Digital Eel loves to gives things away fro free. The indie developer is now giving away its space strategy game, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, for free. The PC, Mac OS X or Mac OS 9 versions of the game are now absolutely free with “no monkey business or strings attached.” Just visit Digital Eel’s site, click on the link and download it. You can learn more about the game by visiting www.digital-eel.com/sais. Strange Adventures has a strong mod community, so after you are done exploring the random universes created by Digital Eel, check out the stuff made by the community. Much of it is wonderful. You can also grab the game from publisher Shrapnel Games.
Soup du Jour, the wacky physics-based matching game from Digital Eel, is also available for free download. Find out more about it at www.digital-eel.com/soup. Very cool game as well.
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Ride the Brainpipe on Steam
Digital Eel’s award winning (winner of a 2009 IGF award for sound design), Brainpipe is now available via Steam. Brainpipe is a arcade action game where players are charged with navigating the psychedelic sights and sounds of the mind, using hand-eye coordination to collect illuminated glyphs while avoiding nasty obstacles.
The game offers trippy graphics and sounds, 10 levels of play, eight types of obstacles to avoid, odd eyeballs buttons, colorful three dimensional visuals and mouse, joystick, and gamepad support.
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Digital Eel’s next game?
While I would probably put Rich Carlson, Ikka Keranen and the Phosphorous over at Digital Eel in the friend column, I often wonder about their collective sanity. Case and point: a new trailer created featuring some new and mysterious art from artist Phosphorous. You can judge for yourselves by checking out the movie below and attempt to figure out what’s going on, but there’s no doubt this is the beginning of something magical.
Will it be some bizarre undersea game called “Subsurface Defenders of Oceans in Peril” or “Danger Fish?” Maybe. Anyway check out the video below, and check out the Digital Eel web site to keep tags on these guys.
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The Top 21 News Stories of 2008
(Contributors: Victor Lucas - Electric Playground, Adam Oldakowski - Managing Director GOG.com, Hal Halpin - ECA President, Tom Ohle - CD Projekt RED, Rich Carlson - Digital Eel, Eric Holmes - Radical Entertainment, and Game Trust members Evan Narcisse, Gus Mastrapa, David Chapman and James Fudge)
On the eve of 2009, Crispy Gamer is proud to present to you the Top 21 News Stories of 2008. We have chosen what we believe are the top news stories of year, though deciding on which were the very best proved to be an exercise in compromise, because there were so many interesting and powerful choices this year.
We watched the interactive entertainment industry grow - and then later - retract as the global economy wreaked havoc on every kind of business you can imagine; players got their first taste of WiiWare, Home and the New Xbox Experience; we watched as the big three slugged it out for North American supremacy in the latest round of console wars and we saw Blizzard dust off its classic franchises and move million of copies of its Lich King expansion. To quote that Dickens’ classic: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
2008 was not without its fair share of triumphs, disappointments, joys and sorrow. Here are the stories that moved us, made us angry, scared us and made us think about the industry we cover.
We begin at the very bottom of the pile until we climb to the glorious #1 news story of the year. So it opens with Top News Story #21.
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The Top 21 News Stories of 2008: 7 - 1
(Contributors: Adam Oldakowski - Managing Director GOG.com, Hal Halpin - ECA President, Tom Ohle - CD Projekt RED, Rich Carlson - Digital Eel, Eric Holmes - Radical Entertainment, and Game Trust members Evan Narcisse, Gus Mastrapa, David Chapman and James Fudge)
Crispy Gamer wraps up its Top 21 News Stories of 2008 with our top 7 news stories. See what stories were the most interesting and had the most impact on the game industry and gamers in 2008. We start with #7 right now. Also be sure to check out #8 - 14 and #15 - 21, if you haven’t already.
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Digital Eel’s Free Board Game
Indie game developer Digital Eel has released a free downloadable board game this week called GoblinSlayer.The folks that brought you StrangeAdventuresinInfiniteSpace, have decided to create and freely distribute a board game that is both simple to learn and challenging.
Goblin Slayer is a boardgame of heroic adventure and underground combat for two players. One player controls the evil denizens of the “Cave of Woe”, a tribe of goblins (and an optional “guest star”) who guard a fabulous object. The other player controls Stormbeard the dwarf, armed with his legendary battleaxe, who must explore the cavern complex, “acquire” the ancient artifact and escape alive. You can learn more about the game and download it for free by visiting www.digital-eel.com/slayer.htm.
The games we're pulling together in this feature won't appear on any of those best-of lists and get confused looks when you mention them in conversation. Just because time has forgotten these titles, though, doesn't mean you should forget them, too.
