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Indie Nation EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Indie Nation: 78641 - A Targ Adventure 9 Our "Indie Nation" series highlights worthwhile, independently-produced games. Oh hello I did not see you come in! You have played with the Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden game and enj... Indie Nation: Ergon/Logos 37 Our Indie Nation series highlights cool independent games.What is this? An interactive poem? A fast-paced Choose Your Own Adventure? A smarmy existentialist critique of videogames and the status ... Indie Nation: Immortal Defense 6 Destructoid's "Indie Nation" series (semi)regularly highlights interesting, independently-developed games.Immortal Defense is a tower defense game for people who abhor tower defense gam... Indie Nation: Where's An Egg? 45 Our Indie Nation series highlights interesting, independently-made games. I will be the first to admit that Where's an Egg? has some of the least interesting base gameplay you'll ever see highlig... Indie Nation: Time Gentlemen, Please 8 Our Indie Nation series highlights interesting videogames from -- wait for it -- independent developers.Amusement, and shame. These are the two emotions that every single classic LucasArts advent... Indie Nation: Research and Development 31 Our "Indie Nation" series highlights kickass independent games.Here is everything you need to know about Research and Development:- You can download it here  - Despite being a mod,... Indie Nation: Handle With Care 17 Our "Indie Nation" series highlights interesting games from the world of independents.Handle With Care, the sequel to Polaris and second game in Robert Yang's Radiator series, came out ... Indie Nation: Mr. Mullet 9 Indie Nation is an irregularly-scheduled series that highlights good independent games.Mr. Mullet by This Is Pop is probably one of the least funny games on the entire Adult Swim Web site, but it... Indie Nation: Drug Wars 16 Indie Nation is about independent games. You could have probably guessed that.To the best of my recollection, I've never played a game quite like Drug Wars. After a remarkably turbulent, accident... Indie Nation: MoneySeize 14 At irregular intervals, "Indie Nation" highlights interesting games from the independent scene. I'm tempted to call Matt Thorson the king of indie platfomers, which may sound weird cons... Indie Nation: Rosemary 14 Indie Nation highlights interesting, independently-made games. Which you probably could have guessed.I have a confession to make: I'm not really a fan of the indie adventure game scene. Apart fro... Indie Nation: AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! 19 "Indie Nation" highlights interesting games from the independent scene. Series installments are written pretty much whenever we feel like it.I've tried to start this post about a dozen ... Indie Nation: Curse 9 Every week, Destructoid highlights interesting, innovative, or just plain odd independent games for its "Indie Nation" series.After three weeks of heady, combat-free first-person shoote... Indie Nation: Polaris 9 Half-Life 2's Source engine may well be one of the most reliably satisfying pieces of technology in the modern gaming world. It gave us gravity guns, zombie hordes, portal physics -- and now, of ... Indie Nation #64: Conscientious Objector 10 Conscientious Objector is a Doom 3 mod by thechineseroom, the same academic group who created Dear Esther. Despite the fact that Dear Esther couldn't possibly be more stylistically or mechanicall... Indie Nation 63: Dear Esther 14 I have to admit -- I heard about Dear Esther from RockPaperShotgun, and their writeup is probably superior to whatever it is I'm about to blather on about regarding this moody Half-Life 2 mod.Dea... Indie Nation #62: Perri's Games 7 You may know Anthony Perri from his position as Resident Person Named Anthony Who Isn't Anthony Burch in the Destructoid community.* But did you also know that he makes artgames, as well? Surpris... Indie Nation #61: Today I Die 21 Every Friday, Destructoid highlights a fun, innovative, or just plain interesting independently-made game for our Indie Nation series. I've been putting off highlighting Daniel Benmergui's work f... Indie Nation #60: Spewer 9 Anthony is letting me fill in for him this week on Indie Nation. Now, on to the good news. Spewer is a new puzzle/platformer from the creative team of Eli Piilonen (Stranded) and Edmund McMillen ... Indie Nation #59: Windosill 14 If you've ever played a flash-based, pointer controlled adventure game with no inventory puzzles like, say, Samorost (or Myst, if you don't know what Samorost is), Windosill belongs to that as-ye... Indie Nation #58: Igneous 8 Every Friday, Destructoid highlights a fun, interesting, or just plain weird game produced without funding from a major publisher for our "Indie Nation" series.I understand how boring t... Indie Nation #57: Enviro-Bear 2000 13 Every Friday, Destructoid highlights a fun, meaningful, or just plain interesting independently-made game for our "Indie Nation" series.  