Newcomer - the ultimate RPG took 20 YEARS to make!

[zeitgeist]

It's simple. Newcomer just isn't in. You have to be in to be indie.

 

[7hm]

What category should it be finalist / honorable mention in?

Excellence in design maybe?

Minecraft is a hell of a game. I'm also a big fan of desktop dungeons. Amnesia seems to have a lot of buzz (I actually own it but haven't tried it yet). Not sure about the other two. SpyParty seems kind of... pointless.

 

[Luzur]

do remember Newcomer is for C64 and 128, not many of the kids nowadays even know what those mean, while Minecraft can be played through a java screen on their computers.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

Mindcraft mastered the art of viral marketing, Newcomer has no idea what viral marketing even is.

 

[Claw]

I don't mean to downplay Minecraft, what I have seem of it seemed fun, but here we have a very simple game, even gimmicky, based solely on the idea of building stuff using colored blocks. And somehow people prefer that to a real, bona-fide rpg game? Am I missing something here? Did Minecraft change a lot?

Did you only play "Classic"? It has it's limits. It's a bit like a Minecraft tech demo.

 

[Elwro]

So, does anyone know what happened to this game? The website is still up: http://www.newcomer.hu/index.html ...

 

[getter77]

Near as I can gather from occasional updates on Facebook both auto-translated and otherwise---it seems to still be moving forward, somewhat, but slowly.