Best Indie Games So Far This Year

cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has just finished and published its yearly mid-year article 2005 Independent Game Mid-Term Grades. This article, the mid-year equivalent of Game Tunnel's year-end Game of the Year awards, captures the best indie games so far in 2005 while also grading each game genre. The article is set-up just like a school report card, grading genres, such as action, adventure and strategy, with a letter grade from 'A' to 'D' while also spotlighting two of the best games that have been released so far this year in each of the genres and listing what game GT is looking forward to most in the genre."

Re:Slashvertisement

[ZephyrXero]

It's a very small independent game site asshole. And these developers don't have the cash to pay off sites to review their games....otherwise you'd see them plastered all over IGN and Gamespot.

Re:Warped experiences?

[ZephyrXero]

If you program your game with DirectX you're excluding a large portion of the indy market. Linux and Mac users are much more willing to play indy games because of the lack of support from mainstream developers.

No, it's just your tastes there

[Moraelin]

So basically what you tell me is that you can't enjoy anything that isn't multiplayer. Almost everything you mention there revolves around having a human opponent. You explicitly state that going to other games is like basically losing your internet connection.

Which, of course, is as good a criterion as any, and a very valid market segment. It's not just you, and you're not alone. There are lots of people who indeed are multiplayer-only.

You have to realize, though, that it's just one segment. Arguably, not even the dominant one. Most of the world's gaming seems to happen in single-player and off-line.

Anyway, there are a lot of us who really _don't_ feel a need to compete with other players. Even in MMORPGs, i.e., something by definition multi-player, there are people who prefer to solo, turning it into SP.

So I'm guessing there is a market for these games too. You're obviously not in that market. But I'd guess others might be.