In today’s game you take control of a somewhat unheroic child caught out in a storm. It is your job to guide him away from all the rain and keep him dry for as long as possible in Don’t Rain On Me by Matthew38940.

Along with the basic movement controls you also get power-ups in the form of rain coats and umbrellas which will give you more chances to hit the rain before failing. Of course it will be important for you to get all the power-ups you can as after a short time out in the rain it will start to literally rain cats and dogs.

The added animal obstacles really make the game ramp up in difficulty as you must also jump over the frightened dogs and cats along with avoiding the rain falling from the sky.

Don’t Rain On Me is a delightfully simple game that offers a great distraction from you day as a fun arcade game with some simple yet fun mechanics.

Average play time – 5 minutes

If you are looking for a minor distraction from your day Don’t Rain On Me may very well be what you are looking for as it offers a short yet fun arcade game.

Don’t Rain On Me can be played on Kongregate.

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Welcome to the weekly roundup of free indie games, this week I’ve found quite a few awesome retro inspired titles to have fun with. The games this week have ranged from zombie shooters to side scrolling shooters and pretty much everything in between.

As always clicking the title will take you to the original article whilst clicking the image will take you to the game.

Monday: ’Atomic’ A Minimalistic Fast Paced Arcade Game

Atomic is an interesting arcade game that has taken a great deal of influence from Super Hexagon along with bullet hell games. Atomic combines the two very different styles of games together to create this fast paced arcade title that is a great little time waster.

Tuesday: ’Zombie Grinder’ A Lovingly Created Zombie Arcade Shooter

Zombie Grinder  is a great little multiplayer zombie shoot em up in which  you must battle through the unrelenting hordes of the undead to try and reach new high scores and unlock new items. Although still in the beta stages Zombie Grinder already offers a great deal with a great selection of maps and modes to keep you busy for several hours.

Wednesday: ’Maldita Castilla’ A Supernatural Sidescroller

This one is for all of you who played the classic side scrollers back in the 80-90s as Maldita Castilla aims to bring back what made this decade of gaming great. Along with awesome visuals expect compelling gameplay that really does throw back to the golden age of gaming.

Thursday: ’Bat Country’ Giant Mutant Bats Can Put A Damper On Your Day

Who would’ve thought that a helicopter could get taken down by a swarm of giant bats? Although this may sound implausible it does end in some rather interesting results. Bat Country is all about the old style arcade flight games with strange stories and a distinct pixel art style that although  rather simplistic is also elegant.

Friday:  ’Endless Forms Most Beautiful’ A Beautifully Recreated Spectrum Game

Endless Forms Most Beautiful is a PC port of the original Spectrum game and  thus feeds into the retro vibe of the week. Each level consists of just one screen in which you must pick up all of the mushrooms before the enemy get you. Although the idea is simple actually obtaining  all of the mushrooms can be very challenging especially on the later levels when ranged enemies get introduced.

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This brings us to the end of another week in indie gaming. I hope you have all enjoyed the games that I have selected this week. Please come back tomorrow for an all new game and the start of a new week of Indie Intermission.

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Apparently it’s the first day of summer today, which makes it rather appropriate that we might be writing about the Summer of Arcade on Xbox 360. Oh what a lovely coincidence that we’re being made doubly sweaty then – firstly by the weather being too hot already, and secondly by the encroaching release of not one but two promising indie games taking part in this promotion. Those would be 5th Cell’s parkour-induced online shooter Hybrid and Humble Hearts’ animated brawler jaw dropper Dust: An Elysian Tail.

The announcement came from Major Nelson in which it was stated that the two indie titles would be last to be released under the Summer of Arcade promotion – clearly leaving the best to last. As such, Hybrid will be release on Xbox LIVE Arcade on August 8th with Dust: An Elysian Tail following a week later on August 15th. Both are priced at 1200 MSP which translates to about $15, however, if you buy three of the games as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion then you can get 400 MSP back into your account.

Hybrid is a futuristic third person online shooter built with the Source engine by the folks behind Scribblenauts, but somewhat unfortunately they haven’t broken the trend by sticking with the typically dark palette of modern shooters. Bringing some of that colorful charm into a shooter that they’re most famous for would have been great, but alas, they’ve decided to leave any mention of innovation to the game’s mechanics. It is said that the game will feature an interesting cover mechanic and elements of parkour, though it basically means that you’ll be watching your character move around the screen for you. Yeah, might need some convincing on that one.

Combat is conducted 3v3 style in the air and on the ground, but like we say, you won’t be doing so much of the controlling, rather it’s a cover-to-cover shooter with almost on rail parts while travelling between bits of cover. Hybrid will carry 10 different maps and game modes and hints are that there will be an upgrade system with many weapons and abilities to unlock.

Then you have Dust: An Elysian Tail which won the Dream.Build.Play competition in 2009 and rightfully so. We’ve never seen animation as gorgeous and as smooth in a game ever before. On top of that, it’s frenetic too, the game being a fairly fast-paced action-RPG with a fast and technical combat system plus a fully fleshed out story which is also being realized as a film. Players can expect a lot of combos to master and with stunning results as a reward, for those who many not be so into their button mashing there’s the plush visuals set in the beautiful land of Falana.