Voting is still open for TIGSource.com's C... Indie Nation #56: Snow 17 Snow is a game about a girl buying a cup of coffee. Not in a symbolic sense or in a pretentious artgame sense where you have to decipher what the actual mechanics and input buttons mean on a meta... Indie Nation #55: Trilby: The Art of Theft 29 Quick -- name every stealth game you've ever played that didn't suck. Not the great ones, not your favorites, not the ones that will stand the test of time, but merely the ones which did not suck... Indie Nation #54: Strange Adventures in Infinite Space 16 Time for another Indie Nation, wherein we highlight a kickass independently-made game that may be worth your time. What with all my endless bitching about games that waste the player's time, now ... Indie Nation #53: Rescue the Beagles 7 Another Friday means another Indie Nation, wherein we highlight cool, independently-made games that offer something you just can't get from the mainstream.After last week's anti-JRPG clusterf*ck,... Indie Nation #53: The Linear RPG 99 Playing Lost Odyssey to completion taught me one very important thing about myself: I hate RPGs. Not the fun sort of hate that evokes a misanthropic glee -- the kind of hate one usually reserves ... Indie Nation #52: Jumpman 25 It takes some serious balls to call your game Jumpman. Such a title mentally conjures a significant amount of videogame history, beginning with Donkey Kong and ending with this pretentiously-titl... Indie Nation #51: Xoldiers 11 Xoldiers, by Cactus and Terry Cavanagh, is so damn fun you might not even notice it's an artgame. The premise -- you simultaneously control an entire squadron of soldiers who must kill everything... Indie Nation #50: Lugaru 19 As far as I know, there are only two artistic works in existence that prove bunnies can be badass: Watership Down, and Lugaru.Lugaru's been around for quite a while -- four years, to be exact -- ... Indie Nation #49: The Legend of Princess 21 Oh, look -- it's another installment of Indie Nation, wherein I highlight a really good indie game you should play.The Legend of Princess is, in the end, a pretty typical action platformer. It's ... Indie Nation #48: Aisle 37 I don't consider myself at all knowledgeable about text adventures, but it bears mentioning that of the dozen or so I've played to completion, I've totally fallen in love with at least three.&nbs... Indie Nation #47: Games I do not understand 34 Since the very first Indie Nation, I've received several requests to highlight two different games: Toribash, a turn-based ragdoll fighter, and Dwarf Fortress, a dungeon keeper/crawler. Several t... Indie Nation #46: Spelunky 20 Have you ever played a game that was so incredibly punishing, yet so ridiculously fun and rewarding that you couldn't help but play it for hours and hours despite losing at least two hundred live... Indie Nation #45: Gravity Bone 33 Sorry for the late Indie Nation. I'd make an excuse, but it wouldn't be a great one.Though people frequently use the phrase "style over substance" as an insult, I've never been more hap... Indie Nation #44: Games about games 22 I love self-reflexive art. I don't really know why, but stuff like Adaptation or The People of Paper just drives me wild. Maybe it's the fact that the author is respecting his or her audience eno... Indie Nation #43: Auditorium 17 I don’t really play all that many indie games. It’s not that I’m prejudiced towards high-profile, big-budget titles -- I love PixelJunk Eden, for example -- but most of the gam... Indie Nation #42: Minotaur China Shop 23 You liked Jetpack Brontosaurus and Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. That was not a question.The guys who made those, Blurst, just released a new game. It is called Minotaur China Shop and it is, in... Indie Nation #41: Garden Gnome Carnage 11 As Thanksgiving is only a few days away and my creativity is as limited as my enthusiasm, it's time for a Christmas-themed Indie Nation! Yay! Thankfully, however, this week's game isn't anywhere... Indie Nation #40: Fantastic Blood Boy 7 Fantastic Blood Boy isn't just remarkable because it's a fun game (though it is), or because it has awesome visuals and an awesomely