Thread 718730730

Let's talk about pre-2010s indie boom indies. Also known as freeware games.

I'll go first...

I like Knytt a lot.

>>718730730 (OP)
Within a Deep Forest was my jam

>>718730730 (OP)
I loved Knytt but hated Knytt Underground. Shit was too hard.

>>718730882
Oh yea, I loved WADF. I used to have really shitty internet back then, so I'd just replay this every time our internet went out for a few hours.
Likely played through it 20+ times.

>>718730976
Underground was hard? I don't remember that being the case at all. I thought it was pretty easy, but large enough where I never really knew where to go, which isn't a bad thing.
But, the character designs and dialog really hurt the experience for me. Felt like Nifflas was trying to cater to mainstream audience rather than just doing the thing he's good at. Like, why the fuck were there side-quests in a Nifflas game? Baffling.

>>718730730 (OP)
I like seiklus a lot and replay it every couple years

>>718731345
>Seiklus
I actually think this is the first time I've ever seen anyone bring Seiklus up on /v/. That's crazy.

https://youtu.be/p3Gfx4VhCkM?si=cUpt6viECoANQKU6

I used to have this song on my mp3 player.

>>718731276
>Underground was hard?
As a 100% OCD fag I just got stuck on a few of the sky puzzles and gave up. I probably would have liked it if I could just play the game normally, witch is not possible for me.
I played the original Knytt on DS (there's a homebrew) and liked how simple and comfy it was. I recall the art style being different as well.

>>718730730 (OP)
I'm thinking about replaying Cave Story for the good ending after 20 years. Is the GOG version a good choice? I don't want any remaster shit, just the original game with maybe bug fixes and maybe some extra content.

The first few hours of this game were just mesmerizing. As I went deeper and deeper into the ruins, I would wonder how far I could go before I died to a trap, tough boss, or just tough enemies.
Shame the difficulty eventually goes away as you get damage reduction, the XP buff, and more health. That's one big thing the remake fixed.

>>718731875
There is probably one of those ''So you want to get into Cave Story?'' charts floating around, but I don't have it.
I think the Steam release is fine, as you can play with the original visuals and music, with largest support for generic gamepads.
Don't take my word for it though.

>>718731893
I need to play this
I love the remake and 2

>>718732039
You might need the guide for a puzzle or two that are actually broken

>>718731893
I started playing this the other week and played for an hour or so, before I went to bed.
Seems like a cool game, but I'm also kind of stupid and scared to do anything that will fuck up a puzzle forever.

>>718730730 (OP)
This is from 2011, but it's freeware. Really great metroidvania where you sail and explore islands. Any else play this?
https://www.gog.com/en/game/treasure_adventure_game

if you haven't played iji you don't know SHIT about indie games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86IxmklUgEM

>>718730730 (OP)
Knytt Stories is so good, the atmosphere is unbelievable

>>718732506
Never heard of this, will play it later

>>718732506
I played it a few years ago when I was first getting back into action/adventure slash metroidvanias and it spoiled me a bit. I had assumed that there would be tons of other indie games on the same level but that's sadly not the case. It's a hidden gem for sure. I tried the remake too but it didn't really feel the same.

>>718732875
I had the link to this saved from a previous thread.
>https://www.remargames.se/iji.php
Will play soon.

>>718733492
my suggestion is play a normal run then try a pacifist run
this game did pacifist before it was cool and there's some really good stuff associated with it
not necessarily better but worth seeing

What's the metroidvania one where you play as a ball and bounce around? I liked that one a lot

>>718730730 (OP)
man i miss indie games
now they're just phone games or 15 bucks on steam

>>718733871
Probably Within a Deep Forest, posted earlier.

>>718733872
Is this An Untitled Story?

>>718733943
yea it is
i still have a lot of my old indie games

Hero Core was fucking sick.
I loved the combination of schmup and Metroid-like exploration and can't really think of a game that plays quite like it.
Think there are a few twin-stick shooters that are similar though, but I like that you can only shoot in two directions in Hero Core. Makes it feel like a classic schmup where you have to position yourself to get a good shot at the enemy.
Never beat the hard mode though, shit got a bit too bullet-hellish for me. But, I will always recommend this game to any shmup fan.

>>718731875
Try the original freeware version with doukutsu-rs

>>718734297
I'm not a shmup fan and I had fun with this game, I think it's just well made overall

>>718730730 (OP)
The one and only
fantastic game that spawned some of my favourite games of all time

>>718731573
based knower
I feel like we had a similar thread a while ago with some seiklus chat, it might have been in /vr/ though
>>718734297
hero core is fucking goated too!

