Team Indie Beta : Dayton Dissects
Channel: LIFE RPG
Date: 05/10/2014

Team Indie is a fantastic and inventive puzzle platformer.

Take control of your favorite indie game heros so they can rescue Marvin the Cat.

As far as heroes go, Marvin himself is lackluster... But there's no better feeling than navigating Team Indie to the end of a level.

Team Indie releasing on Steam Oct. 9th!: http://store.steampowered.com/app/302850/

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Team Indie unites indie video game characters into one play experience. Play coop with your own prior runs and bend time to get through puzzles and action sequences. Characters like CommanderVideo from BIT.TRIP RUNNER or Clunk from Awesomenauts! Join forces, each one with their unique skill to cooperatively get through the jump ‘n run levels.

Turns out, combining a bunch of systems all of which were enough for an entire game on their own gives you a lot of options for puzzles. The nine guest stars bring their most recognisable elements, so BraidDude can manipulate time while Tiny from Tiny & Big has a grappling hook. How they interact is the charm, laying down platforms or triggering switches for one another. A layer of goo left by J. Jitters, for example, means Commander Video can make it across a chasm to slide under a rock and hit a switch.

While enemies are present, they’re more part of timing and jumping puzzles than actual threats. There’s little here to scare or confuse: the puzzles aren’t mind-bending, at least early on, and there’s plenty of leeway in the platforming.

Team Indie is due this autumn. Hopefully a public demo will come for you to give it a shot yourself.