Hello and welcome to Sunday and my round up of my top free picks for the week. This week has been yet another great week and with the amount of games online the difficult bit is often picking from the vast selection of awesome titles. This week I have picked some older games and some different games but they all have one thing in come, they are awesome.

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Monday: ’Boredom’ Are You Really That Bored?

Boredom is a great little game that adopts this amazing minimalistic style and really runs away with it. Although the visuals are crisp and simple the gameplay is highly refined and allows for some great challenges in the unrelenting platformer.

Wednesday: ’This Is Not Sparta’ A Spartan Holiday

This Is Not Sparta is a fun little title that is very cute and although it has no real story or depth is just a lot of fun. It’s basically an infinite runner but with some great graphics and interesting mechanics really make this a stand out time waster.

Thursday: ’Alphaland’ A Glitch In The System

Alphaland brings in a lot of really neat ideas creating this pseudo broken game that makes up the majority of the mechanics. Alphaland really brings in many great ideas that I’ve not really seen used very much else where making this one stand out game.

Friday: ’House Of Dead Ninjas’ A New Style Of Kung Fu Fighting

House Of Dead Ninjas is a game that has been around for sometime and has really generated quite the cult following over the years and it is easy to see why. The graphics style is spot on and goes hand in hand with all the sound choices making for one fun little title that brings back a lot of what we love about generations past.

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 I hope you have enjoyed my run down for the week and have enjoyed playing some if not all of the games I’ve selected this week. If you are looking for a new game to try be sure to come back tomorrow midday for an all new Indie Intermission.

If you are a developer with A fun indie game that can be played over a coffee break, we want to hear from you! Private message us on twitter @IndieGameMag or shoot us an email at editors@indiegamemag.com with the subject “Indie Intermission” and you could be our indie intermission pick of the day!

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Indie Intermission Sunday Round Up: Retro Revival

From now until the end of time, The Indie Game Mag will host Trailer Thursday, in which indie game developers (and fans) send in trailers, gameplay videos, or whatever they want, to us and we feature them in this weekly article!

This week we have eleven videos for you to check out!

1.) Little Nick
2.) ChronoBlade
3.) Moebius
4.) Frozen State
5.) Harvest
6.) X Orbetek II
7.) Attack of the Gelatinous Blob
8.) Krog
9.) The Wizard’s Lair
11.) Dino Dinner
12.) Ethan: Meteor Hunter

To round off the week I have found an older game but a highly fun one nonetheless. House Of The Dead Ninjas was developed by Megadev in association with Adultswim and has since been created into a fully fledged game available on Steam.

House Of The Dead Ninjas puts you at the top of this infinitely large randomly generated tower forcing you to run, jump, stab, and bomb your way to victory.

The game is hard as nails and with the constant constraint of the timer ticking down you must descend quickly to prevent the clock from running out. Of course as you move down the tower the enemies become increasingly more difficult making for a highly challenging platforming game.

Along with the highly addictive gameplay House Of The Dead Ninjas has some great sound assets, along with a fantastic retro style that suits the game perfectly.

Average play time – 10 minutes

House Of The Dead Ninjas is a whole lot of fun and if you have managed to miss this game like myself you should definitely give it a go.

Be sure to play House Of Dead Ninjas online for free now. If you enjoy the game check out Megadev’s site for a list of their other games.

If you are a developer with A fun indie game that can be played over a coffee break, we want to hear from you! Private message us on twitter @IndieGameMag or shoot us an email at editors@indiegamemag.com with the subject “Indie Intermission” and you could be our indie intermission pick of the day!

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Indie Intermission – ‘House Of Dead Ninjas’ A New Style Of Kung Fu Fighting

Just last week Flippfly the creates of the upcoming futuristic racer Race The Sun finally announced their plans for implementing a new and creative asynchronous multiplayer feature into their game.

Race The Sun is a new type of racer that takes influence from such games as Wipeout in creating this futuristic racer all about speed. Race The Sun however differs as you are more focuses on getting your vehicle as far as you can in the time limit.

