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Avataaah: A dollar and worth every penny:

I like to play indie games. When you're poor and think there's too much joystick coordination in regular first person shooters, and add to that that you don't have the best bandwidth, (Mine barely qulaified as broadband at the time) it's tough to find online games. When I buy Indie games, I've had bad experiences buying them for the online experience. Some games are SO unpopular, you can buy them on day one and not find an opponent. That happened to me twice. If I like the concept of a game well enough, I bought it for a dollar. Thankfully there are games vs the CPU or else I would have felt ripped off. One game I DID buy on day one and was pleasantly surprised when I did was Avataaah. It's a rope jumping game similar to the first level of Jungle Hunt/Jungle King and the grenade paths in Worms games, where you swing on a vine and jump off. It takes into account your X and Y velocities and positions when you release the rope, and make gravity accelerate yourself down, and you got to land on a platform. Exact center lands are worth big points, and you got to be within a certain range or else you fall off the tree stump. It's a simple $1 game. It's not exactly telling an epic story, but what do you expect. It's a simple arcade game with one note. It's a more precise version of Jungle Hunt rope scenes. And it does it well for $1. I think this game is better than the Jungle Hunt rope sequence.

The creator is surprised how poor my connection was when I told him after the game. And he never did yell "LAG!"

If you plan to make an indie game online, be prepared to be the "professional opponent" if you want your game to sell well. My only online game was a game the creator. I was playing against him in a competitive mode. I was landing perfects like nobody's business. I don't know if me landing perfects ruins my opponent's game, but I beat him. On the 1-player leaderboards, the only person who was better than me was the creator. And I beat him head to head online. I asked him if he though my connection was good. He said yes. I told him I was on 500 k in, 100-200 k out, and he was amazed that it worked so well under these conditions. He didn't complain about lag. But the again in a game where you can't effect each other except maybe as a result of a jump. (meaning the is no such thing as defense, like blocking your opponent's jump or anything like that, but maybe landing multiple perfect mp shrinks your opponent's target.) All the computer has to do is signal to your opponent WHEN you pressed a single button. I told him it was nice that his game allowed for such low speeds. And he thanked me.

This game is not much of a game unless you play for 2 minutes online. But what it does, it does well, even on poor network. The owner didn't know I was on a poor connection until I told him. He says he's glad works so well at low connections. If the creator gives it a 56ok, then this is a no-brainer 56OK.

By the way, I'm number one at a game that was popular among 10 people for one day. The creator was the champ, and I beat him. I don't think anyone else did THAT. I guess I'm the multi-player champion. Though I'll be willing to take challenges on this and other games. Just send a tweet to "@tripletopper" and if you want to Xbox friend me, friedn "TripleTopper321", and page me with twitter when you want to play, go ahead.

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