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Post Mortem: Fantastic Contraption – Fantastic Cash
Colin easily had one of the most entertaining panels of the day. His panel focused on a Post Mortem of his Flash game: Fantastic Contraption and how he made a ton of money off of it. Northway woke up one night and wrote down on a piece of paper his...
New Indie Hotness
Brandon Boyer of Offworld.com had my favorite panel so far… not a lot of information in it… but he did highlight 7 upcoming indie games that’s he’s excited for: The games kicked off with Brandon poorly playing Spelunky. Spel...
Best of the week, August 29 – Sept 10
While not a slow week by any means, platformers definitely rule the week. However, experimental games are the biggest draw of September thus far with the results of the Experimental Gameplay Project being released. Action Ozmoze Indie game players ...
Best of the week, Aug. 23 – Aug.30
A week in review, the best free and maybe-should-be-free games of the week for August 23 to August 30, 2009 All games free unless otherwise noted. Adventure 78641 – A Targ Adventure (GZ Storm) You play as a frying pan who comes back fix his l...
Best of the Week
A week in review, the best free and maybe-should-be-free games of the week for August 15 to 22, 2009 All games free unless otherwise noted Simulation Osmosis / (Hemisphere Games) / ($10) A classic amobe-eating game, done fast paced and furious. Adv...
Nevermore 3 Review
The Nevermore series is gaming’s version of subverted children’s programming: Everything is friendly and vivid, but with inspired characters and mystery that never get pushed aside by needless dialogue or the game’s own limitations....
Fig. 8 Preview and Game Video
Check out the Trailer for Fig8 from Intuition Games. These guys are “hungry for sandwiches” so it’s important that we do our best to help spread the word and get this game sponsored so their hard work isn’t for nothing. The...
On Trial: Synchronicity
Caspian: 1 Instantly lost a point for being a zip file instead of a proper installer. It really needed that point too. This miserable arena shooter combines awful graphics with boring sound and gameplay so bereft of excitement I was almost annoyed a...
Free Flash Game: Spewer
I love this little guy Edmund McMillen (Aether, Meatboy, Gish, Blast Miner) has released his best game yet. The description for spewer explains it best: You’re born into this world a guinea pig before god. Unsure of his motives you progress...
Free Flash Game: Closure
Closure by Tyler Glaiel & Jon Schubbe Closure is a very interesting platformer with a unique art style. The game is entirely black & white and its visuals are reminiscent of drawings on a chalkboard. The gameplay itself is pretty interestin...
Free Online Game: Globulos
Globulos by GlobzGlobulos is an online multiplayer game featuring little gummy globs in 20 different games. The games are all turn based and are based on "pool table" type collisions and physics. The games are pretty diverse and finding a game to pla...
Free Flash Game: Coil
Coil by Edward McMillen & Florian HimslCoil is quite possible the weirdest game I have ever played and is in the running for the IGF's 2009 Innovation Award. The graphics are incredible and the presentation sublime. The atmospheric music and 'sil...
Free Flash Game: Burn the Rope
Burn the Rope by MazapanBurn the Rope is nominated for the 2009 IGF Innovation Award and rightly so. It is touted as an anti-game about false choices in interactivity. The game is basically one big boss fight and takes only a few minutes to beat, but...
Free Game: Beyond Negotiation (Java)
Beyond Negotiation by Blasting Pixels Beyond Negotiation is a top-down shooter similar to Geometry Wars. The controls are simple and you'll instantly be blasting invading aliens. The game features clean pixelart style graphics and some fantastic p...
Free Downloadable Game: ShockBall
Shockball by Boštjan GrandovecShockball is basically soccer meets marbles meets pool. The game is head to head against a human or computer opponent and is turn based. The goal is to hit the shockball into the other player's goal by rolling your o...
Free Game: Left 4k Dead
Left4kDead by Markus PerssonLeft4kDead is inspired by Valve's Left4Dead and is an over the top Zombie Shooter. It controls excellently...somewhat reminiscent of a FPS...w,a,s,d move your player and the mouse aims your flashlight/gun, left click fire...
Free LAN Game: Worm Network
Worm Network is an ONLINE only Multiplayer Death Match Game. Each player is given a ship that controls a lot like Asteroids. You race around an enclosed arena blasting at each other. The game's ships and attacks look pretty decent, but the rest o...
Free Downloadable Game: Eversion
Eversion by Zaratustra Eversion is a very odd and brightly colored platformer. The goal is to collect as many gems as possible and get to the end of the level. The platform mechanics are stiff and the gravity is set way too high. The music/sound...
Free Flash Game: Pig Race
Pig Race by Picaso GamesPig Race is a free flash game where you move your pig into 3 lanes using the arrow keys and jump with the space key. The goal is to collect a lot of acorns while avoiding obstacles...all in all it's a very simple concept lik...
