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At Venice's Carnival, in an event known as the Angel Flight, a young woman is let down on a rope from San Marco's tower. This year, the joyful event turns into a terrible tragedy: the angel's harness snaps and the young woman falls to her death.
It is your task now to take the role of Venice's top detective and find out whether this was an accident or if and why somebody would have wanted the angel to fall.
Music of the Spheres is a puzzle-shooter, now available on PCs. It's a game about patterns. More specifically, it's about bullets that bounce, and that play glockenspiel notes when they do.
Puzzles are designed to show you as many interesting things as possible, as concisely as possible. Nothing is repeated, and nothing is meaningless. Wherever possible, environments are composed to embody some pattern. The game is influenced by Islamic art, and the expressive level design of Portal and Braid.
"Half-toy, half-puzzle, and wholly delightful, MotS is a joy to tinker with. You'll be left scratching your head sometimes, but always wanting more."
~Rich Stanton, eurogamer
"There's a beauty in the apparent simplicity of the design, which like much that is contemplative is far more complex than it first appears. It's somehow reassuring to play a puzzle game that is entirely disinclined to frustrate, hoping to create mindful, soothing spaces instead."
~Adam Smith, Rockpapershotgun
"Really enjoying it"
~Jonathan Blow, designer, Braid
My Fear and I is a platform puzzle tablet game.
Imagine being afraid of everything you don't understand! Now imagine Sebastian. Sebastian is a 7-year-old boy set out to prove his fear wrong and showing him that the world is not as scary as it seems.
Set in a magical realm, Nexus Edge follows the quest of the Cat as he looks for his lost pet mouse. However, things are not as simple as they seem – as the corruption of the land spreads, its inhabitants change. You control the Cat and travel from island to island to battle and vanquish monsters roaming about, using his crystal barrier magic. What fate will befall the Cat? Will you help him find his mouse? Now, it all depends on you to explore and discover…
Keeping an animal tribe from extinction is a tough task!
While wandering trough all kinds of different environments like snowy mountains, hot savannas and grassy hills, you constantly need to adapt your animals to their surroundings.
Find different strategies of survival and breed your animals smartly, all based on real genetics.
Keep your eyes wide open and you will learn a lot about Biology while playing this game.
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir. Visit locations, interrogate suspects, search for clues, and eventually solve the case before the killer escapes - or you wind up dead yourself.
CLEAR YOUR MIND
USE THE WASD
BREATHE DEEPLY
BECOME, FEEL, NOODLE.
NEIF is a 2D platformer where you are the flame and your goal is to cause as much property damage as possible, but not everything is flammable! Burn through houses, suburban towns, major cities and the once peaceful countryside as you slowly unravel your motivations behind the destructive fury.
NEIF initially began as a Global Game Jam prototype created by DAM: David Shiyang Liu, Alex Hu and Mac Lotze. Encouraged by people playing the game across the world, we spent the last three months expanding the game at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. NEIF features simple mechanics, procedurally generated challenges and an adaptive musical score to ensure a unique play experience every time you play.
Two players are trapped in a nearly featureless room. After hours of waiting in near-silence, a loaded gun drops from a hole in the ceiling, falling between them. What is this supposed to mean? What are they expected to do next?
This is a minimalist local multiplayer game based around the struggle for control of a deadly weapon.
A dungeon crawling top-down action adventure game inspired by the Legend of Zelda from the NES. It features five procedurally generated dungeons with randomly distributed treasure and enemies. The game was developed by a team of six students in the course of eight weeks. Fight monsters, manage your resources, and escape from the nothingness!
Oblitus follows the tale of a small, spear-wielding creature named Parvus who seeks to discover its purpose and origin within an unfamiliar realm full of huge, ancient monsters.
OcuBlocks is a puzzle game in which players must use their head and hands in tandem to navigate a virtual world that is slowly being corrupted. Controlling the game through both the Oculus Rift headset and the Razer Hydra motion controllers, players must use their head and hands in tandem to overcome the challenges within. Players gradually discover a range of cubes with special properties that they can grab and manipulate through their motion controllers. Through a combination of these cubes and their physical input, they must power up their environment to unlock the way forward. At the end of the journey lies the source of the virtual world's corruption. Rooting out the corruption will require a level of cerebral and physical ingenuity that only a *true* blockhead can achieve.
(This is the description from the app store, I didn't just ask people for quotes for this IGF page, promise.)
Oh is a fast-paced, stress-inducing action game in the same vein as Super Hexagon and Wave Wave. Come into this sick dance club and have some fun!
"Crazy...fun."
- Eric Zimmerman (Diner Dash, Quantum, Sissyfight)
"James Marion asked me to play this game and I was all like "Oh.""
- Bennett Foddy (QWOP, Sportsfriends)
"I don't have time for this."
