STORY GAME Roundup
September 30th, 2011
Certainly a challenging theme: making a game is hard, and in addition telling a good story is even harder, and making a good game that tells a good story is super hard! But even so, there were a lot of really excellent game ideas this month!
Let’s see what these 18 games have to say:
Tale of Tales, by Alejandro Adrian Iglesias
Really brilliant idea, a sort of crowd sourced text adventure. You get both the fun of progressing through the story and creating parts of it yourself!
A very clever game where you can materialize words from the story into the game world to progress through. I would love to see this explored further!
The Rudest Fucking Party Guest, by Allen
Stylish game in which you explore a party and all the substories within!
A spooky platformer with good atmosphere and interesting trickling of story bits for you to enjoy.
The Fifth Zombie, by Steve Gargolinski
A sort of interactive choose your own adventure about fishing, zombies, and disobeying your parents.
A very polished party game about making stories in various ways.
Invasion, by Vamsi Krishna. Veligatla
A twin stick shooter storybook mashup, the story and gameplay match and work together pretty well – sort of a playable storybook.
Play through a history book as a solider, you actions determining the story you read.
A game about a fox, a man, and the search for his wife.
Layout story elements on a grid and watch the action take place, has a neat journal feature for story recap.
The Jack of all Trades, by Rahil Patel
Run, jump, shoot, find what you’re good at, get better at what you’re not.
The Tragic Tale of the S.S. Orca, by Breakdance McFunkypants
A simple game that chronicles the sinking of a mighty ship with silly voice overs.
OMGMMORPGRTS, by Steve Bushman
An online multiplayer strategy game with some story elements.
Click and read your way through a story about robots and ninjas.
A brief tale to begin with, and very familiar gameplay to follow, perhaps too familiar…
ThatTimeIAlmostDiedAtAConcert, by Aaron Oldenburg
A game about almost dying at a concert it seems..but I was unable to play this (no android :( ).
One Million Hero Stories, by Hardnheavy
More of a toy that generates stories based on elements you can pick.
Certainly a lot of story…but not sure how much game…
We're a group of indie game developers, running a friendly competition every month. The rules: Make a game based on the month's theme, and don't spend more than 7 days. New games posted at the end of every month.
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
Can’t wait to get into some of these. Could you add mine (These Walls) to the list? I posted it in the main thread yesterday on Hawaii time. =)
October 1st, 2011
One of this game is doing well on kongragate
http://www.kongregate.com/games/shiroik/story-hero
October 3rd, 2011
I’d love to play through Lonely Man, but I can’t figure out
1) how to skip scenes/dialog
2) fly without dropping like a rock
October 9th, 2011
Hi ScienceLion,
to try and answer your questions:
1 skpping scenes, Im sorry i didnt include this feature, I am working on improvements to the game so will include this.
2 how to fly, well, the thing here is that i should not have used the term “fly”. I should have said “glide”. To do this simply run, jump, press jump a 2nd time, then DO NOT press forward or backward, they control you elavation (like in a plane), press forward to pitch down and backward to pitch up.
Thanks for the feedback
November 16th, 2011
very nice blog so beautifull :)
January 7th, 2012
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