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City of Secrets
Time Dreamer: Temporal Betrayal
Atlantic Journey: The Lost Brother
Bedtime Stories: The Lost Dreams
Curse at Twilight: Thief of Souls
Grim Tales: The Legacy
Vacation Quest: Australia
Surface: Mystery of Another World Collector's Edition
The Cross Formula
Elementary My Dear Majesty
Sale Frenzy
Big City Adventure: London Story
Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini Deluxe
Big City Adventure: London Classic
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Bane of the Family
Nightfall Mysteries: Black Heart Collector's Edition
Gemaica
Galaxy Quest
Mahjong Legacy of the Toltecs
Three Musketeers Secret: Constance's Mission
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Earth is boring! Who needs this stupid old spinning blue ball when there's a whole universe out there to explore? But fear not; even if you aren't Richard Garriot you can still explore the realms beyond with this collection of strange and otherworldly games!- • Aether
- • The Fog Fall
- • Mr. Coo: El Laberinto Esférico
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Here's a puzzle for you to piece together: how can you help a pack of dogs evade the cops while getting the attention of a girl who won't pay you any mind even though you've got the moon on a string? PROTIP: You'll need two iOS devices to pull that simultaneous feat off!- • Off the Leash
- • Jigsaw Mansion 2
- • Boy Loves Girl
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A little bit of looting, a little bit of inverting, and a whole lot of shooting in this edition of Weekend Download. In fact, if you tried to take Weekend Download through an airport security gate, you'd probably find yourself on the receiving in of some nasty stares and/or unusual search techniques.- • Invert
- • Hack, Slash, Loot
- • Dungeon Chaos
Ponies? Wrestlers? Word magic? Check, check, check, and then some! Link Dump Friday has some very cool news this week about some upcoming games, as well as and interview with recent Game of the Year 2011 winners Ironhide Games!
Each year our "Best of" the year awards eclipse all years to have come before, and 2011 was an excellent year for excellent games. Just take a look at all the creative wonders that have earned the title of "Best of 2011" and see for yourself! You are sure to find many games worthy of your time among the Top 5 presented for each category, including an all-new Game of the Year award we're introducing for the first time this year. These games represent the very best of all the games we covered in 2011, and we thank you kindly for participating with us by voting for your favorites!Games Featured:
BEHOLD THE POWER OF PHYSICS, BESTOWED UPON US BY THE GODS. Or, in this case, by three very different but equally talented developers. This week's installment of the Vault takes a look at (you guessed it) physics and the many ways it can challenge, delight, and torment us.- • Spin the Black Circle
- • Totem Destroyer
- • Fantastic Contraption
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Hey there Android device owners! Ready for some more excuses to use your phone for things other than making prank calls to the pizza place down the street? Thought so. These games will both entertain you and help you drain your battery. Since, you know, a full battery is just so annoying!- • Twist n' Catch
- • Monkey Kick Off
- • Cosmonauts
- • Where's My Water?
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How do you feel about... TACTICAL MISDIRECTION?!!! *flashing lights* That's good. Glad to know it. Now, how do you feel about a game semi-sorta doing that with its title? And what if that title involves felines? - • The Cat that Got the Milk
- • The Fourth Wall
- • Backworlds
Well, we've got some good news and some bad news. The opposite of the non-good news first: so many promising games hiding just below the horizon! Also, so many cool things going on for gamers to enjoy! The not-opposite of the non-good news: mobile companies are still ripping off small indie dev by stealing their ideas. Chocolate and cookies can't made the sadness that news brings us go away. But... it can help!Games Featured:
Need a change of pace? Maybe you should try being one of the heroes in this week's edition of the Vault! A dolphin, a pizza delivery boy, and an exterminator might not sound particularly heroic, but you might just be surprised.- • The Several Journeys of Reemus
- • Dolphin Olympics 2
- • Alan Probe: Amateur Surgeon
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Scene opens in the forest. A mysterious castle looms in the background. Hobbling in from the side, a group of three seals carrying machinery on their backs. They know what the secret of mana is, but they're not telling. They're not telling... indeed!- • Mysterious Castle
