The Game Thread

[SirOni]

A place to share any indie/flash/browser etc... games you may have found an enjoy. Hopefully this'll get sticky'd so it's not lost.

Spelunky is a 2D, randomly generated roguelike game where the aim is to find 4 artifacts, one in each of the games 4 area's to unlock the door to the City of Gold. However, it's not as easy as it seems. Each level houses various creatures that can and will kill you as well as hazardous traps and dangerous falls.

Download: Spelunky DL

A list of the games item's can be found here along with what they do in the game.

A guide on how to survive can be found here

Controls;

Left Arrow Key - Move Left
Right Arrow Key - Move Right
Up Arrow Key - Look Up, Climb Ropes/Ladders
Down Arrow Key - Crouch/Look Down, Crawl (when used with the left or right arrow key)
Z - Jump
X - Attack (also used to deploy ropes and throw items)
C - Cycle Through Held Item/Whip, Bomb and Rope
Down and X - Pick up an item, drop an item
Up and X - Open a crate/chest, high throw and item

Tips;

• Rescue any and all Damsels that you can reach as at the end of the level they will give you one extra hit point. Of course, if there's a sacrificial altar on the level with the Damsel feel free to offer her up as a sacrifice as if you offer two you'll gain an item that allows you to collect the blood of the creatures you kill and after 8 drops you gain one hit point.
• Try not to linger for too long in a level because after about two and half minutes a ghost appears and will kill you if you touch it.
• In Area one Golden Idol's are protected by a boulder trap. Before picking up the idol check the immediate area to see if there's any ladders. If there isn't one thats reachable before the boulder is activated use a rope to create an elevated area where the boulder cannot reach you. Once you do just pick up the idol and climb the rope.
• Damsels make for great meatshields. If there's an arrow trap or enemy that you cannot avoid throw the Damsel at the trap to trigger the arrow (arrow traps only fire one arrow) or throw her at the enemy to hopefully kill it.
• If you absolutely have to have an item in a shop then steal it BUT DONT KILL THE SHOP KEEPER. By only stealing the item you'll only piss off that shop keeper and the one in the next level, however if you kill the shop keeper EVERY shop keeper for the rest of your current game will hate you and attack you on sight. They may even be found at the exit of the level waiting to kill you.
• Spikes aren't as big a threat as they want you to think, so long as you don't drop/jump onto them platforms/flooring that have spikes on them can be walked on without you being killed. You can even jump but make sure not to land on the same spot otherwise you will be killed.

[Obeliskos]

http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=2213

[SirOni]

Cock jockey, this is a thread to SHARE various indie/flash/browser games, not discuss mainstream ones.

[Obeliskos]

Pretty sure the game discussion is for all games, not just mainstream ones.

Originally Posted by Rule 34

This is for everything, EVERYTHING that has to do with games

I hate Rule 34 and I'm still defending the point that his thread has done what this one is meant to do except with a wider range of gaming genres.

[Pheonix Alugere]

Two things:

1) Obi: this is a thread for discussion and posting of games which aren't sold in CD form.

2) Spelunky is fun, but I hate the two block wide spiders.

[Archer]

What about games that aren't available in our country? (-goddamn- you japan....)

[Obeliskos]

Originally Posted by Pheonix Alugere

1) Obi: this is a thread for discussion and posting of games which aren't sold in CD form.

First off, only nunu can call me obi. Second, I don't see where Rule specified that that thread was only discussion and only for games sold in CD form.

[Copper]

Achievement Unlocked

And that's exactly what you do. Simple. Fun. Addictive.

[aika]

The whole series of elephant games are amazing, the best definitely being elephant rave.

Link to audio

[Kusanagi]

This Is The Only Level and This Is The Only Level Too.

[dmronny]

I guess this is the best spot for it, was wondering if anyone plays Elements, basically a magic type card game. I've been playing it quite a bit lately myself, and if anyone wants a friendly match just ask. Though I'm not really all that good at the game.

http://www.elementsthegame.com/

[Rule 34]

So, uh... Robot Unicorn Attack. It's a fabulous and badass game at the same time.
I know a bunch of people here play it, and I'd like to know their high scores. Mine's at 90030.

EDIT: 101696 now.

[Nunu]

Originally Posted by dmronny

I guess this is the best spot for it, was wondering if anyone plays Elements, basically a magic type card game. I've been playing it quite a bit lately myself, and if anyone wants a friendly match just ask. Though I'm not really all that good at the game.

http://www.elementsthegame.com/

i played it a bit last night and i suppose i can fight ye if you wanted.

[xoithitquay]

As for the Dead Space thing, though I've never played it (I've looked at it, seen demos and such, and just not liked the way it was played) I know that to take away the core aspect, that atmosphere and creepiness wouldn't work. Especially in a sci-fi setting like it is. Take away the scariness, next thing you know its just like any other "I'm a space-faring alien ass-kicker" game.

