Games Featured:
- • Saltacol
- • Chasm
- • Spybot: The Nightfall Incident
Selections from The Vault for this week are 3 of my all-time favorite games, and I'm thrilled to be able to share them with you again. All three of these gems have long-lasting appeal: a puzzling platformer, a short yet challenging point-and-click adventure, and a remarkably futuristic turn-based strategy game. Individually, each of these games represents a tremendous achievement in browser-based casual gameplay and if you've never played them before, you're in for a real treat.
We've teamed up with Berzerk Studios to offer you a chance to be a part of Berzerk Ball, the follow-up to the Homerun in Berzerk Land! Not only that, you can win one of four iTunes Gift Cards, each worth $25! Continue reading for more details...
The winners of our Bejeweled 3 netbook giveaway!
Games Featured:
- • Riven
- • Hook Worlds
- • QWOP
- • Trade Nations
A truly epic Mobile Monday this week, as we've got some huge iPhone game releases along with the results of our drawing last week! The name "Myst" will perk anyone's eyes up, and recently that game's sequel, Riven, was released on the mobile platform. And it's excellent! Combine that with a new game from the creator of Hook Champ, a hilarious browser game hitting iOS, and one of the best freemium city building App Store release so far, and you've got more than enough reasons to stay curled in bed playing iPhone games all morning long.
Games Featured:
- • Gravity Garden
- • Dacey in the Dark
- • Stargirl and the Thief from the Exploded Moon
It's the last weekend before Christmas, so a lot of people are out shopping for presents and such. Not us. We're sitting inside playing games. All. Weekend. Long! Take that, thinly-veiled incentives to buy gifts!
It's bundle time again! Following the massive success of the original Humble Indie Bundle as well as The Indie Love Bundle(s), The Humble Indie Bundle #2 comes along with five great indie games, each available for Mac, Windows and Linux, with no DRM and a price tag of whatever you want to pay. Yay!
Games Featured:
- • No Time To Explain!
- • Camelot Smashalot
- • Hurry Up Bob!!!
- • Lame Castle
- • Night Adventure of Sleepwalker
Link Dump Friday brings you some of the silliest and the weirdest games from around the web to brighten your day. Featuring miners in peril, rampaging alien crabs, ballistic livestock (or rather, livestock as ballistics), and the noblest steed a knight could ever wish for, it's like some fantastic potpourri of craziness. Just try not to inhale too deeply.
Games Featured:
- • Grrr Game
- • Thinking Machine 4
- • Small Forest Story
Stop and smell the roses... the pixelated ones, that is! This week's Vault offers you up a selection of some of the loveliest games you might not expect to stumble across, from an intelligent game of chess, to a rabbit's quest to destroy negativity, to a little bit of holiday cheer in one itty bitty package.
Games Featured:
- • Clock Blocks
- • Blind World
- • Flight of Fire
- • Dice Ball
- • Super Blast 2
It's time for some freebies! Below, you'll see a little game titled Clock Blocks. Thanks to the developer 80d Games, we have three promo codes to give away to three random people! All you have to do is sign in below with a Casual Gameplay account and leave a comment on this page. We'll draw three names at random and announce the winners on next week's Mobile Monday. Simple!
Games Featured:
- • Steel Storm
- • They Come out at Night
- • Rocky Memphis and the Temple of Ophuxoff
Helpful tip for humans: if you ever find yourself in inclement weather, such as the rare steel storm that only comes out at night, seek shelter in the nearest building. If you can, find the Temple of Leemeealeaun, as it offers the best protection from these dangerous conditions.
Games Featured:
- • Mountain Maniac X-Mas
- • Fallen From The Moon
- • Dungeon Developer
- • Jumpless
- • Star Catcher
Link Dump Friday's got your back with yet another installment of all the games you didn't know you needed until today. Why, using Link Dump Friday, you'll be prepared for space travel, medieval architecture, proper hammer usage... heck, you'll even figure out what to do if your legs suddenly start refusing to bend at the knee! This isn't just a weekly feature... it could save your life one day. You're welcome.
Another installment of You Are Games, another installment of the Babylon Sticks Caption Contest. We're asking you to supply a punchline for another Babylon Sticks comic. It's humorous on its own, but it needs a caption to really drive the hilarity home. Submit your ideas as comments, as many ideas as you'd like, but remember to keep them game-related! All entries are due by Monday, December 13th at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00).
