DIYgamer.com has teamed up with Citérémis to bring you an entertaining new contest. Up for grabs are 1 of 10 copies of the game, courtesy of Citérémis. If you missed it, check out our review. You can find the full contest info below.

The DIYgamer Aztaka Divinity Contest

Describe your Aztec divinity, win a copy of Aztaka!

Hi, we’re Citérémis, the guys behind Aztaka, an Aztec-inspired action-RPG side-scroller. Our game got reviewed by the good folks at DIYGamer, and to celebrate this, we’re having a contest and giving free copies of the game to DIYGamer readers!

Our protagonist, the Aztec Huitzilo, is caught in a battle pitting humanity and its gods. We all know what being a lowly human feels like, but what about being an Aztec god? Tell us what you would be like if you were an Aztec divinity, and win a copy of Aztaka!

To enter, you must send in a description of your Aztec god character. How do you do that? It’s simple:

•Pick your Divinity’s Name; what your worshippers need to call out to you. Bonus points if you make it sound Aztec. Or stick ‘tl’ at the end; whatever works.

•Pick a Divine Symbol: your worshipers need tattoos to look cool. It can be an animal, a thing, a special design, anything. It would be cooler if you picked some kind of mesoamerican big-ass predator, but that’s just us!

Bonus points if you send in a picture (you need one if you opt for a special design).

•A Short Description of what your divinity stands for, what it influences in the daily life of the Aztec, or what its worshipers need to do everyday to make it happy.

And here’s the bloody twist – the Aztec performed human sacrifices on top of their pyramids. Oh yes they did.

•Describe Who or What Must be Sacrificed to your god, and what good comes out of it for the people. The sacrifice must have a good outcome. The Aztec go through a lot of trouble for the ceremony (dressing up, sharpening their blades, gathering the children, chanting songs nobody remembers, and then there’s the clean-up afterward too…). So they deserve something back from you!

Following the dual-color format of DIYGamer reviews, you must write the sacrifice bit in red, and the beneficial consequence in blue. You can send multiple entries if you feel creative (or have multiple God complexes), more chances for you to win!

So to recap:

1. Name and symbol of your divinity.
2. Description of that your god stands for.
3. Who or what gets sacrificed.
4. What is granted to the people in return.

Send in your submission to DIYGamer (peter.eykemans@diygamer.com). The best written and/or funniest entries, as judged by DIYgamer and Citérémis, will be posted for all to read here and on Aztaka’s forums, and the winners will get a free copy of Aztaka.

Good luck to everyone who participates!

The contest is currently open through the end of January, so get working!

TIGSource’s artificially restrained Assemblee competition is moving into part two. In the first part, artists and musicians made characters, models, particles, music and backgrounds without any idea how they’d be used by the designers and programmers, who didn’t get to share their design ideas with the creative types. The artistic participants went on to create a huge amount of content, if the time it takes to load this page of assets is any indication.

Now it’s the designers and programmers get to go to work. They have about a month to turn the assets created in the first part of the competition into a playable game. Though the participants can make some slight changes to the assets, such as converting the file type or playing with transparency, they mostly have to work with nothing more than their coding skills and the content at hand.

Last time we talked about 2Bee Games’ Independent Games Competition, the community had narrowed the field from more than 120 entrants to four finalists for the users’ choice award. But the grand prize winner was still up to the judges.

Well, they made their decision, picking TwO Bros. Games’ Climb to the Top of the Castle for the top award, $10,000 and a publishing contract with Zoo Games, Inc.

Have you been dying for a new, unique, and exhilarating online FPS? Well your in luck because we are giving away a single copy of Shattered Horizon, courtesy of Futuremark Game Studio! For those that don’t yet know, Shattered Horizon is a online first person shooter that takes place in Earth’s orbit. This means you are fighting in a zero-G environment. It’s something that rarely been done before and certainly not on this scale.

We recently gave our review of it and, while I may have got a couple points wrong in the review — my fault entirely — I largely came away with a good impression of the game.

So here’s how to enter!

• Follow us on Twitter, or become a fan on our Facebook fanpage. (Links also available on our toolbar below)
• If you do both you get two chances to enter.
• Fake Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts are not eligible. We will check.
• Available to US residents only and winner must have a Steam account (It’s free!).
• That’s it!

The winner will be randomly chosen next Friday the 20th. Good luck!

Relic Games has released an updated demo for their hit indie dungeon crawler Torchlight, now available for download. The demo offers two hours of play, so the dev saw it fit to give it the same update the full game received.

The patch brings the trial version up to v1.12, adding a seizable list of fixes, tweaks and improvements to the trail version of the game. The download weighs in at 418 MB and is available via GamersHell.

Remember, now’s your last chance to get into our contest to win a copy of Torchlight, Machinarium or Trine, all you have to do is join our communities, but hurry we’re drawing winners tomorrow!

Just a quick reminder to all our awesome readers out there. We are currently giving away two (2) copies of each; Trine, Torchlight, and Machinarium. All you gotta do to be entered to win one of these delicious indie games is follow us on twitter, join our community, and join our FaceBook fanpage! It’s as simple as that! For each one that you join you’ll get an extra chance to win a copy.

All three can be reached from our handy toolbar at the bottom to make this process as easy as possible for you. So what are you waiting for? Check out all the nitty-gritty details at our official contest page:

DIYgamer Mega Contest!

Thanks and good luck!

Here at DIYgamer.com we like to play indie games. I mean, come on, that’s what our entire world is about. Well, the site’s world anyways. Bottom line, we like to play as well as write about indie games and I’m guessing you also like to play indie games as well. After all, why else would you be reading this right now?

Anyways, I’ll get to the point. In order to celebrate the launching of our Twitter, FaceBook fanpage, and FaceBook community (an in-site community run by FaceBook) we’ve teamed up with Amanita Design, Runic Games, and Frozenbyte to offer their games in a contest spectacular! Here are the prizes: