Indie Round-Up: May 31st

Indie Round-Up: May 31st - June 6th

Posted Jun 7th 2008 1:00PM by James Murff
Filed under: Features, Indie, Meta BD

We here at Big Download love indie games. From telling you about them, playing them, or offering downloads for them, we are all about helping lesser-known developers get their name out into the world. Each week on Saturday, we'll give you the Indie Wrap-up, a collection of all the indie news stories and features during the previous week.

There were no major independent releases this week, with most of the week's news concerning more freeware than independent. There have been an explosion of new releases, however, thanks to the Procedural Generation Competition being held over on TIGSource. Stay tuned for more news concerning the excellent output from the competition!

Features and Downloads

	Freeware Friday: Torus Trooper Our resident indie fan James Murff takes a look at one of freeware's best shoot-'em-ups, even if he gets disoriented by all the twisting.
	Armageddon Empires demo available for download The incomparable Armageddon Empires now has a demo available for download through the Big Download service!
	MODvelous Monday: 6/2/2008 David Craddock takes his weekly look at mods to the excellent single-player Half-life mod They Hunger.

News

Meatball Rocket released, is heavily japanese
A new japanese puzzle-shmup released for all.
Ziczac, the diagonal matching game
Yet another game in the TIGSource procedural generation competition, this one is inspired by tetris.
Epsilon brings space-time to your browser
Portal inspires this space-time browser puzzle game. Just make sure to turn down the settings.
IndieGames interviews Dan Tabar
IndieGames talks to Cortex Command's own Dan Tabar.
Love available for $1
An indie platformer with retro graphics is now available for $1.
Stardrone swinging into action
Swings around into stars has never been as much fun as Stardrone.
The Jackyard is mostly art, not much game
More art than game, The Jackyard is still fun.
Planet of the Jellies acts like puzzle invaders
The creator of Crayon Physics gives us a fun little puzzler.
Kaiten Patissier rotates your platformer views
Rotate your way around Kaiten Patissier, a platformer with a twist.
Streetwise released, shows off conveyor belts
With a single button press, Streetwise sends you rocketing forward.
Numbers, a mathematical puzzler
Numbers is a color matching game with a distinctly mathematical twist.
Rescue: The Beagles beta released
A procedural platformer with endearing graphics and gameplay
Colonize the asteroid belt with Dyson
Dyson makes minimalism in RTS games fun!
Battle of Tiles, a new indie strategy RPG
Another indie turn-based RPG, Battle of Tiles smacks of D&D