- • Seal Force
- • Secret of Mana
What better way to spend the weekend than gorging on more than a dozen creative, original games? The AGS Bake Sale Bundle does something new and neat with the "sticking indie games together into bundles" fad, releasing 14 unique games made with Adventure Game Studio by members of its community. The price, as you might have guessed, is pay-what-you-want, and proceeds are donated to Child's Play charity!Games Featured:
A rousing mix of games this week, featuring pleasantly strange free releases alongside some sturdy demos. A bunny who likes to yell? A demon that can live in a candle? That'll get you to sit up straight and start downloading some games!- • Deity
- • ^_^, Pitiri 1977
Internet! We missed you! To show just how much, we baked up this special Link Dump Friday loaf, liberally spiced with the efforts of other people! Christine Love's dark new visual novel is coming, as is a new installment in the adventures of everyone's paunchy exterminator... and more!Games Featured:
Are you not feeling like the super awesome, totally rad, seriously-not-sucking-up-to-you person you are today? That won't do at all! Try on this week's Vault for size, where we picked three action-packed, silly, and even downright mystical games to help you feel like your best and put you in a better mood.- • Final Ninja
- • Cat on a Dolphin
- • The Alchemist's Apprentice
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Sports and ladders! Snakes and beer! Can you imagine a combination of things more exciting than that? More exciting combinations that do not involve sharks, bears, dinosaurs, or anything capable of fusion, that is.- • Bar Oasis
- • Realistic Summer Sports Simulator
- • Ladders to Heaven
Feel that chill creeping down your spine? No? Well, you might after playing some of the games featured at Big Fish Games' Spooky Sale! With over 70 titles for just $3.99 until January 15th, you're bound to find that special something that goes bump in the night.Games Featured:
Bringing in the end of 2011 with a happy little ring, the 22nd Ludum Dare competition challenged participants to make a game based on a given theme within a 48 hour time frame. Over 700 entries were submitted, and after some rounds of user voting, everything has been ranked and categorized according to awesomeness. We've featured a few of our favorites below, each one representing the compo's "alone" theme quite nicely!- • Split Party!
- • One Final Trek
- • Stray Whisker
There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in the internet, and Link Dump Friday brings you a whole bunch of previews and updates this week, from ponies to creepers to restaurants! We've also got an interview with Lab of the Dead creator EvilDog, who talks about his work and his ambitious plans for the future!And the sun didst set upon another year. But whilst we travel bravely into 2012, blinking uncertainly but hopefully into that great blinding light that is the future, let us not forget... 2011 frickin' rocked, dude! That's right, dearly beloved, it's that time again... for you fine folks to vote for your favourite games that we covered during ye olde 2011.Games Featured:
Like platforms? Like jumping on platforms? Like jumping on platforms in a nice, normal, predictable fashion? Well TOO BAD FOR YOU since this week's Vault features three games that offer different twists on the plumber's turf, ranging from physics and momentum to big furry ice surfers.- • Amberial
- • Fold
- • Snow Drift
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It's an iPhone/iPod Touch special on this edition of Mobile Monday! Who needs those big iPad screens when a cozy, portable device can hold the same amount of fun? Of course, if you do happen to own an iPad, you can still play everything below, but it's sort of cheating, wouldn't you agree? Nah, who cares!- • Azaroshi
- • Piyomori
- • CheeseMan
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A bountiful harvest of platform games? Sure, why not?! They're sort of the trail mix of the gaming realm. They're everywhere, and there are so many different flavors you can barely choose one to munch on at a time. Some of them have unsavory elements (like coconut flakes, who puts that in trail mix?!), but others are irresistibly delicious with all those banana chips and almonds and tiny bits of chocolate...- • Bomb Detective
- • Seraphim Flame
- • FOLLY
Link Dump Friday loves you, and to prove it this week we're serving up double the intrigue with two interviews. Mine the brain of Mike Morin, part of the team behind the creepy-cool Alice is Dead series, and find out more about the upcoming indie horror adventure Home by Bejamin Rivers. Also, dapper kittens!
