OnLive is putting six new indie games online this fall

by Jessica Conditt on Oct 8th 2011 4:30PM

OnLive is feeling the indie love at Indiecade 2011 this weekend with the announcement of six new indie titles landing in its library this fall:

Orcs Must Die
Limbo
Magicka
Bastion
Space Chem
Avadon: The Black Fortress

OnLive already offers popular-indie games such as Braid, Trine, World of Goo and The Maw. OnLive veep of games and media John Spinale said, "OnLive has long been a supporter of independent publishers. Simply put, they're making some really great, innovative games these days," because that's true, and the more exposure for the talented underdarlings, the better, at least in our book. Er, website.

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Indies, This Cloud's for You: See OnLive at IndieCade!
OnLive Adds 6 New Upcoming Indie Titles to Library of 150+ Videogames

Palo Alto, Calif. - October 7, 2011 - OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games, today announced that it will be adding six new Indie games to its growing library of 150+ video game titles, and the Company is courting yet more independent publishers at the IndieCade Conference being held this weekend, October 7-9, in Culver City, California.

"OnLive has long been a supporter of independent publishers," said OnLive VP of Games & Media John Spinale. "Simply put, they're making some really great, innovative games these days. We love bringing amazing new experiences to our OnLive members, and also helping innovative developers get their ideas out to a larger, more diverse audience of gamers. Win-win."

With games from more than 11 different independent publishers already on its roster-including award-winning hits like Braid, Trine, World of Goo and The Maw-OnLive is pleased to be adding six more indie games this fall, representing a wide range of gameplay experiences from developers all over the world.

New titles coming to the OnLive service include Orcs Must Die, a twist on traditional strategy games from Robot Entertainment; LIMBO, the captivating puzzle game from Danish developers Playdead, which has won more than 90 awards to date; Magicka, an action-adventure based on Norse mythology from Paradox Interactive; Bastion, a stunning and imaginative RPG from Supergiant Games; Space Chem, a futuristic design-based puzzle game by Zachtronic Industries; and Avadon: The Black Fortress, Spiderweb Software's addictive new fantasy game.

"The OnLive Game Service offers a unique opportunity for independent publishers to easily distribute a single version their games across all platforms at once," said Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO. "A single simple port to OnLive renders games instantly available on TVs, PCs, Macs and soon iPad® and Android® tablets internationally."

The OnLive Game Service also has unique instant demo and social features that enhance publishers' exposure once their games are on the service. Anyone can check out a game by either playing the first 30 minutes totally free or "spectating" and chatting with other gamers as they play. And with Facebook integration, if someone discovers an amazing new game, they can invite their entire social network to watch them play live, check out a Brag Clip™ video of their gameplay or even jump in and play, right from a link on their wall.

OnLive is hosting a happy hour at IndieCade on Saturday, October 8, at which independent developers can get familiar with the benefits of cloud distribution and explore the evolving features of the service while enjoying a few drinks, courtesy of OnLive (reminder: always play responsibly). OnLive will also be giving way 250 OnLive Game Systems as prizes and gifts throughout the show.

For more information about OnLive, visit www.onlive.com or www.onlive.co.uk

About OnLive
OnLive is the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video game services, delivering real-time interactive experiences and rich media through the Internet. With groundbreaking video compression technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly deliver the latest, premium game titles to any HDTV via the OnLive Game System or nearly any PC and Mac® via a small browser download. The OnLive Viewer app is available for the iPad and Android tablets and playable versions will be available soon. OnLive is available in North America and the UK and will be expanding into more of Europe later this year. OnLive technology is backed by hundreds of patents and patents pending. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. OnLive investors include Warner Bros., Autodesk, Maverick Capital, AT&T, British Telecommunications (BT), The Belgacom Group, HTC and Juniper Networks. More information is available at www.onlive.com and www.onlive.co.uk.

