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"So who is Konjak and why should I care?" I can hear you asking yourselves, to which I would respond "One of the best indie devs out there."
Konjak is a lone wolf dev that works to produce crazy off the wall games that have a shit ton of style and substance in them, and most importantly aims to make his games just flat out fun. His games don't contain a "deep" message in them, and they don't try to be as full of themselves as most indie devs seem to want to do these days. I'm looking at you Braid and Fez. If there was a big name company to compare him too, I'd say Treasure.
Best part is, most of his games are totally free! He even releases alphas of games he doesn't finish or least let's people see what kind of things he's working on in his off time. It's pretty neat really, but enough about that, here are the actual games he's made.
[b]Noitu Love[/b]
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[url=http://www.konjak.org/index.php?folder=4&file=7]Download Link[/url]
Noitu Love is Evolution backwards, just getting that out of the way. What it actually is is a fast paced platformer/beat em up where you control Noitu on his quest to beat the hell out of Darnicus Damnation and his army of Darns. It's one of his earliest games and runs in a pretty small resolution, but it's pretty fun. You use evolution capsules scattered around stages to change your form to let you get to areas that you couldn't reach before, like a Monkey can squeeze into smaller passages and cling to things. It's pretty great!
[b]Chalk[/b]
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[url=http://www.konjak.org/index.php?folder=4&file=9]Download Link[/url]
Chalk is a side scrolling shootem up with a pretty unique gimmick. You don't actually shoot; you navigate a little painter around the screen dodging shapes and enemies as they appear. You can however draw lines to deflect bullets back, connect dots on enemies with chalk outlines to blow them up, and grab bullets fired at you and trace them back to the attacker for damage. It's got a pretty great style and is good for a few plays!
[b]Legend of Princess.[/b]
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[url=http://www.konjak.org/index.php?folder=4&file=11]Download Link[/url]
Legend of Princess is his attempt at a fangame, it's short and sweet but replayable as all hell due to how customized it is. You're dropped into a world with two items you choose and tasked with saving the princess. It's an insanely fast paced 2D sidescroller where you're constantly zipping around at high speeds solving puzzles, killing enemies, going for treasure and fighting bosses to awesome music. (It's also where my avatar comes from!) I highly highly suggest checking this one out if you like fast paced action.
[b]Noitu Love 2[/b]
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[url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/207530/]Buy it on Steam![/url]
[url=http://www.konjak.org/index.php?folder=4&file=10]You can try a Demo here![/url]
A insane mix of Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug, and Devil May Cry. Very loose ties with the original game outside of the title, this is the only game so far that Konjak has asked money for, and for a very good reason (that I shall list shortly). You have 3 playable characters with completely different playstyles, various attacks, several bosses and just high octane action at all times. It's hard to describe really but if the trailer isn't enough Northernlion on Youtube has done a quick look with his thoughts that you can see [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4GVQLDENow]here[/url]
[b]The Iconoclasts[/b]
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[url=http://www.konjak.org/index.php?folder=4&file=30]Give the Alpha a try here![/url]
[url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1074590]Old Facepunch Thread I made[/url]
Konjak's current project, and his most ambitious one to date. A metroid styled platformer staring a mechanic named Robin. The basic plot that's shown is for some reason or another is mechanics are widely hated, and being well, a mechanic in general is considered a terrible sin. Outside that? Not a whole lot is known other then how it plays. You can find materials to upgrade weapons, use a wrench for melee attacks, ground pound, shoot a charge shot and a ton of other things, it really does feel like a metroid game.
Here's a recent progress update he showed a week ago
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcpoF6B6S4&feature=plcp[/media]
Now remember the whole "very good reason" he's selling Noitu Love 2 on Steam? As he doesn't quite trust kick starter and finds it flawed he's choosing to use Noitu Love 2 to fund it (steam sales will help keep this one alive folks!) So if you want to support him in finishing this I suggest at least checking out Noitu Love on steam.
[b]Dropped Projects[/b]
As I said, dude loves to show off stuff that he was working on at some point or another, if you browse his site you can find a few of em, for example; [b]Herogest[/b]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27XtIlF2OY&feature=plcp[/media]
He had planned to make this a binding of isaac styled dungeon crawler that was generated as you went along. You would take control of a knight and the basic goal was to dodge hazards, seal enemy spawners, and defeat bosses. Once you cleared three bosses a final temple would open and you'd go face the final boss. The way he described it makes it sound like a super polished BoI though, as you would of found random power ups, and there would be a pool of floors to choose from. Konjak said he may return to it at some point though so if that sounds cool to you don't think it's totally lost!
I'm really looking forward to Iconoclasts, really fun demo. It felt similar to Cave Story in a way (which was great). Good thing it managed to receive enough attention before he dropped the project.
I just played chalk; it's great if you have a tablet.
[QUOTE=Baboo00;36872699]I just played chalk; it's great if you have a tablet.[/QUOTE]
Great, I've never actually tried this. Now it's on my to do list
I remember playing Noitu Love 2. Fucking fantastic game man.
Wish there was more like that out there, really.
Noitu Love 2 is great, but way too short. Extra characters give it a little longevity, but not enough.
Had great music though
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRMhkXq4JQQ[/media]
To be fair, it's only like what, 5 dollars :v:? (It's even on sale now)
A super fast arcade beat em up like that is totally worth it to me.
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