>>718736224
Out of all the fangames, I really liked IWBT Fangame, and unlike IWBTG, I actually beat it legit.

>>718730730 (OP)
>Glum Buster
I remember playing it back in 2010-2011 and liking it quite a lot. But all I remember is that It had very neat somber atmosphere and basically nothing else. Couldn't even recall the name for the long time, until I randomly stumbled upon the game on steam.
I don't think the game was very well known back then, and it is definetely forgotten as it gets now.
Don't know if it's any good, actually, didn't have time to replay it yet.

>>718730730 (OP)
Sad nobody interested in the topic. Guess most of /v/ were either too young to experience it, or missed out, because indie scene wasn't on anyone's radar back then and you actually had to go out of your way to participate in it.

>>718732875
I appreciate Iji a lot, one of my favorites for sure.

>>718733673
Yeah even the world building is great, going 100% is worth it.

>>718732875
Iji has lived completely rent free in my head for over ten years at this point and I'm starting to fear it will never leave. Something about it just drilled a goddamn hole into part of my brain and never left.

I remember playing Lethal League on /f/, and then I saw it on Steam, I was kinda blown away. I was like "Woah it's that game that I played on 4chan!" even though it was probably ripped from somewhere else, but still.

>>718730882
It's so good. On the subject of exploration games with tracker music, Lyle in Cube Sector is great. It got a remarkably faithful fanmade Genesis port recently

>>718731893
My man
>>718732336
I only ever played the remake, but there's exactly two puzzles you can permanently fuck up in that, and one of them gives you two tries.
Just know that when you see the big scales towards the end of the game, you get one shot, so don't save if you fuck up.

>>718741813
jesus I haven't thought about this game in at least a decade
nice threadu

>>718730882
This and Knytt Stories still live rent-free in my head even after almost 2 decades. I even still have the soundtrack for KS downloaded. Don't think I ever finished Knytt proper, though.

>>718730882
This was such a simple but cool game.

>>718732875
>>718741341
>>718741481
>Iji
Is it worth playing now? I had known about it existing for 15 years now, but actually have never came around to play it. I am 100% sure I even have it somewhere on one of my old hard drives.
I constantly confuse it with another game from around the same time - Saira. Also have never played it either, for some reason. And I also have it somewhere as well.

OFF is significantly better than every other Earthbound inspired RPG.

Fuck, this looks like a good thread to ask. I've been trying to remember the name of this old short indie game platformer where you play as a cutesy mascot, and partway through the game the levels will randomly turn to 'shadow' segments with dark hands grasping at you. The ending has you finding a princess who ends up also being a monster, and the good ending has your character also be a monster with her??

I can't remember anything beyond that, and the game wasn't especially noteworthy otherwise.

I just looked for "An untitled story" since I remember liking it but I didn't know it was the same dev from Celeste wtf.

Knytt is okay, but Within a Deep Forest was one of my favorites. It's a shame Knytt Underground was ass.

>>718742583
Yes, it's good, but it has been updated since, you can find it on the dev's page.

>>718742661
Eversion

>>718742718
THAT'S IT! Thank you so much, it was driving me insane a week or two ago.

>>718742661
Eversion is a freeware "cute, but le spooky!" freeware game. I know I liked it, but I remember nothing except you play as a flower creature. Maybe that's it?

Anyone remember this?

>>718742836
Holy soul, we had this on a computer in Elementary. Played the fuck out of it. I remember how fun the game got once I knew how to do the high jump/backjump.

>>718742836
Just like the other anon I would play the hell out of it when my (dial up) internet was down. Good times.

Hopefully someone remembers picrelated.
Loved the demo, played it to death, but can't recall if I played the full version.
Main theme from OST is still amazing.

>>718745884
I never felt like I was playing this right
I would draw stuff under the ball to elevate it much of the time

>>718732875
Amazing game that desperately needed less amateurish art.
The ending theme won't leave my head ever

>>718734297
Yeah, it's cool. The dev made it based on vague memories of a game he played as a kid and later figured out he was thinking of Side Arms or Section Z.

>>718746026
Can relate. I guess it's just in a nature of those types of games. Devs expect that you will come up with inventive, funny or intentionally complex things to solve the puzzle, but your brain just defaults to the least creative, "logical" solution, because you are wired like a robot. So you actually have to fight with your own self to extract fun from the game, but in the end you just end up tiring youlself most of the time, and making you lose interest.

