CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Hey all,

Recently I have become interested in freeware games. Not because I don't like buying my games, but I enjoy seeing the kind of effort and creativity that goes into freeware games.

As many of you know, Cave Story is a good example.

Eternal Daughter is also another good one:
http://www.derekyu.com/

And I think Clouds is also pretty interesting:
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/

Please post any links to recommended freeware games. Thanks.

Eternal Daughter's massive slowdown kills it for me. I got sick of it and was getting nowhere so I tossed it.

I have been meaning to download Clouds though.

I actually host a brief slot on the Gamecast where I find new and interesting freeware games and share them. You can find the links in the last few episodes' threads. Feeds my addiction to the indie genre as I'm steadily amassing a large freeware library.

Then there is La Mulana which I hate.

I really like "Cave Story". It's sort of like Metroid.

http://www.cavestory.org/downloads_1.php

I'm developing a my own freeware videogame series, though I won't have the chance to officially start on it till next year.

The series will be an RPG series called 'Legacy of Estharia' and there will be more info posted here when I get a working demo and the website up.

/END SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

Cho Ren Sha

Furiously frenetic arcade-style space scroller. Wicked fun, old-school.


Warning Forever

Arcade scroller-style spacefighter combat against a series of modular boss ships that grow and configure themselves in response to your tactics.


LinCity

An open-source clone of the first SimCity game.


Tales of Middle Earth

A variant of Angband, an open-source roguelike game, that adds many fun features. Quite fun.

Fish and Chips (post: 1265135) wrote:Then there is La Mulana which I hate.

A word of advice for anyone who decides to pick up that freeware game...be sure to play through the Hell Temple at the end...MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I ditto Cave Story and Warning Forever, there is also Antagonist...

Does anyone mind if I do a "shameless" self-promotion too? The Traveller's Guide is my own freeware creation. Though it's nowhere near being done yet, what I do have done is fully playable and (hopefully... ^_^; ) bug-free, and should keep you entertained for at least a couple of hours.

America's Army
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Trackmania Nations Forever

I will put up a third vote for Warning Forever. It's possibly the best shooter game I've come across. (well, except Touhou, but it's not freeware.)

Also... anyone remember "ROM check fail"? That one was a good laugh, if the gameplay was somewhat awkward...

Kali -- Do you play TomeNet at all?

I mentioned it in the horror games thread, but I think the Chzo Mythos games (5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes, and 6 Days a Sacrifice) are worth most people's time. They're old-school adventure games with a murder mystery/horror theme. They're not for everyone - they earn their "horror" designation, even though the graphics are basic. There is also some language (none of it what I would call "gratuitous," however), and one sex scene, although it's far tamer than anything you'd see in a modern PG-13 movie). However, they are well-written, and more adventure games = more better in my book.

.rai//

Not only do I second the entirety of the Chzo Mythos, but really anything Yahtzee has created with the AGS engine. 1213 is his lesser known stab at science fiction horror, and has the distinction of having the Best Secret Ending ever concieved in gaming. Meanwhile, Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment exhibits a softer, snarky side to the guy, as well as being one of the few Adventure game to have side quests (though a couple people here might find the ending controversial). And of course, Art of Theft, which is definitely welcome in anyone's library.

Fish and Chips (post: 1273052) wrote:Not only do I second the entirety of the Chzo Mythos, but really anything Yahtzee has created with the AGS engine. 1213 is his lesser known stab at science fiction horror, and has the distinction of having the Best Secret Ending ever concieved in gaming. Meanwhile, Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment exhibits a softer, snarky side to the guy, as well as being one of the few Adventure game to have side quests (though a couple people here might find the ending controversial). And of course, Art of Theft, which is definitely welcome in anyone's library.

Yeah...Yahtzee's games are very very good...though I have only begun to play two of them (The Art of Theft and Adventures in the Galazy of Fantabulous Wonderment).

Man, I need to refresh myself on Art of Theft. I had every corner of that game down, then forgot to back it up when I wiped my drive in September.