Our 9th competition today is concluded with the awarding of prizes as well as honoring all of the games that were entered. The "friends" theme was represented well, and one entry moved our emotions and some to tears with its heartfelt symbolism and imagery.
Games Featured:
- • Climate Chaos
- • Tri-Achnid
- • Escape to Obion
This week's installment of The Vault takes you on an adventure... three of them, in fact! We've brought out three of our favourite games that best capture the spirit of adventure, and are just the thing to check out if you could use a little escape from your everyday life. And who better to take you on that journey than a fluffy blue rabbit, a morose arachnid lifeform, and an evil mastermind? Sounds like a fun group to us.
Games Featured:
- • Lame Castle
- • Master of Alchemy
- • Kosmo Spin
As the holiday season approaches, game developers start rolling out the big guns. Today's selection features some great-looking games that provide tons of entertainment, all packed neatly in their tiny little iPhone packages. Ain't they cute? Yes, yes they are cute.
Games Featured:
- • BatMan
- • Walk with Jack
- • The Sense of Connectedness
Here's a bit of a blast from the past for you: BatMan. Not Christopher Nolan's dark, brooding Batman, not even Tim Burton's interpretation of the caped crusader. This is old-school Batman with old-school gameplay, and you'll love every minute of it! Where does he get those wonderful toys, anyway?
Oh joyful day! It's time for a contest! And not just any contest, either. We've teamed up with PopCap to celebrate the impending release of Bejeweled 3! Our original idea was to run a contest where the prizes included high fives and fist bumps, but then we decided to up the ante. How "up" did we up it? How about a Bejeweled-emblazoned netbook for the winner?!
Games Featured:
- • Love
- • Flaming Zombooka 2
- • Momiga
- • Morphing
- • Training Set
It's the start of a brand new month, and we're going to kick things off with another batch of cherry-picked titles here at your one and only Link Dump Friday. Featuring zombies, silent judgement, true (but conditional) love, floating eyeballs, and one very tricky little white dot, it's a strange but very creative batch.
Games Featured:
- • Hanafuda
- • Flip Out!
- • Puzzle Pirates
The theme of The Vault this week is replay, featuring Hanafuda, Flip Out!, and Puzzle Pirates. Some games get their own special place in our bookmarks or game folder and have us coming back to play again and again, year after year. Okay, well... maybe the theme should be obsession... ?
Games Featured:
- • Deep Deep Dungeon
- • Today I Die
- • Death Worm
- • Winterbells
Ready to get lost in a dungeon? We've got a casual dungeon crawler that's packed with things to do, allowing you to delve deeper and deeper into the labyrinths as you continue questing for loot until the cows come home. Or until your bus ride ends.
Games Featured:
- • Cave of No Return
- • A Walk in the Forest
- • Factorium
And we have returned! After this author experienced a little lumbar calamity, Weekend Download is back and more weekendey than ever! So, what are your plans for the weekend? A light hoverboard ride through the forest? A teensy jog through a cave? A plain and simple walk through the forest? Or, just maybe, if you're feeling wacky, all of the above?!
Games Featured:
- • Sleep Walk
- • Super Pixel Knight
- • The Undead Survival Test
- • Blow Things Up
- • Polar PWND 2
If you're there and I'm here, then this must be my favourite day of the week! This week on Link Dump Friday we bring you not one, but TWO doses of penguins, a knight, some beasties, slavering zombie survival tests, and high explosives. Now that sounds like my kind of party.
In this installment of You Are Games, we're calling upon you, our loyal readers, to scratch your funny bone where it itches and create the caption for another Babylon Sticks comic created by James Francis. Submit your ideas as comments, as many ideas as you'd like, but remember to keep them game-related! All entries are due by Monday, November 29th at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00).
Games Featured:
- • Dolphin Olympics
- • Gateway
- • Ayiti: the Cost of Life
This week's episode of the Vault features robotic puzzles, high-flying mammals and fast-paced arcade gameplay, and proof that you have it better than you think you do in one of the trickiest (and perhaps most subtly thought-provoking) simulation games on the web. It's Dolphin Olympics, Gateway, and Ayiti: the Cost of Life!
Doodle Devil is here and, as promised, we have it here first! The sequel to the amazingly popular Doodle God is now out in a Flash version for all those without a smartphone. More Doodle God is never a bad thing, and even though Doodle Devil doesn't reinvent the alchemical wheel, there's still plenty to love. The series distills a very basic element found at the core of all video games: exploration and discovery.
