At its core an RPG is about levelling up, going on quests, and getting into battles. Many people, myself included, would argue that a story on top of all of that is really what makes an RPG. What happens if you take that story element away and only focus on the levelling and fighting?

You get what is pictured above.

Parameters is a game that is all about filling up the boxes, and that’s it. You can level up and modify yourself to make the battles easier, you’ll need to for the boss battles. Once you defeat a boss it’ll drop keys that you can use to unlock other battles and continue.

Like all RPGs there is also a store that you can purchase from to help you if you get stuck.

Go play the game, and you’ll find it confusing at first but slowly you’ll get addicted.

There is the long, but oh-so-good Girl Walk All Day.

You see, they need to be out in places not regularly used for dancing because it makes watching the spectators fun too. The public dancing breaks so many social conventions that I feel that it’s a great place to get inspiration from because this dancing is, at its core, trying to push creative boundaries.

My watching of dance videos can be traced back to some dude named Nathan.

Here’s some of Nathan J Barnatt’s videos:

This one features Yelle, who’s music would be great for a video game!

Also, who doesn’t want to just get up and dance ridiculously at least once a day?

You know what, Yelle’s videos are great too.

With a total of 336 games (and demos) so far this should be a neat way to stay in the loop about indie games. The project is open source and if your next game is free and runs on Windows then you can have your game listed.

Here’s a brief on the features:

Features:

• Contains over 300 freeware games (and a few demos)
• New games added continuously
• No account or registration required

Found this good little description of the game on their website:

The Watchers takes place in an inter-dimensional town called Union City. Tasked with protecting the city is a secret arms-length government agency, made up of the top agents from each dimension. The team must investigate a number of mysterious events surrounding the town’s hat-based augmented reality network, known as Hatnet. Through these investigations, players learn a number of real-world privacy concepts as well as developing their critical thinking and risk assessment skills.

The game comes out mid-May and I’m really looking forward to it!

Found via the great people at Atmosphere Industries.

It turns out that someone has thought it wise to emulate that idea in a video game.

I don’t know where to begin on this, luckily someone else has thought about it more than me and you can read their thoughts.

Responses to the game so far have been mixed. While some have expressed enthusiasm for the idea of virtually recreating Thoreau’s life at Walden Pond, others have scoffed at what seems to them a rank violation of Thoreau’s tenet of living as part of nature; one online commenter noted, “Thoreau would be spinning in his grave knowing that people were about to commit the ultimate in abstraction and try to connect with the natural world through completely mediated means!”

Thanks to a certain Flea!