A new challenger has arrived!

Helllooooo my fellow gamers! Today I’m proud to announce the new member of the Indie-Vidual Gamers family! Razhyck!!! <insert crowd clapping sound here>. This author is another friend of mine who I’ve known for a good time now. He’s really intelligent and very honest. He knows what he likes and doesn’t like so it’ll be fun to have some articles here that are more personalized for him. Razhyck will be mainly writing review articles along with other concept/ Opinion articles. So be sure to be on the look out for his articles and welcome him! Thanks all!

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A new form of art, In blocks!

HELLO my fellow gamers! Today I will be discussing a game that isn’t new…at all…what so ever. MINECRAFT, such an iconic game and became so popular so quick. The game was created by four people, Markus “Notch” Persson, Jens Berensten, Kristoffer Zetterstrand, and Julian Gough, in Sweden with their company titled Mojang.

ALRIGHT, so what about Minecraft? What is soooooooooo amazing about this game? Could it be the simply, yet extremely, creative possibilities of the game? The freedom of the game which allows you to do literally anything and build whatever you want? Or maybe it’s the cute, box like graphics that is visually please?

I believe it is all of them, all these reason and more! Minecraft has become such an important figure in the gaming history. It has started a new trend of crafting/survival games. It’s one of those “why didn’t I think of it” moments. Allow me to enlighten you in why I think this game, is just so amazing. Not just in the sense of gaming but what this game has done for us gamers. What doors this game has opened for us.

Minecraft is such an organic game. It is so free and open that you could spend hours just build random stuff, like legos! This was one of the first few games I ever played where I didn’t get bored as quickly, which was actually extremely surprising… and once you get your friends on board, its over. You will spend hours trying to kill each other with pickaxes and enjoy ever second of it. This game created a new form of co-op game play. Where it isn’t about just killing the next boss, but rather working together to build something from the bottom up. From nothing to something. So in that sense Minecraft helped create a new platform of co-op gamers. I mean i’m sure there were games way before Minecraft about working together, but I feel it wasn’t until Minecraft took off that this genre of gaming was truly noticed. Minecraft is more than a game, it has become a whole new medium for expression, for creation. I mean honestly look at what these people can built in Minecraft!

Visual it looks amazing. It’s the fact that you can build anything you want that makes this game so perfect. And another great thing about this game is that the creators targeted a specific type of audience. And that was it! They didn’t try to make a game that would be amazing in more then one genre, or please every gamer. Because lets be honest, there is no game that will please every gamer. But because they knew that, because they made this game designed for one type of audience. They were able to perfect it. They were able to create a building/crafting game that was so organic and fluid that it pleased the entire audience of that genre.

What I mean by organic and fluid is this. This game has mods, this game has texture packs, this game allows the player to alter the game however they want. They want more bombs, done. They want more animals, done. The creators of Minecraft took the aspect of “Customize” to a whole new level by doing nothing new, compared to other games honestly. But they put a crap done of effort into it, and it shows. The game is organic is the sense it will always adapt to the gamers. It is always growing, constantly changing without losing the ability to go back. The game it self started off simple, one texture pack, some crafting, then it blew off. And people started to build mods, texture packs, even adventure mode! Challenge mode! Etc. You name it, and it can be done. This game is so good not because of how popular it is, or how amazingly the visuals can be. No, this game is amazing because it was created for the players. And eventually this game became apart of the players, where they themselves began to make content for the game. At the end this game slowly became a community game where people were building it together. And it grew strong like that.

Aside from all that though, this game seriously some artists in it. I love this picture because it just makes me laugh. This guy used a bit game to create an 8-bit image.

And for those Game of Thrones fans! Check this out!

Enjoy! And as always! From Indie-Vidual Gamers! Thanks for stopping by! Follow if you enjoyed the reads! And see you soon!!

My Journey into Don’t Starve! Wendy’s Adventure!!!

She died….So sad….

I was unable to get a picture of her death. I wasn’t fast enough so I apologize! Hahaha. The death was pretty bad. I was simply cutting down some trees and two Tree Giants spawned. TWO! Aw man… So sad..

My Journey Into Don’t Starve! The adventure of Wendy and her dead twin sister! Let the Night Begin!!!

Alright! So I’m a huge fan of Don’t Starve and I wanted to create a blog post about my game play and progression concerning one of my characters. So! I decided to make one here! I started a new game and will do my very best to keep playing of couple hours every once in a while. I chose Wendy because she is extremely strong with her twin sister and yeah! I also like her creepiness hehehe.

So I started the game and I had a bit of a rough start. I found a checkered place with all these robotic horses. They weren’t too strong but they got my life down to 5 health. I was bugging out. It wasn’t even day 3 yet and I’m about to die?! No way… So I retreated north of that area to gather myself and prepare. BUT! When night time came, all these freaking… I don’t know, fish people? Came out of nowhere and started to attack me! I almost died a second time on the second freaking day…arg!!

