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Brutal John, Duke Nukem Forever in Unity

  Brutal John, The Most Brutal Ever With the awesome comeback of the boomer shooter FPS genre into the scene, There are many studios entering the hall with big dreams and efforts, and today's game is a prime example. With the market starting to get the fun out of the fast paced games, many new indie studios are jumping into the scene for this genre, and many more are getting there quickly and efficiently thanks to the commercial game engine market. With Unreal Engine, Unity and the newest Godot Engine, most of indie games were made possible. Brutal John, is a boomer shooter FPS developed and published by OldSchool Law Interactive , using the Unity engine to its most to deliver a good old boomer shooter experience that bring back the nostalgia of Duke Nukem Forever , the 2001 experience that we wanted to play. with a personal art style that defines the game, good gameplay and a lively vivid world. Brutal John is set in a parallel universe, where a cyborg invaded earth for mining c...
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TheoTown, an indie java city builder like SimCity

a splash screen from the game

TheoTown developed by Lobby Divinus is an indie city building game that reminds us of a true gem of SimCity 4. From the looks in the game local files, this looks like the game is built around java. It amazed me how an indie game resembles the SimCity appearance and somewhat controls. TheoTown is an indie technical feat in the city building genre and we will tackle this one here today on GamerFlux.

a screenshot from the game

TheoTown is a great indie game for the people who loved the classic gem of SimCity. It just great indie game with a lot of customization. The looks were somewhat pixelated as a result of a java engine, but it didn’t prevent me from having so much fun building the city of my dreams and try to fix problems that arise with it. The game is small in size s around 150 MB which is good compared with 4 GB SimCity. This is a java indie game like minecraft so mostly work on any PC with 4 GB RAM flawlessly. The game mechanics are fun. The AI in the system is not bad and seems live. The feedback is great from a tutorial system to get you started. This gave the game a lot of decency to the game. This is to make sure anyone new to the city building game can have fun in TheoTown. TheoTown even had the chance to get to Steam’s Builder Fest.

a screenshot from the game

TheoTown has the same mechanics from SimCity as you have a brush for building the same 3 different distinct zones as Residential, Commercial and Industrial areas. There is also a graph that shows the demand on each area like SimCity. For me this is the way to win my heart as an 22 year old SimCity enjoyer. This game has the mechanics of building services like education, fire fighting stations, and police departments etc for people living in your city. A new addition from SimCity is the military area. I didn’t have enough time with the game to test what does the military area does. Road building was fun was able to build diagonal streets from the base game, although there are a lot of additions that we will talk a about in a minute. As the game is built on Java, so many people know the language = more modding to come. And yes, the game has plugins/mods and an embedded browser to view this plugin library made by other gamers who enjoy the game. This library is not so huge, but it has a lot of plugins to enjoy. One of the mods in SimCity that was must to install at that time was the Roundabout circle for roads. I wasn’t surprised actually to see the plugin in the library and it was the first one I downloaded. There are also a lot of other plugins to discover and use to make the game so fun. The support of mods/plugins in a game like this forces the game to be less repetitive and forces you to use your imagination and to depend on your creativity to build the city of your dreams. With a lot of more bigger titles at the market as City Skylines and others, TheoTown is there for people who enjoyed SimCity and needed a new game like it to try with less compute force for old devices.

a screenshot from the game

The Verdict

TheoTown is a new indie city builder game inspired by SimCity and developed by Lobby Divinus. TheoTown resembles a lot of SimCity and built on Java allowing the game to have a lot of mods/plugins to make the game more customizable. As a lot of people who play this game know how to program in java, so a lot of plugins are published in this game to let loose of your creativity in this awesome city builder game.

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