- Terry Cavanagh (Super Hexagon)
"James Marion, when are you going to grow up?"
- Barbara Marion (James)
A local multiplayer game for up to 12 (twelve) people at once, using a single PC keyboard, tablet, or even smartphone.
And if there are just two of you, that's fine as well. The point is not that 12 players can join in, the point is that you can always play with everyone around you, not having to exclude anyone.
Orbanism is a two-player competitive game in which players can dynamically switch between two states to achieve the game-winning goal. Each player starts with 3 chips; the aim of the game is to be the first player to collect all 6. This is done through either knocking the chips loose from an opponent (in the larger state) or swiping the pieces from the opponent's orbit (in the smaller state). The option of arena selection adds environmental obstacles that alter the gameplay in minor but significant ways.
Orion is a 2D physics-based puzzle platformer. The main mechanic is the G-ADAPTER, which is a gravity gun attachment on the character's arm that allows him to manipulate how gravity affects small objects. This gives him the ability to move crates around to solve puzzles in the environment. As the player progresses, they'll be exposed to a narrative explaining why Orion was created and why the world he knows exists as it does. As developers on the project, we mostly wanted to make something fun that we were proud of, and feel we accomplished it with this project.
P.O.T.A.P is unique flight shmup(shoot 'em up).
Unlike usual shmup, player places Turret & let Turret shoot the enemies in P.O.T.A.P.
It has some kind of puzzle aspects, too.
PaperPlane is a race against the weather. You need to fly the paper plane through changing weather conditions and achieve the highest possible score. As you play the weather consistently gets worse, unless you visit way points and collect blobs of "sunlight", by doing this you are able to keep the weather good, and fly for longer.
This is an iPad game which uses tilt as the main form of interaction. To gain altitude and remain within acceptable height limits you must blow into the microphone. We believe what makes our game unique is the varying environments, visual style and the blowing mechanism as this is not common in many games. This game is suitable to a similar target group to those who play Temple Run.
4 Players race and battle using various abilities and powers to get to the top of an ancient tower to win the ultimate prize. The players are all chosen to represent their home worlds in a galactic tournament. The victors are rewarded their own world. The goal is to use your powers and abilities while also avoiding the traps to get to the top of the tower.
Thirty cheerful creatures are having a party. Beginning with a funny music-loving alien to a lazy elephant: Some pretty funny guys are invited. They are all fond of a great party and it's your task to host it. You can make the party a success by using your logical thinking and making everyone feel comfortable. Meet all the Partyrs, think sharp and party with them!
Prepare for the ultimate test of survival in a strategy game with no enemies except the hostile environment of the planet Mars. Do you have the skills necessary to build and manage the first sustainable extraterrestrial colony, or will your colonists become mere footnotes in the history of human space exploration? Their lives and legacies are in your hands!
PeriAreion is a scientifically accurate Mars-based strategy game. The game environments, including three very distinct and visually stunning maps, are faithful renderings of real locations on the Red Planet. Current academic research and high-definition images of the planet's surface have been used to form every aspect of the world, from the lush hand-painted textures to what minerals are available for mining. PeriAreion challenges the popular myth of Mars as a boring and barren wasteland. Whether you're navigating the mysterious frost-covered Hellas Basin or a maze of mesas at the bottom of Candor Chasma, exploration is rewarding and incredibly addictive.
Petrichor is the smell of rain. You wander the forest, breathe in the damp air. Eternal rain leaving puddles. You light a fire under a ledge to stay warm. In your pocket is a damp note you found in the mud. "Remember The Sound Of Now - Δ" You tightly grip the handle of your umbrella as you toss the note into the fire. It turns to ash and its fragments rise into the air. The path calls you back.
Phase is a single-player side-scrolling platformer. You play as a ghost trapped in the dream world. You can phase through and around obstacles using the "phase bubble", as well as move around and jump. Watch out for spikes! Find the exit door in each level while collecting as many gems and super gems as you can. The more gems you collect, the higher your rank for the level will be. Play through all the levels and escape from the dream world and back into reality!
Ping is a 3D horror survival game where the player is trapped in a mysterious facility littered with strange, cryptic messages. The player has at their disposal a sonar suit, which is used to provide temporal snapshots of their environment, getting a literal snapshot of how the world was a few moments ago. As the player progresses on, secrets start to unravel and a mysterious but menacing threat emerges to stop the player in their tracks. The player must escape from this monster and uncover more of the game as they make it through the abandoned and desolate facility. Ping is designed for fans of the horror genre, but does not have any elements of gore or above-E rated content, making it suitable for older children and adults.
A MADCAP, RETRO HOMAGE TO GAMING HISTORY
Follow the life of computer gaming addict Nicola as she battles through the ages to play her favourite game Pixel Rift.
