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Aveyond 2 is a top-down RPG reminiscent of the old style SNES games.  To answer your question - RPG stands for Role Playing Game, not rocket propelled grenade, thank you.  But after loading up the game for the first time I thought I had been hit by the latter, died, and gone to heaven.  [...]

The humpsters is a 2d physics based fighting game.  The only thing you have to control during a fight is your laughter.  It’s comical, like a pigeon pooping on someone else’s cat.
Anywho, the object of the game is to build your monster by dragging and placing limbs onto your monster’s body, er head.  Same thing?  [...]

Synaesthete is an IGF finalist in the “excellence in visual art category.”  It’s a spawn from the digipen institute of technology.  The game is a hybrid rhythm and action game.  You move your character from room to room while fighting baddies.  The way you deal damage is by hitting j, k and l on the keyboard in time [...]

It’s one thing when you’re able to draw on your computer screen using crayons, but to make a physics game out of it, wah woo wee woo.  Like many physics games out there you’re in control of a ball.  In this case it’s a crayon circle.  Your goal is to pick up all the stars on [...]

The list is in.  The 2008 independent games festival finalists have been announced.  Check them out below.  There are some great games listed here and I really wish more of them had public demos.  What are you waiting for, cheggem out:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

Audiosurf
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Hammerfall
Noitu Love 2: Devolution
World of Goo

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Aquaria is finally coming.  A demo will be released along with the full game via download from bit-blot on December 7th.  It’s $30, yikes, but they promise there will be about 20 hours of content so that’s pretty good bang for your buck.  The download is a hefty 200MB but they’re claiming it’s due to all [...]

 
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Heaven 2 Ocean is a sidescrolling (side-tilting?) platformer with light puzzle elements.  It’s veeeery similar to LocoRoco for the PSP.  The controls are simple, just move the mouse left and right to tilt the screen.  Why would you want to tilt the screen you ask?  To move your cluster of [...]

 
Rock legend is a sim game where you are put into the shoes of a band leader.  You start out with just a few dollars and five years worth of time.  Your mission?  To create the ultimate band.
Each turn (1 game day) you have several things you can do to work on becoming the next [...]

Zan-Zan’s at it again in the second installment of the short series.  This game’s short, really short.  That’s not bad if you’re looking to spend a quick 20-30 minutes collecting mushrooms.  It’s a decent, tiny platformer with simple controls, left-right arrow keys to move, space bar to jump and advance the text.
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Do you like platformers?  Do you like final fantasy?  Do you like leveling up via grinding?  Then Final Vision is your game.
After a couple minutes of tinkering with strange controls (They turn out to be handy once you get used to them) you choose your character’s class.  There are four types, and one non-type.  Here they are (taken from [...]