super-cheese-repulser 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.

Noticing a trend yet? A lot of the TOJam 2008 games use cheese in their graphics, if not gameplay. That's because one of the themes of this year's TOJam competition was that cheese must be somewhere, in any form, in the game. Super Cheese Repulser is another game form this competition, and like a fair bit of the other games, has cheese and mice involved.

It's a same-screen co-op (or single-player, if you have good enough reflexed) browser game where you control two anti-gravity generators. You must push the cheese using the generators over to the mousetrap, where a random animation will play to get rid of a mouse that eats your cheese. It's a very simple maze/puzzler game, but it's a blast to play and a browser game to boot!