Indie Watch 2011

[Rurouni_Fencer]

Personally looking forward to Nidhogg, for obvious reasons..

[J T]

I for one am looking forward to Owlboy. Not even sure if its supposed to be released this year or not, but its been on my radar.

That looks awesome! I haven't heard of it before.

Personally looking forward to Nidhogg, for obvious reasons..

I've been looking forward to that game for a while now too. They just won the Nuovo award at the Independent Games Festival, which gives them $5000. Hopefully that will go into making this game available to the public soon.

[J T]

Depth
http://www.depthgame.com/


Divers VS Sharks in a multiplayer battle using the Unreal engine? Yes please! Watch the trailer at the link! It looks bad ass.

[J T]

Hawken
http://www.hawkengame.com/



Hawken is a bit more graphically enhanced than your average indie game. It also has lots of bad ass mechs fighting each other. Sweet.

[AmishSamurai]

Daisuke Amaya talks about his upcoming graphical update of Cave Story for the 3DS, and juggles around the idea of a sequel or spiritual successor.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/11/inter ... ixel-amay/

[aaron]

that just looks...beautiful.

[J T]

Overgrowth
http://www.wolfire.com/overgrowth



This is the spiritual sequel to Lugaru, which was a favorite among indie game enthusiasts that love to make bunnies fight.

[J T]

Natural Selection 2
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/



The popular Half Life 2 Mod is going to receive a sequel. This one combines RTS strategy with FPS action. You can play as a general from a top-down perspective and direct orders to troops, or you can play in the fray of it from a first person perspective and work to complete the orders of the general.

[J T]

Battle Block Theater
http://www.battleblocktheater.com/




I love this trailer. It has such a magical kid-like adventure feel to it. I love how the narator is making sound effects with his mouth and real sound effects come in to match his. And the visuals get better over time. It's like watching someone's imagination come to life. Battle Block Theater is the latest game developed by The Behemoth, whose other works include Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid. Definitely one to keep an eye out for.

[J T]

Snapshot
http://retroaffect.com/games/1/snapshot/



You kind of need to watch the trailer to understand what is cool about this game. You can take "snap shots" of things in the world, but when you do that, you grab hold of them. Afterwards, you can place them somewhere else and they will continue their motions from where they left off. It's a cool idea for a puzzle platformer. I'm looking forward to playing this one.