 

ANYWAY! Good news was that I was able to get away, got my twin sister out, and she killed all those damn fish bastards. Now here’s the cool thing. Once day time hit, all the robotic horses died and I was able to get all of their loot! The fish people fought off the horse dudes and then my twin sister’s ghost killed the fish dudes! And for some reason, there were pig men loot all over too! It was like winning the lottery! On the second or third day, I found all these amazing items that I could use to build my base and equipment! Not to mention I found a premade camp! Yeah! It had three basic farms, some basic materials, and some tools! This had to be a sign, so I decided to build my base here. After I cleaned the place up a bit and got more materials, I waited until day time and traveled east where I found 5 spider hives. My twin sister easily killed them all and I got massive silk and healing sacs, which was great. To sum it all up, during the first couple of days, I got the foundation for my base down and obtained plenty of food, tools, weapons, gear and material to make more stuff. Not a bad find for the first couple days. =)

Oh, I also got my hat, woot woot! So next run, I plan to gather more basic materials, find some manure for my farm, and then maybe see what else I could explore. Until then! Thanks for reading and see you soon!

Can you survive the Night?

Greetings my fellow gamers! I recently had the chance to play this wonderful, yet extremely difficult game, called 7 Days to Die. This game is ridiculously fun! It captures the essence of survival horror games and the creative building freedom of Minecraft. If you enjoy crafting games and hordes of zombies this game might be up your ally.

7 Days to Die is still in it’s alpha stage but can be purchased and played through either Steam or their website (https://7daystodie.com/buy/). This game was developed and created by a group of dedicated programmers called The Fun Pimps.

Now a quick, brief introduction about this game. When you spawn, you have nothing. You have an inventory with no items, (or sometimes some items depending on the host). From there you must survive. The entire area had been taken over by zombies and nothing is stopping them from eating the flesh right off your face. Nothing except your wits. You, as the survivor, must travel and explore the unknown areas gathering materials and resources in order to build tools, weapons, and additional materials to find or build a base in order to survive the night.

You want to build your base and gather your resources before night time because once that sun goes down the zombies become more dangerous! The night is not your friend. Matter of fact once night time hits if you aren’t ready you pretty much don’t have a chance.

The concept of this game is very simple. Gather materials, build tools and weapons, find a base to fortify, defend that base, and do your best to survive the night, all while eating and drinking enough food and water. That’s correct! This game has a hunger and thirst meter that have positive and negative effects on your character. The approach of this concept is what makes this game amazingly fun and exciting. You find random items in cars, abandoned homes, farms, office buildings, and dead bodies. Almost everywhere! This game has it covered. You can break down houses for wood in order to reinforce another house, board up windows and build escape ways just in case. The way you survive is truly up to you and your creativity.

Now I personally love this game. It is very young and has a lot of bugs, but the amount of potential this game has is endless. The zombies are terrifying, especially at night, and the building/crafting aspect is extremely easy and fun. The game starts with nothing,  (you have nothing in your inventory) and the game doesn’t help you at all. No explanation of what does what and where to even get the materials, but that’s the fun of it. You feel lost, just as you should if you were in that situation in real life. Finding materials isn’t too difficult and once you get the right tools, you’ll have no problems finding weapons to defend yourself. The beauty of this game is that it is a process. The whole game is about the process of preparing for the night, gathering food, making sure you have enough water, setting up traps around the house, etc. It’s a long process that you will obsess about over and over again. After you survive the first night you’ll look back and realize, “Shit, I need to find a new place”, and the whole process starts over again. The whole concept of food and water is also extremely fun. It’s fine to find a building, reinforce it, and kill all the zombies but food is scarce. It’s the food and water that forces you to go outside, travel, and explore for more materials. You can’t stay in one spot for very long and for that reason, the game requires you to move around a lot.

The crafting is very simple and similar to Minecraft. You find the materials, place it in the right spot, and if it is correct, you’ll be able to create that item. The game gives you the basic blueprints for some craftable items. You can learn how to craft more items as you progress through the game and find more blueprints. And if you’re worried about the combat, all I can say is that it isn’t to bad. The combat does have some work ahead of itself. Although the melee weapons do swing in a similar pattern as Minecraft. The range weapons does feel like a true FPS, not some blocky line that shakes every time you shoot it. You will feel each bullet leaving the barrel along with the desperation each bullet has, hoping it hits something.

 

One additional thing  that I really enjoy about this game are the zombies. They are very simple in the sense that there isn’t much animation to them but they are still terrifying when you have to fight them. The reason is because when they swarm they really swarm. You do not want to be caught off guard. They will run you down just as quickly as zombies in other horde zombie games.

The environment of this game is also well done. The noises these zombies make can be heard even when you don’t see any zombies around, giving you that feeling that you never really are safe.

Overall 7 Days to Die is a great game for multiplayer game and a well made survival game. It’s still in the alpha stage and has a lot of work ahead of it but the future is very bright for this game.

Let me know what you guys think about this game! I know I covered the basics but there are still a lot of features that I wasn’t able to cover. Comment and don’t forget to follow if you enjoyed this review! Speak your mind and let your voice be heard. Let us know if you enjoyed this game or not and tell us why!

From Indie-Vidual Gamers, thanks for reading and see you soon!