Great price tag, maybe I'll even buy it without waiting for sale.

This game is positively awesome. The story made me love this game.

I'm happy this game is here because it simply belongs here with the other classics.

finally a game again that justifies gogs existence! yaaaaay

Seems to be a lot of love for this release on reddit, RPS, and other sites.

Life just is. The question implies life is some kind of blessing. I beg to differ. As society has "progressed", the minds of individuals have atrophied generationally, with individuals relying on society's "smarts" more and their own less, with the result that individuals tend to apply less real thought to the questions of morality. Without independent intelligence applied to foresee the outcome of one's actions and the actions of others, to understand what has come before and where we are headed, to truly see reality and humanity for what they are and not as the fantasy people have been indoctrinated to believe, there can be no meaningful morality. "Civilization" has become overwhelmingly populated by a mass of sheep to be sheared and lead to slaughter. One atrocity after another, yes. But there's no skipping -- watching the build up to the next atrocity and how easily the sheep are led to it is almost as much "fun" as the atrocity itself. (BTW, you're missing a question mark.) Who gives a !@#$. I can't stop it. I plan on being dead before then. And I won't make others suffer by bringing them into this world, so my hands are clean. No thanks. The nightmarish reality I'm already in is bad enough.

No I didn't know that. Yet I see that among recent releases and all the time hits (rated by game magazines), it's surrounded by games you could call proper games. I really don't see any issue.
If there is demand for classic games (i.e. people will spend some real money on them), they will be made. If there will be overwhelming demand for different types, they won't. Simple. Right now we seems to be getting more or less both which I think is great.

Btw, IHNMaIMS purchased :3. I don't remember many things about the game; perfect time for a replay... after getting rid of some backlog games I haven't played yet.

I never thought about it before, but the guy on the cover seems really... bored. He's not like "oh man, the existential horror!" he's just kinda "why are there silver lines over my mouth? Weird".

He kind of reminds me of McCain.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/John_McCain_official_portrait_2009.jpg

Can't... unsee...

:(

So damn true. But in my case it's rather "I Have No Time and I Must Study".

Have read the short story, was pretty good. If someone wants some similar stories, I recommend Alistair Reynolds (some of his short stories are pretty morbid/horrifying. And I like his Revelation Space series really much).

I wishlisted this and it somehow got into my cart xD But since my backlog is too big and my wallet too thin, I'll wait!
Wish you lot much fun (or not :D).

John McCain becomes evil supercomputer AM? We must stop him!

This is a rather narrow definition of "platformer". When I hear the term, I certainly don't think "jumping and running only". The games GOG has designated as platformers (including indies) certainly go beyond just "jumping and running". And wikipedia also has a wider definition of platformers than that.

Like making a strategy game is sooooo difficult. I mean, it's not like I could knock off a simple RTS complete with move/attack/scrolling/mini-map/pause-and-issue-commands/terrain/etc. in an afternoon just for the fun of it. (The inspiration to make it was the GOG contest. But it's not like I actually need any free games from GOG considering the amount of savings I have accumulated over the decades. The only real reason for creating it was the fun of it -- and making it was more fun than a lot of the games I play.)

[That was starting from scratch with no library besides what came with Watcom C++ 11b -- ha, I even used a "retro" compiler! Since this was supposed to be a "retro" RTS (and what's more retro than ASCII?) I had to learn the "full control" windows APIs for the text console which I hadn't actually used before, and it still didn't take that long.]

Rules about as complex as most players would want to learn for a strategy game could be coded in less than a week. (As for designing and tweaking the rules, there's no shortage of forum members on most strategy boards who think they are completely capable of doing that themselves, though whether one likes the resulting rules or not is much a matter of taste.) A somewhat decent (A* or other) pathing algorithm could be implemented in less than a day (though there's probably a crapload of free pathing implementations available on the net for the dev that doesn't want to bother writing their own from scratch).

Art/sound/music/story/level-design/campaign-design certainly take time and effort, but that's true of all genres (for specific games that include such elements).

The only place I think you might be able to make an argument for platformers being simpler to develop (though only in an "on average" sense, which means it's not true in an absolute sense) is UI, but really, UI isn't that hard from a technical perspective. (From a usability perspective, there are certainly a lot of games/apps that don't bother to get it right. My guess is that is often due to devs using a waterfall-type design process where they don't have any real feedback about what makes a good UI for the given game until after the UI design has already been set in stone, and due to the desire to get the game out the door ASAP. Any dev who isn't retarded and is willing and able to take the UI through a few interactive design+implementation iterations can eventually get to a UI design which is "good enough", at least for players with a similar play style to the dev.) And even for UI, I think it's game-specific to a large degree -- some platformers have more complex player interactions than others, and can be more complex than some simple strategy/RPG games. (And some platformers are simple RPGs, and subsequently have complexities from both genres.)

As far as I can tell, the only really hard part about making games is the AI. And no one has solved the general AI problem for non-trivial cases, for any genre. (Even for board games where it has in some instances been effectively solved, such as chess assuming "requires a supercomputer" counts as "solved", the genre is still not solved as a whole as there are plenty of games within that genre that no existing AI can play at a human level.) Currently, for many games AI is a bottomless pit into which an unlimited number of dev hours may be dumped. So any game which has no AI (e.g., a strategy game that is multi-player only) or has only trivial/stupid AI is going to be easier to create than that same game but with a respectable AI.

Oh how long have I waited...

Instabought! :D

Ooh, i saw this on Retsupray. Not for me, however.

I now know where the inspiration from the Saw movies comes from........