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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 20th Aug 2007 16:39
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Hey everyone, while surfing digg this morning I found this nice link to the Top 100 Indie Games within the last 3 years. Some of them look pretty interesting. Are any of you in there? Enjoy
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Digital Awakening
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Sweet, some cool looking games in there. I've played the demo of Mr Robot before and it was quite something. I would have bought it if I had more cash to spend.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 20th Aug 2007 17:03
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Didn't tmc write a game similar to Super Gerball? or maybe that is his game?

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Jess T
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Posted: 20th Aug 2007 17:05
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Some nice looking games.

Shame they restricted it to just PC games... There's a massive indie market out there for consoles, Macs and Linux. I've seen some really quality games on the GBA that could put alot of those on the list to complete shame.

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GatorHex
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Hmm i would have been more impressed if it didn't require an affiliate program and they reviewed free games. How do we know the games voted best are not those who pay the affiliate more?

Still nice to see Sam & Max are still hanging around

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Van B
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Some really nice games, but I agree with Gator, if they had a list of freeware games too then that would be pretty cool, actually having a list of the best freeware with links would have been great.

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 20th Aug 2007 17:49
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@Van B: Go ahead and post that link too. The more the merrier

@Gator: It's possible, but it's still a fun list to look at.

@JessT: Yea, especially with XNA out. I'd love to tinker around with games for the 360, but I'm not that great at programming yet

I've seen Sam and Max around before... I can't put my finger on it though... was it made here?
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Satchmo
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NOOOO how could they not put echoes on there? I'm confused and hurt...

I like my sig.
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Keo C
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I just had an idea. A Linux Game Console! That would be cool.

Uhhhhhhh.... I forgot
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Raven
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Posted: 20th Aug 2007 19:26
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Gamespy has a similar list with download links
Some blinding indie stuff!

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Quote: "I just had an idea. A Linux Game Console! That would be cool."

Yeah it's called a Playstation

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Keo C
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Quote: "Yeah it's called a Playstation"

Ok.... I mean like one with a direct USB, blah blah blah.

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I noticed Naked War and Master Defense were some Blitz3D games, and Minions of Mirth was a Torque game. Didn't recognize any DBC or DBP games, unless I was mistaken. Cool list though, I'm checking some out now!



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Isn't Mr. Robot DBP?

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Posted: 21st Aug 2007 00:13 Edited at: 21st Aug 2007 00:14
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GP2X is a Linux based handheld: http://www.gp2x.com/ http://www.gbax.com/

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Posted: 21st Aug 2007 01:59 Edited at: 21st Aug 2007 02:01
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I have a few of those but number 3: Land of Legends is the one I would put at number 1... It's definitely my favourite Indie game so far...

Also I can't believe they picked to include Darwinia over Uplink... It's also a shame that Alien Shooter didn't make it in...

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Quote: "Also I can't believe they picked to include Darwinia over Uplink"


Actually I prefer Darwinia over all the other Introversion games so far.

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Quote: "I just had an idea. A Linux Game Console! That would be cool."


Wonderswan, GameCube, Playstation 2, Wii, GP-Series, Playstation 3, Gizmondo, etc..

All use bios-based Linux distros. PS2 and PS3 also have hard-disk releases too (officially, they all run it unofficially).
Using Linux as a development platform isn't novel, just a real case of a Linux platform that is as simple to develop for as Windows is sodding rare as hell.

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I've seen people booting up a Linux system on a PS3. If you want to run Linux then a PS3 is a lot of hardware for its price.

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Shadow heart
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i really liked some of those. and saw a lot of nice 2d ones
but i saw one of em was like an rpg maker....

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Every modern console apart from the xbox and xbox 360 uses linux or a form thereof. Stupid really, although a console using PC architecture would be cool.

Anyway on topic, I couldn't spot Defcon, should be up there really.
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I'm really liking the advances in games consoles. Can you actually use a PS3 like a PC? could I install DB and use it on there?

I think it's just because Linux is cheaper for them?

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I'm getting transparency bugs in Land of Legends, stuff that shouldn't be transparent are.

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Quote: "Stupid really, although a console using PC architecture would be cool."


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Playstation 3 has PC-Architecture, might be running a Custom PowerPC-processor with ridiculous numbers of VMX ("SPE") units; but it's still very much just a bog standard horrible memory management PC that you can't change any hardware on.

That isn't great for gaming, or programming but it does allow it to have some nice multi-tasking features. That said, who the hell needs to have 10 movies playing in preview windows at once?
To me it's a total waste of a powerful system, that limits itself to be a poorly constructed gaming machine.

It's all so retarded, it's like the damn machine doesn't know what the hell it is suppose to be.. then you get charged an arm and a leg just to getting a new technology that quite frankly is only doing well in America. Yeah like that is gonna make a difference.

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