"Hello World!"

Hello to all fans of Indie Games (or Games in general) this is my brand spanking new Blog.
What I intend to do with this is to post general news and such about games, but most specifically indie games.
This was created because my Course in Tech requires me to do this but if people actually like this I wouldn't mind making this a continued thing!

And to actually be relevant, the Kickstarter funded game Risk of Rain managed to get onto steam recently, now I haven't purchased the game yet but I have had a brief chance to play it through the demo which is free on the Risk of Rain website Here.

The game is a 2D Action RPG Rouge-like that revolves around speed. Your character has 4 abilities that are unique to each character.

There are many characters able to be unlocked although I only had a chance to play a couple of characters they were definitely varied, each one playing very differently.

When you start the game you will spawn in a random world that starts out empty. as you explore enemies will spawn around you, encouraging you to keep on the move as you'll get swarmed by enemies otherwise.

Spread out around each level you will find various chests, some containing money or experience, others containing items that help you survive.

Now to the big one, the unique feature in this game is that the difficulty increases over time, every 5 minutes the game moves up a difficulty level from "very easy" to "easy" and so on until you reach the highest or, more likely than not, die.

When running for your life looking for that one item, that one chest with a full heal, you may stumble onto a Teleporter. These Teleporters are the end of the level, once activated they will start to charge up but in the mean time the give you a nice juicy boss and oh boy are those guys tough so good luck fighting him, I hope you were prepared. As well as summoning the boss the Teleporter will also cause enemies to stop spawning and the Teleporter won't be ready until you defeat all the enemies and the boss.

Onto the graphics. oh boy them graphics. the game looks stunning, now it doesn't blow you away with its super realistic Crysis 3 had a baby with Battlefield 4 graphics, but it does have amazing visuals none the less, creating an atmosphere that, for me, is very reminiscent of shadow of the colossus, helped in no small part by the beautiful music. For 2D pixel art, the guys at Hopoo Games know their stuff, making the most beautiful collaboration of pixels I have seen in a long time.

The game is £6.99 on steam right now and whatever that is in USD for all you Americans out there and I think that is a price definitely worth paying I know it will be for me.

All images Courtesy of the Risk of Rain website as well as the steam page.

EDIT: Finally bought Risk of Rain so now my opinion means something. the game is really worth it but something I failed to mention was that is super hard, like seriously I can't get past level 3, really addictive and fun though every time I die I feel the need to play more. I have only unlocked one other class other than the starting class but he plays hugely different to him and I expect that all the others will too.