Last week we wanted you to share your gaming memories of 2011. This week, we want you to spin around with those snazzy time binoculars and give us what you think 2012 will bring for the world of gaming. Is it a long-awaited game? A new way to play it? Or perhaps something else entirely? Jump into the discussion and share your thoughts!Games Featured:
Who needs work when you've got puzzles to keep you busy? This week's Vault rustles up three more puzzles for you to solve, ranging from clean and straightforward to surreal leaps of logic. Crossword puzzles in the morning paper are old news, baby; free range computers and electromagnetic bunny rabbits are the way of the future!- • Reflections
- • Magnet 2
- • Fields of Logic
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As you can probably tell, we had a bit of an elemental kick for this week's edition of Mobile Monday. Hey, sometimes you get an idea in your head, and you just run with it! Fortunately, the Android Marketplace is filled with creative (if unpolished) games that try to bend the rules a bit. And we've got a few of those below!- • Elemental
- • Bumbledore
- • Cause and Effect
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How about some diversions for the last day of the year? Two games pulled from the recent Ludum Dare compo, both of which share some of the same basic ideas and gameplay directions but end up being very different from each other, Then, just to make sure you're paying attention, a totally different game! Wow!- • Minicraft
- • Incomitat
- • Void
Tick... tick... tick... the end of 2011 is almost upon us! To celebrate and prepare for Best od 2011, we're taking a look back at some of the games that wowed and won in Best of for years past! We're also getting excited about some upcoming games, gaping at some awesome musical talent, and celebrating Terry Cavanagh's latest feather in his cap!You've probably seen our staff highlighting some of our favorite games of the year in our Link Dump Fridays, and we'll be opening the voting for our Best of 2011 within a few weeks, but until then, we want to turn the microphone over to you! We want to know your favorite gaming moments of 2011. Drop us a line and share your highlights with us!Games Featured:
Knock knock! Who's there? ADVENTURE! Saddle up, Sonny Jim/Jimette, because this week's Vault has a series of strange little adventures of varying sizes and complexity that will be sure to keep you sailing through the week with mystery and oddity.- • Survivoo
- • Dr. Stanley's House
- • Daymare Town
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Well, it's the final Mobile Monday of the year. It's times like this we like to take pause and think happy thoughts about all of the mobile games of the past months. We wonder things like "how many were developed by people wearing hats?" and "do you think at least one of these game's names is a palindrome?". Questions without answers, so we just nod our hatless heads and prepare ourselves for another year.- • Time Ducks
- • Winter Walk
- • MinioMonsters
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Ice and fire! Hot and cold! Marshmallows! Sheep! During the holidays it's important to shout random things from time to time, just to make sure you're in the festive spirit. For bonus points, shout while playing these games. If you annoy a neighbor/roommate, achievement unlocked!- • Fireplace
- • Frostbite
- • Home Sheep Home 2
- • A Little Epic
- • Zetanoid
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The clock is ticking, and so are we as we keep picking out our personal favourite games of 2011. We also have a special holiday wish featuring some prickly performers, and an interview with developer dynamo Nitrome, who recently released their 100th game!- • Xenos
- • Terraria
- • Realm of the Mad God
- • Nick Toldy and the Legend of Dragon Peninsula
- • Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
- • ClickPLAY Rainbow
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Snowflakes, teddy bears, and diamond rings? The Vault really DOES have riches inside it! This week we take a look at three games sure to melt any frosty chill around you, from a webtoy, to a challenging escape, and even a deadly serious point-and-click bear mission. - • SnowDays
- • Warbears Adventures: An A.R. Xmas
- • My Diamond Baby
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RPGs and pretty physics games and... SONIC! So much to consume on this edition of Mobile Monday. So much. Sooooo much. Hmm. Maybe too much? Yeah, a bit. Maybe just pretend these three games are two games, one of which has an unusual growth on the side that looks, acts, and plays like a different game? That's not too much to handle is it?- • Ash
- • Lumi
- • Sonic CD
Bundling up indie games is what all the cool kids are doing these days, as is pricing them "pay what you want" while donating portions of the proceeds to charity. But here's something refreshingly different: The 99 Percent Bundle. This totally free collection of indie games aims to highlight some of the lesser-known developers out there, the people who continue to make the games they love and release them for free. It's sort of the indies of the indie community, and it's the perfect way to discover new titles you might have missed over the last few months.Games Featured:
Hey—hi there! Welcome! Come on it, have a seat. Would you like a warm beverage? Cold one? Just a handful of games? All right, that's fine too. Although the hot cocoa is stunning... Anyway! You asked for games, and so you get them. One game to make you scratch your head, one game where you can shoot Mecha Santa, and one game where you can learn to be a thief. Game enough for you? No? Maybe some hot cocoa would fill the void, then?- • Hyper Princess Pitch
- • Egress - The Test of STS-417
- • Dragon Fantasy
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Our writers pony up more of their personal favourite games of 2011, and this time on our new developer interview feature, Friday Five, we bring Zeebarf into the studio to talk about his work, the new upcoming premium Reemus adventure, and more! And by "studio" I of course mean "a polite, sterile digital exchange because Jay vetoed my plans to demolish his house and build a studio where I would interview after being trained by James Lipton".- • Elephant Quest
- • Hungry Sumo
- • Racing Comrade
- • Cactus McCoy
- • The End of Us
- • Lee Lee's Quest
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Action isn't all brawling robots, blasting guns, and pop culture references. This week's Vault takes a look at three titles that all share a common strangeness, but also incorporate action into their gameplay in different ways.- • Skywire
- • Zoo Keeper Quest
- • FoolYoo
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Cute games seem to be the "in" thing to do for iOS releases. Why feature an ugly cockroach as a main character when you can sketch out an adorable dolphin with rainbow eyes instead? Most of our games this week are frosted in that sugary cuteness, so you might want abstain from riding on your unicorn for a few hours, just so you don't overdose on adorableness!- • Sprinkle Jr.
