Friends, you have not forgotten that after the "Indie-bit" Gambling And LG Electronics Started a competition "Indie of the month"? Every week in the period from July 15 to August 4, 2019 we will publish one article devoted to two contestants at once, where the texts of the original applications compiled by the authors are given with minimal changes. Three weeks-six interesting games that did not fall into the finalists of the "Indie-Bet". And in the fourth week, from August 5 to 11, a vote will be held in which you, dear readers, choose the best from them! The author of the indie game of the month will go a large-format monitor LG ULTRAWIDE.

Moreover, we will play separate prizes among all who voted for the best work: every month another monitor LG ULTRAWIDE will leave for one of our readers. Look for detailed conditions on the competition page. In the meantime, the vote did not start, it's time to read about the second couple of the contestants: these are Cybercorp and Frakktus projects.

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Contestant No. 1. Cybercorp from IO Games

Cybercorp -This is a online cooperative cyberpunk player, where you are fighting for the best future! The game takes place in the XXV century when Cybercorp Corporation learned to create artificial human bodies and temporarily load people's consciousness for military operations in them. Each player takes on the role of an agent who should fight for the ideals of the corporation!

About the developer

Io Games release games for iOS and PC on Unity 3D – they already have more than 30 published projects. Specifically, four members of the Irkutsk team work on Cybercorp: Anton Pashinin (game design, programming), Anastasia Dukhnich (3D design, characters, environment, animation), Anton Titov (sound design and gaming balance) and Anton Nefedov (prototyping, interface). They are going to release the game in 2020 at Nintendo Switch.

Five key features of the game:

• Atmosphere of Cyberpank;
• online cooperative up to three players;
• character development;
• customs of weapons and armor;
• Rhythmic electronic music.

In the XXV century, due to many cosmic, nuclear and biological wars, the planet became unsuitable for a long life. But thanks to the invention of three -dimensional biological printing, people began to create special “shells”, which allowed their “avatars” to control their “avatars” and not to be exposed to dangerous environmental impacts.

CyberCorp Corporation has improved the approach to the use of the shells: they learned to partially copy the consciousness of real people in them. But due to the simplified model of consciousness, the shell could only perform specific tasks, went crazy over time and became dangerous. As a result, artificial bodies began to be used exclusively for combat operations – for example, for corporate wars in which Cybercorp was involved. You take on the role of one of the agents of this corporation, who will have to plunge into endless conflicts with enemies and competitors.

At the starting location (main base), you can choose tasks, develop a character, work with an inventory, buy and sell weapons, armor or chips, customize equipment and pump the uniforms with resources that are mined in missions. This works in the opposite direction: you can also disassemble weapons, armor and chips back to resources.

The player has three slots for weapons: one for close combat, the second for pistols, revolvers and PP, the third is designed for machine guns, rifles, shotguns, etc.p. Three slots are also allotted under the armor: the head, torso and legs are separately protected. You can try to assemble a complete set of armor, or you can wear elements from different sets. In addition, you can increase the level of quality of weapons and armor for resources – then new slots for chips will open (in fact, chips are increased characteristics).

Most "combat" locations in the game are generated from unique blocks to maintain the interest of repeated passages. Each type of locations has its own topic, enemies and tasks. Four locations are presented in the game: a large city, factory, small city and elevator. And each can have different tasks: interception of data at several points, destroying objects on the map, killing all mobs on the map (or killing several mobs at a certain time), defense of the object from several waves of enemies.

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Cybercorp has many opponents that are not similar to each other: each has its own behavior algorithm, they can occupy shelters, retreat for reloading, throw grenades and use special skills. On some locations there will be mini-bosses and bosses-also with their special skills and unique behavior.

You can go through all this in a cooperative up to three players. The complexity increases with an increase in the number of users on the map.

Dmitry Shepelev, gaming editor : It somehow happened that Cyberpank with isometry has long been friends and therefore Cybercorp is similar to everything and at once. Personally, my eyes immediately surfaced before my eyes Ruiner And not particularly outstanding, but vigorous JYDGE. And this is not a compliment to the creators. The game so far simply does not have its own face. Mythology is possibly thought out, and the concept with human consciousness locked in a roboter has potential, but in fact, this is all used only to justify futuristic scenery. At the moment, the maximum that I am expecting from Cybercorp is an evening or two pleasant shooting for electronic cuts. I would be very surprised if, in addition to this, she offers me something else.

