Videos

Two very interesting videos highlighted by GameSetWatch this month. The first one is a thirty minute recording from the Independent Games Summit held at the Game Developers Conference 2007. This particular clip features Russell Carroll (of GameTunnel and Reflexive Entertainment) as he talks about marketing independently-developed games, how to manipulate the press and casual game portals, publishing, distribution and advertising.

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original GameSetWatch article

The second video is in a less serious tone, as the popular Consolevania team investigates the current state of games development in Scotland and manages to piece together nearly an hour's worth of barely watchable film footage from their misadventures. Highlights include conversations with participating students from Dare to be Digital, and a trailer from FLUX by Play Technologies.

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Arcanacra 0.4.0

Kei Mesuda's Arcanacra was recently updated to version 0.4.0. The game is still playable from any plain internet browser with Flash enabled, and comes with six stages in total plus an online high score table.

The game suffers from poor frame rate when window size is set to 2x, but works extremely well when the browser window is running in full screen mode with a desktop resolution of 800 x 600.

It is possible to upload your own replays for later viewing, or watch replays by any of the top ranked players. Push the right arrow key when the main menu is displayed to view the high score table.

play Arcanacra now
instructions
keim's web site

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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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News

Terry had posted his picks from the TIGSource's recent B-Game Contest competition on his site. Download links are included. [pictured above, cactus' Mondo Medicals]

Charlie had updated his site with a progress report for Space Phallus.

Babarageo is working on a new vertical shooter. [sprites, prototype]

The official site for Sony's Echochrome is up. A new Java application named theHOLE (variation of OLE Coordinate System) was posted on Jun Fujiki's site as well.

A winter edition for Coaster Rider is in the works.

Sean had posted some instructions on how to get Game Maker games to run on Linux.

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Iwanaga Hard Mode

mrmonkeymans had posted the complete gameplay video for Iwanaga at the highest difficulty setting, split into four parts.

part 1, part 2
part 3, part 4
Iwanaga information page
direct download link
instructions

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Poizoned Mind

Poizoned Mind is Pacian's entry to TIGSource's B-Game Competition, and is one of my favourite entries so far. In the game, you’ve been poisoned - but before stepping into the afterlife, Death allows you to take one last look around Zone Five, the run down city where the game takes place.

It’s superbly well written, and consequently, lots of fun to explore. The author claims that the game has only one ending - and it does, I suppose - but there are many interesting and funny ways to get there. The game's eight fleshed out characters joke, purr, and wax philiosophical about issues as diverse as death, Elvis's mothership, and gonzo burgers.

Name: Poizoned Mind
Developer: Pacian
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 2.4MB
Download: Directly, here

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Mondo Medicals

This is cactus entry for TIGSource's B-Game Competition. It could be described as an illogical puzzle game played from a first person view, with plenty of bizarre elements. And it's downright evil. Most of the levels are designed to confuse you, and the solutions aren't always that easy to figure out. Move around with the arrow keys and press Z to interact with stuff (There are in game instructions, but they might not be that easy to interpret). There are eight levels total, good luck beating them all!

There is a complete walkthrough over at cactus' forum for those who find the strange puzzles too hard. His site has also gotten a complete overhaul, and you can now find some new screenshots from his current WIPs and scrapped projects there, and on his forum.

Name: Mondo Medicals
Developer: cactus
Category: FPS/Puzzle/Bizarre
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB

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