shooting-game-maker 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.

It was a busy week in the realm of indie gaming, with the coverage of the major entries of TIGSource's Procedural Generation Competition dominating most of the indie news. We also got an interview with Vic Davis of Armageddon Empires, among other things. A great week to play indie games, that's for sure.

Features and Downloads

	Freeware Friday: Dwarf Fortress Our resident indie player James Murff takes a look at a free ASCII RTS with all the makings of greatness.
	Interview: Vic Davis of Armageddon Empires Vic Davis sat down with Big Download recently to talk about his games, his business, and his life.
	MODvelous Monday: 6/9/08 David Craddock takes his weekly gaze at mods to the ever-popular Starcraft custom maps scene, and shares two gems with us.

It no longer needs to be stated that we here at Big Download love our shooting games. From the free indie kind to the commercial kind, we love them all. Lithium Leaf brings us word, however, of a Shooting Game Maker in the beta stages which would allow a player to make their own shmup with minimal effort on the coding front. There's not much info at the moment, and the beta doesn't seem to work on any machine it touches, but this is promising news, especially considering the publicity and renown RPG Maker and Game Maker gather.

[Via Lithium Leaf]