>Warning Forever
>Bunny Must Die
>I Wanna Be The Guy
>Don Miguel's Sample Game (really any RPGMaker2000 game)

>>718736224
my man

>>718747138
>Don Miguel
jesus that's not a name I've thought about in years
this guy was probably singlehandedly responsible for bringing awareness of RPGM to the west

>>718747225
I always thought he was mexican like me and was confused as to why his game was only in English and Russian

>>718746869
same, the single best credits theme i've ever heard in a game bar none

surprised no one's mentioned clean asia yet, always loved that shit

>>718747138
Warning Forever was fascinating.

>>718747138
>>718736224
I don't think any game comes even remotely close to having as many fan games as IWBTG does. It's basically it's own niche genre. Insane how many fan games it has created.

>>718742665
The same dev also made the Ogmo/Jumper games.

>>718748269
>14k fangames
Most of them are probably single level/bossfight and/or shit, but yeah that's pretty impressive.
Probably still way less than total number of doom WADs created over the years.

>platformer but... le hard
not a niche

You now remember Kyle Gabler's Experimental Gameplay Project.

>>718730730 (OP)
>I like Knytt a lot
Same.

>>718730730 (OP)
/v/ isn't ready for this fact but Iji is one of the top 10 games ever made.
>>718747138
>warning forever
I used to play that off a fucking floppy disk at school.

>>718731875
the original game is free, anon
just download it from the official site

Just checked to see if you can still get AOOFAD and apparently it's for sale now. A dollar, but whatever. Weird.
Anyway cactus was better before he sold out. But I don't begrudge him selling out.

>>718734045
zip it up and put it on mega pls, my main man
there's no shot i'm finding all of these myself but i'd love to check em out

>>718730730 (OP)
>>718730882
It's a shame his WiiU game likely won't ever see a rerelease. It was pretty cool.
Knytt Underground was kinda shit though. Didn't have nearly the same charm as the first two.

>>718730730 (OP)
I blame aquaria for turning me into a pretentious indiefag
rip alec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RdII_xp8vY

For more indie faggotry, there's >>>/vg//indie/

I played Spelunky off a flash drive in high school.
I also failed that class.

>>718750020
fuck off, hall monitor

>>718749868
I've always wondered if this game still holds up. I haven't played it in 15 years.

>>718750115
It's an invitation dip shit.

>Man i sure am hungry, i should eat this mushroom that i don't know in the middle of the route.
What was Knytt thinking?

>>718750171
probably not, I bought it for a buddy who really likes metroidvanias and they played it for about 12 minutes
I still love it though

I wonder why most games posted ITT so far are pixel platformers, I mean I get that it's an abundant genre but there were other cool pre-2010 indies out there.

Anyone else remembers The Forest from 2005?
It was a weird online game where you just explored the forest and you could meet other players but you couldn't chat with them except by using weird emotes and body language.
This has to be like one of my favorite weird experiences from that time, really felt like something out there and bizarrely unique.

>>718750328
Sorry The Endless Forest is the name, I always thought it was just the forest.
Bad memory.

>>718732875
Is this an original theme or was it taken from something else? I know I've heard this multiple times before but I've never played Iji.

There was a game ages ago that was just black and red, very pixelated, heavy rain and you played as a stick man running from left to right over mountains and through a cave, there was very little gameplay but for some reason I still remember it, does anyone by any chance remember the name of what I'm referring to?

>>718750409
black and red, pixelated stickman sounds like downwell to me
but it's not side to side

>>718730882
fuck yeah

>>718750391
original, the only non-original song in the soundtrack is the credits theme

>>718750452
Nah, it was like 10+ years older than that and had way more simplistic graphics
I think I played it from one of those PC gamer discs that used to come with the magazines

>>718730730 (OP)
>>718730882
Try his latest games https://nifflas.itch.io/

wasn't iwbtg dev making a new game?

I played Warning Forever a lot

>>718750409
>>718750523
Don't Look Back matches the description. It was on Kongregate, apparently. But it's a flash game, so I'm sure you could download it and put in on a disk.

I played this shit far too much

>>718752156
Ah, shit, forgot the image

>>718752165
THE WORK OF ONE WHO CONSORTS WITH BEASTS!

>>718752202
That's the one, thank you anon, you are a real nigga

>>718750409
Black and red sounds like one of amon26's games, maybe au sable?

