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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)

8)

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.

cityglitch is a decently fun single-screen puzzler. bout to hit that point where i'm too dumb to solve the levels

good stuff!

thanks for the reminder that I own this bundle, need to dip into again.

not the bundle itself, but a twitter account that highlights indie games with a similar feel to a lot of things in the bundle

https://twitter.com/PursuingPixels

(mostly likns to his youtube channel)

he's recently, ahead of creator day on itch.io, done a rundown of 100 picks

he seems to favour retro puzzle platformers, but i have no problem with that

looks interesting. thanks.

i like that account and wish I still had the energy/drive/time to dive into that stuff

https://itch.io/t/1964844/bundle-for-ukraine-call-for-submissions

one to watch

In the meantime: https://itch.io/b/1308/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-texas

another banger

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You mean https://randombundlegame.com/ ?

yep

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