Synaesthete is an IGF finalist in the "excellence in visual art category." It's a spawn from the digipen institute of technology. The game is a hybrid rhythm and action game. You move your character from room to room while fighting baddies. The way you deal damage is by hitting j, k and l on the keyboard in time with the corresponding notes flying down the screen. Before playing [...]
It's one thing when you're able to draw on your computer screen using crayons, but to make a physics game out of it, wah woo wee woo. Like many physics games out there you're in control of a ball. In this case it's a crayon circle. Your goal is to pick up all the stars on the screen by moving your ball over them. There's a [...]
The list is in. The 2008 independent games festival finalists have been announced. Check them out below. There are some great games listed here and I really wish more of them had public demos. What are you waiting for, cheggem out: Seumas McNally Grand Prize: Audiosurf Crayon Physics Deluxe Hammerfall Noitu Love 2: Devolution World of Goo Best Web Browser Game: Globulos.com Iron Dukes Tri-Achnid [...]
Aquaria is finally coming. A demo will be released along with the full game via download from bit-blot on December 7th. It's $30, yikes, but they promise there will be about 20 hours of content so that's pretty good bang for your buck. The download is a hefty 200MB but they're claiming it's due to all the art in the game. Let's hope everything looks as [...]
(Click me to see the full size version) Heaven 2 Ocean is a sidescrolling (side-tilting?) platformer with light puzzle elements. It's veeeery similar to LocoRoco for the PSP. The controls are simple, just move the mouse left and right to tilt the screen. Why would you want to tilt the screen you ask? To move your cluster of water droplets, that's why. Your goal is to [...]
Rock legend is a sim game where you are put into the shoes of a band leader. You start out with just a few dollars and five years worth of time. Your mission? To create the ultimate band. Each turn (1 game day) you have several things you can do to work on becoming the next David Bowie. You can hire band members, write [...]