Dig-N-Rig

Dig-N-Rig is ascii gaming at it's finest. You control a Diggit 6400 mining robot on a mission to drill your way to the earth's core. While diggin' and drillin' your way down you need to send the rare minerals and other resources you discover back up to the lab on the surface by constructing a network of conveyor belts. The resources you discover will be refined in the lab and used to purchase upgrades to your rig. As a fan of old-school ascii roguelikes this game really hit home and I'm thrilled to see the use of ascii graphics in an indie title!

Download Dig-N-rig from Digipen

Roguelike Radio pt. 2

A new episode of Roguelike Radio was posted yesterday. In this episode Andrew, Scott and Erez Ben-Aharon discuss Desktop Dungeons and it's roguelikeness. There's some interesting discussions going on and I'm not really sure where I stand myself regarding Desktop Dungeons. The game sure does condense the roguelike experience into a game where every move matters, much like in the most critical and memorable situations of a Crawl or Angband game. But in my opinion it also drive point too far in the sense that a lot of the RPG element is lost in the process, and by that also the attachment to your character.

Infestor

Infestor is a really nice platformer with beautiful pixel art and rockin' chip music. You take on the role of a amoeba-like biological weapon with the ability to infest and control humans. Your goal is to move from entrance to exit on each level by clever use of infestation of enemies. While in control of a human you can move faster, jump longer, push items and shoot other humans. Once a host has served it's purpose you can release control by exploding your host and move on to the next one.

Play Infestor over at Kongregate

Hammerfight

Today I had a chance to try to the demo of Hammerfight available on Steam. The game is all about brutal air combat using small flying machines with large weapons such as blades, hammers and metal balls attached to the machines using chains. Imagine yourself being a flying medieval flail kinda weapon wreaking havoc to other equally deadly machines. It is a lot of fun!

One of the real strengths of Hammerfight is it's controls. The game is fully mouse controlled and as you move your mouse in a circular motion your machine swings it's weapon in the same way. Combine this with realistic physics and you get some really intuitive controls where you really need to time your swings for maximum damage.

Forget Me Not

Forgot Me Not is a game that reminds a lot of PacMan, but with a lot of twists. How about procedurally generated levels, many different monsters, the ability to shoot and monsters being able to shoot you? Sounds like fun? It is!

Forget Me Not by Nyarlu Labs

Skillz

Skillz is a new DJ game by Playpen Studios for iOS and Android tablets, scheduled for release on the 8th of September. Judging by the game play videos Skillz is a perfect example of a game very well suited to the tablet format. It probably doesn't beat having a real mixer and turntables as in DJ Hero, but I think it will work well enough on a 10" tablet (maybe not as much on the smaller 7" tablets though). It's also great to see more tablet only games as I believe there's a lot of compromise that has to go into a game if you want to target both the smaller 3-4" screens as well as the larger 7-10" tablet screens.

Skillz Hands On Video: What's On Your Mind? from Playpen Studios on Vimeo.

Mario + Portals = Mari0

What happens if you cross the old NES classic Mario with the innovative Portals puzzle-platformer? Well, you get a lot of interesting ways to kill Koopas, that's for sure...

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/