I didn't see it got answered already lol sorry

Fraxy. First version released in 2006, it was a top-down shump that came with a boss editor so you could make your own stuff to share online.

>>718749446
Was World of Goo 2 any good? I loved the original back in the day.

>>718752165
All memes aside, it's a pretty great game. There's a lot of elements you still don't see in other stealth games like needing to watch the wind since it'll carry both scent and sound.

Here's another game I have played a bunch in 2009-2010: Hammerfight (it was also known as Hammerfell at some point, but it got changed for obvious reason). It's a physics based 2D arena fighter where you fly some kind of fantasy medieval contraption and try to smack enemies with oversized swords, axes and hammers obviously until they die. Super fun, but gets too hard at some point, never managed to finish it back in the day.
The game was actually developed by the guy who later made Highfleet, as I discovered quite recently.

>>718754630
My man, still holds up pretty well. The key to the later parts was to abuse the fuck out of the gems. I think the red ones gave you lifesteal, and I remember whatever color was electricity also being pretty strong because it would stun enemies so you could just wind up and bash them directly into the floor.
It's also secretly a fucking Vangers prequel, of all things.

>>718754630
i watched sseth's video on highfleet
was pretty cool, never played it tho

>>718730730 (OP)
Shame about the ugly-ass sequel.

>>718730730 (OP)
The commercializing really was a new era for indies after this one.
But if you never played Knytt Underground then please do. That game is a magnum opus combining everything excellent of the dev and then some more and the map is insanely huge.

>>718732506
It's a good game but the dev has a chronic issue of only remaking the same game again and again.
The one he did before where you play a worm was kinda a vibe though but also never finished and many areas just rolled into Treasure Adventure Game.

>>718753594
It's ok, but the gimmicks are kind of annoying. There's less "build big thing to overcome gap," and more "get unpredictable fluid to flow properly." Way overpriced.

>>718734045
>all those cool games I had forgotten about

yeah, like >>718749824 said, if you can be arsed it'd be awesome to have a download link

Anyone ever play TRCOOLGUY's Game Maker games? Never knew anyone who did, but they were fun little things back in the day, especially the Lee Trevino game

https://www.yygarchive.org/game/39420

Also looks like the GameMakerGames website is now gone?

>>718742583
I think that was by Niflas as well?
I did play it 10 years ago and I remember how much I liked the space travel having you just chill to radio for a few minutes.
Platforming was fun and unlocked new parts of old planets over time by learning new skills.

>>718734589
This

>>718733872
Open itchio, dumarse.
>b.but there is so much porn and low quality
Yeah just like back then.

>>718731276
>the character designs and dialog really hurt the experience for me
I felt the same when I first tried it—I ended up dropping it after a couple of hours. Then a couple of years afterwards I tried playing it again, and it's now probably my favourite game ever. I really think Underground's style grows on you, if you give it a chance to.

>>718745884
One of my first games I got on steam, gifted of course because what fucking idiot would buy digital games?
I think in later stages I just straight up used walkthroughs because I didn't have the patience and wanted all stars.

>>718753594
You could feel that he announced it, had a ready-to-go vision of it (basically a more beautiful, HD version of the original game), then went "ah fuck it" for no reason and went balls-on-the-wall meta with it. It feels more like World of Goo 1.5 than anything and the best thing about it was the extra hard levels that actually challenged you a little. There's a ton of "yeah remember this one?" levels even as chapter endings. The ending is also complete shit and makes the whole thing feel like a waste of time.
The penultimate chapter basically has the whole gimmick of how World of Goo sequels would look like 400,000 years into the future where one is a golf game, the other is a point-and-click adventure and the third is a gravity manipulator. All three are executed like shit. The ending is a lone human adventurer landing on the planet of Goos, going "damn that's cool" and then going back to space, which is basically also a callback to 1 with how the world is yours when you have custom levels.

Also got reminded of Skelly, Zombie Slayer. Cool lil' thing as an arena 2D zombie killing game. Ton of SFX lifted from Doom but the feedback is pretty nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wfKABOkxQU

>>718749868
This game convinced me that indie games can be extremely good and are worth looking for more.
I liked the role reversal of the section where you have no water except some floating bubbles. Contrasts nice with the usual platformers where the water level is the awkward playing one. Incredible stunning OST too.
>>718750171
Dunno why it wouldn't. Only thing jank about it has always been the character animation looking very paper puppet like but that was a common thing back then i flash games or paid projects like And Yet It Moves.