A game within a game, Pixel Rift is original, fun and full of surprises that will keep you guessing along the way. You will venture from living rooms to classrooms, playing consoles, handhelds and even arcade machine as you fight the mundane distractions of life so that you can get down to what's most important – gaming! From the black and white 2D sprites of the 70s to the bright and colourful 3D graphics of the 90s, Pixel Rift truly is a nostalgic and mad trip down memory lane.
Reviews:
"It has a spark of inventiveness that few other videogames have; even less so those developed by just one person. If ever there were a VR experience to keep an eye on this is it, as Pixel Rift has the potential to become a real gem for both the core gamer and the VR community."
-vrfocus.com
"I just played the best Oculus Rift game ever!"
-Nathie
This was a game to teach young children the elements and principles of design, this was also made for adults to play with children and enjoy it just as much as the child. This was the strongest example out of the other designs in the bunch, made out of MDF wood, and an old shoebox. The blocks are made out of legos, sponges, and other household materials.
A game designed to teach children the basic design principles, shape, space, color, texture, and form.
Combine puzzles to perform attacks in a turn based combat.
Help the 5 students to win a play competition with their pirate theme. Build the best strategy to defeat the enemies in a turn based combat. Combine marbles to perform different attacks and watch out for the enemies using the same puzzle board.
With Plitch you experience fast paced platforming action while only using your finger!
Play in a world of rivaling ink colors. The evil yellow ink droplets have stolen ink from a blue painting. You, as a blue ink droplet with ninja skills, were dispatched to infiltrate the paintings of the yellow realm to win back the blue ink for your home painting!
Let the ninja droplet quickly jump, run, roll and climb to where you tap with your finger. Overcome dangerous obstacles, collect precious blue ink and fight enemy ink droplets!
Plume is a 2-player competitive splitscreen sumo-shooter. Players duel by trying to push their opponent out of a small arena. At each player's disposal are two abilities. The first lifts other player into the air and places a target lock on them, leaving them vulnerable. The second fires out a sphere of pure energy that either chases target locked players or flies out in a straight line, applying a huge force to whatever it hits. Using these tools, each player tries to be the first to earn 5 knockouts.
Pocket Protection is a humorous mobile dating sim game combined with minigames aimed at young adults from 18-24 year olds. The game focuses on the 5 key messages mentioned by the CDC regarding STD/HIV prevention. LGBTQ relationships are present in this game as well. Aims to educate while entertain simultaneously.
One of the unique features of Pocket Protection is that is allows you to choose your gender and love interest. There are two love interests to choose from per gender as well as 5 different endings. See how the story changes based on your choices.
Our goal with Point and Think, a collaborative prototype experiment, is to get as much feedback on the twists we made to the classic #pointandclick adventure genre. The unique aspects of our experimental play are how the player explores thoughts instead of the environment and drags objects to plant them in NPC's thoughts instead of clicking objects to place them in an inventory. The game is an exercise to play with our core mechanic, thought manipulation. Players are able to drag the "idea" of the highlighted object into the NPC's thought bubble. The "idea" associated with each interactive object changes based on the circumstances and the NPC involved. Thoughts are then changed out to manipulate NPC's behavior and actions in order to puzzle solve and progress through a linear interactive story.
PONGB is a colorfully brand new take on Pong!
Pop N' Pals is a multiplayer sandbox game designed in an attempt to invoking feelings of playfulness and wonder through emergent gameplay. Players create stories together that are unscripted and last beyond their time with the game. Pop N' Pals is about creating meaningful experiences together in a virtual space.
Porcunipine is a couch multiplayer about bald porcupines fighting courageously for survival using their very last spine. In Porcunipine up to four players battle to death using their only spikes as projectiles, and the mechanics are fairly simple: shoot, kill someone, grab your spike back, shoot again.
The game is under development for Win/Mac and consoles.
Early Access available at biggreenpillow.com/porcunipine
Prince of Space is a casual turn-based strategy game where the player commands fleets of fighter squadrons, frigates, and cruisers in a bid to conquer the galaxy. Capture planets to gain resources and expand your fleet, then capture even more! But be careful, as you are not the only one bent on conquering the galaxy. Use your three types of ships wisely to outmaneuver the alien invaders and beat them back out of the galaxy! Play on six different maps with as few as four planets to over twenty.
Procedure() is a difficult method to document. The game inherits some attributes of game classes such as dungeon crawlers, action RPGs and @roguelikes. It also interfaces a lot with legacy arcades and sci-fi abstractions.
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Project SNAIL is a 2D Arcade-style platforming game with an emphasis on classic game-play, brought into the modern era with contemporary design philosophy. It features simple, easy to learn controls, and gains its complexity through varying enemy types and level design. The player controls a Snail who is trapped in a series of levels with different creatures that seem intent on killing it. The Snail has the ability to spit goo at its enemies in response, forcing them to stop moving long enough that they can be destroyed. As the levels progress it becomes more and more clear that the Snail has been placed here, and the entire experience has been the result of a lab experiment. The game is intended to be a simple, narrative light game that appeals to all demographics, but particularly those that remember going to the arcades in the 80's.