- • Egg Punch
- • Sea Stars
- • Horror Vacui 2
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Ready for a nugget of the strange and unusual? Three games carved from the walls of the Cave of Indie Coolness, built with non-standard ideas and experimental concepts in mind. No copy/paste genre cloning, more like the genres wish they could copy/paste these games!- • Lost and Found
- • Hyperbolic Rogue
- • Six
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Favourite games of the year? Check! Upcoming titles and ports? Check! Developer interviews and previews? Double check! This week's installment of Link Dump Friday features the very first of our new series of developer interviews with the esteemed Bart Bonte, and a peek at the upcoming adventure game My Little Investigations with its creator, GabuEx.- • Insectonator
- • Derereba
- • The I of It
- • Westward Kingdoms
- • Wonderputt
- • Daps
Perhaps you've been wandering through the endless corridors of this website and found a "game" that seemed to be little more than a picture of gibberish text in a grid. "Surely," you think, "there's got to be more than meets the eye here." And there is! You've stumbled upon Letters In Boxes, a (usually) weekly feature here on Jay Is Games. If you love a good word puzzle with some tricky twists tossed in, you'll want to keep an eye out for new editions. But if you're new to the game and looking for instructions to get started, here's a little guide to help you out.Games Featured:
Need a laugh? Yeah, well, YOUR FACE! HA!... okay, so there's a reason I don't tell the jokes around here, but fortunately, with this week's Vault focusing on some very funny, silly, and weird little titles, you don't have to rely on me for your chuckles.- • Inquisitive Dave
- • You Have to Burn the Rope
- • Thy Dungeonman 3: Behold Thy Graphics!
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If you're looking for a few wild distractions, allow us to point to your left, where you'll see a tricycle riding a bear eating a hotdog. The bear isn't eating the hotdog, the tricycle is. And it's covered in mustard. The bear, not the hotdog. Also, four unique mobile games representing four different genres, each capable of stealing hours of your life away!- • The King's Path
- • Catball Eats it All
- • Mr.Oops!!
- • Judge Dredd vs. Zombies
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Let's celebrate this weekend like it's a holiday! An ASCII shooter/Christmas/ninja holiday! We'll all rise before dawn, steal down to the local airfield, nab a jet, and fly around all day long! Also: gingerbread men for dessert!!!- • Ninja vs Samurai
- • ALTCODE
- • Johnny Platform Saves Christmas
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From now until the end of the year, your writers here at Jay is Games are showcasing some of their personal favourite games from 2011. We also take a look at a whole host of promising new games, including sweet, sweet birdie romance, zombie blasting, ponies on farms, and more!- • Humbug
- • Starwish
- • Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
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Who says weird is bad? This week's installment of the Vault focuses on three games we've branded "unique" that all take the moniker and run with it in different directions. From a soul-searching sea monster to a bustling island, to stately women slugging it out for respect, these are all games that might be a little different, but are more than a little memorable and awesome.- • Rose & Camellia
- • Grow Island
- • The Majesty of Colors
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Need a pick-me-up to start the week? Why not try saving a goldfish from an impish little brat? Going on a quest for biscuits? Or, heck, bag some groceries!- • Paul & Percy
- • Bag It!