Evgenia Safonova, editor of Gamemany : I agree. While I read the description, then the thought "somewhere I already saw it". The pumping with the help of chips caused in memory Nier: Automata, Robotized combat shells – Warframe (Actually, the creators do not hide that they were inspired by the last, but such original concepts are desirable to rethink, and not borrow). On the other hand, if the developers take the best and dignily reveal the curious details of the setting, the project may be very interesting: there is no good cyberpunk much. But for this, I am afraid, you need to introduce a solitary campaign, because in cooperative matches to chat with NPCs. I haven't seen hints for this yet.

Contestant No. 2. Alexander Conferno Frakktus

Frakktus – This is an endless musical arcade, swinging an emotional mood and reminiscent of forgotten or new simple truths. Control the brain probe, shake your inner feelings, increase emotional perception through color, destroy mental blocks and arouse the mind.

About the developer

Alexander Conferno: I am the only developer Frakktus and I am responsible for everything in the project: and the code (I taught Pascal according to the articles of the gambling from the 2000s, then at twenty-four retrained to C#), and all visuals and animations. The idea of ​​the project came back in 2016, when I was tired of the routine work of the Motion-designer for a large company and I wanted to write my full-fledged indie game. It took a lot of courage and effort to start developing a project alone in the summer of 2017, without constant income and comfort zone.

Five key features of the game:

• a unique mandal pattern is every new round;
• endless gameplay;
• Many diverse color schemes: allows you to shake the stagnant emotional state;
• the ability to listen to your music from the Apple Music library;
• Tired of playing? Turn on the chill-mode and enjoy contemplation!

Frakktus is a simulator for searching for truth. The metaphorical image of the mandala of consciousness, in the center of which is the core of the source of truth, surrounded by mental blocks. Blocks are our fears and doubts, obstacles and complexes. Your role in this game is to control the probe that destroys these blocks, and release the truth from the core. But for this it is necessary to constantly move, because only in the movement the beam of the probe is able to hit blocks. Accumulate mantras and nuclei, open up new blocks for yourself and fight against them for the truth.

The colors of the project swing the player’s emotional mood, in addition, you can strengthen the impressions of gameplay by choosing your favorite music in the menu from the library. In addition, Frakktus is an audiovisual experience in itself. If you are tired of games, you can relax to your music by switching to Chill – a mode with a kaleidoscopic interactive effect that reacts to music.

Frakktus carries a certain philosophical message, which, perhaps at first glance elusive. This is a metaphorical way of the thought forms for solving everyday tasks to achieve certain life goals of the player, as well as the “build -up” of his stagnant emotional state to change color design. Each person in this life, in the turmoil of everyday life, solves many problems, strives for something, but often goes too far and sometimes in the wrong direction, forgetting about simple truths and truly important things. Frakktus conceived as a game capable of distracting the user from routine tasks, rocking his mood, force to cheer up and, possibly, to realize something new for himself.

Dmitry Shepelev, gaming editor : “Damn hippies!"Sorry, an involuntary reaction to the combination of" truth "," mantras "and" emotional blocks ". If you distract from, frankly, a pretentious description, then Frakktus can be seen a rather pleasant mixture of Shoot’em Up and a musical arcade. Juicy neon colors, excellent combination of forms, smooth animation. The only thing that embarrasses is bright outbreaks from explosions that overshadow half the screen with their saturation. This is how it is proposed to meditate here when circles before my eyes are already and in reality?

Evgenia Safonova, editor of Gamemany : Oh, and we plan a worthy alternative Super Hexagon! Honestly, I don’t know how with the search for truth and self -knowledge, but I would have spent several evenings in Frakktus with pleasure. Games where the action resonates with your favorite tracks can provide a lot of pleasant hours – Audiosurf confirms. The idea of ​​the kaleidoscope Arcada looks curious that according to the description, what is the trailer, and the colorful video sequence is like an ethnic rune ligature. Add music to your taste, and relaxation is guaranteed. It’s even interesting what it is like to drive this under Tchaikovsky or “King and the Jester” ..

Which project did you like more? Maybe you even followed them before? Share your impressions in the comments – and wait for the start of voting.