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In ye olde days, rivalries, feuds and conflicts generally tended to operate on a local scale. You’d see villages pulling together against the common foes down the road, all standing in unabated unity in the name of their own personal havens. That, it would seem, is very much the theme of Cohorts of Kargonar, a browser-based role-playing game that’s gearing up to delve into its Open Beta phase from May 1st.

Cohorts of Kargonar appears to be a curious little beast, one that’s perhaps best described as SimCity meets Diablo in a mish-mash of building customisation and good old team-based battling. In essence, it’s a game based around the concept of keeping tabs on your cohort, a gang of up to six recruitable units, and your village, in which your units must be given adequate accommodation to suit their needs. What’s more is that unit bonuses, perks and abilities may be unlocked through the correct installation and construction of certain buildings, placing a vital focus on the need for pragmatic residential assembly as well as basic combat tactics.

Of course, the village also acts as an expression of one’s personal tastes and character, ad it’s this sense of personality that feeds into Cohorts of Kargonar‘s social integration. It’s possible for players to visit other players’ villages and trade resources in the in-game auction house, expanding the game’s global range as a genuine massively-multiplayer experience.

MythoLogic Interactive have been chipping away at their next project, Superfighters Deluxe, and now it’s starting to look like a game, one that they’re hoping will be the “ultimate 2D action game”.

Superfighters Deluxe might perhaps be one of the most ideal games to point towards if you were looking to back up Anna Anthropy’s argument that the gaming industry is all about men shooting each other in the face. But don’t let that put you off, if you do enjoy a good spot of man-blowing-up action then you should probably keep your eye on Superfighters Deluxe.

It has come to our attention that some of you may not have played the original Superfighters though. For this crime, we sentence you to an eternity of playing it over on Newgrounds. Now skip on over there you and don’t look back!

So where were we? Ah yes, with you lovely people who have played the original Superfighters. You’ll know what to expect from this follow-up title then: chaotic, multiplayer, all-singing-all-dancing, 2D brawl-em-ups. Excellent. Deluxe will be more of the same of course, but with online multiplayer, a built-n map editor, character customisation and just more ways to create chaos.

It’s a while off yet though, the developers are at the stage where they’re saying it’s “pretty much a functional game” with a test level and just the basics in place. Well it’s a start at least. We can’t wait to hear more – the developers are aiming for alpha testing by the end of May, for now we’re left with this teaser trailer.

More information on Superfighters Deluxe can be found on the developer’s official website.

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Vurb are working on a white-washed, first-person puzzle game called SWAP that we think is worth taking a look at, especially if you’re a fan of the genre.

The white cubes scattered around SWAP are instantly going to make you think either Portal or Q.U.B.E, to be fair that’s not far off what the game is like. One thing we will say about SWAP is that it seems a lot more fast-paced that those other two puzzle games and that probably stems from the game’s story.

In SWAP, you are taken to a facility as a baby in order to be trained as an elite soldier. There’s no weapon training though, instead you are tasked with surveying and manipulating the environment to your will and as quickly as possible. Your main task in this latest exercise is to prevent a nuclear explosion in what was apparently Alaska but has since been taken over a government faction – yes we’re in the future here.

There’s much more to the story but it seems that will be explored in the following titles after SWAP as this is planned to be a “saga”. Basically, you’re following the evolution of this person from training to eventually saving the world. The gameplay looks as if it will keep us busy most importantly, as we attempt to figure our way through the levels at a fast pace. You can get the gist of the game from the level montage below, which has some pretty decent music attached to it too. Enjoy!

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Goats and art may not mix very well but Arthur Lysenko thinks they do and has made a game to prove it – Dreamy Goat is available to purchase right now.

Insanity be thy name as we inform you about a game intended to relax, to be perceived as art, as well as bleat in a goat kind of fashion. Yes it’s mental but that’s what we’re looking for isn’t it – something a little different? Well, in that case, allow us to introduce you to Dreamy Goat.

The phrase that comes along with Dreamy Goat is simply this, “My journey is everything.” We have no idea what that means but it must reveal itself in the game, lest it be pretentious hoo-ha. You play as the eponymous goat and travel through its dreams, skipping and bouncing along with a gentle soundtrack and plush visuals. Apparently, this goat is a little unusual though (you don’t say!) as it likes to travel on “Super Whale” and be filmed on camera and eat candy. Yep.

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A sequel to Audiosurf has been announced and currently there is a call for beta sign-ups, so if you want to get an early look at Audiosurf Air, now is the time to make that desire known.

Just about everyone has played Audiosurf…probably. The simplicity of the game gave it a lot of appeal – you raced along a Tron-like track, hitting colored blocks to the rhythms of your very own music library. It’s great if you’re in the mood to chill to your own tunes but want something to occupy your mind. Now, some years later, Audiosurf Air is announced!

While we would love to tell you lots of things about Audiosurf Air we regret to inform you that we know nothing. From the look of the early screenshots it can’t be hugely different to its predecessor, but saying that, how else do you justify a sequel? The only thing we can see is that it appears you play from a first person perspective while holding on to a device transporting you across the track. Like those crazy people who hang on to jetskis and glide across the water – that seems to be the gist of it at least.

You’ll be able to find out what Audiosurf Air is about very soon though, by signing up to be part of the beta testing over on the official website. We suggest you go and do that.

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