Tags: avadon-the-black-fortress, Bastion, Indie, limbo, magicka, OnLive, orcs-must-die, space-chem

Reader Comments (32)

Great service and great way to start of the Indie games with great choices. I really hope that Onlive really catches on i love it.

@GTThaAceman

I disagree -- I hope it doesn't catch on as it will never be able to compare with speed and quality of content running locally (unless we figure out how to break the speed of light).

That said I *do* think its neat to be able to pop in and watch someone else playing whatever game -- but far as actually playing a game yourself its terrible compared to playing off a local machine.

@clapperdude

Completely agree nothing beats the quality of playing your game on a local system with the knowledge that you actually own your game.

I don't see streaming ever matching the quality of physically having the game rather it be on disk or a download.

@CoolBreeze221

I use Steam and OnLive. I don't really feel anything with actually physically owning a game. I mean I can hump my hard drives if that's what you're talking about, but that probably wouldn't feel good anyways.

@clapperdude

Not to mention that these games are tiny and the streaming video eats up bandwidth, by the time you play these games at any length you likely could have downloaded them a few dozen times for the bandwidth the streaming will have eating up.

I was clocking about 1gb every 30min in Amnesia.
I have over 40hours in space chem..... that math, not so promising.

For some of the larger /shorter games it works out better but with "unlimited" bandwidth being quickly eroded into tiered caps ..... Onlive isn't exactly a friendly service.

Mind you from what I played of it, it was decent.

@clapperdude
well of course the quality isnt as good as playing it locally but this is for us people with low powered PCs/laptop.

@GTThaAceman I never mentioned that it should take over physical media and it never will I'm just talking about how great the service is for what it is. Yes if you restrictions on your bandwith than its not a good idea but i don't plus I own a Xbox 360 so i know what you mean about physical media but I have also bought some games off the Games On Demand service which doesn't bother me at all. All in all what i am trying to say is I love the service for what it is and does its pretty advanced and on a 10MBS speed the games look great not perfect but great.

@Knives Chau

Yea I mean I get that and really it does make sense there. But if only it stays there as an option for those situations and not a replacement for local play/storage.

Problem is that everyone's hardware becomes obsolete at some point. When this occurs, does the person buy new hardware, or give into the convenience of not having to upgrade and use a streaming service instead. A lot of this depends on marketing as well. Throw enough money at the marketing and more people are bound to give into it and then boast about all the buzzwords the ad said they have now (I just loves my HD!).

I realize this is just hypothetical talk about the future and maybe slightly off track of the orginal topic -- but when you see how well people have adopted streaming movies/tv regardless of it being a major downgrade in quality its makes it seem like this could easily happen with games. This theoretical future of low quality gaming for all is just not something I'd like to promote personally. I guess I shouldn't be too worried till we start seeing exclusive games on these services tho...

But the games will all require an online connection
(lol)

@arucious
*facepalm*

@arucious Yeah, who uses the internet?

OnLive needs to start adding PC only games for me to be remotely interested (Starcraft 2, Civ 5, Witcher 2, Shogun 2, Empire Total War, etc. plus dozens of MMOs) .

Adding a small number of games I can already buy on my consoles isn't appealing.

@HokieKC the witcher 2 has been announced for onlive, plus it is being ported to 360 so it won't be pc exclusive for much longer.

@lyons - Then I'll probably get it for the Xbox 360. OnLive has a much better chance replacing my PC for gaming than my consoles. So my point was, for my potential business at least, their strategy is all wrong.

@HokieKC

See I'm the opposite I want it for console games

Give me uncharted metal gear solid , uncharted etc

@Timjoy - You're not going to see Uncharted for any other system and Metal Gear Solid came to the PC in 2000.

@HokieKC

Starcraft 2 is one of the games that would NEVER work well over Onlive.

omg my computer has such a hard time playing the magicka demo, onlive ought to be a nice fix :D

Pass, why would anyone pay for indie games that they could you know, actually own on a console or in some cases steam when there most likely going to be the same price.

