Illusion of the Tower Preview

The Illusion of the Tower (18+ only) preview is a short technical demo with only one corridor to explore. There's a couple of fancy options to tinker around with in this release but no real gameplay elements incorporated yet.

A GPU which supports vertex and pixel shader version 2.0 is required to run this demo.

Video: Youtube

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Jenova Chen's Next Game

A short clip from Jenova Chen's new PSN game Flower was shown today during Sony's keynote speech at the TGS.

An expansion to flOw was also revealed at the pre-TGS press reception. [video update thanks to haowan]

download trailer (right-click to save)
thatgamecompany
TGC Blog
FLOWer preview
Tokyo Game Show web site

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Brave Karma Warriors Preview

Intro and gameplay video from cactus' Brave Karma Warriors. Release date: 24th December, 2007.

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Everyday Shooter Trailer

There's a new trailer for Everyday Shooter over at the GameTrailers web site. Not too sure what they meant by the description:

This great PC game is now coming home to PlayStation Network!

..since Everyday Shooter was never released for the PC in the first place.

Watch the video
Everyday Shooter web site

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Seven Minutes of Aquaria

From the Bit Blot web site:

"Playing around with some of Aquaria's side quests for seven minutes.

In this video I hang out in Naija's cave, take a nap with a freaky dream, and fight 'Nautilus Prime' to find a new friend.

I also play around with ingredients a little bit... ingredients are part of the Recipe System, and it's starting to feel pretty good. Naija can cook stuff at home or on the go. At home she'll have access to one extra wok. The items she creates can do all sorts of things, like heal her, protect her, speed her up."

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Night Game Announced

The author of Knytt Stories had posted a concept art for his new project, currently titled Night Game.

Additional information from Nifflas, as pointed out by pi (thanks!):

"I want to create a game that takes place in a 2D landscape. The background scenery will contain slopes, but it does not have to be curved like in the demonstration images.

Except for the static terrain, I am only interested in two shapes. Rectangles and Spheres. The player character will be a ball that can be rolled with the left and right arrow keys. Boxes and rectangles collide realistically with the ball, and can be pushed and tipped."

Nifflas working on a physics game? Scrumptious.

Nifflas' Games
Clickteam forum posting

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Previews

First screenshot from Resonance (2D adventure game from xii games) posted. [source: Gnome's Lair]

Two new screens from Mateusz Skutnik's (Submachine series) Covert Front 2 were recently added to his development journal.

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World of Goo Trailer

Gameplay trailer from Kyle Gabler (Experimental Gameplay Project) and Ron Carmel's 2D Boy debut production, World of Goo.

According to Kyle:

"Gameplay in World of Goo is 100% physically simulated, and each level is thematically extraordinary, visually iconic, and always related to a story arc. There is very little asset re-use between levels, which is expensive in the sense that I have to create unique art by hand for every level, but as I'm seeing the game come together, I'm kinda happy how beautiful (or at least original) it is becoming."

- watch high res version
- download trailer (right-click to save)
- play Tower of Goo

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Gish 2 Test

Just a little teaser of what's to come from Cryptic Sea.

A gameplay video from 2D Boy's World of Goo will be posted this coming Monday.

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Valdis Story Level 3 Gameplay Video

A new gameplay video from the third stage of Valdis Story was recently posted. The original two level demo is still available from Endless Fluff's web site. [direct download link]

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Mutant Preview

Wielding a pistol in each hand? Outdated. How about a hero with two additional limbs and the capacity to carry four different weapons at the same time? Let's add cowboy zombies, skeletal robots, and naked people for good measure. A dash of telekinesis power wouldn't be out of place either, because Half-Life made it cool.

Mutant is overhead third person 3D shooter featuring a protagonist with four arms, and the gameplay does seem to resemble a mix of Crimsonland plus Alien Shooter. No demo yet, but a trailer has been made available for download from Napoleon Games' web site.

Watch trailer on Youtube
download 50MB trailer
Mutant information page

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Glum Preview

A screenshot from Pug Fugly's latest project, tentatively titled Glum. Chris (creator of Return to Sector 9) hints that the new platformer will have puzzle elements. And flowers.

Glum announcement
Pug Fugly Games

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The Chronicles of Oswyn Throckmorton Announced

The Chronicles of Oswyn Throckmorton is an adventure game set in a time when pirates thrife from plunder and fear. A context-sensitive verb menu much like the one used in Revolution Software's Lure of the Temptress (now freeware) will be employed for object interaction purposes. Character art is supplied by Helm.

The first episode is scheduled for a release sometime in summer 2008.

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Starfox: Shadows of Lylat Screens

A screenshot from the upcoming fan made project, Starfox: Shadows of Lylat. The game is built using the Freespace_Open engine, but a release date is still far from being announced.

screenshots forum thread
Starfox: Shadows of Lylat FAQ

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Braid Gameplay Video

A recorded video of Jonathan Blow's lecture given during the Independent Games Summit in March was made available by GameSetWatch for viewing. There's a lengthy gameplay demonstration from Braid which begins around the fifteen minute mark, as Mr. Blow explains about the importance of prototyping. He also manages to slip in a subtle hint about what his next game will be.

- watch it on google video
- download the 170MB .mov file
- read the article
- prototype download page

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