All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'indie, core, space' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us Warning Forever is a special shoot 'em up. Instead of flying around, dealing with hoards of enemies, and the occasional boss, it's just you, and the boss. And every time you beat the boss, it comes back, meaner than the time before.

]]> 04 Dec 2006 11:33:56 Noctis is a unique space exploration game where you explore the universe in your space ship, the Stardrifter. While there is no set goal in the game, you can travel around as much as you want, cataloging celestial bodies, visiting planets and moons and even exploring them if they have landscape which can be landed on.

]]> 10 Feb 2007 02:32:07 Have you ever dreamed to play Bomberman-like game with modern graphics and sound? Now you have a chance to do it with Mars Miner - a game that has all qualities of a classic time proved gameplay on a completely new level!

The hero finds himself on Mars. Now his primary objective is to stay alive and find his way back to Earth through an abandoned Martian mine and a laboratory. A variety of hideous and crafty monsters are lurking on the way. Each of them is extremely dangerous, but when they hunt together, they are a real hazard, owing to the unique AI.

Players who like dynamic games will enjoy playing Mars Miner. The game will be interesting to all categories of players, from beginners to experienced arcade players. Superior graphics together with excellent music background create a fascinating atmosphere. You'll want to get immersed in this world again and again.

An excellent Story mode and an almost unlimited Survival won't let you get bored!

]]> 17 Mar 2007 02:29:05 Whoever thought managing a space station in the middle of nowhere would be such an adventure? Outpost Kaloki is a light-hearted, comical 3D strategy / management game. Featuring gorgeous cartoon-style graphics and a whimsical storyline, Outpost Kaloki puts you in charge of new space station which you must grow into profitability.

Keep the princess happy, and keep your customers happier as you attract new and bizarre visitors to your deep-space lemonade stands, parks, and laboratories. Chat with a variety of genuinely strange alien creatures. Great fun for the whole family!

]]> 08 Dec 2006 12:06:08 Beyond the Red Line is a stand-alone total conversion for the award-winning Freespace 2 released by Volition and Interplay for the PC. It is based on the popular new tv-show Battlestar Galactica. No, not the one from the 70s.
The game is made by the fans, for the fans.

]]> 08 Jun 2007 02:05:54 Operation: Inner Space is one of those very special games. It's unfortunate that such a fine piece of code has been abandoned.

The main idea behind Inner Space is to travel through your computer in a space ship collecting Icons. Icons in game are taken straight from the files on your disk and are spent as the game's currency. Icons are used to buy upgrades for your ship, new weapons, and also to pay off the in-game police if you get arrested.

The game world itself is actually a space environment. The space is usually filled with rocks, and other hazards such as blocks that shoot fire, spinning fans, turrets, and others.

Virii are present in the game. Virii shoot lightning bolts which can infect icons floating in space. If an infected icon is picked up by your ship you will lose control briefly. A virus is also a tough hazard to destroy, but CPU ships, friendly or not, will often help you, and thank for you destroying one.

The AI in the game is well-done, each CPU ship in the game has its own personality and is assigned to a team. Your relations with the various teams in game and theres with eachother, will depend upon your actions. Each team has its own motive for being in Inner Space. The Enforcers are the police in the game and will attempt to arrest you or anyone that breaks the laws. If you resist arrest, the Enforcers will attempt to destroy your ship. In contrast, the Pirates are always out to destroy your ship so they can loot your goods, as well as cause trouble with the Enforcers.

The various in game laws can be broken, and without consenquence if an Enforcer is not present. Laws include things such as, looting a ship, attacking a fleeing ship, wreckless boosting, stealing a prize from a race winner, attacking an enforcer, and so on.

The game features various modes beyond the typical fly-and-collect-icons gameplay. You can engage in a duel with a rival in the arena, and race your ship against others in various tracks.

The goal of the game is not to collect all your icons, as with today's machines and the amount of data upon them it's not really feasable. Instead, you need to collect the four noble weapons from the Inner Demon and eventually enter the Demon's Gate using the noble weapons to defeat...

