This week I look through some more great Ludum Dare games trying to bring some of my favorite games into the lime light getting them the love they deserve. This weeks selection is pretty awesome with some geometric struggles and some colourful capers.

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

Monday:  ’Minimalism’ A Geometric Nightmare

Minimalism is a great little puzzle shooter in which you must morph your shape into that of the locks across the level to try to make it to the end. Of course it is not just about getting the correct shapes you must battle your way through this maze of unrelenting shapes to reach your goal.

Tuesday: ’My Mini Castle’ A Mini Slime Fighting Adventure

My Mini Castle is a rather cute little game that has you commanding this solitary penguin to throw his potatoes at incoming slimes. It’s a very simple idea but executed fantastically with these great graphics and fun mechanics.

Wednesday: ’ProductionVille’ It’s All About The Planning

For one reason or another I don’t get to feature many strategy games on here so I leapt at the option to feature Production Ville. In Production Ville you must setup a village that actually turns a profit. This is made all the more difficult by everything having an initial price along with an upkeep fee that can make you think twice before expanding to open a new mine.

Thursday: ’Mono’ Respect The Colors

Mono is a somewhat unique physics based puzzler that has you taking control of this rogue circle as you try to navigate the unforgiving levels in front of you. Although Mono only has six levels each adds some new mechanics creating an ever-changing experience that is just a great deal of fun.

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 That about does it for this weeks round-up.  I hope you have enjoyed playing some – if not all – of the games I have selected for you this week. Have a fantastic Sunday and see you tomorrow for an all new Indie Intermission.

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Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Indie Intermission Sunday Round Up: R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Those princesses will never learn will they? Always getting kidnapped by an evil villain who just happens to have many hundreds of minions at their command. Good job we got a fresh batch of heroes off the production line recently, goodness knows what would have happened otherwise! Snide stuff aside, Castle In The Darkness may take the most overused plot in video games ever, but it’s obviously an intentional retro throwback and it looks pretty good to us.

Riding out with the retro sentiment all the way, Castle In The Darkness is a sidescrolling platformer with some light metroidvania elements to spice things up. Developed by Matt Kapuszczak, this is clearly a labour of love which we’re told offers 400 rooms to explore at the moment with a total of 1000 being the goal. Inside of these are to be many secrets hidden away, items to collect, traps to avoid and, of course, mounds of the bad stuff to fight.

Speaking of combat, this seems to be the focus of variation given the range of attacks showcased in the trailer; sword thrusts, magic casting and boomerang throwing to just get us started. There are bosses as well, ghouls and over-sized plants are the dish of the day with simple attack patterns to learn by the looks of it. But let’s cut to the chase and start talking about that sound – the chime of coins and shuffles of the sword, and then the soundtrack. And then the soundtrack. And then the damn soundtrack! Yes, we like it, just a little bit.

Castle In The Darkness is due for a release in 2012 for Windows PCs but other platforms are apparently not out of the question. Start making your demands.

Frictional Games‘ survival horror masterpiece, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is now on the Mac App Store.

One of the most outstanding indie titles in recent years is Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It’s a survival horror in the most pure and twisted form and has become renown for making people scream, panic and probably urinate. You follow Daniel who awakens in a dark castle with no memory of how he got there. Finding notes left be himself, he finds out he must travel down through the castle past its many haunts and murder someone he doesn’t know and for an unknown reason.

The Dark Descent will be getting a follow up with A Machine For Pigs which is being developed by thechineseroom with Frictional acting as producers – we expect big and horrible things. If you haven’t played it yet and you’re a Mac owner then definitely consider picking it up from the Mac App Store now it’s on there.

More information on Amnesia: The Dark Descent is available on the game’s official website.

Tiyuri (the little scamp) has released a short video to demo the lighting in Starbound which he is obviously quite proud of. This also serves as the first peek at the game in motion.

We know how many of you are little chomping at the bit for any sight or sniff of news related to Starbound, so this is the best we could do for now. If you don’t know what all the fuss is about then you should probably check out the list of features that are hopefully planned for the game.

Chucklefish’s sandbox game should be mightily impressive if even half of those features can be attained, for now, the lighting in the game is looking pretty sweet as you can see in the video below. While it’s not a proper gameplay video, it’s just some walking in the dark after all, it does serve as the first time any of us have seen the game moving and not in a still frame. The feature that we’re seeing implemented here just today is directional torches. Enjoy.

More information on Starbound can be found on the game’s official website.

If what many people are saying is true, that is that Cube World is set to be the next big indie hit, then this new video just released by Wollay should be of a high interest to a lot of you. Prepare to absorb a couple of minutes of Cube World style slow motion combat! After having improved combat, introducing the Spirit system and creating dungeons in Cube World, Wollay has released a new video that neatly wraps these new features into one place for your convenience.This game just gets better and better.

Original Source: Slow Mo Swingers: New ‘Cube World’ Video Showcases Combat

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Chris Priestman.

One of our favorite games of last year, The Tiny Bang Story, is now available to download for your iPad – seriously, if you’re struggling to sleep at night then you need this game.With The Tiny Bang Story, Colibri Games proved that they are masters of creating games layered with zen. I can’t even begin to tell you how much this game helped me get to sleep at night. I even termed it my “lullaby game” for its power to make me tired. Not because it is boring mind you, simply because it is a satisfying and relaxing hidden object/puzzle game.On our sister site, Game Tunnel, The Tiny Bang Story got a Gold Award, so take our word for it – it’s brilliant for chilling out with.Now that The Tiny Bang Story is on the iPad, you can even take it to bed with you if so wish – saves the drag-yourself trip from your desk to the bed I suppose.

Original Source: ‘The Tiny Bang Story HD’ Now Available For iPad

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Chris Priestman.