>>718734297
Looks awesome, thanks. I want to play this. There is a gba port of Hero Core.

Are you ready to jam to some chiptunes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_6Iow7O6o

>>718742836
It appeared spontaneously on any computer shared by kids.

>>718752202
https://www.crazygames.com/game/don-t-look-back
>click visit developers site
>posted on june 28 2025 about some vvvvv level
https://distractionware.com/blog/
Also look at all the games he made. VVVVVV? Dicey Dungeons? Super Fucking Hexagon?
That is an incredible portfolio.
https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/

>>718755019
Literally the best Knytt game and the sprite is a tiny ant on your screen. If you still cry then learn to move around as ball.

>>718734045
>Garden Gnome Chaos
>Towerclimb
>Warning Forever
You're cool in my books, anon
Also holy shit I forgot about Under the Garden. Odd little game. Shame the sequel never got made, it looked interesting. Didn't realize the dev went on to do Cryptmaster recently, which I quite liked.

>>718755509
Yeah it's not hard to get used to it since most is platform exploring anyway.
And saying shit like "Felt like Nifflas was trying to cater to mainstream audience" makes one sound like a deranged /pol/schizo that can not comprehend that an artist is genuinely putting what he likes and cares about into a project he poured so much into.
And lines like that is why /v/ became so unusable to talk about indie games. Can't talk about any game without the garbage of the world coming in to yell shill or go through an artists twitter history for phrases that trigger him.

>>718755980

Guy is a legend for sure

I just remembered a game I always wanted to try, but never managed to.
It was simply called "love" and was some kind of weird mmo where the dev developed his own language for the game.
I still wonder if it was any good.

>>718755980
I knew it stuck with me for a reason

I spent a lot of time on Captain Forever as a kid.

>2 steps from hell
>fluid and particle physics simulation
>internet high score board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQt69xULWM
yep, it's gaming time

>>718734045
>dong dong never die
holy SOVL

any creeperGODS itt?

>>718756042
>>718734045
>Under the Garden
Aw, shit! I knew I didn't imagine this game! I did vaguely remember playing a game that felt like some sort of Terraria prototype. I was looking for it for years at some point and already totally forgot about it by now. Pretty cool.

I've yet to see another person on 4chan mention Gungirl 2. Fun progression, incredibly cathartic guns (stolen Doom 3 plasma reload noise used for icicle gun), great ost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ6aQMNbhZQ

I still have my copy of Pocket Tanks from 20+ years ago.

>>718757438
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAG7_ugO5Gs

>>718730730 (OP)

What is it about these games that just had so much soul and whimsy? There's a magical, novel feeling to them

You guys remember dildo cannon?

>>718757438
I don't think I played this but I played like 5 clones of this.

I know this game is more well know for its story and meta elements, but the actual gameplay is crack cocaine. Every time I open this it erases at least an hour from my day.

Did anyone else play uberleben?

ika-chan

>>718759112
looks like it was made by pixel aka cave story dev

Anyone else ever play this old freeware Zeldalike called Ark22? It was pretty good, better than most of the freeware I played back then. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to run on newer versions of Windows, at least the copy I still have. I think the dev might have made a port, but he later nuked his website and if it exists I've never been able to find it.

>>718759884
correct he made it before cave story

>>718755980
VVVVVV still holds up really well after 15 years. Game got the most love it ever got in the last couple years after the source code got made public as well as more language support and QoL features like being able to select the intermission levels. His other games still kick my ass but I was so dedicated enough to play VVVVVV that beat it without dying.
If you do end up playing it you'll want to lock the frame rate to 60 FPS otherwise it plays too smoothly which looks jarring and makes you mess up more precise parts.

If you want to play more games similar or inspired by it, I can recommend You Have To Win The Game and Cat Planet.

>>718759065
I tried it and I didn't get how the scoring works.

Pre-google internet when you had to remember the website and type it in manually
stickdeath was one of the few websites that I was aware existed and it had games

>>718754630
>>718755980
Speaking of the guys who made a thing, and then much more popular thing.
I was browsing through my old stuff, notes and bookmarks and whatnot, trying to find the game that got stuck in my mind, despite playing not that much of it. Finally found the name, Blood Zero. It was a top down action adventure with some RPG elements. And a some sort of party system with a bunch of companions with different combat abilities. As far as I remember you could have 3 or 4 characters in a party at the same time and you could switch which one you control directly. I thought it was pretty neat. The whole game had some sort of edgy punk rock vibe to it. Very edgy. But I was an edgelord back then, so I liked it.
So anyway, I looked up who made it, and turns out it was James Silva from Ska Studios, who made Salt And Sanctuary, of all things. And a bunch of other games for XBLA/XBLIG. And some more stuff even before that, as Totally Screwed Software, Blood Zero included. Apparentely he was making games since 2001.

