Simple but nice games

Working in a GPU company doesn't mean that you have to only like the big engines that use big GPU features. Of course this is good and some big titles are amazing. But there is still some room for independent games or small budget games. This is why independent game festival is interesting. In fact, I feel like this is one of the best ways to give some fresh air to a game world that became so standardized.

Simple games can still take advantage of GPU capabilities, so it is important that we support them and help them as much as we do for blockbuster games...

Few titles that I still like, although some of them are very old. Beware that some of these titles are really old fashion... sorry for that.

Cortex Command

http://www.datarealms.com/games.php

Although it looks like an old-fashion 2D game (no DirectX or OpenGL involved, here !), everything can be destroyed (or you can dig…). Like in Worms World Party…

I am not so good at this kind of game but it looks like it is possible to try lots of sorts of strategies and lots of things that the creators even didn’t think about… just for $20…

Lots of videos are available on youtube, btw…

Love

http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/index.html

This game is under construction. The style looks interesting.

Braid

Interesting ideas and nice Art. Ignacio Castano (Former NVIDIA Devtech guy) just joined the small team.

http://braid-game.com/

Gish

http://www.garagegames.com/products/gish

Old game bust still cool. The simple concepts leads to complex physical things.

Eets

http://www.eetsgame.com/news/index.php

This simple game is neat. Good art. Simple gameplay.

Chain Reaction

http://games.gamepressure.com/game_info.asp?ID=2532

The Art of this game is really bad. But when I see my 9 years old playing it, I can see it has a great potential.