Games Featured:
- • Puzzling War
- • Momentum
- • Tiny Massive Galaxy
- • Three Little Cats
- • Radio Zed
The week is long and hard, but just when it seems like you won't make it, Link Dump Friday appears with an injection of awesome to boost you through to your weekend! This week we bring you one mean wolf, alien cannibalism, robots in experimental servitude, and zombie uprisings! If that isn't adorable and kid-friendly, we don't know what is! Come to think of it, this might explain why we're not allowed to babysit anymore... something about a nightmare, I'unno...
Casual Gameplay Design Competition #9 games are now ready to play!! All entries are available to play immediately on the competition page. There is a place to enter comments for each game, so please use each respective thread to leave your kind feedback and constructive criticisms for the game authors. The competition period will span 3 weeks, and we will announce the winners of the competition at that time. If you wish to help judge the competition, read the rules and sign up here.
What makes a puzzle? This week's edition of The Vault has three examples that prove a puzzle isn't just about crunching numbers or smooshing the corners of a jigsaw piece to make it fit where it doesn't belong. Featuring a randomly generated brain teaser, a stickman with multiple potential horrible fates, and something simply soothing, we've got something for everyone. Unless what you're into is zombified pirate pony sudoku. Sorry. Maybe next time.
You have just under 24 hours left to get your games finished up and submitted in time for our 9th Casual Gameplay Design Competition. Remember that updates and bug fixes are permitted throughout the competition period, which begins on Tuesday and runs through December 6th. So get your games into a playable state and send them in. Don't forget to fill out the official CGDC9 Entry Form. Please be sure to read all the rules and guidelines for this competition before submitting an entry.
Games Featured:
- • SteamBirds
- • Smurf's Village
- • Word Micester
- • Sir Lovalot
There are three things in this universe you cannot ignore: a zombie apocalypse where the zombies are part ninja, part robot, and on fire, free bacon, and a game release with not one but multiple all-star developers working behind the scenes. And SteamBirds is the latter, so practice your non-ignoring skills today!
Games Featured:
- • Octodad
- • Snakes of Avalon
- • Maze of Space
Confession: every writer behind the scenes at JIG is secretly some kind of mollusc. We hide it quite well, wearing suits and blazers and little thingies in our hair. But when you watch us walk, you start to wonder if something's a bit off. When you see us dance, you're sure of it.
Games Featured:
- • 60 Second Life
- • Giraffe Got Game
- • Bird Pax 2
- • Pig Detective
- • Monkey and Secret Army
This week on Link Dump Friday; crime-solving pigs, laser-shooting giraffe, giant crabs, card-playing birds, and the strangest animal of all... humans! It's a lineup featuring everything from point-and-click puzzles to fast-paced arcade action with a little addictive multiplayer card playing in. You're bound to find something to start your weekend off right!
Games Featured:
- • Combat Heaven
- • Pod Panic
- • PixelHugger in the Field of Typography
They say that games are like cheese - they get better (and smellier) with age. I've got some excellent vintage games in my little corner of The Vault, and you're free to enjoy them...once you get past my nefarious gauntlet of traps! I've got pits, hungry tigers, mimes...my depravity knows no bounds.
Games Featured:
- • Flee
- • Alchemy Classic
- • My Personal Memory Trainer
- • Gravity Lander;
A little alchemy to go with your high-speed car drive out of town? Maybe you're more the brainy type. You know, the kind that goes to space with other cosmonauts, vacuums the shuttle while some all-powerful being guides you to the surface of alien planets. Either way, we've got you covered. Provided "covering" you means providing you with Android games. Which, well, that's how we meant it, so... there!
Games Featured:
- • Light Arrow
- • A House in California
- • Great Migrations
Time for stuff! With the notable exception of Great Migrations, the games in this edition of Weekend Download seem to be dominated by white on black landscapes. Old school throwback or conscious atmospheric design choice? To that question I answer: yes!
Games Featured:
- • Tree Fender
- • Supermax
- • Tetravalanche
- • Snow White: Dark Curse
- • Underworld Army - Episode 1
I got sunshine on a cloudy day... when it's cold outside... I got the month of May... Well I guess you'll say, what can make me feel this way?... Friday, Friday! Talkin' 'bout... Friday! Link Dump Friday, that is! This week we bring you giant purple monsters, angry golems, twisted fairy tales, and maximum security prisons. Awww... almost enough to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, isn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Gold Miner
- • Fishy!
