Indie Game Sim

Indie Game Sim captures the essence of indie dev, shorn of a thousand boring details. It's like the playable equivalent of Indie Game: The Movie, with good mechanics and a strong message, combined to create a great package. It's fresh, it's original, and it's fun, I think it's well worth your purchase. The game plays out in three modes. First, you create your levels from an ever-increasing list of blocks. Like minecraft in miniature, as you progress through the game you unlock new blocks and discover new ways of combining old blocks to create levels that will challenge you and your players. Second, you test the levels you've built, tweaking the block layout to increase the difficulty and improve the timing. The mechanics are simple: you can run, jump, and interact with blocks. Mechanically, the game feels like a faster Super Mario Brothers, or I Wanna Be The Guy. As you play your levels, IGS shows pop ups like "FUN!" and "DANGER!" as you encounter different objects like spikes and ju...

Cool game that doles out its fun in bite-sized chunks, allowing you to play for 10-15 minutes at a time. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed playing my own games, and look forward to unlocking new features that expand on that gameplay. The only downside for me is (on a Mac, at least) the mouse scrolling - the sliders get a bit confused on whether I want them to be scrolling up or down, and end up being jerky. This seems like something the dev can fix in a patch, so I'm not worried at this early stage. Other than that, friggin' neat.

This is a great pick-up-and-play game. The notifications are a good way to indicate what you should be doing next when you first start playing. There's also a good progression in the rating system which keeps you experimenting with new mechanics and designs. All-around solid fun.

Awesome and perfect Pixel Art :3

I refunded an hour before I realized that the game had nothing else to offer. The content of the game is much too small and has no replay value. Once you create and publish a game that you're happy with there is no reward except for cheap individual reviews and some arbitrary money value that you earned from it. Big whoop. You may then purchase more junk for your future games and repeat the cycle of make game from scratch, publish game, earn money, purchase junk. I call the items junk because they bring little to no mechanical change to the game. You might get an item that moves left to right instead of up and down OR it may just be another useless aesthetic block/avatar so your level looks different. Additionally, the pixelated art, music, and sounds were all average to poor. The few bright spots of this game cannot make up for the lack of content and weak gameplay for any price put on this game. It is just not worth your time.

Really enjoyed this game. Fun, creative and personal, all the hallmarks of a great gaming experience.

I'm amazed how well this game captures the joy of creating clever interactive puzzles. For that alone, it's excellent. Then IGS goes further to simulate the ups and downs of what it's like to publish those puzzles to sell out in the world. So good!!!

10/10 would fap again

Good game, this game encourages me to take up game development. My only complaint would be the achievements aren't unlocking like it should, gameplay wise its fine.

A must own for anyone interested into getting into video games. Good use of pixel art to get me in the mood to dream alittle bit which helps with the style of minigames out there. Surprisely awarding mechanic having to make little minigames to unlock items for ingame and the players lifestyle to improve their career. Does feel grinding a bit but it's worth it.