Mega-mod site and soon to be digital distributor ModDB have announced the winners of this year’s Mod of the Year Awards, with three indie notables taking home some metaphorical hardware.

Editor’s picks included AAAAA! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity taking Best Indie Game, with Overgrowth garnering the most votes for Best Upcoming Indie. Impressively, Natural Selection 2 grabbed the player’s choice (open voting) Indie Game of the Year award despite the fact that the game is yet to be released.

What’s clear about the awards, regardless if it’s an editor pick or a player’s choice, is that creative art direction and/or higher end graphics appear to be a theme among the winners. Congrats to all the indie devs and mod teams on the recognition of their excellent work.

D2D continues to offer good discounts on top indie titles, today announcing Dejobaan Games’ unique free-faller Aaaaa! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity at 50% off as their Deal of the Week. In the title, you try your best to impress a crowd who watch as you base jump from the top of skyscrapers, creating and performing stunts on the plummet downward.

The title was recently nominated for the IGF 2010 award for Excellence in Design and is certainly worth the $5 its going for through next Friday, January 15.

Check out the Dejobaan’s next project Musorqua, a similar-looking music title still in early development.

The development team that came out of nowhere to wow us with their base jumping PC game AAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, has revealed that they’re already hard at work on their next title. Dejobaan Games has officially announced Musorqua.

The game, the team concedes, looks quite a bit like its previous effort, but in fact will be a completely different and unique music-puzzle themed title.

Steam has dished out this week’s Mid-Week Madness deal, offering up Dejobaan Games base jumper Aaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity for 50% off. It bests the 30% off sale Impulse ran recently, so if you were on the fence then, now seems to be an opportune time to jump.

The title has the player diving off skyscrapers simply for the fun of it and to impress the judges that will determine your score based on style, the stunts you pull on the way down, and whether you stick the landing, or stick all over the pavement.

Aaaaa! can be picked up for only $7.50 now through Thursday, November 19. Check out our review on the title.

I pride myself in fishing out some of the best indie game sales, discounts and offers around the web. Not only because it’s cool reading about those happy individuals who would otherwise have no inkling of the deal, but also because doing so gives the developer the extra exposure to hopefully see profit from the gesture of reducing the price of their product. It’s pretty much like the circle of life on a much larger and more important scale.

So, it was to my great surprise that I found an indie offer this week that has been on sale since Monday, and it just so happens to be a whopper (both in size and discount.)

Every once in a while there comes a game that just absolutely floors you. You go into the game expecting one thing and you end up with something completely different in all the right ways. This is what happened to me as I played through Aaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.

Aaaaa! is a very weird game wrapped in a very simple concept: falling is fun. It’s not weird so much in it’s actual gameplay as it is in the presentation. While the game is largely about falling from very high places whilst attempting to rack up as many points as possible, it’s presented to you in such a way as to be a real head scratcher. Through out your many, many plummets you’ll be treated to weird sayings and even weirder voice overs as you browse the menu. Underneath all that though is the crisp, satisfying gameplay that makes this game oh so much fun to play.