- • Geosense
This week's Vault contains some real oldies-but-goodies. Browse through an assortment of classic addictive gameplay as you mine for gold, eat some fish, and top it off with a sprinkle of geography. It's all there for your recommended daily gaming consumption!
Games Featured:
- • WackyLands Boss
- • Linkoidz
- • No, Human
- • ChuChu Rocket
There's sort of a general spacey, puzzley, anti-human thing going on in this edition of Mobile Monday. It certainly wasn't planned, of course, there just happened to be several games released at about the same time that included, you know, things that hate humans and let you play as them. Honest!
From all of us here at JIG and Casual Gameplay, we wish you a very happy and safe (and scary!) Halloween 2010!
Games Featured:
- • Sp.A.I.
- • Dear Agent
- • Eternal Dusk
- • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Hey, you, weekend gamer. You want I should share games with you? You want they should be uh, fun? Good. Because I have games that are fun. RPG fun. Puzzle fun. Lasers fun. Lantern fun. What? You think lanterns are no fun? You think "flashlight.app" is more fun? Hmm. You need to play with lanterns more often, I think...
Games Featured:
- • Undead Highway
- • Vorago
- • Graveyard Maniacs
- • Pumpkin Remover 2
- • Werewolf
It's a special themed edition of Link Dump Friday, bringing you all the treats and none of the tricks for this Halloween season! Featuring a medley of seasonal games that range from scary to simply cute, you're bound to find something to get you in the mood for the upcoming holiday. (No, we're not trying to butter you up to bring us candy... why would you think that?... but is it working?)
Games Featured:
- • The Telephone
- • The House
- • Safeplaces
"Will you step into my vault?" said the joye to the JayIsGames readers. And there she stopped, because the idea of attempting to parody the entire poem was the scariest thing she'd heard of this Halloween season. Nothing else could compare. Certainly not these three games. Nope. No disturbing underbelly to any of THESE games. Just pure, innocent Tuesday goodness.
Games Featured:
- • The Manhole
- • UFO on Tape
- • Go Native!
- • Tibia ME
More games, more diversity! This week's edition of Mobile Monday has you chasing UFOs, competing in popularity contests, and listening to bad poetry from pigs wearing armor. We dare you to claim you're bored!
Games Featured:
- • Magnesian
- • Super Crate Box
- • Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch
- • Dustforce!
What's the most entertaining household object you can think of? Did you say "wooden crate"? Or, perhaps, "magnet"? "Broom"? You probably did, and since you did, you are rewarded with games that use said entertaining objects to provide even more entertainment in a digital, computerized form.
Games Featured:
- • Squawk
- • Temple Glider
- • w00t Fish
- • Stray Cat
- • Yura&Myu Escape 1
This week on Link Dump Friday we take a look at some of our friends from the animal kingdom. From mummified birds to pirate parrots to fish whose only desire is to submerge themselves in gooey pink fluid, we've got a fresh batch of video games that showcase animals doing what animals do best; being complete weirdos.
We're offering up a caption contest in which you get to fill in the caption for one James Francis' Babylon Sticks comics, made especially for us here at JIG. So roll up your sleeves, put your funny tinfoil thinking caps on and jump start the braincells. It's caption contest time!
Games Featured:
- • Wake-up Calls
- • The Museum
- • iSketch
- • Levers
This week from the Vault we revisit a few games that excel in the area of artistic expression. Flash and other browser-based games have truly emerged as an art-form unto themselves, and it's a pleasure to be able to share some of our favorites that embody the creativity, heart and soul of developers who create browser-based casual gameplay.
Games Featured:
- • Game Dev Story
- • Cut the Rope
- • Stoneship: The Curse of a Thousand Islands
- • Shibuya
One day, I will release an iPhone game. It will be a game about writing articles about iPhone games. You'll have to play a ton of games, try to manage your rage when yet another burp/bikini/fart app appears, and cry tears of joy when something original appears. After selecting your games, you'll sit down and compose an article complete with gorgeous screenshots and flowery prose as an introduction paragraph. When you're finished, you can make a game about writing iPhone game articles in the game and start the process anew. It will be the greatest, most infinite iPhone game ever!
