The Lila Experiments

The Lila Experiments is another abstract shooter by Jph, in which the player's ship is constantly attracted to several black orbs on screen. Collect green orbs before they turn red, and use the Z key to shoot at red orbs to turn some of them back to their original color.

Your shots are limited to a gauge shown at the top of the screen. Collect more green orbs to increase this meter, and hold the X key to keep your ship stationary. Hold the end key to restart the game at any time or view the instructions.

Name: The Lila Experiments
Developer: Jph
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Direct download link: Click here

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News

Platformers

Jumper 3: Infinite Castle announced. The latest sequel will employ a completely retro look and feel.

An English translated version of Virtanen's Kaipuu (a Seiklus-like platformer) is in the works. [previous mention]

Remakes

A new version for Typhoon 2001 is in the works. [download page]

Apparently there is another Spindizzy remake currently in development.

Articles

A new edition of Weekly Freeplay is out. Categorizing Knytt Stories as a Flash browser game is erroneous though.

MarkUp issue 7 (the official GM magazine) is now available for download.

The Guardian of Paradise walkthrough is now available. [AGTP download page]

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PC Gamer's Top 100 2007

PC Gamer's Top 100 2007 is a list of the best one hundred games for the year 2007, chosen at random by ten journalists. Cave Story is nowhere in it, but here are a couple of indie games selected for prestigious mentions:

98. N
85. Uplink
75. Masq
51. Defcon
40. Peggle
35. Darwinia

Read page 1, 100 - 51
Read page 2, 50 - 1

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Serious Sam-I-Am

Serious Sam-I-Am is a scrolling action game in the style of Metal Slug, developed by The Podunkian for a recent competition. Use the W, A, S and D keys for movement. Tap the space key to jump. Press the left or right mouse button to shoot and snipe.

Don't miss the intro as the included level is only a few screens long.

Name: Serious Sam-I-Am
Developer: The Podunkian
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB

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Crocodile Garden Translated

English versions for both Crocodile Garden and Marble Seals were recently posted on Anahara Masataka's home page. Fans of Sokoban would be interested in the former, a game about transporting alligators to their watery abodes.

Obstacles block your way frequently but these can be pushed away using bulldozers which only moves forward or backwards. Climb into a vehicle from it's sides, and grab a reptile using the enter key. [original review]

Crocodile Garden download page

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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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Command and Conquer Free Download

To celebrate the 12th anniversary of Command and Conquer's release, the original Command & Conquer Gold has been offered on EA's site as a free 1GB download together with instructions on how to get the game working on PCs with Windows XP installed. [source: Retro Remakes]

Grab the game here

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