I still have fond memories of fragging in Soldat in the library computer lab.

I've been thinking about the 5 Days a Stranger series again. Personal views about Yahtzee aside, I think most of the horror elements hold up well enough. However, going back after years of reading different horror stories and playing other horror games, I can't stand the writing. I think it comes down to the character writing. Every single line of dialogue feels solely expository, as if everyone is standing around waiting to feed you more info instead of being memorable characters. I also feel a lot of the dialogue, mostly from Trilby, feels too quippy and pulls me out of the scene. I played through 5 Days again and felt no investment for what happens to anyone in the cast.

>>718730730 (OP)
Is legit freeware a lost art?

>>718762923
Itch.io

Survival Crisis Z

Crimsonland... my beloved...

>>718763217
>>718761346
Yeah, it was also made by Ska Studios. I personally have never heard about the game until today, but apparently it was somewhat well known in some circles, so I've wondered if someone would mention this game or any of his other games.
>>718762670
The whole Chzo series had some interesting elements to it, but yeah, it wasn't very well written. I wonder if he could make a good classic point and click adventure NOW. He did write a bunch of decently recieved books, and he has been his own writer for Zero Punctuation and his new Legally Distinct Definetely Not Zero Punctuation for almost 20 years now. So I bet you could do it this time. If he abandons his "I am good enough to do everything alone" attitude and cooperates with some artists and voice actors, that is.
How is his latest game, actually, writing-wise? It looked like ass and gameplay also looked uninspired, I have no intention to play it myself.

>>718757438
Computer lab kino

>>718730730 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXofLK5hFQ

>zoomers are already getting nostalgic for indie pixelshit because indies have moved on to what underage retards think ps1 and n64 games looked like
There would be validity if it were something actually old, like the flash game era. No, this is just when indies were "faux-nes/snes platformers but artificially difficult or atari visual walking simulators about gay depression" instead of "quake but gay and retarded or 3d walking simulator about depression and gender reassignment". And of course, any indie game that actually tried to be something worthwhile like Wrack just dies in the cradle because indieshits only ever want to play garbage.

>>718767401
old

i remember playing a smash clone with sonic on it. No it's not smash flash, it was like the first prototype o algo. way better than most modern games

>>718767401
>complaining about muh kids while using underage lingo himself
kettle meet pot

a friend turned me on to this one and i really enjoyed it. Might be a bit too new idk

>Mario&Luigi (DOS)
Great tech demo with getting the core elements just right
>Charlie the Duck (same creator)
And this one doesn't feel right. It just shows how much Mario got the gameplay right.

>>718769517
Point out the "Underage lingo". I'll wait.

can we make Knytt have a comeback? i really like the artstyle the levels had

>>718769912
The original is from 2007. The remake which even Kayin (the original maker of IWBTG) suggests everyone plays instead is more recent from 2023 or something?
It's an actual good remake too.

>>718761048
thank you raocow for exposing my young self to this game

>>718749824
>>718734045
Man, I used to have a massive freeware archive that I think I got from /rs/ back in line 2011, bigger than even that folder. Had basically every noteworthy freeware game in it, and most of the stuff in this thread. And then I lost it last year when both my hard drive and my backup drive failed simultaneously. Also took out my massive collection of scifi/fantasy books in .txt form that I also got from /rs/. RIP /rs/.

>>718732875
Tor is one of my top final boss fights of all time, and the music is part of what makes it so good. It's just so aesthetic as a whole. You and the enemy general one on one on a rooftop, the sky lit up over the city with the sunrise, and hundreds of alien ships looming overhead ready to glass the planet if you lose. The music is the cherry on top.

>>718771810
You can. Open up MS Paint and get drawing.

>>718771810
Knytt was always an engine tool that you cold just put in your own maps and characters.

>>718733872
I’m making a free fighting game right now but it’ll prob be a year until it’s done

I released my first game a couple months ago but it’s made with RPG maker. The new game is 3D like SNES I’m coding from the ground up

Can I also get some esoteric help ?
There was this mario clone I think,a platformer,with one level that was just a black bg or it also had a waterfall too.
Maybe u couldnt go back to the left