Topic: The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle

[idolminds]

Interesting. Been meaning to get Frozen Synapse, and pay-what-you-want is about the cheapest you can do. If you pay more than the current average then you also get the FrozenByte bundle. Thats Trine, 2 Shadowgrounds games, Splot (in dev) and Jack Claw (prototype).

[TheOtherBelmont]

Hmm, this may be the only Humble Bundle I don't jump on.  I got the FrozenByte Bundle already and Frozen Synapse doesn't look all that interesting to me.  Still a good buy for anyone who didn't get the previous bundle though.

[idolminds]

I threw $5 at it. Its cheaper than anywhere and it seems like a cool game. Plus if history is anything to go by, odds are high something cool will be added later.



EDIT: Deleted some redundancy to reduce redundancy by deleting.

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, I'll jump on it soonish.

[Xessive]

I already have it on Steam but a donation never hurts

[gpw11]

Did it for 5.  Saw something on this game a while ago and thought it looked cool.  Tried to skirmish....fuck, you really need the tutorial on this one.

[Xessive]

Did it for 5.  Saw something on this game a while ago and thought it looked cool.  Tried to skirmish....fuck, you really need the tutorial on this one.

Oh yeah. It's a thinking game definitely. Once you get the hang of the mechanics and the gameplay they sidewind you with some seriously complex scenarios!

[idolminds]

Trauma added to the bundle.

Frozen Synapse is pretty awesome. We should totally get some games going. It can be played "play by email" style so no worries with scheduling!

[TheOtherBelmont]

Trauma added to the bundle.

Frozen Synapse is pretty awesome. We should totally get some games going. It can be played "play by email" style so no worries with scheduling!

Now I'm interested, I've been meaning to check out Trauma.

[idolminds]

So Frozen Synapse is indeed awesome. I just spent some time in it doing the singleplayer. Its a series of missions with certain objectives like any other strategy game. The way you can plan out your moves until they are "perfect" is great and nerve wracking because all your planning can go to hell depending on how your opponent moves his guys. Multiplayer would be pretty intense. There are Light and Dark modes which turns fog of war on and off, all the levels are randomly generated (including the SP campaign)...just a cool game.

[idolminds]

Again another game added to the bundle, this time its SpaceChem! I love you, Humble Bundle!

[Xessive]

The Humble Bundle rocks!

SpaceChem is an interesting game. It works really well as part of the Frozen Synapse bundle since it's also a plan-and-execute puzzler.

[idolminds]

Yeah, SpaceChem is really interesting. Gets your brain working to solve the puzzles, but it almost relaxing since there is no time limit or rush to failure. Set something up ad see if it works, if there is a problem you can go back in and fix it. And then you get a nice rush watching it all work.

[gpw11]

SpaceChem is awesome.

[idolminds]

I totally had to cheese one map just now. The "Nothing Works" map. My one factory was spitting out the nitrogen faster than the receiving factory could make use of it causing a backup in the output pipe eventually causing a failure. Ideally I should have gone back and optimized the factory further up the chain that was holding everything up, but just to complete the mission I wove the output pipe all over the map to make it long enough so it wouldn't fill up until the mission was already complete. It worked, heh.

[gpw11]

Its suprising how open ended the levels can be.  I had a similar "cheating" experience on the first double bonding level.  I was having a lot of trouble with it initially (oh, you can move the start points?) until I finally got it.  I had a straight line for the red waldo trail (two-way), and noticed while doing it that the red would get caught up on the sync on the way back until the blue had done another full circuit of the board.....empty handed because the input switch was on the red waldo's trail.  It worked, it just was no where near efficient.