Indie Game: The Movie
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A candid look into indie game development. We follow Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes of Team Meat through uncertain times during the development of Super Meat Boy. From the insane three month crunch to finish their project to Microsoft’s careless handling of their release, it’s a harrowing journey. We also follow Polytron’s Phil Fish and the drama spiral that surrounds him. He struggles to release Fez, his passion project in development for nearly 5 years, despite a bevy of roadblocks. Like him or hate him the film provides an honest look at the personal difficulties and pressures that affected the game’s turbulent development. Fish seems open and vulnerable here, far separated from the man making headlines for inane, egotistical comments. There are also interviews with other indie developers, such as Jonathan Blow (Braid) who provides some unique insight into the indie movement and how developers try to connect meaningfully with their audience.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
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The struggling artist is a trope that we’re all familiar with, but most of us don’t associate it with video game developers. That is pretty understandable because until 2009 or so the only games we saw were big-budget games being put out by large corporations. With the indie game scene exploding in the last few years, it became much more obvious that there were people making games purely out of passion; people who put their financial stability and reputations on the line to create something beautiful. And that’s art.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Portal 2 - The Final Hours
I bought this game along with Portal and Portal 2. I read a little bit of it earlier but I really read a lot yesterday (I was on a plane, hence the low playtime,) and even finished it. Portal 2 - The Final Hours covers the development, release and post release of Portal 2 inside of Valve. If you like betas, like the Half-Life 2 beta, this is for you. I also reccomend checking out The Final Hours of Half-Life 2. Look it up online and there is a free version.
What makes this so different, though? For starters, it includes interactive content. The second picture (Destroy Aperture) is my favourite, as you can use the mouse to destroy some areas in Aperture Laboratories! There is also music that you can listen to, like the songs that inspired the soundtrack of Portal 2, and lots of pictures. There are chapters and polls even.
– Real player with 25.6 hrs in game
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This is my very first interactive e-book. I’m a bit suspect to say anything regarding this e-book (since I’m a crazy lover of the Portal series - and of Valve, their brilliant creators), but I loved this SO MUCH! I was honestly expecting more of a screenshots/pictures showcase and a few gadgets here and there with a little bit of text, but reading about each team and each developer of this game and the problems they’ve faced in this journey was an amazing experience. I always admired Valve products, even before falling in deep love with Portal, and I knew making games as part of such a huge (and world-class famous) company was a tough task, but I REALLY underestimated how complex the process of game creation could be.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Zero Point
It’s all very interesting and cool and awesome. But not all of it is. Some parts are downright boring. But that’s cool too, because I’m interested. And I like documentries… where people talk and talk and talk …. and then something happens that’s minutely interesting …. and then more talking. Kinda distracts the awesomeness of the visuals. I wish there was a directors cut where they cut out all the voiceovers.
When it comes to VR, I really don’t care about what life would be like 20 years from now… I’d rather immerse myself in the virtual reality of now…. without someone breathing down my neck about 2035 and whether it will fit in with our post-real neo-simplistic social cloud-based pseudo lives that we are already living in.
– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game
Very disapointed in myself for buying this. Even at 5 dollars this was a waste of money. Performance issues galor in this thing. After reading multiple reviews about this not working properly I thought to myself Ill download the demo to see if it ran ok on my setup. To my surprise the demo works flawlessly on my setup. So I bought it. Actual game runs terribly after space scene. Even the same scenes that worked good in the demo ran horrendous in full version. Then it stoped at the run down building scene near the end. I love how they made the demo work great but the full version blows. Zero point did a full bait and switch on me. I don’t understand how prerecorded video scenes can be this hard to do. Wish i could get a refund for this garbage.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Night Of The Living Dead VR
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
So this actually first came out on the Oculus Store and now it’s come to Steam. However, it’s odd that it came to Steam as an Oculus exlusive. It belies the purpose to come to Steam if it’s not available for HTC Vive, Valve Index, or WMR headsets. I honestly don’t understand it.
In any event, this app consists of three different things. There’s the recreation of the farmhouse set. There’s a horribly made wave shooter (probably one of the worst I have ever played). Finally, there’s the black & white film documentaries on Night Of The Living Dead.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
It’s A Really Cool Recreation Of the Classic Zombie Film, Though Has No Story At All And Is More Like Survival Horror. It would had been better if It had a story to it.. But instead you just shoot zombies for unlimited amount of time, which gets boring very quickly… Though Experiencing How the house looks is pretty cool… Just thought it could had been better, But really good for a free game! I recommend it if your testing a VR set
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game