal this weekend.

If you’re new to the site, Ninja Senki is a fun, GBC-style platformer that happens to feature a cameo from a certain smiling mascot. It’s also available to download for free to your Windows PC over here. If you enjoy the game enough to want one of these special CD sleeves, you could always try contacting Lavigne at his site to see if there are any unsold copies available.

See also: More Ninja Senki posts

tags / ec / indie / jonathan lavigne / ninja senki / pixeltao / gaming

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Ninja Senki launch trailer. This awesome-looking game by Scott Pilgrim vs. the World designer Jonathan Lavigne now has an official release date — December 21. That’s just a week from now! After this trailer I am “officially” TOTALLY PUMPED.

Be sure to check out the previous trailer and the “boxart” image. And be sure to, you know, download the game next week.

Update: Holy crap, Peter Gene pointed out that the area seen 38 seconds in, which I took to be just a cute face, looks an awful lot like our own Tiny!

[Via Unknown Stage]

tags / jc / jonathan lavigne / ninja senki / pixeltao / indie

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Curse of the Crescent Isle, a new Xbox Live Indie Games release from Balrog (80 Points, free demo).

There are probably dozens of platformers with retro-style visuals and music on XBLIG already, but this one seems worth checking out for a few reasons:

A Talking Time forumer developed this.
The game stars what look like a young king ”out to rid his kingdom of a horrible curse”, which I’m totally into.
Its mechanics reminds me of not just Super Mario Bros. 2 but also Game Center CX 2’s fun Demon Returns series. It’s a travesty that most Western DS owners will never know the joys of Demon Returns (or Gun Duel)

You can grab the XBLIG game here and stream its soundtrack composed by Daniel Davis on Bandcamp.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: Lots of Game Center CX media

[Thanks, Roaring Wang and CJ!]

tags / curse of the crescent isle / xbox live arcade / xbox 360 / xbox live indie games / indie / ec

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