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Pick ingredients off a conveyor belt. Drag them around a plate. Try to unlock point combos and hope your incredible, edible abominations pass muster with an idiosyncratic cast of anthropomorphic guests. Omelet You Cook is a tight, simple, rewarding roguelike with more than enough personality and flare to earn a seat at the table. The only thing I want to do after I lose is fire up the grill all over again.

Steam

Master the flipper, surpass your mortal limits and claim your awesome gift at the summit… if you’ve got what it takes. Become a Pinball Wizard in the debut rage quit inducing title from developers Azimuth Studios.

Take flight in this remastered 'stick control era' aerial combat RPG. Explore haunting landscapes, engage in epic dogfights, and uncover ancient secrets in a visually enhanced, rebalanced edition of the BAFTA-nominated, award-winning original.

Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey from fragile beginner to a hardened skater.

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The WW2-era puzzle game was made in just 9 months

Don’t Stop, Girlypop!, in the best way possible, feels like a scrappy indie hyperpop zine lovingly made in Unreal Engine. From the moment you turn the game on, the bright, bubbly buttons on the menu evoke early-2000s maximalist web design. You press New Game, and suddenly you’re a fairy warrior named Imber being aided by an FMV companion who talks to you through a pink glam’d out flip phone – your mission is to defend your neon pink planet from the Tigris Nix corporation draining it of all The Love. It’s weird, and silly, and barely explained and hardly complicated – but also, like, yes girl, your gun is pink, and your phone is pink, and your enemies need to explode.

Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
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An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas. Use a wide selection of plants, decorations and tools to build and nurture the zen garden retreat of your dreams.

ShipShaper, a chill boat building game from The Falconeer developer Tomas Sala, has a demo out on Steam now.

A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF?

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A dystopian, cyberpunk setting where you play as an AI trapped in a scientist's body? Lots of intricate story threads to discover? A combat system mimicking the Batman: Arkham series? Not to mention, all of that stuffed into a 2.5D side-scroller with a pixel-ish art style? It sounded too good to be true back at its initial announcement.

Video games have long been wrapped up in some pretty exploitative things (to put it mildly). The military entertainment complex of America’s Army and Call of Duty; the perpetual casinoification of games monetisation; whatever horrible thing is happening on Roblox right now. That’s not even mentioning the many, many historical and strategy games out there that outright let you do colonialism and reward you for it. All these issues make those games that break through the cracks of the medium to simulate new possibilities that much more worthwhile. This is one of several reasons to pay attention to Relooted; not only is it a fun and swift game that captures the emotional spikes and troughs of the heist genre nicely, but its premise, centred on the repatriation of real-world African artifacts to their rightful home, is one that should be lauded.

Midwest 90: Rapid City is an ambitious Malaysian-developed indie game that marries the restaurant tycoon genre with tower defence, tying it all up with a strong narrative.

SkullPirates is a simple arcade brawler that shines in local co-op but feels less pirate life excitement when played solo.

THRASHER is an award-winning arcade odyssey and audiovisual experience. Guide a magnificent space eel, swooping and thrashing it through mesmerizing alien worlds in the ultimate race for survival. Dive into the circle-based combo system, and play any way you like on PC, VR and Steam Deck.

Inspired by classic fighting games from the 90's such as Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters, 'Pocket Bravery' channels the 'Neo Geo Pocket' aesthetic for a modern fighting game with a retro twist!

Execute ultra-violent raids in 1970s casino hotels. Take down the Las Vegas mob as a drug super-powered hitman in physics-fueled top-down close combat

Albin tries MIO: Memories in Orbit. A classic Metroidvania focused on exploration, precision platforming, and a calm, atmospheric world. With no objective markers, satisfying movement, and a cozy soundtrack, MIO encourages you to get lost and discover its secrets at your own pace.

If you’re a fan of Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, or other exploration-driven Metroidvanias, MIO: Memories in Orbit is a charming and rewarding journey worth checking out.