- • Saving Yellow
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As much as designers and players would love it to be true, games don't appear out of magical elf dust. They take hours, weeks, months and years to create, stitching together every line of code and every piece of artwork. To that end, many programmers and studios have taken to releasing alpha and beta games to drum up support, snagging players early to help with feedback and bug reports while the developer gets to continue drinking coffee and coding. Everybody wins, and we get more games, better games, and games at a more rapid pace!- • Tiny Plumbers
- • Space Chunks II
- • Trail
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Link Dump Friday gets excited about an iOS port of a classic SNES RPG, takes a peek at the future of one of the best sites to get DRM free old PC games, and then wraps you up in a big warm hug and tells you everything is going to be just fine. Shhh, baby, shhh.- • Pony Creator
- • Device
- • Diamond Hollow 2
- • Pedro and the Pearls of Peril
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Cats, gems, robots, and dwarves. What do they have in common? They're all starring in this week's installment of The Vault that celebrates some of our favourite Metroidvania style games! Running, jumping, exploring, tracking down new items and power ups... it's everything we love, and here are three of the games that have done it the best.- • Level Up!
- • endeavor
- • Robot Wants Kitty
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Still not sure iOS devices are a serious gaming platform? Game designers sure think they are, and the result is more and more big games making their way to the touch screen. Minecraft is a fine example of this, and this week, it's making its iOS debut with a highly playable portable version of the desktop game!- • Snoopy's Street Fair
- • Chickon
- • Minecraft: Pocket Edition
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We've got some serious subject matter on the plate for this edition of Weekend Download. Grief, loss, religion, philosophy, government conspiracies, and probably a whole lot more hiding beneath the surface! Only venture forth if you've got a mind ready to do some serious digesting...- • Wither
- • The Thirteenth Year
- • The Caldwell Incident
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It's Friday, Friday, gotta play games on Friday! This week marks a significant milestone for one very talented indie developer, brought us some furry little critters with some culinary talents, and a whole lot more.- • Daps
- • 3 Slices
- • Bloom Defender
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Sometimes you'll play a game so memorable it'll stay with you for days. Other times it's the game's soundtrack that stays with you. In this week's Vault, we visit a rhythm game, a platformer, and a balance puzzler, all of which have some pretty intense earworms for audio. Prepare to get some catchy music stuck in your head.- • Mass Attack
- • Dot Action 2
- • Klikwerk
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Note to humans: the zombies are coming. They might even be riding flying whales that swoop in from the clouds, wielding neon sticks they use to smite you with. So, you know, wear a hat. Maybe some protective goggles and a suit of spikes for good measure.- • Zombieville USA 2
- • Whale Trail
- • Neon Zone
In addition to having two games starring astronauts, this little piece of Weekend Download deliciousness happens to include some games that, in our humblest of opinions, display extraordinary amounts of creativity. Prepare to be intrigued! *spooky hand gestures*Games Featured:
Mystery, milestones, and mining await in this installment of Link Dump Friday! There's some big news on the horizon, and a whole lot to get excited about for fans of all sorts of adventure, with more than one developer having a lot to celebrate! We've also got a warning about the recent Steam hack, and a call for help from a developer whose work was stolen and put on the iTunes App Store.- • Realm of the Mad God
- • The Pretender: Part 3
- • To The Moon
- • Blosics 3
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Bright colours and music abound in this edition of the Vault, where we take a look back at two very different creative puzzlers, and a tower-defense game that spawned a fan base that's rabid even today.- • Magic Pen
- • Music Bounce
- • GemCraft
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Scientists in Madeupcountry are currently at work on nanomachines that will create time. This time can be smeared on the body as a creme or taken orally to produce pockets of usable time at any moment of the day, allowing doctors to perform vital life-saving surgeries, business-types to seal world-altering deals, and, most importantly, gamers to play more releases in this swarm of good games.- • Oh! Edo Town
- • Aquaria
- • Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
- • Burger Joint
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What? An entire Weekend Download dedicated to shooters? Has someone gone mad? Apparently, yes! The shmup genre has a loyal fanbase of dedicated players, eating up crazy-difficult releases like they were candy and picking on the finer points of swarm-based action gaming. Casual players can enjoy a good shooter or two as well, and the games below will provide some challenge without alienating the less, shall we say, reflexually impared amongst us!- • NORD
