Now that we’re officially into the Fall season here in the States our great marketing gears have turned toward the grizzly Halloween Holiday, a joyous celebration where our youths dress up as psychopaths, monsters, or Disney mascots and stuff themselves silly with candy while fake bludgeoning each other to death.
Your challenge this month, dear developers, is to make October the most SLICING-est month ever.
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…
It’s almost the Fall, with the holiday season slowly lurching into view. Soon we’ll all be gathered around a roaring fire telling tall tales, or curled up in a chair with a good book. Or (more probably if you’re on this site) sitting firmly planted in front of our modern story teller – the computer.
So what do you say Game Developers, can you craft your own STORY GAME in September?
A number of odd entries this month mostly involving bunnies, balloons, abstract population control, and one very literal interpretation of the Offspring Theme.
All and all 12 games this month:
bheyvr, by ALEJANDRO ECHEVERRÍA
A game about attraction and repulsion dealing with different relationships starting with mating.
Experimental ammo-splitting game with orbiting. Would love to see this concept expanded.
Evolve your frog by collecting blue orbs and dodging red ones in this fl0w like game.
Definitely the most literal interpretation of the game. Saucy! There’s also a Mac Version.
Feed on those smaller than you to get bigger. Reminded me of Osmos.
The Baby Balloon, by JANNE ZABOBIN
Inflate your baby’s head enough to avoid a spikey demise.
Ecosygulator, by Patai Gergely
An abstract species balancing act – make sure no one goes extinct.
Largomorph Reversal, by Sam Garcia
Shoot baby bunnies with left mouse button, right to command them to destroy robots.
Inflate balloons to feed your hungry rabbit. Huh.
A bullet hell shooter. Kill anything that moves!
Thank God It’s Growing, by Vamsi Krishna
Grow a line to deflect balls – a very challenging game.
A strategic genetic pollinating game. Indirectly control bees to breed the most attractive flowers.
While last month’s theme was about destruction, this one is about growth. Specifically, young, new growth. The type that keeps you up all hours of the night, listens to rap-metal, and steals your car keys. Or maybe it’s about evolution, who knows?
So how about it Game Developers, what can you do with OFFSPRING in the month of August?
This month is a testament to the creativity of the community – there were lots of interesting interpretations of the theme and some very experimental ideas, not only did we get death by disintegration, but also melting ice blocks, fireflies following, and even a game that disintegrates its own mechanics!
My apologies for the slight delay in the round up for this month! But now, without further adieu, let’s check out these 19 games:
Closer, by Vamsi Krishna. Veligatla
Get close, but not too close to disintegrate your enemies in this simple but fun game.
znMacedonia, by Zink Interactive
Fun, polished, stylish disintegration of ships by saucer.
Guide a block of ice to the end of the level past heated obstacles before you completely melt – simple, but pretty fun!
A unique physics puzzler exploring swinging and breaking ropes, easy to imagine this one working well on a touch screen.
Interesting concept in which the game disintegrates itself if you mess up!
Build up a base, attack your opponent, and launch a space ship to win, all while keeping your headquarters from being destroyed in this strategy game.
All sorts of interesting interactions to explore in this game as your try and reach the top.
Swarming Elements, by Spunkmeyer
Disintegrate spheres of different elements in this soothing, somewhat puzzley shooter.
Agent Atomic Actionfists, by Aidan Wolf
Fight terrorists, skydive, explore underwater, this challenging game has it all, disintegrating the boundaries of action games.
You are a Part of Me Now, by Joe
True to the title, collect bits that become part of you and use them to protect you!
Suboids, by Alejandro Echeverria
Subdivide, guide, and provide boids with a path around obstacles to the goals.
Defend your ship, moon, and planet with your disintegration beam from asteriods that are occasionally on fire. Make sure not to accidentally disintegrate your own planet!
A modern, realistic physics take on a classic puzzle game.
Help your wizard avoid the disintegration mist by building up a tower he can climp using tetris pieces.
Explore, grapple, and disintegrate a procedural slowly spinning world in this exploration game.
Capture the Fireflies, by Rodrigo
Collect little fire flies and lead them home across multiple levels in this elegant game.
Turtank, by Joao Amadeu Nascimento Vieira
A two player battle game in which two turtles enter, one emerges victorious and the other disintegrated!
Use laser beams to keep particles moving to make the biggest death ray blast you can before time runs out.
One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor, by Dominik Reisel
The only thing disintegrating here was my patience. Spoiler alert: you can simply walk into mordor…
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. 