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One day, Jimmy looked inside. And today, he looks again. Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass was a 2018 hit RPG Maker game that I really loved. It really deserves as much love as LISA, OMORI, and the Fear and Hunger games when it comes to commercial RPG Maker games. Like, especially from OMORI fans, given…

The retirement home isn’t for you, and your pigeon friends agree! Explore the world going bench to bench, solve puzzles, and keep your mischievous pigeon crew in line in this charming interactive adventure. Enjoy colorful, stylized levels, customize your pigeons, and live your best pensioner life!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58447087

Hey everyone! First off, I'm new to Lemmy and not sure if this is the right place to post - still getting the hang of the federated stuff, and I'm on mobile ATM, so makes it a bit more difficult - but I wanted to share a project I've been working on for many years, on and off.

I'm mainly posting to see if anyone might be interested in contributing - although I know that may be a long shot. I've posted this information below on Reddit /r/INAT and I'm not sure if Lemmy has a specific community for this type of thing, but I couldn't find a specific community so I am posting it here. If this is not the right place, of course just let me know and I can delete the post (or of course a mod can remove).

Background: I have designed a two player abstract strategy board game that I have worked on for more than 10 years - on and off. I have made many attempts to digitize the game to allow online play, but have never managed to finish the project. I am making this attempt again, and thanks to the improvements in LLM coding, I have made quite the progress. But still, I am a very amateur programmer - and have finally decided that the best chance this project has of success is to license the game into the Creative Commons (CC-BY) and Open Source (GNU GPL).

Current Status: The game is currently already implemented to work in the browser against the computer player - but the current computer logic is extremely bad at the game, and will need to be drastically improved. The physical board game rules are complete, and this is just the digital adaptation, however, since this is a open source (and hopefully communty community developed) project I expect the the gameplay to adapt and evolve with rule variations to be implemented for custom gameplay.

Current Contributors: Currently, I have used free AI LLMs to get this current version of the game to where it is at, so the code base will likely need refactored. I posted on INAT a while ago, and there are a few people who have joined the discord and began showing interest in contributing, with one person creating a refactor plan to switch over to the boardgame.io framework, rather than the current vanilla javascript. While this has yet to be implemented, I think it is a solid that we should refactor into eventually.

Who are we looking for: This is my first attempt at trying to digitize this game since releasing it into the creative commons/open source, and I am hopeful that others might be interested in contributing. I am not looking for any specific skillset or requirments to join the project - as I want this to become a game where the players have the capability to be involved in the development process. While programmers are much needed, we can also greatly increase our chances of success (which I measure simply by the amount of plyers who actually play/are involved with the game) by having contributors who can create sound effects, music, art assets, web design, or even simply playtesting the game or spreading the word to find players (honestly, the game is quite niche, and building up a player base will likely not come easily). So in short, anyone and everyone is welcome. . . just hop into the discord and contribute what/when you want or can, with no pressure or obligations.

"Portfolio": https://www.patreon.com/posts/113134314?collection=787282 note: While this isn't strictly a portfolio in the traditional sense, I have written about the long journey of attempting to develop this game over the many years with various teams of people. The other posts on my Patreon, as well as the many links below of the game progress will hopefully suffice to provide a decent amount of background in lieu of a traditional portfolio.

Links: Github Repository (GNU GPL Version 3): https://github.com/GreenAnts/Amalgam_Webgame

Playable Game, with rules integrated: https://greenants.github.io/Amalgam_Webgame/ note: This is the actual product we are working to develop - currently has a lot of placeholder text, but the gameplay is working against the (unskilled) player bot.

Other ways to play, no rules integration Screentop.gg - https://screentop.gg/@Anthony/Amalgam Tabletop Simulator - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1402132394&searchtext=amalgam

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/gKHjJNBWAd

Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/LZD5h4siXVM

Board Game Geek (BGG): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/433428/amalgam

Main Website (old): https://www.amalgamboardgame.com/ note: this is mostly used to host the rules, but the playable game link above will likely be replacing this eventually.

Rule-book: Option 1: https://github.com/GreenAnts/Amalgam_Webgame/tree/main/assets/Rulebook Option 2: https://imgur.com/a/amalgam-board-game-rules-0lTmlgR Option 3: The "Main Website (old)" link above

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

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