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Players would often leverage Line Rider to create their own artwork, some of which was enormously complex. First release of the Unity game engine.Ģ006 Line Rider Ī unique flash platformer game of sorts that allowed players to draw lines which would then be traversed by a character using a physics engine.Read more about * Cave Story on Wikipedia.
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Alien Hominid was a browser game that was ported to PlayStation 2 and Gamecube in 2004, making it an early indie game to see a port from web to console.Ģ004 also saw the release of one notable game engines used by a number of games, including Source.Ī Japanese 2D platformer and shooter popular on PC at the time. N was released as a browser game, and would see a number of notable followup games. Read more about RPG Maker 2003 on Wikipedia.Ģ004 was a seminal year in Indie gaming history, with several high profile releases attracting attention. RPG maker 2003 was a continuation of the RPG maker engine, and had surprising longevity, with commercial indie games still being released that were made the engine as of 2018. Ī pirated English translation of RPG Maker is released by Don Miguel, introducing many to game development.
In 1999 the first version of the GameMaker engine is released, and later gains popularity among indie game developers.
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