Indie News: October 19th
screenshot from Boryokudan Rue
Theseus - Return of the Hero: One of Sigma Team's earlier commercial releases is now available as a free download. Remember to uncheck both boxes during setup to avoid having the toolbars installed. (source: AuthenticKaizen)
N+: The third level pack for Metanet's award-winning platformer is now available as a free download on XBLA.
Love: Video preview for Eskil Steenberg's upcoming MMO game posted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Mighty Jill Off: The Jill Off Harder edition of dessgeega's punishing platformer is now available for download.
Iji: Daniel Remar's epic action game updated to version 1.2.
Bytejacker: World of Goo, Diver, Skullpogo and Meat Boy featured on this week's episode. (YouTube video)
Kudos 2: Cliff Harris' life-simulation strategy game is now on sale. (blog post)
Mac
cfxr: DrPetter's sound effects creation tool sfxr has been ported to the Mac. (source: Andrew Wooldridge)
Droid Assault: Puppy Games' Droid Assault featured on Big Download's regular Mac Monday column.
Shooter
Debrysis: The multiplayer version of OUEO factory's arena shooter is scheduled for a release sometime in 2009.
Space Giraffe: Jeff Minter's XBLA shooter will be released on the PC very soon.
RPG
Kivi's Underworld: An open beta version for Soldak Entertainment's upcoming action adventure game is now available for both Windows and Mac users to sample.
Adventure
Boryokudan Rue: The developer of La Croix Pan and Chatroom is working on a full-length adventure game.
Larry Vales: The third game in the series is in pre-production.
Competitions
2008 Unity Awards: The voting thread for UA 2008 is now open, complete with links to playable builds for all entries. (original announcement)
2008 HSP Contest: Entries submitted for this year's HSP (Hot Soup Processor) Contest are now available for download.
Articles
Guardian: An article about indie games, by Keith Stuart. (Thanks Jon!)
Cave Story: The upcoming WiiWare release was recently featured on MTV Multiplayer. (source)
Flash Games
Dark Cut 3: John Cooney is currently working on another sequel to his popular surgical simulation series.
The Greater Good: Trailer for a new game created by the developer of the Shift series posted.
Miscellaneous
Frogs and Mice: Caravel Games' new IP is no longer a GarageGames exclusive, but will still be released as a product of Caravel Games in the near future.
Rubber Ninjas: Trailer for Rag Doll Software's new 3D fighting game posted.
flower: thatgamecompany's upcoming PSN release is very close to completion, and should be out sometime next year.
Flight of the Hero: A very early build of darthlupi's new game is available for beta testing and feedbacks.
Stick Ranger: DAN-BALL's physics-based RPG updated to version 2.0.
New releases: Pirate Fishing (Kloonigames), Monochro Observer (Tatsuya Koyama), Polymaniacs alpha (download), Red Spheres (Locomalito), Custer's Revenge (remake), Blast Passage (Markus Persson)
Comments
you're doing a fine job
Posted by: konjak | October 19, 2008 9:48 AM
indeed!
what an epic content rich post.
so...i will check the links from time to time.
especially the debrysis multiplayer and the new darthlupi game are cool news...
and btw droid assault is great!
Posted by: AuthenticKaizen | October 19, 2008 11:21 AM
polymaniacs is also an interesting and funny game with lots of potential.
Posted by: AuthenticKaizen | October 19, 2008 3:30 PM