Indie Wrap-Up: July 12th - July 18th

Posted Jul 19th 2008 5:00PM by James Murff
Filed under: 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 was no big features this week, unfortunately. Most of our staff was gone at E3, after all! Just Freeware Friday was this week. However, the TOJam 2008 competition recently wrapped up, so there's a ton of games that were released this week! Dwarf Fortress also finally got the first update in the Army Arc, adding battles and wars to the historical records of the game.

Features

Freeware Friday: Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
James Murff takes Freeware Friday to a new place: browser games.

News

Relive Aliens in Derelict
An Aliens-like game with creepy atmosphere and great gameplay.
Jump up and get down in Ainevoltas 2
A new platformer RPG has been released!
Blast them Over The Horizon
A very pretty, although short, japanese arena shooter/brawler.
New Dwarf Fortress version released, 39a
A new Dwarf Fortress version is released, but it can't be played.
Eegra's 1st Annual Game Makin' Shindig submissions are over
Eegra's first development competition is now over!
Be the Savior of Lapratan
A demo of a new shooting and exploration game looks excellent.
The corpses mark the way in Deaths
Jesse Venbrux brings us a game about dying. A lot.
Can you bring internet to people in Signal?
An RTS where you must bring the enlightened ways of the net to people.
Don't get stuck in The Office Party
Don't let your co-workers catch you!
Loot the dungeon, escape with your life
The spiritual videogame successor to Munchkin.
Shoot yer buddy, Cowboyana
messhof's new game is difficult and hilarious, requires a buddy to play.
Destroy your livelihood in Office Smash
A excellent browser-based physics game where you destroy everything.
Der Baron Von UberCheesen's Cheese Factory needs you!
A goofy business simulation where you must make your cheese!
Don't you know? Cheese is WAR!
An excellent two-player competitive physics game.
Living the dream in Pazzon
Take a trip through the dreams of Jesse Venbrux.
Kill some zombies with your bow in Quiver
A blast from the past, this time TOJam 2007.
Fill the subways in TTC Crowd Control
Time to relax with a casual flash puzzle game about subways!
Guard your cheese in Mousetrap Mania
A cheese-protecting game with a mechanic inspired by Chu Chu Rocket.
Arm a mousetrap with your Super Cheese Repulser
A flash game with a repulsing game mechanic.
Ah, le Goats Amoré
Match the cheeses to chase down the pogoing goat.
Cowgirl and Gospelboy ["Sue"] ride into the sunset
Ride your music and do so sweey tricks.
Minotaur in a China Shop trailer
The new game from the developers of Velociraptor Safari.
Beat your cheeses in Cheese Beats
Smash cheese against walls in this cartoony experimental game.
Be the cheesy action hero in Cheese Blaster Extreme
An arena shooter where you shoot lots of cheese.
Dwarf Fortress patched to 39b
The bugs from version 39a have been patched!

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