/v/ - Video Games

https://quiet-as-day.itch.io/contain-yourself

>click image

>move red box into black box with arrow keys

>nothing else happens

I've clicked every button on my keyboard and nothing happened. Either this game is bugged or that's it.

Why did I even bother

>>16722586

Holy fucking shit, that's hilarious. At least the games I've come across had some fucking gameplay.

Was this supposed to be a joke or a shitty statement or something?

Spin Pong is a surprisingly fun variation on Pong where you basically play Pong with yourself by rotating two palettes on the edge of the circle bouncing the ball so that it doesn't get out of the circle. The problem? Different shapes progressively appear in the center of the circle making it harder.

Simple but geniuently really fucking fun.

https://gatostao.itch.io/spinpong

I haven't played it yet but just from the description alone I see that I have found a """gem"""

https://cottontrek.itch.io/thedryhours

>>16722620

Holy fucking shit, it didn't even get to the faggotry shit, it just ended. Like that, after literally two pages of pictures with no dialogue.

https://oab.itch.io/salmon

This is what I got! You click random shapes in HIGHLY specific and seemingly random locations to watch as they transform into all th epieces necessary to catch, fillet, and plate a salmon. It was actually SO BAD I want my 3 minutes back.

welp, i guess its time to masturbate to bunny cunny

ENCODYA (https://chaosmonger.itch.io/encodya)

>thought this was going to be a shitty point n click, actually not too bad but the writing is super fucking gay

>crushed blacks webm/mp4 video for any cutscene, used in the intro and the 'teaser' for what the full game could have become

>celshaded graphics; but everything looks kind of ass regardless

>walking area to area is instantaneous

>can choose to be a weird abomination of a girl or be a robot, required to play between both characters, different flavour text and dialogue between npcs, etc. both characters don't share inventory

>acceptable voice-acting for every character

>so many fucking meta jokes

<so many fucking meta jokes

<DUDE LMAO RETRO COMPUTERS AND BILL GATES XDDD

<have a baby get a robot, your mother died from playing too many videogames and more or less neglecting you

<german japanese and a lot of racemixing

<I HATE CORPORATIONS

<(((subtle))) jab aganist trump

<an unironic "LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN MAO!"

<somehow this fucking game sucks up 4 gb ram and is using the gay unity engine

<everytime you move to another SCREEN it requires to load and doesn't bother caching the previous area or any other area, totally fucking retarded

<kickstarter isn't out but plans to have one

It's okay for what it is but very left leaning.

On further research, apparently this game is an extension of a short film called "Robot Will Protect You" which was also funded by a kickstarter.

>>16722716

forgot to mention the developer's face

https://getinthedamnbox.itch.io/purity

Some scribbly brain thing I guess with references to some podcast. I scrounge around itch fairly often and don't really bother to waste time thinking about conceptual shit.

Dust City. I expected a semi decent exploration game set on alien planets, but it was near walking-sim tier. I say 'near' because there's at least some basic platforming and obstacles, not much beyond that. It also had an interesting atmosphere early on but then it turns into red wasteland spoopy indie garbage, and the "ending" (i think there's really no ending but rather some files you unlock with passwords found ingame) is a bunch of fucking HTMLs and tumblr ARG shit. Just more fuckin' early 2010's nongame shit.

Also, is there a "randomizer" for vidya in general? Would be cool if there was some site that generated a few random videogames along with a short gameplay demonstration video. Would help find some interesting new vidya when bored.

https://gamepopper.itch.io/galaticus

Not half bad.

https://swanijam.itch.io/hunger-sings

Well this "game" was a waste of time.

You're a bunch of random teenagers that stumble upon some rituals, you do them "for fun" and your town is destroyed.

You don't get to see that though, you just get to see them having their conversation about it in the aftermath. Every now and then you get a "choice" which changes a couple of lines of dialogue.

The writing is shitty, reads like a text conversation. The guy couldn't model faces (or chose not to) so resorted to using emojis in the dialogue. The game closes itself when it ends, except it doesn't feel like anything ended.

>>16722637

Me too.

>>16735493

That looks like Gyruss.

>Super/Minigame Collection

>description says it was submitted to some tranny game jam but has fuckall to do with them

>content warning for hypnosis?

>start playing

>quickly get a boner

>the description wasn't joking about the hypnosis warning either

>strong urge to fap after finishing it

>didn't even have any lewd visuals

>absolutely no trannyshit either

This is easily the stupidest thing I've ever fapped over. Thanks faggots.

https://auroriax.itch.io/mobility

>okay, some kind of platformer

<description is about muh accessibility, oh boy

>basically just have to touch every block in every level

>turns out it's actually pretty fun, you just get to pick a difficulty so even game journos could play it, but no need to play easy modo first

>final difficulty has touched blocks become hazards that grow over time

>hardest difficulty actually gets pretty challenging in a few of the later levels

>final boss is actually quite fucking hard on top difficulty

<it supports speedrun autism with per level timers

>actually speedrunning levels is kind of fun, just enough movement options that you have to put in a decent amount of effort to get optimal times

>thought I played pretty quickly, but haven't beaten all developer times yet and doing so for the first world was somewhat tough

Surprisingly good for a free indie platformer. Only complaint I'd have is the overworld is kinda large, making travel times somewhat annoying until you find the debug room and everything besides the gameplay is decent at best (graphics, music) or rather forgettable (the writing, though you can skip it with escape anyway). Also might be better with a controller, but I don't have one with me right now.

Beat my times, faggots. This could be fun.

https://seadads.itch.io/the-not-very-golden-age-of-piracy

Simple arcadey game, best I can describe it as is a "mobile RTS". You send babies to get cannonballs, send them to the cannon, shoot enemy ships, and repair your own ship. Can't seem to get past the second ship though, repairing doesn't do enough and management is somewhat clunky with baby-interaction being blocked the moment you get a cannonball loaded. Maybe I'm just shit at it.

It all looks quite pretty, and aside from the baby wailing being annoying has nice sound. A rather style-over-substance game I'd say.

>>16738427

https://minty-da.itch.io/superminigame-collection , pic related is the PICO-8 cartridge if you know what to do with one

It only holds up for around two playthroughs but it still has a couple interesting ideas.