bundle for racial justice and equality on ITCH.io: search and destroy

I think we need a dedicated thread for this. They've raised 5 MILLION dollars in about two weeks.

There about a thousand games included. Which ones are good???

up to about 1700 games now I believe

Celeste and Night in the Woods are the only ones I've already played and both are amazing (duh)

I bought NITW last year or earlier and never finished it. :\

It's tempting to start a Twitch channel just to do all of these

would love to hear recommendations of lesser known stuff in here

i can vouch for a short hike + celeste both being excellent

checking out:
tonight we riot (duh)
democratic socialism simulator
minit
odd realm?
2064 read only memories

will report back as i find new stuff / play stuff

oh nuclear throne is in this! great game

can vouch for Pikuniku which is cute and satisfying

i didn't get much out of minit but its like an hour long so ymmv

whereas a short hike was also an hour long and excellent

an hour is an excellent length

destroy all if ur on catalina

short hike and minit both work for me on catalina, via the itch installer app

great that pico-8 was on this, really enjoyed creating a very very bad manic miner/ chuckie egg platform game

I love pico-8, hunt down Mowerman - it's the most satisfying grass cutting sim you'll ever play.

Played One Night Stand. Short VN, not bad, not groundbreaking. Very short, 9 endings to collect.
Several more achievements on the Steam version if you're into that.
Most noteworthy thing about it is that it uses some nice rotoscoping animation.

First time Itcher here ... is there a way to add these games to my Itch library without downloading them?

nuclear throne wont play on mac.

It won't play on Catalina, but works on older versions.

> is there a way to add these games to my Itch library without downloading them?

you can add them to a Collection. see the top right menu on the individual game pages

the bit i had difficulty with was downloading - hit download on the bundle page (in red at top) and that'll give you a page with individual download links.

anyway, minit downloaded (linux version).

Use this if you need help sorting:

https://randombundlegame.com/browse

Collection isn't quite what I want. I want Itch to register my ownership of a game without downloading the game to my system. Adding to a collection doesn't do that I think.

^^^ this is what happens when you just buy the bundle afaict?

Doesn't seem so bad when weighed against a casual $9,360 discount...?

poly - if you click the "download" link it syncs the game to your library and takes you to another page, you don't have to download it immediately

The whole bundle is saved to your account under bundles they kept it separate from your library to not overwhelm you but it will add individual games as you download them

Anyone having problem downloading the Win installer file for Micro Mages? I can only get the NES rom to show in the client downloader. I had to download it manually.

am enjoying minit.

and 13 year old me is delighted that i'm going to need to make a map.

bundle has just expired

end total: $8,175,364.81

wowzers

Baba Is You, Spelunky, Hyper Light Drifter, The Jackbox Party Pack 4, BioShock Remastered, and NBA 2K20

they added all these?!

oh... this is a different bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/fight-for-racial-justice-bundle

really enjoying minit too, stay away from those walkthroughs!

kids thought my PICO8 game was rubbish. tried to explain that it was a deliberate homage to poor acorn electron games but it fell on deaf ears.

i have already looked at the walkthroughs

a) i accidently mapped ENTER to be one of the keys and then couldn't select anything from the menu (turns out the sword button (X by default) also works as select)

b) twice i've needed to hit a "random" thing with my sword to get further

mapping this is so much easier with it running in a window and a screengrab app taking snapshots every 5 seconds. the underworld bits are a bit of a pain because they both overlap and are dark.

Golf Peaks is pretty chill

Another tool for sorting:

https://attheminute.com/itch-bundle-explorer/

"finished" minit, but not 100%. might work through the walkthrough or might pick one of the other 1703 games...

Saw that LYNE is in the bundle, nice puzzle game from many years back.

following, I bought this but have done nothing yet except DL Wisp

any dumb car racing games? there used to be this great one for older pre-Intel Macs where you got chased by cops and could destroy them with missiles and bombs

Spy Hunter?

maybe? there were different levels with, like, snow/ice or water levels where you were a boat, really nice motion dynamics?