almost-but-not-quite-annoying soundtrack (though it does), bu... Indie Nation #39: The Graveyard 39 Throughout the course of the Indie Nation series, I've highlighted action games, text adventures, art games, platformers, and everything else I could get my pretentious, elitist hands on. Howeve... Indie Nation #38: RunMan's Monster Fracas 8 In retrospect, I probably should have saved last week’s Indie Nation, Cottage of Doom, for today. Then again, I forgot today was Halloween until this morning, when I decided to dress up as ... Indie Nation #37: Cottage of Doom 12 With Left 4 Dead less than a month away, and my "Top Ten Most Badass Zombie Games" list still a glimmer in my eye, I thought it'd be worth mentioning one of the coolest zombie-related i... Indie Nation #36: Karoshi 2 20 Karoshi 2.0 is the following things:-Insane-Clever-Hilarious-Rule-breaking-Free, and downloadable here. Since much of Karoshi 2.0's charm comes from its ability to consistently surprise and befud... Indie Nation #35: World of Goo 15 It's not technically out until Monday, but World of Goo is so awesome that I just plain didn't want to wait to talk about it. I was initially exposed to it during GDC, and though I found it margi... Indie Nation #34: I'm O.K. 15 What with Jacky Thompson being disbarred and all, why not revisit the greatest JT-related indie game ever made?I'm O.K., for those of you who don't remember, was created following Thompson's &qu... Indie Nation #33: Mega Man 7, the 8-bit version 22 It's been a very Mega Man-filled week, and don't expect it to stop anytime soon. I've hopefully got a Rockman-related video coming next week, and, before writing his review of Mega Man 9, our own... Indie Nation #32: Iji 18 There hasn't been a balls-out action title highlighted on Indie Nation as of recent, and more than a few people have suggested spotlighting Daniel Remar's Iji.Though it doesn't do anything partic... Indie Nation #31: Mount & Blade 32 I've held back on highlighting this week's game for quite a while, now. I've been playing Mount and Blade for a couple of years, since it was in the very early stage of development. As the husban... Indie Nation #30: Masq 17 I am assuming that everyone on this site has read at least one Choose Your Own Adventure book in their time. As a child, they were the only books in the entire elementary school library I felt n... Indie Nation #29: Knytt Stories 31 The original Knytt is, as much as any two-year-old game with an intentionally low-res graphical style can be, an indie classic. It combined the isolated feeling of Shadow of the Colossus with the... Indie Nation #28: Photopia 70 Where Indie Nation is concerned, I usually make a quick plug for the game before the jump, then halfheartedly tell you to download the game first and maybe hit the jump later to hear my disjointe... Indie Nation #27: Cowboyana 7 I highlight this week's Indie Nation game with a slight hint of sadness: as much as I enjoy this game, I am more or less incapable of playing it any more, now that I am back home.You see, Cowboya... Indie Nation #26: Urban Dead 28 I was going to retract my statement from last week and proclaim that this, is, in fact, my second favorite indie zombie game ever, but that's kinda dumb: rating your favorite indie zombie games ... Indie Nation #25: The Last Stand 2 19 I love zombies. More than you do. I keep a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide by my bed just in case I ever need to get at it in a hurry, I've watched Dawn of the Dead more times than I can count... Indie Nation #24: Warning Forever 17 This week, TIGSource.com announced the winners of their Procedural Generation competition, wherein contestants had to create games based around some degree of procedural generation. You should de... Indie Nation #23: Steam Brigade 8 Given last week's highlighted Indie Nation title (Gun Mute, an awesome text adventure shooter), I thought it'd be fun to highlight yet another game that melds two gameplay genres you might not e... Indie Nation #22: Gun Mute 27 Gun Mute is a text adventure shooter.Gun Mute is a text adventure shooter.GUN MUTE IS A TEXT ADVENTURE SHOOTER. There is no reason a text adventure shooting game should exist, in today's world. ... Indie Nation #21: Gish 23 I honestly dunno what prompted my desire to replay and write about Gish. The game is several years old, hasn't experienced a significant price drop, and no recent news has been released about th... Indie Nation #20: Love 32 After the psychological mindf*ck metagame that was Execution, this week's Indie Nation goes back to basics. 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