- • The Mushroom and the Saw
- • Gravity Box
- • Rhythmical
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Are there ponies in this week's Link Dump? Monsters? Dinosaurs? Maybe all three? You'll just have to click through and see!- • Pursuit of Hat
- • Asleep Walking
- • Escape from the Woody Room
- • Hood Episode 2
- • Absorption
It's Tuesday, which means another trip down to the JIG archive vault to dig up a few games from years ago that our newer visitors should not miss out on. This week I've picked out a few quirky little puzzle games that will thrill and delight you. No, really. Just give them a try and you'll see...Games Featured:
Mobile games are strange, aren't they? On the one hand, they shouldn't be so complicated you can't get into them while, ahem, occupying the lavatory. On the other, they need to have enough complexity to keep you from doing your homework the night before it's due. There's no right or wrong solution, just a collection of gameplay concepts that either works or doesn't quite work. We're proud to report that every game we feature on Mobile Monday works quite well, the end result being lots of late homework assignments but no time wasted in the loo.- • Minesweeper of Wizard
- • Flapcraft
- • Hungry Sumo
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This week's games were presented before a panel of elite judges prior to publication. They were coffee tasting judges, but you gotta figure their impeccable sense of taste transfers from beverages to games, right? After rigorous screening, the scientifically-verified result is as such: three out of four coffee tasters think the games below are definitely very very fun! The fourth judge thinks they're "rather" fun, but that doesn't make for a very interesting pull quote...- • the wall of our hearts
- • Yeti
- • Ragmeg Alleycat
- • Abduction Destruction
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Link Dump Friday rounds up a large variety of games from this past week, including hidden-object, point-and-click adventure, and iOS action! Plus, we look at three upcoming, promising titles; an indie RPG about missed chances and wish fulfillment, a murder mystery surrounding a swamp with it's very own monster, and a home that's not your own with a body at your feet.- • Mage Gauntlet
- • Lab of the Dead
- • The Blackwell Deception
- • Drawn: Trail of Shadows
- • A Game About Game Literacy
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Looking for a good scare? Then take a peek inside the Vault, where this week we highlight three of our best scary games designed to get you in the mood for spookin' this Halloween season. Extra points if you play them all alone with the lights off, but trust us; you're more than welcome in our Scaredy Cats Club if you can't.- • The Dead Case
- • Hotel 626
- • Being One
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Cute blue monsters? Evil red ones? Furry ones that leap into the air and can be cut in half? Sounds like Halloween is approaching. And it sounds like you've got some monster-related work to accomplish on your mobile iOS device! Also, did someone say something about COOKIES?!- • Create and Play
- • Aiko Island
- • Monster Warrior
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Each year, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) holds a competition to showcase innovation in the indie gaming community. This year, a group of developers got together and submitted a pirate kart, a collection of "cheap", fast-made games packaged together into a single release. The kart features more than 300 titles created by over 100 developers, including some highly-recognizable names such as Terry Cavanagh, Adam Saltsman, Petri Purho, Bento Smile, Andy Moore, and plenty of others!- • 2012 IGF Pirate Kart
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Something is different about this edition of Link Dump Friday... and every Link Dump Friday to come! This week features the first installment in our new format, that brings you some of our most popular new games from the last week, updates to old favourites, and previews of the upcoming indie titles we're excited about! What will the future hold? Don't be scared, you can hold my hand... just, uh, wipe it off on your pants or something first. - • The Asylum
- • The Binding of Isaac
- • Cactus McCoy 2
- • Rebuild 2
- • One and One Story
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Hello out there to all grim, grinning ghosts and cackling witches on the prowl! With the end of October rapidly approaching, so too comes the season the greatest ween of all, Halloween! With costumes, jack o'lanterns, apple bobbing, and a million cavities worth of candy soon on the way, it seems only right that we dedicate this week's installment of The Vault to featuring some spooktacular games from the JiG archives. Though these works were chosen for their kid-friendliness, they should appeal to trick-or-treaters of all ages.- • Translymania
- • K-Mart Haunted House
- • Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt
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You want big, important games? Boy have we got some stuff for you! Three heavy-hitters on this week's Mobile Monday, games you could play on their own for days and weeks on end. Afterwards, when you emerge with ragged hair and skin that reeks of aged onions, you can thank us for sharing!- • SpaceChem Mobile
