Mar

25

New Fez gameplay trailer

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This game just gets more and more awesome every time I see it. Just did my daily blog scan and this gem caught my eye on Indiegames…

There’s just so much scope for secrets and cleverly hidden stuff here that it makes my brain explode. Go Polytron! Very, very cool. Roll on release day

Mar

24

A couple of things

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That wouldn’t quite be the tomorrow I planned, then…
Dalyn’s Quill is approaching usability but is still weeks away from being released. I feel sure that I said somewhere that this would be a quick project to tide me over ’til I come up with a plan for my third game – if this [...]

Mar

21

7DRL parting shots

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As I said yesterday, there are a few 7DRL entrants that I would have liked to try but, for one reason or another, couldn’t. This was usually because the games were downloadable only as source code, and to be honest I’m too lazy to try and compile them for myself They are just [...]

Mar

21

A Steaming good offer

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Yeesh. Yet another weekend deal making me shout about Steam’s indie support!
This time their entire indie catalogue has reduced prices, with a third off the normal price off the puzzling Mr. Robot, the atmospheric Aquaria, Wargames tribute Defcon and tower defender Defense Grid: The Awakening. There’s also 10% off fast-paced 3rd-person shooter Caster, realtime strat [...]

Mar

20

2009’s 7DRL week, part 3

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Another day brings another part to this week’s 7DRL summary! Here are a few more @-filled delights for you to take a look at…

Jacob’s Matrix [link, pictured left] – possibly the best 7DRL entrant yet and my pick o’ the day. Can you find your way out of an Escher-like series of twisty passages before [...]

Mar

19

Runes of Magic leaves beta

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Were it not for my current zerg with my tanking Death Knight in World of Warcraft, I’d almost certainly be playing this instead. Indeed, I’m almost a little bit sad that I won’t be diving in – but there’s only so many hours in a day, unfortunately.
It’s always nice to see a decent quality free-to-play [...]

Mar

19

2009’s 7DRL week, part 2

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Time to look at a few more of the gems from this year’s 7-day Roguelike event… what’s in store today, I wonder?

Fruits of the Forest [link, pictured left] – help feed your fellow villagers by foraging for food, but look out for bandits…
TetRLs [link, pictured middle] – this is what happens when you mix Tetris [...]

Mar

18

2009’s 7DRL week, part 1

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They’re not everyone’s cup of Earl Grey, but Roguelikes are still a defining part of text-based gaming. Lately, master and apprentice Roguelike developers alike have rolled up their sleeves, focused the volatile energies of the RNG and coded like there’s no tomorrow for a whole seven days – at the end, some of them even [...]

Mar

12

Potential: Detonate!

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This is a game that I’d really love to see completed. Detonate! is a side project of Terry Cavanagh whose games you may recognise under the banner of Distractionware – he’s also the dab hand responsible for recent flash hit Don’t Look Back [link], which I still haven’t gotten around to playing… but I digress. [...]

Mar

9

Best. Tetris. Ever!

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It’s so ridiculous that I actually laughed out loud upon discovering it.
Meet Tetoris [link], the smallest yet at the same time biggest variation of Tetris I’ve ever seen. Good luck on actually building a complete tetris line…
Thanks to Offworld for the heads-up.

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