[Hentaispider]

Originally Posted by xoithitquay

As for the Dead Space thing, though I've never played it (I've looked at it, seen demos and such, and just not liked the way it was played) I know that to take away the core aspect, that atmosphere and creepiness wouldn't work. Especially in a sci-fi setting like it is. Take away the scariness, next thing you know its just like any other "I'm a space-faring alien ass-kicker" game.

douchebag

[ToxicShock]

Woah, I thought that whole copy and paste something someone already said was some auto bot thing, but that was a completely different thread and only like half of the post. The sig douches are actual people signing up?

[GargantuaBlarg]

It is once again ROGUELIKE TIME BITCHES check this shit

Caves of Qud. Currently in beta, it is set in a post-apocalyptic world - not all-brown-no-plants-anywhere, though, presumably the end of the world happened long ago enough that flora has returned. You start in a little farming village. There are presumably other civilized areas in the ruins and shit scattered around the world, but I have not seen them yet. Beware the horrible mutants, rogue robots, and hostile flora and/or fauna!

There is a crafting gimmick. AFAIK it's all technological kinda stuff - you buy the "tinker" skill, and you can disassemble stuff for parts, which you can use to make other stuff you have schematics for. All technological stuff shows up as "artifacts" unless you identify them, which is usually simple enough. Such things include drug injectors (potions, pretty much), guns, and grenades.

Food and water management. It's pretty scarce, don't go out into the wilderness unless you've got a fuckton of food, or know how to harvest and/or butcher! You can eat corpses as well, but those suck.

A world map. Occasionally you will get lost. When this happens, it kicks you to the local level map, and you have to evade all the horrible monsters! Presumably you can get unlost and go back to the world map, but the times I've gotten lost that didn't kick in, and I had to walk all the way back manually. There's a skill that helps you get unlost as well

The coolest bit though is the Mutated Human race you can pick. Currently, there are Pure Humies, who get boosted stats and skills from living in there non-irradiated, non-blown-to-the-Dark-Ages arcologies, and the Mutants, who weren't so lucky and had to live in the wastes. During chargen for the mutants, you can pick mutations, using a point-buy system. It's split into physical and mental mutations, which for the most part don't mix. Physical mutations give you shit like claws, a carapace, regeneration, more arms/legs and heightened speed/hearing/vision. It also has some less believable things, like ICE/FIRE HANDS, which you can use to SHOOT ICE/FIRE AT SHIT, but disallow you from wearing gloves. Mental mutations are the fun stuff like telepathy, pyro/cryo/[light]kinesis, super brainitude and stuff. There's also even crazier shit, like teleportation, a space-time vortex, and "Temporal Fugue", which basically makes TIME CLONES out of you.

Note, there IS a way to get access to both, though it's much more expensive than just access to one tree, and IIRC it's not totally free access.

You can also buy a defect, that gives you more points! These're also separated into physical and mental. On the physical side, there are things like amphibious (need to submerse yourself in (very rare, I might remind you) fresh water) and ravenous (you eat a lot), and crazy shit like spontaneous combustion (which I fucking ALWAYS take because it's fucking hilarious). Mentalside there's stuff like narcolepsy (Oh shit it's the dungeon boss heaven or hell let's roZZZZzzzzz), but none of it matters because there is fucking Evil Twin, which is fucking awesome and at an unknown time during your game will spawn a hostile clone who has all of your powers and equipment and holy fucking shit this is the best defect.

For the cons: Like I said, it's a roguelike, which is pretty hard to get into for the non-initiated. And it's permadeath - once your character dies, it's game over, no reloads, (s)he's gone for good. ...Unless you savescum, of course. AND, it's in beta, so it's not entirely stable. But I've only had one fuckup-error so far, so it doesn't seem to be that bad, and there's a lot of content for an unfinished game.


My current character has the vortex mutation and Temporal Fugue, and has a firebomb in his throwing weapon slot. When I ran into a giant enemy crab, I used it, and they immediately both used their wormholes, like they always do. These proceeded to wander around the map, and every wall and enemy they touched was teleported to somewhere else in the world (think if I used it on your chair, your chair would suddenly appear up in a tree in the Amazon or something). The wormhole missed the crab, though, whose armor was so high we could barely do shit to it. So they proceeded to firebomb it and explosions and fire everywhere while I ran like a bitch.

[Darmy647]

Since Champions online recently went to free to play, im going to give that a shot. I liked the concept when i read about it in interviews in game informer, so i hope it still seems ok, but the downloads taking forever..my internet must either blow ass hard, or this client is making me crawl slower than a turtle.

[Kusanagi]

Upgrade Complete 2 is out.

AND IT IS AWESOME.

[Nunu]

its no where nearly as good as the first.

[SirOni]

I can't seem to defeat the skull boss even with the billions of guns, lightning shooters and rockets.