Friday, April 11, 2008

The 10th Annual Independent Games Festival

The 10th Annual Independent Games Festival


Where am i?


I can see all this music.

Holy shit did you just see that ball of light give birth to the psysical embodyment of synergy?


This shit is off the hook.


I was playing tower of goo yesterday, and as one is eventually going to do when playing that game, cursing the ancesters of goo balls everywhere for being the most annoying building material since rock and roll (at least they built a city out of that). Feeling the need to keep gaming but not really wanting to hear a 13 year old kid on a $2 headset blast Arnie clips over voicechat or solve another damn jumping puzzle in prey i hit the indie games scene.

The abridged version of my search is that Fez reminds me of Projective Geometry and kind of gives me vertigo, Polarity is a magnet based platformer that's pretty fun but short and Synaesthete is unpronouncable but likely to take over my life like some glorious plague of audio and visual brilliance.

The game is one part Rez, one part guitar hero and one part... Solstice? Basically you walk around in these rooms fighting enemies that appear by pressing buttons to the rhythm of the song that's playing in the background. Everytime you beat a room you're rewarded with a weird statement about spirituality and machines and entry to the next room where you can fight more enemies. Sometimes bosses come up. You also destroy them with your music. Music kills all.