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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 were no major independent releases this week, with most of the week's news concerning more freeware than independent. There have been an explosion of new releases, however, thanks to the Procedural Generation Competition being held over on TIGSource. Stay tuned for more news concerning the excellent output from the competition!

Features and Downloads

	Freeware Friday: Torus Trooper Our resident indie fan James Murff takes a look at one of freeware's best shoot-'em-ups, even if he gets disoriented by all the twisting.
	Armageddon Empires demo available for download The incomparable Armageddon Empires now has a demo available for download through the Big Download service!
	MODvelous Monday: 6/2/2008 David Craddock takes his weekly look at mods to the excellent single-player Half-life mod They Hunger.

There are some games which just look so innovative, simple, and just plain fun that you absolutely have to buy them. For us, Stardrone is one of those games. As seen in the trailer above, Stardrone is a physics based puzzler. You swing around, trying to kill enemies and light up all the stars in the level. As in space, when you move in a direction, you keep going until you hit something. It's much like a mix of a Rube Goldberg machine with the Ninja Rope mechanics of the Worms series, and that's a good thing.

The end result of the developer's hard work is a puzzler with 54 levels for $10 - $20, depending on where you get it. There's no level editor, but it is almost assured that modders will find a way to make levels. You can check out more info as well as the demo at the official site.

[Thanks IndieGames!]