Indie Game Pick: Stardrone (Orb Games)
Stardrone is a arcade-puzzle game by independent developer Orb Games. You take control of a drone and make your way through 53 stages with varying mission objectives. It entered the 2008 IGF competition.
The gameplay of the game is rather unique, and gave me a hard time when I had to classify this game. You have almost no direct control over your drone, except at the begining of each level, where you choose in which direction you would like to be blasted towards. To change your direction and speed, you have to hook up to anchors using a light beam by clicking the left mouse button. You will orbit around them till you release the button. It takes some time to get used to. But the first few levels serve as tutorials.
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A useful little bit of info - the game is normally $20, but if you get it via Big Fish Games (one of their listed retailers), you can knock the price down to $10 by entering the promo code 'BORDERSBOOKS'.
No catch either, as far as I can tell.
It seems you can get the price even lower if you buy multiple games from them, but it looks like you'd need to buy at least 6 games to get more of a discount than that.
Posted by: Dominic White | June 2, 2008 1:21 AM
wow,. I really do like the art style, the sounds,. and all the cool particle effects., Im not sure about the gameplay though,. it is unique and interesting. Im just not sure how fun it is,. I found it a lot confusing and difficult to control,. trying to manover around the maze like level was a bit silly,. the pinball and pachinko stuff was much more fun. I would like to see those coding and art skills put to more entertaining use,. It perhaps tries to hard to be 'casual' (one button game play) but the art shows hope for something more.., and it's missing, but thats' just me,. and I could be wrong.
Posted by: jph wacheski | June 3, 2008 1:30 AM