We’re taking leaps of faith with SpeedRunGames’ Grappling Hook and finding out what games you want most for the holidays.
Radar: Grappling Hook
Windows, First Person Platformer, SpeedRunGames, $20 – LINK
Does this Portal-esque first person platformer have enough of it own style to stand out from its source of inspiration? (That’s a game engine pun, guys.)
Free Indie Countdown
#3 – Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery: Windows, Platformer, ScaryPotato – LINK
#2 – Finwick: Flash, Platformer, Small Green Hill – LINK
#1 – Runman: Race Around the World: Windows, Platformer, Matt Thorson, Tom Sennett – LINK
Feedback: Holiday Games You’re Looking Forward to the Most
You tell us what you want insert denominational holiday mascot to bring you for name of religious celebration. Next week’s question: What’s your favorite music game of all time? Weigh in with a video or audio comment on www.Bytejacker.com or leave a message on our hotline: (845) 704-7158
Free Indie Rapid Fire
Star Guard: PC/Mac, Platformer, Sparky – LINK
Cave Chaos: Flash, Platformer, Nitrome – LINK
Tasty Static: Mac/Windows/Linux, Arcade, Tinsanity – LINK
This week’s music:
arcadecoma., “Heroes in the Snow” – LINK
JW86 takut Wewegombel, “Je deviens dj en 3 jours” – LINK
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Great episode this week. And i can’t decide what game to pick as thr free indie of the week, they’re all super-tasty.
The best musical game is Rez. Period
BYTEJACKER RULEZ.
The holiday game I’m looking forward to is…oh who am I kidding, I’m just going to play canabalt on my iphone till I die.
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Kids will mess you up, man.
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Video clips if you want.
This one demonstrates the changing music I mentioned really well, but it’s long and not particularly exciting: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k2PGXRfOwkIsDSMBRG
Whereas this one is all the cutscenes from the game so they are short and entertaining, but yeah, not demonstrating the music thing I was talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrUV5yMhjMs
Use whatever of that makes sense to you presentation-wise, Jon.
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Falls appart there at then end, but I didn’t want to re-record the first part, so you’re going to have to suffer with it.
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Go ahead with the voicemail comment on this one. Mario Paint composer, while I’m sure is an excellent music based game, is not really my pick because I’ve never played it, neither the original or the remake. “Remake?” you say. Oh yes, remade in all it’s glory for your windows or OSX machine: http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/
And that remake was also ported rather splendidly to DS via homebrew.
http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,5531.0.html
http://www.kongregate.com/games/MoonberryStudios/picma
Picma is about solving nanograms. Pretty much like Picross but in a browser. I have sent this link through suggestion box, but I’m not sure if it works.
I’m don’t think nanogram means what you think it means.
:)
It’s nonogram of course, sorry.
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ironically they’re doing a wii release of pop’n music that goes against everything i said about it in the video
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great episode
btw your site is becoming more and more broken.
this is your rss
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a lot of divs dont work properly.
and other stuff around the site.
Believe me, it’s actually becoming less and less broken – we were hacked earlier this week and down completely. We’ll be fully functional again soon. Thanks for bearing with us.
nteresssting. hope that gets sorted soon..
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In the spirit of Halloween check out Michael Jackson’s Thriller in Mario paint!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gc-1Dq3uQQ&feature=player_embedded
Of course my preference is for Still Alive from Portal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZr3JWYdy8
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Bytejacker theme in Mario Paint composer?
Oh, man. I’d love to hear that.
I try to make it.
and for week question
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Soundvoyager for GBA
Game was released only in Japan, (but it have English menu)
Great musig game, I don’t know what to say more.
“Soundvoyager is intended to be played using sound only, without looking at the console’s screen. The game involves several different subgames, one of which hasplayers trying to center a dot on a side scrolling stage on top of an invisible target by only using sounds from the left and right speakers to guide them and another involves the player driving the wrong way down a three lane road trying to dodge oncoming vehicles by listening to which lane they are in.”
from Wikipedia
My indie pick of the week is definitely Star Guard. The simplistic style is really well done and the gameplay is super addictive.
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