IndieFAQs

By: Derek Yu

On: January 23rd, 2008

I wanted to let you know that our very own Terry has created the indie equivalent of GameFAQs, and it’s called… IndieFAQs!

I decided to make the site for two reasons: (1) I was using an online guide to find all the hearts in An Untitled Story when all of a sudden the site hosting it went down (and neither google or wayback have a cache!) and (2) I get about 100 hits a day from google from people looking for walkthroughs for various indie games that I’ve mentioned in my blog – and I thought it would be nice to help them out. It seems like a central place to find walkthroughs for indie games would be a useful resource.

It certainly would be. The site already has 30 games on it, with more to come. Please contribute!

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Eclipse

finally, indiefucks!
http://www.distractionware.com Terry

Hey, thanks for the mention, Derek :)
Nu

This is a great idea
PHeMoX

True that! :)
chutup

sounds like an excellent idea. I know there are a few ind games I’d like a walkthrough for… cactus >_<
Splinter of Chaos

We’ve needed this for far too long.
Moose

You say it’s been needed, but people have tried to make them before and they’ve died from lack of attention – maybe this will change that :)
Del_Duio

Too bad I suck at wiki editing. I tried it a couple of times for wikipedia and the results were awful.

It’s a good idea though, but I noticed a lot of good games were missing (obviously, right?). And no Dwarf Fortress? Shock!
http://www.distractionware.com Terry

It’s only getting started, hopefully within a few months it’ll be pretty comprehensive!

Moose: Do you happen to have web addresses for any of those other attempts? There are a couple of genre specific walkthrough collections already out there (for Interactive Fiction and Adventure Games) that I know about already, but any other sources would be really useful.
http://gnomeslair.blogspot.com/ gnome

Excellent! Way to go Terry! I’ll see what I can add!
Derek

I added an entry for Dwarf Fortress. :)
Jad

INDIEFAGS!

At last ;D