Fly as a nimble and fast asteroid named Prothos and wreak havoc around the galaxy by destroying planets when powered up! Fast and sequential destruction will be rewarded with multipliers!
Be careful, though, touching a planet while unprotected is fatal and to be avoided at all costs!
Psylosibe_Conflict: Merrisa's story is a First Person Shooter with amazing soundtracks, console class effects and catchy storyline.
Try role of agent of Elvian Empire intelligence. Merrisa Ein must investigate what happened on Psylosibe planet, but it's not easy. Psylosibe is a part of Humanity's conglomerate. You know only that, you must find artifact of ancient psylosibes. But not only elfs interest in human's artifact.Complete all storyline to know what hiding Psylosibe planet. Unique landscapes and decorations, every level is a different part of story. Use every type of weapons for maximum damage. Get excite in Psylosibe_Conflict.
Punish Panda, Kill kill kill! It is time to reveal the ugly truth.
Unleash your inner killer in a fiesta of bloody and juicy violence.
Pandas aren't cute, fluffy or an endangered animal. It is a scam!
They are evil creatures craving world domination.
Punish the pandas, they deserve it!
The player explores Mars as R-01, a quirky and lovable rover, to document and discover the planet's dark and mysterious secrets. Clues that point to something much grander than we could have ever hoped.
Radical Squad is a fast paced puzzle adventure game using concepts from 80s action films and bomb disposal to inform its level and task design. Contained within the game are four separate explosives each with a different and unique defuse method players must discover through interaction with the environment and gameplay. Using the different tools provided users must work against the ever looming detonation timer and attempt to defuse all of the levels bombs before the timer hits zero.
The goal was to encourage a frantic and tense emotional response from the player, hoping to emulate the feeling action heroes experience during similar scenarios and put players at the centre of the action where quick-thinking and ingenuity are all that stands between defusal and obliteration.
Adrenaline! Drama! Wipe-outs! Energy Drinks! Join Jace Wango, Extreme Athlete/Organic Potato Farmer, as he makes his comeback to the world of Para-Karting in the caves of Mount Mondo. Crimson Ox Energy Drinks has spent millions to reshape the entire inside of a mountain for Rails of Fury, the best damn extreme sporting event humanity has ever seen. With Jace Wango in the driver's seat, world records WILL be broken!
Drink Crimson Ox!
Taste the Mountain, Taste the Extreme.
Recollection is a first person action puzzle game with shooter elements – in which players solve spatial puzzles as an elderly man on his death bed, traversing through his mind.
Download The Game : http://community.vfs.com/arcade/game/recollection/
It's 1917, and the Russian Revolution is in full swing. As Russia tears itself apart, the Fallen begin to rise from their graves, turning on the living indiscriminately. Presented in an old school propaganda art style, take control of the survivors; do your best to keep them that way. This is Red Survivor.
Genre: Turn Based Strategy
Platform: PC + Mac
Lead your party of heroes in a unique 3 squad combo to avoid traps and eliminate dark minions as you climb the endless Tower of Evil in this fast-paced action runner. Arrange your heroes in different combinations to gain tactical advantages against your enemies and with the loot from your conquests, hire even more powerful heroes and use your boosts to see how far you can go.
Reign of Heroes: Lightbringers is a new vision of a series of games for smartphones based on the original Reign of Heroes by Daylight Studios.
Rekkage is a multiplayer top-down shooter in which the player characters are modular player-created vehicles. As combat progressses, players will typically lose several of their modular pieces, changing the dynamic of play in an exciting fight to the death.
Relic Sweeper is a turn based strategy top-down adventure game, where the main objective is to find the lost relics scattered throughout the many diverse maps.
The main design of Relic Sweeper was derived from Microsoft's Mine-Sweeper. However, we decided to revamp and invigorate the game-play by adding combat elements, an expanded strategy, and a humorous story.
You play the role as the King's military advisor; the King has a lusty greed for ancient relics, so you must scour the land by sending out units. Your arsenal is packed with different types of units, all with their own unique abilities. While exploring, units will provide tile numbers to help you avoid the monstrous hazards hidden within the land. Unfortunately, the King is VERY impatient; it is up to you to complete his tasks in a timely manner in order to keep him satisfied with delicious relics!
Repel is a single or co-operative 2D game which the player/players defend their peaceful village from marauding evil dragons. The players protect their village from fire balls by deflecting them back to the dragon with their shields. The ice balls will heal their village but the players must avoid being hit by the ice balls as they will slow them down. They have to defeat all the dragons to prevent their village from being burnt down!
