sine-surfing 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.

Sine waves have always been beautiful things, smoothly going up and down with mathematical consistency. Taking this geometrical beauty, a strange mixture of sports game and arcade game has been born from the TIGSource Procedural Generation Competition. Named sin(surfing), it's a fun and stylized look at arcade sports games. You follow the waves, jumping off at appropriate points to pull off wicked tricks (which are always named differently). There's two game modes, both revolving around score, and overall it's a fun way to waste time with no particular purpose. Head to the TIGSource forums to download it!