Flippfly have not taken the conventional route at all with this racer and it continues to show even greater diversity in the new asynchronous relay multiplayer they just implemented. Flippfly felt that standard ghost races or straight up head-to-head gameplay would be a little lacking and of course nothing too innovative so they went to the drawing board and came back with this novel idea.

The relay begins after a player finishes a single player game (i.e. dies), they are then able to share their race to start a relay. Flippfly have attempted to make the sharing as ubiquitous as they could across the many different different platforms the game will be available on so they opted for a hyperlink system.

The use of a hyperlink is great as it means you can share this with anyone who has access to a browsers and it will not be tied to any particular system, meaning you for once don’t have to hate your one Mac using friend.

Once a friend accepts your relay the real challenge begins as you must work as a team (ranging from 2-4 players) to clear all four stages. Each stage gets increasingly more difficult by increasing the speed and number of obstacles that you must overcome. Once your team finishes the race your combine score is submitted to a team leaderboard allowing you to compete asynchronously.

Although Flippfly are billing this new addition as an experiment I have high hopes for this rather awesome idea of implementing a rather different multiplayer experience for games to jump into.

Race The Sun is currently in beta and can be purchased from the official site for only $10. Be sure to check out the site and consider supporting Flippfly on their development of the game. If you would love to see Race The Sun on Steam vote on the Greenlight.

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – ‘Race The Sun’ Beta Brings New Asynchronous Relay Multiplayer Action

Today I was looking through some developer’s sites, only to stumble across one game that was rather great. Created for the last Ludum Dare Orbfuscated by Robert Shenton and a friend, I still don’t know how this one got by me.

Orbfuscated is a very interesting puzzle platformer  in which you take control of a rather ominous trench-coat wearing man who has a very peculiar weapon that allows  him to reveal these invisible platforms.

As the levels consist of mostly invisible platforms this trait is a pretty good one to have in this game, and of courses it makes things possible. Using this weapon you must fire the balls around the level to reveal the numerous platforms that will inevitably allow you to complete the level.

It’s a very interesting idea and does work very well as a puzzle platformer offering some very creative and fun puzzles to over come.

Average play time – 20 minutes

Orbfuscated is a very interesting game that offers a suitable challenge along with a very fun experience. The concept works very well in this environment and I do like the idea of limiting the number of balls you can use in a single reload, however I do feel two may be a little stringent.

Play Orbfuscated online now.

Be sure to check out Robert Shenton’s site to find more great games from him.

If you are a developer with A fun indie game that can be played over a coffee break, we want to hear from you! Private message us on twitter @IndieGameMag or shoot us an email at editors@indiegamemag.com with the subject “Indie Intermission” and you could be our indie intermission pick of the day!

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Indie Intermission – ‘Orbfuscated’ Have You Got The Balls For This?

Today’s game is a fun little game that comes from the very talented Juicy Beast studio, which I have covered previously with their awesome Knightmare Tower a little while ago.

This time the game I will be looking at from Juicy Beast is Burrito Bison. In Burrito Bison you take control of a bison who has been captured and forced to fly out of a ring for peoples amusement.

In Burrito Bison you must try and catapult out of the ring at maximum velocity to then land on as many giant gummy bears as you can to keep up your speed.

Burrito Bison reminds me of a lot of the old flash games I use to play back in high school but with a great power up system along with some really nice artwork.

Average play time – 10 minutes

Burrito Bison is a very fun little game that offers a good amount of humour and relief from work. The upgrade system forces you to keep playing and it works very well making for a very fun game that you will struggle to put down.

Burrito Bison can be played online on Kongregate now. If you would like to find out more about Juicy Beast be sure to check out their official site.

If you are a developer with A fun indie game that can be played over a coffee break, we want to hear from you! Private message us on twitter @IndieGameMag or shoot us an email at editors@indiegamemag.com with the subject “Indie Intermission” and you could be our indie intermission pick of the day!

