Another Boring, Pointless Mascot Horror Ripping off FNAF

[rocketgreentea]

Where do I even begin. This game was so blatantly terrible that it's one of the only games I messaged Steam Support to remove from my account.

Why does this game have an Overwhelmingly Positive review score? It does nothing original, we have seen everything in this game done before. Not to mention the abysmal character designs, am I supposed to be scared of someone's furry OCs? Lmao.

The only reason I can assume this game gained any sort of traction is because a group of YouTubers worked on it or something? I don't know I barely watch anything on YouTube these days since I find a lot of creators fake and annoying.

Would not recommend this to anyone, even if it is a free game. Just play FNAF, the series this game is ripping off. You'll actually have fun and... You know.... Be SCARED. The point of horror games.

[shoes]

It would be better to compare this game to the first chapter of Bendy, Poppy Playtime, and Garten of BanBan rather than Five Nights at Freddy's.
This game isn't copying Five Nights at Freddy's. The gameplay of staying in an office or checking cameras to stop the mascots that has been a feature of almost every Five Nights at Freddy's game is absent from Indigo Park. There has been no evidence of it copying the story of Five Nights at Freddy's. There are currently no hints of a human serial killer or the souls of children powering the mascots. Indigo Park is a copy of Five Nights at Freddy's in the same way that Call of Duty is a copy of Doom. It would be more accurate to call this a copy of Bendy or Garten of BanBan.
Mocking the game for "furry OCs" displays a lack of understanding for both the inspiration of the game and the genre of mascot horror. Mascot horror is about innocent appearing mascots hiding a darker side. The endoskeletons in Five Nights at Freddy's, the larger toys appearing more monstrous than their normal versions in Poppy Playtime, and even BanBan in Garten of BanBan are proof of this being a universal part of the mascot horror genre. They have been corrupted into something horrifying, but if you look hard enough you could understand how they could be marketable. If you expected Resident Evil zombies you came to the wrong genre. The game isn't subtle about the inspiration of Rambley or Indigo Park being Disney. The cartoon animal mascots make sense. Unless you want to argue that Walt Disney is a furry for designing Mickey Mouse.

[rocketgreentea]

Nguyên văn bởi GlamFreddy_VRChat:

I also have a feeling like you only played the first 20 seconds of the game and than uninstalled it.

No. I beat the game thinking it would get better the more I played. I was wrong.

[redwizard000]

FNAF kinda created a genre. A LOT of games have "ripped off" the basic concept. And people keep playing them because people enjoy them.

Is the rule that you're only allowed one game per basic concept, and all others made by other studios are rip-off's that don't count?

Plus, if its a parody of anything, its a parody of Disney\Disney Land. Which is also loaded with "furry OC's". Like, 90% of Disney is "furry OC's".

And furries didn't invent animal mascots. That anthro-animal mascot\animation\cartoon style has been around since... the dawn of animation. The style "inspired" furries, not the other way around.

Anyway, the game's free. And it's very nice for free. Being free excuses a lot. What do you want?

It's not a bad game, for what it is.

[Hex: Maidenless]

The game is a passion project by someone who loves the space. A lot of its flaws are being excused on account of people having been along for the ride of its development, much like Cho Cho Charles. Except even Cho Cho Charles was still a for-profit venture, where as Indigo Park is a labor of love.

A little over a year ago UniqueGeese took on a challenge to remake the first episode of Garten of Ban Ban and make it not flaming hot garbage. This was during the time that the Euphoric Brothers were catching a ton of flack for their lack of experience and bitterness on Twitter at people refunding their games and ♥♥♥♥. Basically: Was it REALLY true that someone with zero gamedev experience could really do better?

And yeah, the challenge part being that he had said zero game dev experience. He proceeded to bunker down and not only taught himself unity development, but with some help from other youtubers for art assets and some guidance, he learned and finished the entire project in a week's time and documented the results in a video. The end result had no right being as good as it was, and he enjoyed the process so much that he decided he wanted to make his own franchise, and had made friends during the challenge who agreed to follow him into it.

Indigo Park is the result. Its not trying to reinvent the wheel or set the world on fire. Its a love letter to the space from a guy who built his career on top of it and wanted to contribute in his own way despite a lack of experience, and that lack of experience is entirely visible in the final product.

Again, Goose has only been in gamedev for just over a year now. Indigo Park is his first, and only, real game. Hense why all the circumstances surrounding the gameplay are immeasurably more fleshed out than the gameplay itself. The music, the art, the characterization and writing surrounding the characters, etc. But considering this is a free passion project from someone who has only been in game dev for a year and has allowed his community to follow along in the process, its impressive for what it is.

Particularly the characterization, which is by far the game's strongest point. Ironically, Indigo Park understands something that pretty much every single other work in this space has failed to grasp: The idea that a mascot needs to be believable as a mascot, and needs to exist for more than being just a cutesy piece of art to have a monster version of later on. Rambley's characterization is neigh perfect. He's believable as something that exists to appeal to kids, and WOULD appeal to kids. Same with all of his "friends", whom the game goes out of its way to show off their personality quirks and establish them having an actual relationship with Rambley before you ever see any of their "evil" forms.

Yeah, its not scary, and that's a big flaw for a horror game. But, to be frank, Mascot Horror is not scary. Period. FNAF was never scary beyond the first hour because its formula fundamentally worked against human psychology on how we effectively feel fear. Poppy Playtime is a cynical marketing ploy that took 3 installments to approach anything even remotely resembling genuine horror and has utterly failed at characterization beyond one character in part 2. Bendy was never scary and borderline comical with how bad its characterization was. Garten of Ban Ban is a bad meme that has pretty much gone fully ironic at this point.

The space is built atop a fundamental lack of any real fear. If Indigo park remains a cutsy little homage for its entire lifespan, that'd be just fine because its good at being such. Or hey, maybe Geese will learn how to spooky better. That'd be fine too. Either way, the game has earned its Overwhelmingly Positive just because of what it actually is and represents. If it was cynically trying to charge people $10+ for what it offers, then yeah, that would be a different story. But it isn't, its just a little labor of love that's fascinating to watch unfold.

[Running Exploder]

This game is made by a semi-popular Twitch streamer and Youtuber. He just got his fans to mass download and give it positive reviews so it comes up on the front page of Steam.

[rocketgreentea]

Nguyên văn bởi Running Exploder:

This game is made by a semi-popular Twitch streamer and Youtuber. He just got his fans to mass download and give it positive reviews so it comes up on the front page of Steam.

Ah, now it makes sense. Thank you for informing me.

[Dr. BidOofers]

Nice bait.

[fingleton burger]

happiest person on steam

[Warrior1312]

It's still a good game.

[Ozzie]

Just realized this was bait :p, note to self never read discussion when tired.

Well to whoever is reading I wish you a good day :D

[HeadPriestPepsi]

Yep, literally the WORST game I've ever played. I hope this gets taken down soon.

[charlie_kart]

I like Rambly's animation!

[charlie_kart]

Also fnaf isnt even scary

[gamer]

i disagree that this is anything like fnaf at all, but the only thing that will set this apart from everything else is whether anything actually interesting will happen, instead of the same tired stories.

[EvilRamenNoodle]

This is very obvious bait that people are taking. Should probably stop responding to this thread so it drops off and is forgotten. This will be my only post here, as I hope that anyone else who opens this page reads this and follows suit.