- Noitu Love 2 IGF information page
- Chalk download page
- Noitu Love 1 download page

Kamiha is a vertical shooter consisting of two stages, with bullet patterns reminiscent of the ones found in Cave's earlier releases. Options can be used as bombs by holding down the X key, while tapping the same button releases your smart bomb at the expense of all your options.

Use the cursor keys to move your ship, and press the Z key to shoot. Options automatically regenerate when the X key is not held down.

Name: Kamiha
Developer: Tom Beaumont
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
Direct download link: Click here

Polarity is a short platformer which uses the concept of magnetism to form traps and puzzes for the players to solve. The cursor or W, A, S and D keys can be used to move your character around, while pressing the space key will cause him to jump. USe the Z key to change the polarity of your suit, and hold the X key to increase it's magnetic field. These abilities are only available once you have acquired the necessary pieces for your suit.

There is a healthy number of save points, and the game only consists of five levels.

Name: Polarity
Developer: Team Polarity
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 90MB
Direct download link: Click here

Guardian of Paradise: Buster teases again with another screenshot. [web site]

Interviews

OokiBloks: Studio Work3's Matt Verran and Brian Flanagan interviewed by Gamasutra.

Death Worm: JTR interviewed by CWF. [source: PlanetFreeplay]

Game Maker

Varia: Kairos has made plans to develop a multiplayer RTS game next. [web site]

Paper Flight: Ablach Blackrat is currently working on a paper plane game. [Mark's Glog]

Articles

IGF: Tale of Tales examines a number of IGF entries in one of their new articles, while Joe Martin of bit-tech.net does a round-up on the same subject.

The Indies: The latest issue of GameShark's The Indies is up. Guess OokiBloks is the talk of the town.

Miscellaneous

World of Goo: Kyle Gabler of 2D Boy is seeking eccentric musicians to contribute tracks for their latest game.

Flower: According to a forum posting, the current issue of Game Informer contains details about how thatgamecompany's PS3 release will play.

Free Lunch Design: The author of Icy Tower is considering the possibility of developing online games. [blog]

Exile: Ovine by Design's Exile remake is due out on the 11th of November 2007.

Shmup-Dev Results: Shmup-Dev Options 2k7 results posted.

Tempo is a 3D platformer featuring a psychically gifted heroine bound to a wheelchair but with telekinesis and spectral projection abilities that more than make up for it.

Use the W, A, S and D keys to move your character around. Hold the Q key to activate your telekinesis powers, and press the Z key to switch modes. Cursor keys can be used to control the camera view.

The game consists of one short level only. Winner of Creanimax's Best International Videogame 2007 award.

Name: Tempo
Developer: Jesus, Cristian, Pat and Alex
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 120MB
Direct download link: Click here

Patrol Falcon is a remake of the C64 classic with a similar title, in which players have to defend their ground resources from waves after waves of enemy planes. Use the cursor keys to move around, and press the control key to launch a missile. Your plane carries up to a hundred missiles at any time. Fuel and missiles can be replenished by landing carefully on any of the platforms.

Any of your buildings destroyed at the end of each wave will be rebuilt before the start of a new one. This remake sports a larger screen, improved graphics and competent enemy AI, especially evident in latter stages.

Name: Patrol Falcon
Developer: Staniol
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here

CGA Faces, by ptoing

Another lecture from the Independent Games Summit posted at GSW, where Valve's Kim Swift talks about innovation, originality, and the transition from working on a student project to developing one of this year's most memorable games.

Video links available from GameSetWatch

Uncle had recently posted a gameplay video captured from his upcoming 3D Starstrike remake in the Retro Remakes forums.

- download the menu test

Warning: Contains nudity, strong language, and graphic scenes.

Rorschach is an adventure game for PC and PSP in which you play the role of a detective called to an asylum where the chief doctor has been brutally murdered. The asylum is filled with suspects withholding the information you need, but in Rorschach there are no predefined questions. Everything that is said can also be used as a question on any person in the game. You'll need to make friends, manipulate and confront people to find their dark secrets and only then will you be able to find out who the murderer is and why he did it. [thanks to Jens Bergensten]

Name: Rorschach
Developer: Collecting Smiles
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here

Storm Assault is a horizontal shooter consisting of several boss fights, made by the Storm Project development team in tribute to Konami's early Gradius releases. Hold the Z key to shoot, and press the X key to choose a weapon upgrade.

An option configuration file can be used to set the resolution and alternate between windowed or full screen mode.

Name: Storm Assault
Developer: Storm Project
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 20MB
Direct download link: Click here

Super Mogura Tennis is a new tennis simulator by Krobon Station, a development team known for their eccentric horizontal shooter series made in the style of Parodius.

The Z, X and C keys are mapped to standard shots, smashes and special moves. Press down, then up and Z to make a lob. Execute volleys or drop shots by tapping the down cursor key twice before pressing Z. The blue gauge must be full before a special move can be initiated.

Your concentration is reduced quickly when attempting returning a smash. Without concentration, the general play does not slow down and returning an opponent's shot could be very difficult.

Only two playable characters and one type of court can be accessed in this demo. Also requires a decent hardware to run at a consistent speed.

Name: Super Mogura Tennis
Developer: Krobon Station
Category: Arcade
Type: Demo
Size: 30MB
Download link: Click here

The latest version for Dwarf Fortress is out.

Download it here
Direct download link

'This is a test of a technique I call Orange Mapping to render a Mercury Skin. Orange mapping is basically a way to additively blend when rendering dynamic height maps that prevents capping at 1.0.'

Constellation by Jun Fujiki, designer of the upcoming PS3 release Echochrome. (requires Java installed to run)

The objective in Twister is to destroy the objects indicated on the upper left of the screen. Doing so will award the player with bonus points and additional health.

The type of object to destroy will change from phase to phase. Hold the mouse cursor over any location to make the twister move towards it. Clear five different modes to advance a level.

Name: Twister
Developer: Gray Poyda
Category: Arcade
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Direct download link: Click here

Elebest is a decent Diner Dash clone by Square Enix, in which tables are replaced with elevators and kitchens substituted with buildings. The aim of the game is to place people into elevators and sending them to the floors they wish to arrive at, usually indicated by the color of their clothes. A time limit is shown on the top left of the screen, and players should avoid having a crowded lobby or the game will end.

Certain stations such as a cafe can be used to temporary clear the lobby a little. Bonus points are awarded when more than one passenger arrives on each floor, achieved by grouping a number of them dressed in similar colors into the same elevator. Watch out for men dressed in black, because they do not mix with the crowd and prefers riding the elevator alone if possible.

Six stages in total.

Name: Elebest
Developer: Square Enix
Category: Puzzle
Type: Browser

- how to access Elebest from the Kore Domino game page
- download video, right click to save

Pac-Maso is a flash game banner not unlike Babarageo's STG Banner, but featuring our lovable pellet-gobbling pal from Namco's well-known franchise.

Click on any of the three corridors to switch, and collect power pellets for temporary vulnerability.

Name: Pac-Maso
Developer: Yoshio Ishii
Category: Arcade
Type: Browser

Stopple is a DirectX remake of Bloxorz, created by Rupert Hawkes with full permission from the original author Damien Clarke. The objective of the game is basically to get a piece of block to fall through a square hole at the end of each stage, all the while trying to avoid falling off the edges.

The player will be introduced to switches, bridges, tiles which responds to different pressures and even teleporters to complicate matters. Later on, smaller blocks are introduced to increase the overall difficulty of each puzzle.

There are thirty-three stages to complete.

Name: Stopple
Developer: Boiled Sweets
Category: Puzzle
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here