Games Featured:
- • Inside Job
- • Sanctum
- • Remaddening
Fooling around with the titles of this week's selection of games, I discovered something unusual. If you rearrange the letters, you can create the phrase "a decarbonised djinn met musing". Now, that may seem a bit random on the surface, but if you think about it (especially if you're a djinn who has had his carbon removed), you'll either go mad or realize it's kind of a funny thing. But, whatever... GAMES!
Games Featured:
- • Professor Spelunkington
- • The Search for WondLa
- • The Roomz: Eclipse
- • Battle Shift
- • Get Home
This week on Link Dump Friday, delve deep into caves for money and love, solve a series of ridiculously difficult puzzles, take on an ever-changing boss, and more! It's one of the most varied installments in your favourite Friday JiG feature to date, with platforming, point-and-clicks, puzzles, action, and even art.
Games Featured:
- • Kao Fu-Sen
- • Peasant's Quest
- • Tork
This week from The Vault, we bring you a selection of games bearing the most important quality you can hope for; weirdness. From a girl whose head decides to float away, to a peasant who doesn't smell like he should, and more, we've got all the strangeness (and all the fun) to make your week right, and all straight from The Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Cubes
- • Buka
- • Amtalee
- • Glow Puzzle
Simple action and puzzle games have long been the staple of gamers, especially in the early days of computing. The Android platform is obviously getting stocked by coders who grew up in this era, as the marketplace is packed with simple, engaging games that strip excess content away in favor of pure, unfettered gaming.
Games Featured:
- • Space Funeral
- • Cell.Protect
- • Streemerz 2
Video games have existed for so long, game parodies have begun to take hold. Those parodies have been around for so long, they're morphing into full, respectable games. Those full, respectable games are aging quite nicely, producing subtle bits of gaming candy like Space Funeral below!
Games Featured:
- • Summit
- • PC.DEfense
- • Ragdoll Spree
- • Halo 2600
- • Haiku Hero
This week on Link Dump Friday; zen poetry, life-or-death dwarven platforming, an Amiga in distress, and more ragdolls than you can shake your whatever at. It's a veritable smorgasboard of internet delight, and it's all for you!
The 2010 Interactive Fiction Competition is here! Yes, the competition that brought us such interactive fiction classics as Violet, Lost Pig, Floatpoint, and Slouching Towards Bedlam is back with 26 new games, 23 of which can be played in the comfort of your browser. Voting will end November 15, 2010, so get your votes in now if you want to help choose the next winner!
It's the winners of our 'Build Your Own Bundle' contest!
Games Featured:
- • Mystery of Time and Space
- • Replicator
- • Motherload
It's Tuesday, so it's time for another installment of The Vault, your guide to some of the brightest gems we've showcased in the past. This week, we feature games from three different popular genres with a spacey-type theme that fans shouldn't miss; arcade, escape, and puzzle.
Games Featured:
- • Time Crisis 2nd Strike
- • Bit.Trip Beat
- • Leap Sheep
Oh happy day! It's tough to resist a classic arcade game making its way to a mobile phone. So, no resisting took place and Time Crisis was immediately obtained. Another excellent game makes the transition from non-mobile to mobile this week, and it's another one you should allow temptation to get the better of resistance and obtain!
Games Featured:
- • Gobber Assault
- • Zymo
- • Pheon
We've got three very special games for you this weekend! Special because they're all retro in style, but also special because they're really good and can be played over and over and over again and still provide loads of fun.
Games Featured:
- • Gearlock Episode 1
- • Evolution
- • Romeo and Juliet
- • Whale of Noise
- • Escape the Ladies Room
This week on Link Dump Friday; artsy whales, pandas and cavemen, historical romance, and a survival guide for public facilities. We've got you covered in every emergency! You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to pilot an airship, but the next time you're bombarded by pirates, you'll be ready for them!
Games Featured:
- • The Asylum
- • The Dark Room
- • Nanaca Crash
It's the inaugural edition of The Vault, a brand new weekly feature designed to highlight some of the best games we've come across in the history of JayisGames. This week we bring you one of the best (and craziest) launch titles the internet has ever known, a surprisingly emotional point-and-click puzzle about an asylum full of toys, and one of the most beautiful puzzles you'll ever come across.
