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The ONScripter-EN is used for English-language Indie Games

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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.

The important thing to also remember about indie games is that they can be just as fun as the other types you buy from the local video game store. Many of these games took years to develop and are a lot of fun to play on your computer or console. Be sure to understand what indie games are out there so that you know which one you would like to buy and play for yourself. You might even be able to find a variety of free indie games so that you can save money in the process and still get what you want.

The ONScripter Free Software Development Engine

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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 developed as a more accessible alternative that could work on a variety of machines and allow itself to be upgraded by the public that so eagerly took advantage of it.

As ONScripter has proven itself to be a valuable game development engine, its support in the game community has rapidly increased. In fact, it is now considered to be the engine of choice for visual novel enthusiasts as it is much more adaptable to language translations than its slower progenitor.

How Ren’py Makes Indie Visual Novel Development Easy

admin — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 most likely run Ren’Py well. Anybody can start with Ren’Py and begin creating visual novels right off the bat. Ren’Py requires very little additional typing per line in order to have a character say something; in Ren’Py scripts, characters and variables are referenced by name, not by number, making it simple to create dialogue. It comes with a template game to help you to get started, as well as documentation and a reference manual. The Ren’Py forum has a helpful community of game developers, ready to assist new users to the software. Incredibly easy to learn for beginners and advanced users alike, Ren’Py will supply creative artists for years to come in creating visual novels.

Original English Games at the Ren’Ai Archive

admin — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 big-box to be emotional and involving.

The Ren’Ai Archive is an online repository of all sorts of fan-made, English-language renai games and visual novels. (Visual novels also rely on static images and a plot driven mostly by character development, but they aren’t quite as focused on romantic entanglement.) Boasting a wide variety of free content, the Ren’Ai Archive strives to be the foremost hub for English-language renai games.

Games hosted at the Ren’Ai Archive are categorized by date, by category, and by type of game. As they’re indie games, the games at the Ren’Ai Archive can be quite unusual–but quite imaginative and fun.

Pixel’s Influence on the Indie Gaming Movement

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 floating island. Traditional story elements progress the player through the game and Pixel himself proclaimed the game has an “old fashioned feel”. Despite being originally freeware for the PC, the game has been ported to the Wii, Xbox, PSP and the Mac OS X.

It might come as a surprise that Pixel developed the game completely by himself over a time span of five years. The increasing availability of computing resources has made it possible for independent gaming to become a credible and financially feasible option of development. Cave Story has set the bar high for independent gaming, but it is also a reference to the profitability of indie game development. Pixel inadvertently created a business model that other developers look to follow. This model is somewhat based on the Web 2.0 movement of Twitter and Facebook, free to use now and ad based revenue later. The later revenue Pixel has brought in is from the ports to bigger platforms. It is the time for independent gaming, with profitable examples ranging from Minecraft to Braid as well as Cave Story.More info here: Cave Story+ Coming to 3DS

As of 2012, Cave Story Has Become a Professional Game

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 memory of how he arrived there. Cave Story has simple controls, allowing basic movement, jumping, and shooting. There is a heads-up display in the top left that displays which weapon is equipped, the weapon level, and current health. After it’s release, Cave Story became popular as an indie game. It received amazing feedback for its great story and game play. Since it was so well received by critics and gamers alike, there were other versions of it made on other operating systems. The huge number of expansions that came out on Cave Story, as well as it’s amazing reception, means that Cave Story has become a professional game as of 2012.

How Did Cave Story Revolutionize Indie Gaming?

admin — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 indie gaming, forever. 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 memory of how he arrived there. Cave Story has simple controls, allowing basic movement, jumping, and shooting. There is a heads-up display in the top left that displays which weapon is equipped, the weapon level, and current health. After it’s initial release, Cave Story gained popularity as an indie game. It received amazing feedback for its great story and game play.