- • Squids
- • SteamBirds: Survival
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It's adventure and excitement! Dragons and bears! Enchanters and rolling boulders! Everything you could possibly dream of from a collection of free games presented to enliven your weekend!- • Arden's Vale
- • Start Fight Run
- • Lao's Quest
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Help a pooch out, take on some questionable work, get rid of stinky cheese, or find your happy ending... all within this week's edition of Link Dump Friday!- • Bone Sniffer
- • Flagman
- • Story Hero
- • Verminator
- • Guild Dungeons
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Riddle me this, JiG reader! What lies within the confines of The Vault this week? Could it be pie? Cupcakes? Cupcake PIE?! You could try to puzzle it out, or you could just click through to find out yourself!- • Shift
- • Hanna in a Choppa
- • The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
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Minecraft? On your Android phone? It's here, folks, and it's an official release from Mojang! It may not be the full-fledged game you were hoping for, but given some time, we might just get our favorite building game fully ported. If building things isn't your style, we've also got Flick Golf and Pocket League Story to keep you entertained!- • Minecraft - Pocket Edition
- • Flick Golf
- • Pocket League Story
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Somehow, due to some strange coincidences no doubt brought upon by NASA's Dawn spacecraft discovering a massive mountain on the asteroid Vesta, this edition of Weekend Download features three games that pretty much cover the spectrum of gaming preferences. Want action? Got it. Puzzles? Got it! An engrossing RPG? Got it. No dress-up games, though, for which you have our sincerest apologies...- • Ascii Sector
- • Hanano Puzzle
- • Unepic
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Start your day off right; shooting, questing, puzzling, cannon-ing... it's all here in this week's edition of Link Dump Friday, featuring a whole bunch of genres to keep all your gaming muscles toned and ready for action.- • Georg the Ghost
- • Rich Mine 2
- • Quick Quests
- • Mushroom Cannon 3
- • Bosses!!!
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Go back to a time when Flash was new and weird and Shockwave reigned supreme! This week from the Vault we have a look back at three of our favourite Shockwave titles that cover action, arcade, puzzle, interactive art, and even ye olde standby point-and-click adventure!- • Gel Gel Panic
- • The Machine
- • Og Og Alive
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It's Mobile Monday, packed with more games than you can shake a giant monster at! Alternately, more games than you can fly a paper airplane through! Even more alternately, more games than you can feed a porcupine!- • Glider Classic
- • Pygmies-Hoglet
- • Monsters Ate My Condo
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Waaaait, wait a second. A retro-inspired remake of Team Fortress 2? How'd that happen? What twisted mind thought that up? Oh, that's who. Well, it's a jolly good job, that's for sure. And when you're done playing the game that's all about hats, sans hats, get your serious game face on for the other two releases below!- • Team Fortress Arcade
- • Ruins
- • Keys of a Gamespace
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It's Friday, and JayisGames has got what you need; dinosaurs, butt-quakes, stickmen, flying fortresses, endless waves of monsters, racing, and more! - • Slayin
- • Dino Quake
- • Draw A Stickman
- • Fortress Magnus
- • Space Punk Racer
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Get in mah bellay! That's what you'll be saying after you fire up this week's installment of the Vault, where we take a look at some of our favourite games dealing with food! After all, an army marches on its stomach, and when it comes to these great games so do we.- • Sushi Go Round
- • Jelly Battle
- • Hot Corn
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Back in 1991, when the original Another World was released, if you had told players they would be able to hold the game in their hands and play it with enhanced visuals using a full touch screen device, they would have laughed. Laughed in an "OMG THAT'LL BE AWESOME I LOVE THE FUTURE" kind of way. And now, with the iOS release of Another World, the prediction made by that creepy time traveler we met 20 years ago has come true!- • Hypership Out of Control
- • Another World
- • Do Do Egg
- • Grand Prix Story
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Demakes, you say? Retro games? We got those! Another weekend of nostalgia on this edition of Weekend Download, featuring games that both remind us of the past and games that directly copy titles from that bygone era. Point of fact: any game that simulates the original Game Boy is a winner.- • Super Smash Land
- • Shudder
- • By the Torchlight
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Knock knock! "Who's there?" Link Dump! "Link Dump who?" ... what? No! Link Dump FRIDAY, obviously! Sheesh, you'd think you'd know that by now. Click on through for ninjas, speedboats, dinosaurs, ducks, guns, and much more!- • Delivery Man
- • Red Ball 3
- • Run Ninja Run!