(apologies if you were suggesting one of the bundle games, I will look)

really nice motion dynamics

lol probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Hunter

Also see Action Fighter, similar to Spy Hunter. In the arcades, but I hammered it on my old Amiga when I got it free with a magazine

(not on the bundle unfortunately)

I've not come across any decent driving games on this yet

How about no wheels racing?

oh there was something, Vienna Automobile Society.

Not your normal racing game. Basically all you do is choose the approach point for the bends on a track, the car drives around itself, to give yourself the best exit speed I presume. It's not great, interesting idea though.

Going to try out Wheels of Aurelia, looks like a race/narrative crossover.

Also Vektor 2089 looks like a decent 2d dop down Wipeout type racer.

And non-racing, I love Trawl but not sure why. And it needs to be longer.

yeah I saw a recommendation for Wheels Of Aurelia from Morday maybe?

thanks, all!

uh Mordy ofc

not from me! but sounds cool i'll take a look too.

got ending G, looks like there are 16 endings
(or maybe more, just that it had a 1/16 after the G)
It's rather delightful.

so the car drives by itself but you can go faster which will stop it turning by itself and will also enable you to avoid picking up hitchhikers.

whilst you're driving you get to engage in chit chat, using the mouse wheel to choose your responses, but you can say nothing.

oh there's the occasional fork in the road

i generally keep to the right

Vektor 2089 is a force! Don't try and play with anything higher than 120cc tho.

Anodyne not's bad, in a retro-zelda kinda way.

Another vote for Minit. Whole thing's a couple of hours. Only had to look up a solution once, thankfully. Not gonna go back for all the secrets though (though I ended up one coin short of being able to buy the speed boots)

The speed boots were underused imo. Could've opened up a bunch of extra gameplay with them but as far as I know they were needed for only 2 optional bits.

currently playing Hidden Folks.

https://adriaan.itch.io/hidden-folks

it's bascially Where's Wally / Waldo, only animated and interactive.

previous to that was Don't Move.

https://stvr.itch.io/dont-move

which is a single screen game where you get achievements by moving left and right (or, spoiler, but probably not as it's *in the title*, not moving left or right). spent a lot of it wondering if i was playing it right...

played the delightful Wide Ocean, Big Jacket last week. It's a short (1-2 hour) story game about a camping trip with good writing and some nice, relaxing wandering around sections. There's also a 20 minute or so demo prequel with no gameplay overlap that is worth playing too.

OK I have a super dumb question: are these all PC-only? I don't care if they are, good cause and all, but the one I've tried had an exe file.

Many are Mac compatible

Filter using this https://randombundlegame.com/browse

"Platforms" dropdown on the side bar

^^ thank you, I didn't want to DL stuff I couldn't play

any Mac recommendations are appreciated, gonna try this Forever Lost thing

Yeah I dipped back into this last night to try some new ones, will give some feedback in a few days on some

but I like the sound of those ones mentioned above

I remember playing Don't Move on newgrounds.

Jam and the Mystery of the Mysteriously Spooky Mansion is a funny short VN game, very absurd. Make sure you get the Spoiler-light walkthrough in Downloads to see all the ending combinations when you eventually run out of 'em.

Tried Lenna's Inception tonight, pretty fun and good concept (roguelike Zelda inspired by Link randomizers), wish I could get my gamepad working on Mac though.

Ethereal is a pretty good abstract puzzle game. I saw it reviewed here: http://blog.zarfhome.com/2020/11/a-shut-in-years-worth-of-puzzle-games.html

> played the delightful Wide Ocean, Big Jacket last week
> Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, July 26, 2020

my christmas holiday, completely no-stress, choice. had seen screenshots over indie-gaming twitter at the time. it's nice. would've been better at halloween because there's a very slight spooky feel to it.

finished that.

writing nice enough that i went back and played all 6 alternatives for the stick-passing bit (and they are all different) and am wondering what else i'm missing)

And now into A Short Hike, which is anything but short. Run (climb, fly) around an island doing tasks. Looks great and fun to explore but all very samey so hard to navigate. So much easier with a joystick.

