February 8, 2012
MIRRORMOON (windows, mac) is a brief first-person puzzle-exploration game that might last 5 to 15 minutes, depending on how quickly you figure things out. You are given very little context for how to proceed. You are on a mostly barren red planet. Another planet is visible in the sky. Perhaps it's blocking your view of the sun, perhaps not. Text on screen tells you to use WASD to move. Later the mouse will start working as well, but not in the way you're used to.
January 10, 2012
The case for Richard Hofmeier's Cart Life as game of the year.
October 10, 2011
Beret (freeware, Win/Mac/Linux) is the best game I've played this year. It has gotten a shockingly small amount of press despite sporting some of the most consistently well-crafted level design I've seen. It may on the surface look like an early-90s 2-D platformer, but it is in fact a brilliant puzzle game in disguise. Its central mechanic is limited-range telekinesis, and while it steadily introduces new, novel elements throughout the game, your little avatar gains no new abilities. It also makes use of a save-/restore-state feature to distill what might otherwise feel like action sequences into their pure puzzley essence. And while the developer has implemented an unlockable level-editor, at the moment no user-crafted levels have been posted to the game's burgeoning forum. Please fix that. [more inside]
June 1, 2011
Spelunky is a randomly generated platformer with retro graphics and a deceptively simple premise: enter the cave, get treasure, save the girl. In practice, it's incredibly difficult. It's also pretty addicting.
At the moment, Spelunky is Windows-only, but it's heading to the X-Box Live Arcade soon.
May 14, 2011
The launch trailer for Blocks That Matter, "a puzzle/platform game in which the player, as a tiny driller robot, travels underground in order to save its creators kidnapped by someone who wants to steal their work."
April 30, 2011
Capsized is an indie game from Alien Trap Games. There's a demo on Steam. The environment detail is staggering. Youtube trailer.
Didi I mention? It features a jet pack and a grappling hook, both of which you get to play with in the demo.
April 11, 2011
It has come to my attention that there are still people who haven't played Kenta Cho's games. They are sublime. If you are one of those people, I recommend you hie yourself hence, with all due dispatch.
January 19, 2011
Some Little Big Planet 2 players decided to recreate Windows ingame. The result means games playable on a virtual Microsoft OS inside a video game on a Sony console.
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