Games Featured:
- • Pocket Frogs
- • Red Card Rampage
- • Beyond Ynth
- • Knightfall: Death and Taxes
PENALTY! You have been caught pocketing frogs with the intention of carrying them beyond the borders of Ynth. Go straight to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. You lose all AP for this round. Bad player, BAD!
It's contest time! Want a free Indie Love Bundle? 'Course you do! Come up with your own creative kind of "bundle" and leave it in our comments. We'll choose ten winners to receive a load of free indie games!
Games Featured:
- • The Hive
- • The Myth of Sisyphus
- • TimeStill 2
- • Cenfinity
More games to help your weekend be more weekend-ey than ever! The first item on the list will keep you occupied for several hours, a somewhat rare thing with games of its quality. The rest are great for short spurts or long marathons, whatever helps you get the best score!
Games Featured:
- • iZZi
- • Stonepunk
- • Neco Touch
- • Dreamgate Escape
- • Jabberwocky, The Shepherd of Slimes
This week on Link Dump Friday, we submit to you a variety of cute titles for you to coo over, and one absolutely, ridiculously cheesy-scary horror escape game designed to make you spill coffee all over yourself. We do this because we love you. You'll thank us one day.
We are pleased to announce the next Casual Gameplay Design Competition! For CGDC #9 we are teaming up with our friends at Electronic Arts' EA2D studio and asking that you design a game around this theme: FRIENDS. You may use any browser-based technology platform you are comfortable with (Flash, Unity, Javascript/HTML5, etc.)! Please read the official competition announcement for all the rules and details.
Games Featured:
- • Trap!
- • Missing
- • The Elements
- • Fruit Ninja
How about some more Android games? Several great time wasters in this edition of Mobile Monday, including a release anyone who has ever played a Flash game will recognize: The Elements. Gotta love playing with lava on your phone!
Games Featured:
- • Fail-Deadly
- • Unarmed and Dangerous
- • The Lair of Fungal Wonder
- • Isolation
Another Ludum Dare, another bunch of cool experimental games to play! This competition's theme was "enemies as weapons", and each entry did something slightly different with the concept.
Games Featured:
- • Naked King
- • Hanger
- • Guy of My Dreams
- • Seer
- • Rescuebot
What do you need this week? We've got you covered, whatever it is!... as long as it's a naked king, bodily trauma, devils, rubber duckies, or robots. We figured that covered all possible bases.
Games Featured:
- • Dead Runner
- • Monster Dash
- • Cave Run
It's a bunch of running games! It seems that after Canabalt came along, speed-based dashing games became a staple genre. There are tons of Canabalt clones around, but these titles do something a bit different than just let you hop over rooftops.
Games Featured:
- • Jables's Adventures
- • L'Abbaye des Morts
- • PlasmaPig
We've been fortunate enough to receive a number of big indie releases these last weeks, but the "even more indie" small devs aren't sitting on their hands, as evidenced by the games below. Behold, free awesomeness!
Games Featured:
- • Yet One Word
- • The Deeplight Expedition
- • Porch Escape 2
- • You MIGHT Get Nervous
- • Elude
This week on Link Dump Friday, we take you into a journey of your deepest, darkest subconscious!... or maybe an evil labyrinth. Or perhaps into the sky!... Or maybe just your front porch. Platforming, puzzling, twitch-gaming and ornithology abounds!
Games Featured:
- • Minim
- • So Long, Oregon!
- • Dark Nebula 2
- • Mishap: An Accidental Haunting
You know that feeling you get when you play one game for a really long time and it's kinda weird playing another game for a change? I did that with Dark Nebula 2. Couldn't help it, it's a trap of addictiveness. Careful!
Games Featured:
- • MADRIS
- • Infinity Bit
- • Tales of Unspoken World
- • Under the Garden
A Game By Its Cover competition has ended, all the votes are in, and the games are ready to play! The competition asked artists to craft cover art for imaginary games, then the programmers stepped in and made games based on the art. We've already featured a few of the contenders in the competition (Cat Poke, 8:Capsule, Dot Order Tie, and Love Letter), so below we'll highlight a few other favorites from the competition.
Games Featured:
- • Dream Tower
- • Stitchland Conflict
- • AliBaba 40 Thieves
- • Onslaught
- • Fish
This week on Link Dump Friday; airstrikes, Santa Claus, little blue critter thingies, dragons, and... fish! Well, we wanted to make sure you got your brainfood somehow. We worry, you know!