I can understand using the service for demo's or to try games out that are being offered for cheap discounts... but if you pay full price to basically rent a game your crazy.

Streaming for video games is an epic fail, I'll stick to owning my products thanks!!!

@CoolBreeze221

because if they are part of the play pack then you could play them all in one month for $9.99

or buy them on sale for like $2 or $3

the consoles never have games on sale

@eat it

I could be wrong, but aren't most new games full price? All of the game I seen on there system if you want full access you have to pay almost full price. All the games using the pass system all look like older games.

And lets be honest here, that "play pack" is no more than a gimmick to get people using the system. If/ when it takes off, those prices will not continue. Customers are already starting to see this with Netflix. Publishers are not going to let Onlive let there customers play as much as they want on there games for a monthly price... because they will make less money than customers just paying full price.

It's a gimmick to get customers, nothing more...

@eat it this is a serious question, but do you even play console games? i ask that because psn and xbla have sales all the time.

@CoolBreeze221 - I agree with the Netflix comparison. The second Onlive catches on those publishers will all renegotiate for more money which will drive up the cost of Onlive.

@CoolBreeze221 What do you mean by 'renting' it? You're going to have as much ownership of the game as you would on any other service on PC... like Steam for example.. you don't own those games, Steam does. All of your games that you bought on Steam can be taken away in an instant.

@Rawry - Steam can't 'take away' games you install to your harddrive. And Steam has an offline mode so you don't have to sign on every time you play.

So, no, it's no the same as Onlive. Onlive is cloud based so you don't physically own anything.

@Rawry

No it isn't... I don't use steam (as I prefer physical products) but even with steam, unless your break steams TOS you can keep that game as long as you want... it's yours, its stored on your PC.

Onlive streams games to you, for a period that is covered up to 3 years... this means nothing is stored on your PC, and after 3 years they have the right to remove the game from there servers that you payed for. It cost them money to stream the game to you, and as new games come out there not going to want to cover the cost of older games that less people play. You will NOT be able to keep the game for however long you want.

This is the difference... if I'm paying near full price for a game, I want it for how ever long I want it.

@eat it

XBL and PSN have weekly sales. Definitely sounds like games never on sale to me.

@CoolBreeze221

Speaking of netflix type comparisons...if you start thinking about the other bad things that can happen when you give all the control to someone else like that : For example on amazon (instant) I OWN Inception -- like not just rented but own it. Currently I can't watch/download it and it has the notice "Due to our licensing agreements this video is currently not available for online viewing or downloading." Thats not the first time its happened either.

Its speculation I know...but still...I freaking guarantee this type of crap will occur on streaming game services in the future as well.

On a side note -- do NOT buy movies off of amazons digital service heh.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

dude, the sales on PSN are weak in comparison. They've had splinter cell conviction, metro 2033, batman, and a ton of other games for $5 on OnLive. that's a sale. taking $2 off of a $15 game one week out of the year is nothing

got my free OnLive console from eurogamer and tried out on my hdtv and it looks terrible it was like i was watching a crap quality youtube video and this was like on my 20mb connection. so they want me pay full price for games that look like im looking though a blurry window, no thanks ill stick too consoles and steam thank you. on a good note i did not have any issues with lag, they just need up the bitrate alot, but can they do that without adding lag within the next five years, me thinks nope not gonna happen,try again in 5-10 years.

@razblade77

Video quality is only one of MANY problems with OnLive.

What's wrong with you guys? Cloud streaming IS the future. No more trade ins, no more retail stores in about 8-15 years you'll be hard pressed to actually find physical media of any kind! It's not up to any of us too, it's up to publishers that pay useless millions on packaging that could be spent on the games, graphics, and etc. Onlive has made a technology no one could have thought of making for about 5 years! You guys are making it out to be some horrendous service that shouldn't be out because it offends you and your physical media. Actually use the service for about a week and the feeling of lag or any delay is hardly noticeable.

OnLive is putting six new indie games online this fall

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