- • Speedboat Hero
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Simple is better, and that philosophy definitely extends to this week's edition of the Vault! We've cracked the seal to proudly showcase some of our favourite games that prove simplicity can make for some of the most addictive, engrossing gameplay around. Just don't let your boss catch you coming back to them again. And again. And again...- • Free Rider 2
- • CoBaCoLi
- • Chat Noir
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Wacky, serious, filled with animals, containing goat kisses, and populated by sentient glops of furry... whatever. It's not a Mobile Monday if you don't reach for the disinfectant spray!- • GoatUp
- • A Space Shooter for Free
- • Globulos
- • Riot Rings
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More Ludum Dare games, anyone? The 48-hour game creation-a-thon has ended yet another competition, inspiring developers from around the world to create almost 600 new games, all centered around the theme of "escape"! The voting has ended, the scores have been tallied, and we've picked some of our favorite downloadable titles to share with you!- • epacse
- • To Hell and Back
- • AWOL
- • Stratus
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Wakey wakey, internet buddy! Your Fri-daily delivery of games is here! This week's Link Dump contains zombie mayhem, coworkers with no respect for personal space, the world's least cuddly fish, and more. It's everything you could possibly need to get prepared for your day! You know, except for sustenance, shelter, and the warmth and affection of another human soul. But almost everything!- • Office Escape
- • Teelombies
- • Feed Us
- • The First Hero
- • Edgestone
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I can't get no.... satisfaction. I can't get no... gaming action. But I try! And I try! And I try! And I try!... and I realize that I can probably just look to the JiG archives for all the games I could ever want. Take that, double negative! This week in The Vault we've got three action games that are sure to fire your imagination. - • A Murder of Scarecrows
- • Boomshine
- • Avalanche;
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Subtitles: what do they add to your game? In the case of Samurai Bloodshow, they add about 30 letters, a trip to your French dictionary, and some artistic imagery. In the case of Sprinkle, they tell you exactly what to expect from the game. So, in the spirit of game subtitles, this edition of Mobile Monday has a subtitle. Mobile Monday: it's got games you can play!- • Samurai Bloodshow
- • Pickpawcket
- • Sprinkle
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It's time for a super special demo-only edition of Weekend Download! A number of extremely promising demo games have been released in the past few weeks, showing off some big titles from big indie developers that will soon be released as full-fledged games. And, if you're like most people, you hate waiting like you hate ketchup on ice cream, so these will give you a little taste of the awesomeness to come! Look for more coverage when the full versions of these games hit.- • Owlboy
- • Maldita Castilla
- • City
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It's a wacky, weird, and colourful Link Dump Friday this week, with several different types of sentient goop, angry aliens, painting best described as "experimental" (or maybe impressionist), toys, nightmares, and more!- • Dead Metal
- • The Painter
- • Toys vs Nightmares
- • Goosplosion
- • Gluey 2
If you've been playing with us and our Letters in Boxes puzzle series from our puzzle master, Steve Lewis, then you may know that we've been giving out entries to the winners each week into a grand prize drawing for a free game console of your choice ($300 value). The deadline for the drawing was August 31st, and I'm happy to report that the drawing was held this week and the grand prize winner is...Games Featured:
It's a point-and-click-stravaganza on this week's edition of the Vault, as we pull back the ancient mists of time through the years all the way back to 2005 in search of some of our best adventure games. If you're a fan of the site, you're probably familiar with one of them in particular, but all three are fantastic little tales ripe for the picking. Or clicking. Whichever.- • Anika's Odyssey
- • Pricilla Gone Missing
- • Submachine Remix
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Ready for some more game-related Android loving? We're digging up some of the less-lauded titles for the overlooked marketplace, ensuring you get that hearty, delicious gameplay flavor while preserving your right to feel superior when these games catch on and everybody likes them even though you played them months beforehand!- • Rocketron
- • Stardunk
- • A Game with Balls
- • MatchHack
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Ready to shoot some things while climbing up a slanted wall dotted with embedded sawblades and laser barriers? Of course you are! And after that, why not fight some pandas? Might as well, right?- • Ichi
- • Sake Express Pro Wrestling
- • Infernal Edge
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