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Indie Intermission – ‘Burrito Bison’ A Hop, Skip, And A Gummy Bear

Earlier today, Markus Persson, perhaps better known on the internet by his pseudonym “Notch”, simply tweeted the URL to Mojang’s next title, Scrolls. When the linked page loaded, the curious were greeted with a much more exciting message: “We’ve hit open beta! Scrolls is now on-sale!” And the Scrolls store has been bogged down ever since.

Announced in 2011, Scrolls is a digital collectable card game where players battle in a fantasy world, attempting to destroy their opponent’s idols. Lose three idols, and it is game over. Players collect resources in order to play other creature/spell/structure/enchantment cards and put them out on the battlefield. As Mojang continues to develop Scrolls, they promise to continually add in new “scrolls” (cards) for players to get their hands on. A built-in deck builder allows players to strategically construct a deck, based on what cards they own.

As of earlier today, Mojang has opened pre-orders for Scrolls at $20/£13/€15 respectively. Pre-ordering Scrolls grants instant access to the current beta build.

“It’s not feature complete,” Mojang comments in a related announcement, “but there’s still plenty to get your teeth into. Buy it at this discounted price and you’ll get future updates for free. It’s like that other game, the one with Creepers.”

The beta includes access to the game’s store, the twenty-five “trials” (challenge levels) currently available, the multiplayer trading community, the ability to participate in quick matches, challenge matches, and ranked matches, and finally players will be able to setup their personal profile. Players can immediately start earning gold to use in the Scrolls store (Mojang has made it clear that everything in the store can be bought with the earned in-game currency: gold) to unlock additional cards to construct new decks, or improve upon existing decks.

“You can access all our content and play Scrolls competitively without using our secondary currency – shards. They’re completely optional,” explained Mojang in store-specific update post from today. The post goes on to explain the various ways to attain scrolls, from weekly personal specials to expensive pre-constructed decks to randomly generated packs, there are plenty of options for players to spend their gold (or shards) on.

The beta for Scrolls is now available for PC and Mac through the official Scrolls webstore.

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Mojang’s ‘Scrolls’ Now In Open Beta, Pre-Orders Grant Instant Access

A new indie game studio has been formed by two developers from L.A. Noire studio Team Bondi. Entitled Intuitive Game Studios, the team has launched with a simple website and Facebook page.

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – ‘L.A. Noire’ Developers Form New Indie Studio: Intuitive Game Studios

Humble Indie Bundle 8 was released yesterday, containing five games on a pay-what-you-want scale. For a purchase above the average, buyers will receive copies of Hotline Miami and Proteus as well.

The 8th main iteration of the Humble Bundle Series highlights two highly praised indie titles: Hotline Miami, winner of IGN’s “Best PC Sound of the Year”, and Proteus, an IGF finalist for the Nuovo Award. Once again, Minecraft developer Markus “Notch” Persson is the top contributor, paying $5,000 for the bundle. This also marks the first bundle in the main Humble Bundle series that accepts Bitcoin as a payment option.

Humble Indie Bundle 8 continues for the next two weeks. All of the games included are DRM-free and cross-platform. Many of the Linux versions of these games may contain bugs. A note on the purchase page has warned buyers of this. “This is the debut for many of the Linux versions of the games! Please be patient while the developers fix any 1.0 bugs as quickly as they can, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you run into any issues.” In addition to this, a notice for Dear Esther has been posted, explaining how the port was developed to run under a Windows API. “While it is not a “genuine native port”, it should run great on Linux machines and is professionally supported.”

If the purchase is above $1, Steam keys are included for each game. Along with the games themselves, soundtracks for every game except Hotline Miami are included with the purchase. Awesomenauts comes with a code for an exclusive skin, too. As always, consumers can choose how to split their money between the developers, Child’s Play Charity, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a tip to the organizers of Humble Bundle. The games included are:

• Dear Esther
• Thomas Was Alone
• Capsized
• Awesomenauts
• Little Inferno
• Hotline Miami
• Proteus

Humble Indie Bundle 8 can be purchased at the Humble Bundle website.

Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Humble Indie Bundle 8 Launches with ‘Hotline Miami’ and ‘Proteus’

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