Noyb's Games

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The Illogical Journey of the Zambonis (2014)

Help the Zambonis reach Zamboniville and maybe solve a few puzzles along the way!

Press:

Exhibited by V Buckenham as part of a talk on One Joke Games at the Victoria & Albert Museum's Pushing Buttons event, August 28, 2015.

"teases out the idea that 'logic' can be a paradigm invented by the privileged to justify their positions in the world" -- Alex Pieschel, The Arcade Review #4, January 2015

Discussed on the Indie Haven Podcast, Episode 71 (31:40-36:10), November 24, 2014

"[O]ne of the most strangely captivating free games I have stumbled across in some time." -- Laura Kate Dale on Rock Paper Shotgun, November 16, 2014

"beautiful, Werner Herzog-ish narration" -- Tom Sykes on The Best Free Games of the Week, PC Gamer, November 14, 2014

Posted on Gnome's Lair, November 7, 2014.

Posted on Warp Door, November 5, 2014

Posted on FREEINDIEGA.ME, November 2014

[Download for Windows]

[realnoyb]

... (Trembling Dots) (2014)

Spiffier Unity remake of Dot Dot Dot, a microgame collection centered around a single theme and an intentional attempt to include some of the less popular art assets generated in the TIGSource Assemblee compo.

Press: - Posted on Warp Door, May 18, 2014. - Posted on Creepy Gaming, May 20, 2014. - Mentioned in Rock Paper Shotgun column Live Free Play Hard, May 25, 2014.

[Download for Windows] [Download for Mac] [Download for Linux]

[realnoyb]

Candy Match Forever (2014)

Match 3 or more candies in a row to clear them from the board.

Click or drag adjacent candies to swap them.

Each level has a goal.

Watch the time limit!

(Thanks to Sergio Cornaga, mno, Brian Smith, Jack de Quidt, XenosNS for testing.)

Press:

Candy Jam: 18th place (out of 300+)

"an unconventional, confection-al match-3 puzzler" -- John Polson, IndieGames.com, February 3, 2014

"While Candy Match Forever doesn’t exactly over-deliver on gameplay, it’s worth checking out the game to simply hear the great story" -- Indie Statik Staff, February 6, 2014

Free Game of the Week - Mary Hamilton, February 8, 2014

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[realnoyb]

Visual Snow (2013)

Made for Porpentine's BIG CHAOS TWINE JAM.

[Play Online]

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Metapong 3D (2013)

CONTENT WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS

Hacked together Unity remake of the original Metapong prototype, which asks you to play two games of pong simultaneously, the second game played entirely within the ball of the first. Basically just adds fancy zooming effects (per the suggestion of Andi McClure) and support for Mac.

[Download for Windows] [Download for Mac]

[realnoyb]

Gratuitous Profanity (2012)

CONTENT WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE

Gratuitous Profanity is a one level, semi-musical, spoken word shoot-em-up where:

1) Every sound effect has been replaced by the word "fuck" and 2) You are scored based on the number of "fuck"s heard before the end of the game.

Why? Because there is a Guinness World Record for most occurrences of the word "fuck" in a videogame. And I found that to be quite silly.

Controls: Arrows + X

Voices: Evan Balster Art: PANPOMMA

[Play Online] [Download for Windows]

[realnoyb]

A More Perfect Universe (2012)

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There is a Monster at the End of this Game (2012)

Made with a team for the first Molyjam. Monster sprite ripped from Monsters, Inc. GBA. Music ripped from the lovely To the Moon OST. Full credits in game.

Controls: Arrows + space.

Press: Posted on FreeIndieGam.es on April 7, 2012.

[Play Online]

[realnoyb]

This Might Be Passage (2012)

Mashup between two equally insightful works of memento mori: They Might Be Giants' "Older" and Jason Rohrer's Passage.

[Download for Windows]

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Galcon - A Quest for the Perfect Triangle (2012)

TRIANGLES ARE PERFECTION. PERFECTION IS UNATTAINABLE. BUT STILL WE MUST STRIVE.

Klik and Play demake of the excellent Galcon made for a Pirate Kart V Kickstarter backer who requested a game based on a GDC talk title.

Press:

"you cloned my game!! i'm going to kill you" -- Phil Hassey (?), March 7, 2012

[Play Online] [Download for Windows (32-bit)]

[realnoyb]

The Pseudologue of Persia (2012)

A once-captured Prince narrates the tale of his heroic escape to a Princess.

Inspired by a discussion on the Idle Thumbs podcast about the narrative framing device in The Sands of Time.

[Download for Windows, Mac, Linux]

[realnoyb]

The Next Game Artist (2012)

Nothing says indie like a game jam in which press and industry representatives regularly ask developers to stop making their game.

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Bovine Budget Analysis (2012)

TW: suicide

A short game about impostor syndrome. Made for a Kickstarter backer of the Pirate Kart V.

[Download for Windows, Mac, Linux]

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Metapong [prototype] (2011)

It's pong, except the ball contains a second game of pong. This is the original prototype for the flashier Unity version.

Controls: Player 1: W/S Player 2: Up/Down

[Download for Windows]

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The Illogical Journey of the Zambonis - Special IGF Demo (2011)

An edutainment game that teaches children the most important lesson, that this world is both cruel and illogical.

Press:

Posted on FreeIndieGam.es on September 23, 2012.

"Noyb coins a new genre, the edutragedy. Utterly merciless and deadpan, a searing indictment of anthropomorphic cliffs." -- Porpentine, Rock Paper Shotgun, September 30, 2012

[Download for Windows]

It's finished! You can check out the full version here.

[realnoyb]

The Trail 2: Vector Trail (2011)

Why *does* Vector wear headphones all the time?

Controls: Arrow keys: Move Shift: Run Do nothing: Pick up flowers

[Download for Windows]

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Candy from a Baby (2011)

A game of high-stakes red light, green light.

[Play Online] [Download for Windows (32-bit)]