A Few Charming Indie Games
TIGSource’s procedural game competition has just ended, and there are some very clever and charming entries.
Rescue: the Beagles creates a fun platforming mechanic using procedurally generated landscapes plus three parallax levels. If you need to jump up to the next level, you’ll have to find a small enough gap to do so: but if you’re too slow, the different scrolling speeds will have taken your opportunity away.
Dyson is a miniature RTS in which you send your seedlings from asteroid to asteroid, attempting to take over the entire asteroid belt by growing trees.
They’re small games– the competition period was fairly short, and these are indie devs– but still fun. I was surprised, especially, to see that Rescue’s mechanic felt new.