I just want to take a moment out of our regular review schedule to thank a few sites who were gracious enough to review game entries from our Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8. It would be really nice to see this list expanded upon for future competitions.
Games Featured:
- • My Paper Plane 2 (3D)
- • Galcon
- • Choice of Romance
- • Andoku Sudoku
- • Laser Reflections
So many new Android games, so little time to play them all! Here's a protip for you: instead of social interaction, try an Android game! Cell phones are already wonderful tools for spurning your pals, so why not ditch the implied SMS communication and have some fun?!
Games Featured:
- • Sugar Cube
- • Mr. Blocko: Super Tournament Edition
- • Alex Adventure
CUUUUTE games this week. So unabashedly cute. Sugar cubes and tiny block guys. Squeaking mushrooms and elevators that play elevator music. Ohhhh, I'm gonna burst with sugary sweetness.
Games Featured:
- • Treadmillasaurus Rex
- • Love Trampoline
- • The Birdinator
- • Up Down Ready
- • Sugar Rush
This week on Link Dump Friday; games of reflexes, puzzles, and arcade action! We all live on a love trampoline... in space... with the tooth fairy... and MC Hammer... and a cyborg bird... and a t-rex on a treadmill. I don't know about you, but that was actually my aspiration when I was five years old.
Our 8th competition today comes to a close and we are here to honor all of the games that were entered, as well as award a few prizes, too. The "sandbox" theme provided a formidable challenge, while one entry captivated and moved the casual games community with its multiple rooms filled with puzzles and, of course, sand.
Games Featured:
- • Meow Meow Happy Fight
- • Vampire Saga: Pandora's Box
- • Arachnophilia
- • The Screetch
Words cannot describe the unusual pairings of games in this week's Mobile Monday. Time-traveling cats? Happy hungry spiders? Vampires? Sentient balls of goop? What was wrong with us when we assembled these games?!
Games Featured:
- • Momodora
- • Nudo
- • Cat Poke
- • 8:capsule
Pop quiz! The fact that there is now a game about poking cats is: A) Awesome or B) AWEsome. Your answer will greatly influence your future. Think carefully.
Games Featured:
- • Pussycat Frenzy
- • Victorian BMX
- • Journey of Bugzy
- • The Climb: Light
- • Interlude
Wakey-wakey, true believers. The weekend is almost here, and we have just what you need to make your Friday a little more tolerable. This week on your Link Dump Friday; kitty-cats, bmx'ing in Victorian England, repeated bugicide, and two scoops of art-house awesome.
Games Featured:
- • Solipskier
- • The Incident
- • Osmos
- • Gravity Hook HD
What's even more exciting than skiing on ever-generating platforms with a rainbow at your back? Climbing on top of random piles of pixel art junk that falls from the sky! Seriously, try it. In real life. Go ahead.
Games Featured:
- • Typomagia!
- • Chawp!
- • Liquisity 2
- • Warlock Bentspine
The exclamation mark. It is thought to have originated from the Latin word for joy, lo, and made an appearance in printed English literature in the 1400s. Now, developers can append it to the end of their game titles to denote happiness, excitement or, indeed, to encourage you to exclaim the name outloud.
Games Featured:
- • Ray Quest
- • Sophiphobia
- • Ozee
- • Wasabi
- • flowEST
This week on Link Dump Friday; a vertical shooter, a point-and-click escape, and some sort of... squidy... guy... sailing through the air... um. Yeah.
Sackboys, sushi, cockroaches, spaceships, and sky-sailing! Five great flavours that go great together. Trust us on this one.
Games Featured:
- • Everlands
- • Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
- • Puzzle Attack
Human beings love puzzles. This was proven eons ago when man first drew grids in the sand and placed various arrangements of four stones together as he gradually moved them downwards and removed them from the dirt when they formed a horizontal line. What, did you think Tetris was a modern invention? This week's Mobile Monday is stacked with three puzzle games for the Android platform. Download 'em, play 'em, and love 'em for a very long time, as each one's got a ton of content to sap your brain for all it's worth.
Games Featured:
- • D.O.T.: Dot Order Tie
- • The Moonkeeper
- • Mind Jolt
- • Tricky Truck
A lot of indie games have rolled off the presses in the past week, including several as entries in the TIGSource "A Game By Its Cover" competition (which ends today). We've featured one of these games below, but look for more in the weeks to come!
