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papillon
08-16-2005, 08:51 AM
Now that download.com has purposefully broken their games display (Just see how long it takes you to try and find out what the 25 newest games are. Start from the front page. What utter nonsense. Clicking from the bottom of the new games list to show "all new games" does nothing at all except show you the exact same 10 but expanded to waste more space!) and doesn't seem at all inclined to change it (believe me, I've complained!) .... where can one go to find new games?

I love Game Tunnel's roundups, but they only come out once a month!

I want games! Lots of games! I don't want just dinky little puzzle games, I want action and RPG and all sorts of things...
alfie
08-16-2005, 09:19 AM
You might be able to get your fix from www.madmonkey.net they seem to have a good variety.
Sirrus
08-16-2005, 09:23 AM
Played all the RPGs from spidweb.com ?
PoV
08-16-2005, 09:24 AM
I'm usually the bottleneck for releases, and I sent my reviews yesterday, so it should be soon.

As a teaser, and since we rarely get requests, Fate (http://www.fatethegame.com) and Geneforge 3 (http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com) covered our RPG quota for the month.


And if you want something crazy, a friend passed on this link to a odd Mario Kart clone.

http://www.platon.co.jp/~wss/he-cho/bh_tr.lzh

Guah... eggplant. Have a nice day.
papillon
08-16-2005, 09:32 AM
(actually, good point, now that I've replaced my keyboard - harder than it should be when you're stuck in the wrong country - I should get back to playing Fate. :) )
tunca
08-16-2005, 10:51 AM
Now that download.com has purposefully broken their games display

What do you think their purpose was? I do not like the new look of download.com either. The only purpose I can think of is getting more downloads. What concerns us shall be whether it brings disadvantages for indies or not.

BTW, sorry for the off topic comment. I can recommend you my site www.dragonom.com (2 games :) )
Ska Software
08-16-2005, 11:18 AM
I still haven't figured out how to submit a game to download.com.

Any help?
Sybixsus
08-16-2005, 11:40 AM
I still haven't figured out how to submit a game to download.com.

Any help?

Sure.

http://www.upload.com/


( Not a joke )
Ska Software
08-16-2005, 12:02 PM
Makes sense...

Thanks!
Hamumu
08-16-2005, 12:20 PM
I think the round-up is the best place to go. Not because we're brilliant reviewers (of course *I* am, but then there's the other knuckleheads), but just because it pretty much covers everything of any note that comes out in the month. Do you really need more than 15 new games every month?

And for the obscure strangeness that you can't find there, hit TIGSource. That's where all the seriously whacked stuff is, usually freeware.

I haven't been to download.com in YEARS... do people still download from there?
Sybixsus
08-16-2005, 01:02 PM
I haven't been to download.com in YEARS... do people still download from there?

It seems to vary quite considerably. I submitted our two best selling games ( Bowling Babes and KS Pool ) a couple of months ago. On my site, the downloads and sales are similar, though Anime Bowling Babes does a little better in both cases. On download.com, I've had ten times more downloads of Anime Bowling Babes. Perhaps because they gave it a nice review? Perhaps because it's more suited to the Download audience? I'm not sure but it's been around 10,000 downloads of ABB in 2 months, so it was worth my five minutes.
princec
08-16-2005, 01:26 PM
www.tigsource.com

Cas :)
Sirrus
08-16-2005, 02:00 PM
Yep - download.com still gives us great downloads for Dope Farmer....seem to be over 230,000 thus far.
soniCron
08-16-2005, 02:27 PM
Independent Gaming Blog (http://indygamer.blogspot.com/) will give you all the games you could ever want to play! Nice stuff! :)
Hamumu
08-16-2005, 04:12 PM
That blog is great. Apparently its for the stuff that's too obscure even for TIGSource! I've already clicked almost every link on the front page (and almost every one is something I've never seen before).
tunca
08-17-2005, 01:57 AM
www.abandonia.com
princec
08-17-2005, 02:17 AM
That blog is great. Apparently its for the stuff that's too obscure even for TIGSource! I've already clicked almost every link on the front page (and almost every one is something I've never seen before).
Rumour has it that Tim has joined TIGsource now :) Thus increasing our coverage of increasingly obscure oddness.

Cas :)
kimkallstrom1
08-22-2005, 07:05 PM
I'm usually the bottleneck for releases, and I sent my reviews yesterday, so it should be soon.

As a teaser, and since we rarely get requests, Fate (http://www.fatethegame.com) and Geneforge 3 (http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com) covered our RPG quota for the month.


And if you want something crazy, a friend passed on this link to a odd Mario Kart clone.

http://www.platon.co.jp/~wss/he-cho/bh_tr.lzh

Guah... eggplant. Have a nice day.

The Mario Kart clone uses characters from Azumanga Daioh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azumanga_Daioh), a popular manga in Japan.

Thanks to everyone for pimpin' my site!
Anthony Flack
08-23-2005, 05:52 AM
That Mario Kart clone is very polished and well done (with the exception of a bit of shoddy sprite alignment). They obviously worked very long and hard on it.

So it's interesting that the real thing is still far, far more compelling. This has also been the case almost every time a professional developer with a multi-million dollar budget tries to make a Kart racing game. Clearly, Nintendo don't pay the Shigger all that money for nothing.