Twilight Heroes is a turn-based role playing game. By day you're an underpaid and unappreciated worker at a pain-in-the-neck job, but as the sun goes down you don a mask and a cape and patrol the streets in an attempt to clean up the crime-riddled and corrupt city you live in.

Along the way your hero or heroine will develop super powers, such as amazing strength, mastery of the elements, or the ability to manipulate things with your mind. As you grow in power you acquire more skills and items, and face an increasingly challenging series of goals, quests, and super-villains. You can choose from powerful talismans to channel your abilities through, and build a secret base to use as your hideout and refuge when you're not fighting crime. Just don't stay up too late, or you might have to face consequences the next day at work.

Twilight Heroes is free to play and has no advertising.

Name: Twilight Heroes
Developer: Quirkz Media
Category: RPG
Type: Browser

Speculum Mortis is a horror-styled point-and-click adventure. Gameplay consists of wandering around a Victorian age residence which was abandoned years ago, or so it seems at first glance.

Left click to examine objects or your surroundings, and right click to interact.

Name: Speculum Mortis
Developer: Happo Entertainment
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Direct download link: Click here

Yahtzee has just released his new game; a stealth platformer titled Trilby: The Art of Theft. It's the first game he's released since he started his weekly game review video-editorial Zero Punctuation.

The game stars Trilby, but is set in 1991, two years before Five Days a Stranger takes place. Each mission has you infiltrate highly guarded buildings to loot and gather information, then sneak out again. The emphasis is on stealth: while you can tazer the guards, if you do it too often Trilby will abandon the mission.

I've only just started the game, so perhaps it's too early to say whether it's any good: but my first impressions are positive. Very positive. Go check it out. You can discuss the game at the Unofficial AoT Forums (set up by the game's beta testers).

Name: Trilby: The Art of Theft
Developer: Yahtzee
Category: "Mission-Based Stealth Platformer"
Type: Freeware
Size: 2.42 MB
Direct download link: On the Escapist, here

Lost in the Static is a free exploration-oriented platform game for Windows XP and Vista on reasonably modern PCs. It uses some surprising aspects of the human perceptual system to create a visible world out of animating static.

May cause headaches and nausea. The game has a proper ending.

Name: Lost in the Static
Developer: Sean Barrett
Category: Platform
Size: 5MB
Type: Freeware
Direct download link: Click here

In Excit, your goal is to guide the cursor to the exit without leaving the screen. The arrow keys can be used to control movement. When an arrow key is pressed, the cursor will keep moving until it hits an obstacle.

Each of the thirty levels has a password. You can leave the game and continue playing later by entering the password received the last time you've played.

Name: Excit
Developer: Krystian Majweski
Category: Puzzle
Type: Browser

Exception is a 3D scrolling shooter which mainly features enemies made out of grey blocks, and though that may sound unimpressive it does allow the developer to place nearly two thousand objects on screen at any time.

Use the cursor keys to move, and press either the A or S key to rotate. Hold the Z key to shoot, and press the X key to activate your missile lock. You can use the C key to push blocks away, but only if the second gauge at the bottom left of the screen has at least one charge.

Name: Exception
Developer: i-saint (primitive)
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 20MB
Direct download link: Click here

Winter Competition: YoYo Games is sponsoring $1,000 as the grand prize for their latest contest. Theme is 'Winter', and the final submission date is December 23rd 2007. Two runner-ups are entitled to $500 and $250 respectively. [contest rules, current submissions]

- The game should not change the screen resolution and should run in a window.
- A member is allowed to submit at most two games in each competition.
- You can submit a game you created in the past but only if it is not already published on YoYo Games.

Indie Game Developer Showcase: ECD Systems is selling a collection of entries from their recent competition on DVD for $7.95.

Fedora Spade 3: The latest chapter in the Fedora Spade series should be out soon. [Episodes 1 and 2]

Indie Games Group: I + is a group on Opera with discussions centered around indie games.

Exile: Ovine by Design's Exile remake is out.

Platine Dispositif: Murasame drop a hint about his upcoming Comiket release. [Engage to Jabberwock mirror, map, article]

Hot Soup Processor: HSP (a Japanese equivalent of the popular Game Maker) is available in English. [source: Null1024]

Axiom Overdrive: A couple of screenshots from Reflexive's Axiom Overdrive can be found at it's official website.

Articles

MarkUp Issue 9: MarkUp issue 9 (the official GM magazine) is now available for download.

Acidbomb: David Galindo shares his experience of selling a commercial Game Maker production.

Interviews

InstantAction: GameSpot interviews Josh Williams of GarageGames. [source: Indie Informer]

Puzzle Quest: Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield interviews the COO of D3, Yoji Takenaka.