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Indie PC freebie offers original campaigns.

Indie game developer Eric Ruth has released an 8-bit inspired take on Valve's Left 4 Dead, and it's available to download for PC on his website.

Ruth's remake, called Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead, offers top-down takes on the original four campaigns with reworked graphics, music and controls, and has a two-player mode and everything.

It's worth checking out on YouTube for the cutesy takes on Bill, Zoey, Francis and Louis if nothing else.

Ruth describes himself as an aspiring developer who makes free games while he is seeking employment at a respectable studio.

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coastal #1 2 years ago

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lol real nice. kudos to eric.

/didn't know these were called de-makes.
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sublitterat #2 2 years ago

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Beautiful. I especially liked the Smokers as a hazard, and the witch going crazy.
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telboy007 #3 2 years ago

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Respec!
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gjgjg #4 2 years ago

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just dont release a sequel in less than a year with minimal new stuff, divides communities it does!
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TOOTR #5 2 years ago

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Boycott this! They've planned a sequel already.

No! I mean boycott the sequel!

Oh I don't know what I mean - I'm so confused.

Where's HL-Episode 3 for the gameboy eh? Pull your finger out - we've heard nothing for ages !
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Invisible_Cow #6 2 years ago

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Awesome! Love the hunter.
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Moribundman #7 2 years ago

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So this is the Australian version of L4D?

Always wondered how they had to change it...
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Amblin #8 2 years ago

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lol here comes the valve copyright infringment bat! Prepare for lawyers!
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PlugMonkey #9 2 years ago

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"lol here comes the valve copyright infringment bat! Prepare for lawyers! "

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see Valve's approach to this. It's so clearly a non-profit fan project, but even they surely can't be seen to endorse someone 'borrowing' their IP?

If you did the same thing with Call of Duty, I would imagine Kotick would come round to extract a pound of your flesh personally. Valve tend to be more liberal, but how much more?
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PlugMonkey #10 2 years ago

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His website has, somewhat unsurprisingly, exceeded it's bandwidth limit.

If anyone wants to download it, this should be the link to the fileplanet page:

http://ww w.fileplanet.com/208825/200000/...
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