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A few months ago, indie developer 2D Boy started something of an experiment by offering their acclaimed puzle game World of Goo for any price that a consumer wanted to pay for it for a couple of weeks. The results were pretty successful and now another well known indie game developer is doing the same thing.

Crayon Physics Deluxe, the innovative puzzle game from one-man developer Petri Purho, is celebrating the first anniversary of the sale of the commercial version of the game with its own "pay what you want" plan. Pay one cent or $100 or anything and the game is yours. This deal ends on January 15 so you has better move quickly.

Download the Crayon Physics Deluxe demo right here on Big Download! (25 MB)

One of the most nostalgic and entertaining indie games in recent memory, Crayon Physics Deluxe, has finally been released through Steam. An excellent physics-based puzzle game, Crayon Physics deluxe won the grand prize at the Independent Games Festival in 2008 through its clever mechanics (drawing shapes that are acted upon by real physics), quirky style, and excellent puzzles. You can also purchase the game through the developer's website. There is also a demo available through Steam or the developer's website, as well as here on Big Download.

Download the Crayon Physics Deluxe demo right here on Big Download! (25 MB)

It's become one of the most anticipated indie PC games in some time and some folks could be playing with the game right now. It's Crayon Physics Deluxe, the full commercial version of the winner of the Independent Games Festival last year. Developed by Finnish game designer Petri Purho, the game features a player trying to get a 2D ball on screen to move from one point to another, assisted by the player drawing crayon-like shapes via a mouse or (if you have a Tablet PC) via a stylus.

On the game's official blog site Purho announced that Crayon Physics Deluxe will be released officially on Wednesday, January 7 and that folks who pre-ordered the game before January 3 will be able to get the full version today (there's no official word as of this writing if that has happened yet). In addition, a iPhone version of the game is already available (although Purho did not develop the iPhone port).

Update: The game is now being sent to everyone who pre-ordered before January 4.

Download Crayon Physics Deluxe Demo (6 MB)

Talk about interesting concepts. Much like the browser game Puzzle Farter, Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper indulges in toilet humor. Unlike Puzzle Farter, though, it's much more tasteful. Your goal is to help Jimmy retrieve all the toilet paper scattered around each level. As the game progresses, though, you have many more objects that you must interact with. All in all it's a fairly simple game with addicting gameplay as well as lasers, lifts, and love. Oh, and we forgot to mention: it's by the ever fruitilicious Kloonigames AKA Petri Purho, that purveyor of Crayon-based physics.

[Via IndieGames]

There have been genre changes in games before, but none quite like this. Petri Purho, creator of the irresistible Crayon Physics and the rather odd Evolution Shmup, has released his next monthly freeware title. This new game, Planet of the Jellies, utilizes hand-drawn Space Invaders enemies in a puzzle atmosphere. You click on an enemy to move them towards the bottom of the screen. Match enemies in rows or columns of 3 or more to clear them and add to your score. It's as simple as that! The download clocks in at about 6.3 mb, and can be gotten from Petri's blog.

[Via IndieGames]

While we here at Big Download do love a good shoot-'em-up, the genre does not exactly innovate in any amazingly great fashion. Most gameplay improvements are iterations of previous games, whether the improvement is moving in a new dimension or the addition of bombs. Which is why, naturally, Evolution Shmup took us completely by surprise.

Featuring gameplay systems that are randomly generated, Evolution Shmup is a social gaming experiment to create a shmup through darwinistic gameplay innovations. The engine randomly creates the parameters of a gametype and then allows the player to attempt to play it. After playing several gametypes, the engine starts to randomly mash-up the elements of the games played the longest by the players, creating a strange sort of natural selection aspect. It's more interesting as an experiment than a game, as some of the gametypes are literally unplayable, but it's still worth a try.

[Via IndieGames]