Games Featured:
- • The Legend of the Cheetocorn
- • Dino Strike
- • Deep Diver
- • Cloud Powered Jetpack!
- • Escape From the Haunted House
Dinosaurs, cheetocorns, treasure chests, clouds, cats, and awkward massages? Sounds like a party to me! This week's Link Dump Friday offers everything from point-and-click escapes to retro platforming with a tasty twist. Also, there is a puppy in a birthday hat. I am totally not making that up.
Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8 games are now ready to play!! All entries are available to play immediately on the competition page. There is a place to enter comments for each game, so please use each respective thread to leave your kind feedback and constructive criticisms for the game authors. The competition period will span 3 weeks, and we will announce the winners of the competition at that time.
Games Featured:
- • Just Half
- • Earth Defender
- • Denki Blocks
This just in! Three iPhone games have been spotted by top scientists approaching the Earth from space! Estimated time of arrival is: now! Be on alert!
Games Featured:
- • Sheriff Sam
- • PostMan
- • Epic Coaster
- • Holiday Sim
- • Mt.
On this fine Link Dump Friday, JayisGames gave to thee... one broken pony, one coaster leaping, one painful sunburn, one crazy mailbox, and endless impossible mountains to climb!... hmmm, doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
Just a quick reminder that there is just 1 week left to polish up your design for a browser game that incorporates the theme "SANDBOX". See the official competition announcement for details. We are expecting entries to be on the light side this time, so your chances of taking top prize is better than ever. So finish up and get those entries in!
Games Featured:
- • ReBounce
- • Helsing's Fire
- • Pure Hidden
A proper Victorian gentleman never swears or loses his temper. He should never fail to raise his hat to an acquaintance, and if he should bump into someone or step upon a lady's dress, a sincere "Beg your pardon" should be uttered. Also, fist bumps are appropriate only when in the company of other similarly-bodacious gentlemen.
After an extensive beta period where the game moved from a download to a browser-based Unity3D experience, the 3D platform adventure game Atmosphir is open and ready for everyone! Fueled by user-created content, Atmosphir allows anyone to craft custom levels using a simple, thorough, and surprisingly fun editor.
Games Featured:
- • Sulkeis
- • Nation of Reincars
- • EverEternal WinterWorld 2
One of the games featured on this Weekend Download is a product of the GameJolt Indie Game Demake Contest, a recently-completed competition that tasked game creators to strip their favorite indie game of anything more complex than a few elements and scale it down to a retro size. The results were excellent, and you can find dozens more to play on the contest page, including some browser games!
Games Featured:
- • Darkness 2
- • Toe Nail Wheel
- • Shadow Snake
- • Inside a Dead Skyscraper
- • Speed Escape 4
It's Friday, and what better start could you ask for your weekend then snakes, toes, paint, and locked rooms? The only thing that might possibly make this week's Link Dump Friday assembly better is strawberry pancakes. So we sent you some! Keep an eye out for the soggy envelope; you can thank us later.
Games Featured:
- • Moxie 2
- • Jump o' Clock
- • Land Former
- • Piyo Blocks 2
Some things in life you take for granted. Some things are always there and you never even stop to realize how important they are to you. These things fill a gap that only exists when they aren't there, leaving you free to live your life without disturbance. That is, until the day your keyboard goes on the fritz and you have to use a funky backup from the closet. Oh, ergonomic bliss, how your comfortable shape has molded my soul! Also: games are below.
Games Featured:
- • Robotz DX
- • Man Enough
- • Illuminator
- • Mirage
It's not often you find songs with lyrics in a video game. It's even less common that those lyrics explain how to play the game. Man Enough does both of those and somehow manages to squeeze in an image of a manly moustache between each round. Be impressed with catchy expositions!!!
Games Featured:
- • PixEvo - The Fountain
- • Moovlin PC
- • Noggins
- • Rat Ranger
- • Beat Bot
It's Friday, and where are you, dear reader? If your answer is anything other than "Kicking back in my fuzzy slippers with my beverage of choice and reading Link Dump Friday to get me primed for the weekend", well, then I am very disappointed in you! (Other acceptable answers include "Rescuing kittens from trees", "Writing a letter in support of fair-trade products", and "Rocking out with Tenacious D".) THIS WEEK: pixels, robots, Minoto, and coloured self-aware squares with haunting gazes forever locked in a featureless black void and unable to cry out for help before they blip out of their cold, lonely existence. Exciting!