Finished A Short Hike, at least the main task (get to top of hill). Walkthroughs mention half a dozen side tasks that I didn't do so I might dip back into it.

Downloaded Nuclear Throne but got segment violation when running it. Something something 32 bit ELF. Might reboot into windows and give it a go there. Looks a lot more frantic than the last two.

Might spin up pico8 if I get inspired, looks a nice little system and a novel way of sharing your creations.

Are you on Mac?

Linux. But I can dual boot into windows if I'm desperate. And I have the work Mac at home due to pandemic, so I have options.

> great that pico-8 was on this, really enjoyed creating a very very bad manic miner/ chuckie egg platform game
> thomasintrouble, Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:23 PM

my first attempt, a work in progress (needs more structures, coins), but playable, 3d ant attack without the ants, or the attack. and 2d.

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/ant.html

c to run
left and right to rotate
up and down to rotate view

all of the current 11 coins are collectable, only 89 to add...

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/ant.png

omg that's really cool

Haha yeah that's great!

i got em all!

the worst thing about ant attack was the ants so great job with this!

six:koogy> git log
commit 7fe357bed6dc311f9b038de7145342800b473d89
Author: koogy <git✧✧✧@ko✧✧✧.cl✧✧✧.c✧.u✧>
Date:   Mon Jan 18 18:35:52 2021 +0000
    Added ants (for Tom)

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I wouldn't say the ants were the problem, much rather the janky hand-grenade throwing mechanism you had to wrestle with.

currently writing a map editor because having to convert binary representation of column to decimal and then pick that tile from the relevant page of tiles is a chore. it's ok when they are all 1, 3, 7, 15, 31s but anything else...

the ants mentioned above are only the ant graphics, there are no actual ants. i'm going to add an ant statue in the middle, for variety.

i fixed the tearing that happens when you run in certain directions. problem was me being an idiot, updating player position exactly halfway through a frame.

i love it koogs! i got 9 of 11, and i think i figured out how to get to the last 2

ok, stopped working on that for the moment to do a willy clone for a friend's birthday. here's a sample level (2 screens from 16). get the candle. warning: difficult.

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/wally.html
keys are left and right cursors and c to jump

graphics are taken from one of the icon packs from the bundle (which was handy).

it's got proper x-acceleration and gravity, unlike manic miner / willy, which means the jumps are more variable - willy had one arch he followed, this depends on how fast you are going when you jump. it's really annoying!

ha, brutal. I think my neighbours heard me when I missed the jump over that second star.

but i got that fkng candle

too hard?

i've just added a count of lives and done an end-to-end run-through of all 16 levels and it took about 10 minutes and 22 attempts. (manic miner gave you 3 for 20 levels, and had you collecting more things, but, as noted, was more controllable. also, it's harder because the sprites are fatter so the margins are tighter)

one bug i want to squash before it's done and that's the way you can walk over a two-space gap at speed - the velocity thing means it's using fractional positions but the grid is strictly 8x8 and sometimes you're over it, by a fraction of a pixel, before it realises. (same problem means you can stand on a collapsing block and it doesn't collapse)

new itch bundle

https://itch.io/b/902/indie-bundle-for-palestinian-aid

For $5 to charity, I'll jump in, but there's so much stuff in there. Is any of it worth actually playing?

i scrolled through the Linux compatible games and the things that jumped out were all repeats of things in the earlier bundle - minit, all cats are liquid, pikuniku. but minit is worth the $5 alone

Cosmic Express is really good. It's kind of like the "Tracks" pencil & paper game but with an ordering element.