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Here you will find a selection of video game ideas, mostly available free for download. It features the work of Makis Tracend and other developers. Our main aim is to produce games that have their own unique character and sometimes extend the lines of game development by introducing new elements you haven't seen before in video games.
Following is a manifesto on game development written by Makis:
"... I like video games. I like computers. I like playing video games on computers. I still remember the games I played on my first PC. Names like Karateka, Indiana Jones, and Larry 3 still bring back happy memories to mind.
Even those early days video games were like adventures for me. A virtual play field where you got to experience feelings, stories, audiovisual effects outside of your ordinary life. And as the years progressed I saw the possibility there is behind this technology.
Video games give players the freedom of escaping their body and become someone else, in an alternate reality one might say. From a creation side of view video games is the new way of materializing your fantasy. 3D environments bring us the unique experience to actually live the stories that where once told or written or viewed on screen. These characteristics make game development an art form, I like to call "3D design". And like any other art form it is up the artist to produce something cultural or something shallow.
All this may sound idealistic and there certainly have been others that expressed similar ideas before me but today's reality in video games is exactly the opposite. Mind-numbing activities with stereotypical stories that require only one thing: aim and shoot. Video games are not war simulators, yet everyone seems to thinks so.
With that perspective I started creating games to bring those beliefs into my creations:
- convincing environments with compelling stories
- open frameworks that can be extended on demand
- cost-effective games that are accessible for everyone
- produce game experiences rather than game "thrillers"
Since most of the games are free the only right way to choose to play one would be to think:
Hmmm, what do I want to be today? ..."