The games weapons are varied, besides your ships standard guns, you can make use of fireballs, snowballs, batterys, heat-seeker missles, handcuffs, donuts, protective pellets, dumb-fire missles, and many more. The noble weapons have the most powerful abilities, which are collected from random battles with the Inner Demon.

If you play the game at different times of the day, the enviroment will change. For example, the computer that greets you at the start of the game will display different messages, and if played during lunch, gas cans are replaced with food items.

The Amulance can be called in game, it's used to buy weapons, repair and refuel your ship, and play a practice battle against the Inner Demon. It can also save you from near death if you hail it when your ship is burning.

The game also features a ship editor in which you can customize a ship, and even import a graphic to make an original one. Inner Space includes a screensaver also. There are two-different shareware versions of the game, one gives you 30 days to play and then locks you out. Another, gives you 30 days to play and after the time period lets you only play as a specific ship from the Avengers. An in-game keystroke lets you assume control of a team member's ship however, so you can use this to get a better craft, even one you made in the editor.

Operation: Inner Space is a unique experience.

]]> 29 Mar 2007 10:16:47 Currently in development, Heresy War is a combat space simulator that focuses on delivering a completely immersive experience for both casual and hardcore gamers alike. The player plays a role of a space fighter pilot that gets thrown in the middle of a raging civil war. While trying to put an end to the civil war, a third ,mysterious force gets involved in the conflict and threatens to destroy everything that the humanity stands for.

]]> 23 Jan 2007 12:53:58 In Ray-Hound you control a space ship in a circular arena where you have to survive for as long as possible and eliminate all turrets that keep shooting on you. Unfortunately you don't have a gun yourself, so instead you capture the shots the turrets fire at you and use their own shots againts the turrets

Ray-Hound is created by Hikoza Ohkubo, creator of Warning Forever.

]]> 08 Feb 2007 01:37:01 Void War is an indie 3D space combat sim.

Strap into one of six unique starfighters and get ready for the best space combat action to be found in this solar system: Void War. Simple, easy-to-learn controls let you focus on flying and fighting through awesome 3D battlefields. Void War is a unique blend of space-combat simulation, old-school arcade-style action, and run-and-gun thrills of first-person shooters.

The single-player campaign propels you into a tongue-in-cheek story of rescue as you do battle against some of the most lethal weirdoes in the galaxy. Alternately, the "Free For All" mode lets you hone your skills in a no-holds-barred brawl in 3D space.

Two multiplayer modes allow you to jump into battles with friends and strangers to prove who is the best fighter pilot in the galaxy. Online match-making servers let you find games to join quickly and easily. Prepare to join the ranks of the elite...

]]> 13 Nov 2006 02:43:09 Starport: Galactic Empires is a competitive massively multiplayer game for Windows PCs. Your life in the Starport universe begins near Earth where you will be the captain of a new merchant vessel. By gaining funds and experience you can upgrade your ship and your standing as the game progresses. Haul valuable cargo and transport passengers through space to begin working your way up in the game world.

In Starport, greater reward means greater risk. You'll need to equip your ship to handle it. During your progress, you'll engage in combat with other players, planetary defense platforms, space-anchored gun turrets and other hostiles. From traditional projectile weapons and smart-missles to exotic energy weapons, you'll have a good selection of firepower from which to choose.

You might choose to claim a world by starting a colony on it. Keep these colonies defended, keep the colonists who reside there happy, and they can become valuable strongholds.

Later, you might chose to roam the galaxy as a pirate and invade and take over the colonies of others. You might also choose to spend your warp fuel on exploration, where you might find powerful artifacts of alien technology or valuable information. In time, you could own a large empire of colonies and earn many experience points which will put you in the top of the rankings.

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]]> 06 Sep 2007 05:07:13 One of my much earlier game projects which is a top-view 360 space shooter engine. This game engine has been far neglected. I may one day pick it back up and finish it, but it's still somewhat low on my priorities list. Includes a series of tools including a ship, map, mission designer and a scripting system for mission events and triggers.

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