Created by Lazy Brain Games, who also made a fantastic platformer called Mecha Spider Island, has kicked off his "Season 2" with Omnicron.

Omnicron is a simplistic, top-down, side scrolling, shooter, video game, with interactive inputs. Sorry got on a roll there. What makes this game stand out is the addition of a mouse controlled reticule that can destroy "Blue Things" that would normally kill you. Additionally, the destruction of said blue things will speed up the generation of your right click bomb. This becomes pretty vital later on as it destroys all projectiles on screen and gives you a temporary shield.
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FRACT has gone into full production with a 3 person team. The game began its life as a graduate project for Richard Flanagan at the Universite de Montreal/Ubisoft Campus. It went on to win an award at the Independent Games Festival for Best Student Game, and with good cause. Here is a promotional video for the demo.


Headed by Richard Flanagan and inspired by electronic music FRACT is a very interesting project utilizing the Unity Engine. The available demo plays like a cross between Tron and Myst. There is something desolately beautiful in the ruined electronic landscape you are presented with. The fact that FRACT will be getting a more in depth treatment is very exciting.

FRACT: http://fractgame.com/
Demo (PC): http://www.phosfiend.com/external/fr...E_Flanagan.zip
Demo (Mac): http://www.phosfiend.com/external/fr...E_Flanagan.zip

Friend of the site, Lazy Brain Games, has just released a fantastic platformer by the name of Mecha Spider Island. It is a nice and quick NES style game with some deliciously retro art and sound design. LBG even wrangled an amazing piece of box art by, Mister Skab.

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Arguably Valve is the largest independent game developer in the world. With 260 employees, that makes valve somewhere between 26 and 260 times bigger than the average independent studio. It really blurs the line at that point. I'll be frank, I tend to avoid writing up about Valve because everybody else already does. However, as the owners of Steam they have also helped enable dozens of small game companies since they first started distributing other people's games and most recently they have performed the most elaborate and concentrated effort to benefit independent studios that I have ever seen.
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is out and has been for a few days.


It looks amazing, but I do not have an iPad or other appropriate iProduct so I can not play it. I will be very upfront and say that I am very bitter about this because LOOK AT THAT! What is happening there!? It looks AWESOME! I want to play that!

So someone who can play this, please do and let me know how it is.

Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super...424912055?mt=8
Official Site: http://www.swordandsworcery.com/
People I Want To Blame For Me Not Being Able To Play: http://www.apple.com/