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Natural Selection 2 - Spark Editor
Though the original intended release date (Fall 2009) has come and gone, Unknown Worlds is still hard at work on the sequel to their ground-breaking FPS Natural Selection. Last week they released a pre-alpha which contains a work-in-progress version of the Spark level editor as well as a ...
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Gamma 4
Kokoromi Collective has announced that Gamma 4 will be a part of next year’s GDC in March. The theme is “one-button games” and entries must only use a single button on the Xbox 360 controller. Windows and Mac OSX games are both accepted. The submission deadline is ...
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Osmos
Osmos
tigsource.com — The concept behind Osmos is quite simple: bigger motes can swallow smaller motes. Most motes just float... around, but the player and other intelligent motes can propel themselves by “farting” (my term) out smaller motes, becoming ... (more) Osmos
Driftmoon Preview
Driftmoon Preview
tigsource.com — Driftmoon is a new top-down RPG project by Ville Mönkkönen, the creator of the survival game Notrium... . Although it’s early in development, there is a playable preview (35 MB) of the game available from the game’s website. ... (more) Driftmoon Preview
Level Up!
Level Up!
tigsource.com — Level Up! is a platformer with light RPG elements by Duncan Saunders that uses an interesting ability... mechanic and is a good addition to the ranks of Flixel powered games. This snippet from the game’s page at Newgrounds sums it up ... (more) Level Up!
ASCII in HD
Xbox Live is starting to look up; with well established Indie names making their way to the Xbox in the next year with Polytron’s ‘Fez,’ and Derek Yu’s ‘Spelunky,’ heading to the XBLA in 2010, and XBLIG starting to have actual, non-massage games, the ...
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Captain Successor
Captain Successor
tigsource.com — If you’re a registered supporter of Captain Forever you no doubt just received an email informing you... that the next installment of the series, Captain Successor , has been released. The basic game mechanics are the same, but Successor ... (more) Captain Successor
Space Spy
Space Spy
tigsource.com — [This is a guest review and interview by Fuzz.] “I don’t remember my line… Snow snowball dreams... ghosts white ele (elegy) stripes… Talk with eyeball in the bed… Mental station… I passionately like ... (more) Space Spy
IGF Student Competition Entries Announced
A record number (306) of entries to the Main Competition is, not surprisingly, followed by a record number of entries to the student competition . This year there were 193 games submitted by students to the IGF ! I haven’t heard of many of the entries before, but they sound ...
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Gratuitous Space Battles
In Positech’s Gratuitous Space Battles you design ships, place them, give them vague orders, and then… watch. At that point, the battle is out of your control – as the big man with the plan, you merely watch your cruisers, frigates, and fighters battle it out to the ...
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Dungeon
Dungeon is a game by a powerful tag-team: Mr. Podunkian (of The Underside fame) and cactus (of dozens of games per year fame). To quote Zarathustra in the forums: “a horribly hard platformer with bad graphics? This is indie people” My favorite part of the game was the room ...
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Overgrowth Tools Video
Overgrowth Tools Video
tigsource.com — Be forewarned, listening to John Graham’s voice has been known to cause wombs to spontaneously fill up... with babies. Wolfire’s Overgrowth is a physics-based ninja rabbit fighting game that’s currently in development. (more) Overgrowth Tools Video
Harmony
Harmony
tigsource.com — Thomas “T.V.” van der Velden’s Harmony is a new FPS made with the ZDoom game engine. It... is 8 years in the making. 8 years… wow, that is some dedication! The game features original graphics and music. The monsters ... (more) Harmony
Ah
[This is a guest review by Guert.] What if you could jump off a skyscraper, plummet down toward the ground at incredible speed, caress the buildings, and live to tell the tale? What if, while diving, you could give thumbs up to fans and flip off protestors? ...
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Au Sable
Au Sable
tigsource.com — Au Sable is a game by the maker of All of Our Friends Are Dead , Amon26,... and appears to be at least a spiritual sequel to that game. Fans of the previous game might enjoy the new one. For those who didn’t play that one, they are both ... (more) Au Sable
Unreal Development Kit
Unreal Development Kit
tigsource.com — Wow. Shit. Epic Games just launched Unreal Development Kit , putting their extremely expensive Unreal Engine 3... in the hands of the masses – the kit is free to download for non-commercial use! Otherwise, there are two licensing options ... (more) Unreal Development Kit
Stonesense - Dwarf Fortress Visualizer
Stonesense - Dwarf Fortress Visualizer
tigsource.com — Now this is a dream coming true right here! Stonesense (alpha) is an open source isometric visualizer... for Dwarf Fortress, created by jonask and Solifuge . It can run side-by-side with the venerable roguelike/sim to provide a graphical view of ... (more) Stonesense - Dwarf Fortress Visualizer
IGF 2010 - 306 Entries!
A record number of entries were submitted to next year’s IGF Main Competition – 306, to be exact! This year there were 224 entries. In 2008 there were 173. In 2007 there were 143… you get the picture! Soon, the 2010 entries will be checked and distributed to 150 judges ...
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