mousetrap-mania posts

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.

Chu Chu Rocket has always been a puzzler classic. Guiding your mice to the rocket and away from the cats in real-time was an extremely simple but very compelling way to challenge the mind. Mousetrap Mania, a TOJam 2008 competitor, plays much like that classic, with a slight twist. You must guard your cheese for a precious 3 minutes against the mouse horde. You can do this by luring the mice onto mousetraps scattered around the level. Once again, it's and extremely simple but incredibly fun and compelling experience. The added nuance of luring and eliminating mice only makes it that much better!