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When most people think about video games, they think about the bigger names and the expensive prices when the game is first released. While most of the bigger names and games out there are really fun, there are also a variety of indie games that are just as fun and addicting. The one thing about indie games as opposed to regular ones is that they are going to be a lot cheaper. Even a new release indie video game is going to be cheaper than a video game that has been released and is very well known.

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The ONScripter is a free clone alternative to the popular Japanese game development engine known as NScripter. In order to understand the popularity of ONScripter, it’s necessary to take a look at its predecessor.

NScripter was invented by Naoki Takahashi as a method of allowing interested parties to develop their own video games. Specifically, it favored creation of games in the genre of visual novels, a popular type of game in Japan. Unfortunately, despite its popularity, it was closed sourced and only available for Windows. Due to these technical limitations, ONScripter was Read more…

Ren’Py Visual Novel Engine is a completely free software engine which helops the creation of visual novels, a form of computer-mediated storytelling. With over 300 games, it has proved attractive to English language users. Ren’Py scripts have a movie-like syntax, and can additionally include blocks of code to allow advanced users to add new features of their own, making it very adaptable. It can be ported on Android, and it can be used on nearly all mainstream PC operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS and Linux. If you have a computer, then you can Read more…

Renai games–so-called “dating sims”–are a ubiquitously Japanese flavor of game. Character-driven and focused on romance, these games often feature static background images paired with smiling character sprites. Part Choose Your Own Adventure, part statistics experiment, in renai games, love is all.

“Renai” means romance in Japanese, and that’s generally the goal of any renai game: the protagonist meeting up with all sorts of romantic interests, culminating in new relationships and friendships, with charm and good deeds shifting the romantic plot in byzantine ways.

Renai games aren’t just Japanese imports anymore. And they don’t have to be Read more…

Pixel, which is game developer Daisuke Amaya’s art-name, has been creating independent video games in the late nineties and released his first game in 2000. What the majority of gamers know him for is the increasingly popular indie-game Cave Story. Cave Story has reveled with an amazing reception from not only indie gamers, but also from professional game critics. Cave Story is a RPG side-scroller that is located within a cave in the game world of a Read more…

As of 2012, Cave Story has become a professional game. Released in 2004 for the PC, Cave Story was designed as a homage to classic games from the past such as Metroid, Castlevania, and many other classic games. It is a side scrolling platform RPG that takes place within the interior of a floating island, which is made up of several caves. The game focuses on a silent protagonist who awakens within these caves, unsure of where he is. The player character is a robot, and awakens with no Read more…

Cave Story was released in 2004 for the PC and was designed as a homage to classic games from the past such as Metroid, Castlevania, and many other classic games. Cave Story revolutionized indie gaming in many ways, by showing that the old styled games are still popular and bring back memories in gamers, and it showed the western indie game scene that with enough vision, skill, and passion, a single indie developer can still make an deep, amazing action game. The making of Cave Story revolutionized Read more…