December 10, 2004
Indie Game Week
by peterbNext week will be Independent Game Week here at Tea Leaves. Ron at Grumpy Gamer is having his own micro-protest wherein he is not playing the blockbusters. In solidarity, all next week I will be highlighting and showcasing Windows and Macintosh games produced by small teams for not a lot of money. Games will be featured because I think they're fun; I'll be focusing on games that are comparatively new (however much I might want to evangelize System's Twilight to you, the goal here is to showcase games that were developed recently, not "old classics".)
If you have a game you think is worthy of consideration, feel free to drop a line to blog @ tleaves.com.
Posted by peterb at December 10, 2004 04:58 PM | Bookmark ThisMy implant says that Angband is still in development and therefore is applicable.
Posted by Shelby at December 10, 2004 08:49 PMPlease note the "fun" requirement.
i dug up rocky's boots (from http://members.aol.com/Fractal101/odyssey.htm). it's descendent, robot odyssey, is one of my favorite games of all time.
so rocky's boots is something like 20 years old now. i got my 6-year old playing it. he digs it.
robot odyssey is the last (decent) game created by warren robinett, the dude responsible for atari adventure.
Posted by doug luce at December 12, 2004 03:16 AMDoug,
There's an updated Windows/Mac compatible "clone" of Robot Odyssey called DroidQuest (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tomfoote3/DQ/id3.htm) that you should definitely try out, then. It's pretty great. No emulator required.
Personally, I always liked Rocky's Boots -better- than Robot Odyssey. And both definitely have the "Robinett feel."
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