tasty-static posts

This year has been a tremendous year for the growth of the indie scene. Many freeware and commercial indie games have seen the light of day, and thanks to the efforts of publishers such as Meridian4 and platforms such as Impulse or Steam, these indie games are getting more and more exposure to a broad audience. We think it's only appropriate that, after last year, we continue the tradition of naming our favorite indie games of the past year. We had to cut the list down to ten, and while this doesn't necessarily represent all of our favorites (that's practically every indie game!), it serves as a good cross-section. If you're looking for some excellent indie games to get yourself started on the treasure trove that was 2009, look no further than these games right here.

Not many games capture the feeling of "80s cyberspace" quite like Tasty Static. A remake of the classic Kosmonaut, Tasty Static is a love-song to the days of old. The days of really, really hard games that focus around super-tight controls and difficult movement, as well as the days of bright, geometrically simplistic objects. It's great, both as a remake and as a game in its own right, and at only 16 MB and the low price of free, it's definitely worth playing.

Tasty Static revolves around making it to the end of a long, puzzle-like track through use of speed and jumping. Movements must be carefully calculated, as you can't doing things like jump sideways, and speed plays a major role into determining where you can jump and if you will die. There's more to the game than these basics, thanks to the extras section, but you'll find yourself returning to the tracks over and over again.