Indies for the Weekend

Awar3nees Den1ed

This is the second game in a series of episodic games by Ravee. The first game was covered in last week the entry called meloveyou. This is yet another experimental title that will make your head spin and make you nauseous, and might give you epileptic seizures. One comes across a lot of games with a warning label telling players that they might suffer from an epileptic seizure because of some mildly flashing lights. In this case though, one needs to take serious heed to the warning. The environment is something I've never expireneced before and you can change you perception of it with the click of the right mouse button. This is probably some mechanic that was implemented that went over my head and I wish the game did a better job of explaining some things. Judging from what the game page says though, the developer want's you to discover what the games different mechanics do by yourself. This time also the game is alot more ambigous on the goings on than the first one even though the first one has it's fare share of ambigouty and mysteri. This one takes it further though and if you don't spend time with the game and try to find out what is going on you might miss several key points. As I did. Still, the games is a visual spectacle with some nice puzzles to solve and judging from what I've come across while writing this article series I would say that it's more than enough.

Agnostos

This is yet another one of those relaxation games but this is also the first game that's made in the Unreal engine, while for the most part games that make it on to this column are made in Unity. And it looks amazing. Theres not much to tell, than that you are just passing through one dreamlike environment to the other. The environments look wonderful and the player could just sit there and appreciate the wonderful scenery being presented. The only gripe I might have with this one is that the walking speed is too fast. I would have rather walked slower in order to take in the scenery a bit more. Also the game starts with some nice ambient music playing but not long after, the music just ends and doesn't return.