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Shrapnel Games is continuing their summer long sales extravaganza by dubbing August, also known as National Catfish Month, the Gone Fishing Sale. Over 15 titles are on sale for various prices, including some Mac favorites:

25% off the normal retail price of:

BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity – Imagine someone reaches their hand into your head and squeezes your eyes from the inside while Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds plays in the background.

15% off of these games:

Dominions 3: The Awakening – Don’t all those AARs floating around the ‘net just make you want to jump into the game? So buy it already and do so!

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space – Space doesn’t have to be big and scary. It can be tamed, and it likes presents and hugs. Give the purple void a hug.

Check out their site for more goodies and to purchase your catch!

Shrapnel Games, indie publisher of strategy and niche titles, is having a back to school sale on all of their titles. Not all of their titles are available for the Mac, but all of their Mac titles are for sale. Check out the savings:

Dominions 3: The Awakening, normally $54.95, only $46.70!

BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity, normally $14.95, only $12.70!

Salvo!, normally $39.95, only $32.95!

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, normally $24.95, only $20.58!

Shrapnel Games announced an update for Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity today. The update (1.02) can be obtained here. This corrects, among other things, a nasty lag in the use of your mouse to direct movement on the screen I mentioned in the review. The difference is definitely there, and makes the game much better. Go and pick up.

 

A Game Review Edition featuring reviews of:

Brainpipe: Digital Eel’s IGF 2009 awarded arcade game of psychedelic sights and sound.


A Vampyre Story: follow the unlife of an undead Parisian opera singer as she tries to escape her plight and accept her fate.


Pixie: Little Pixie is afraid of the night bugs…so she zaps them with her death vines! Well, you can read it that way…

Digital Eel’s BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity has earned itself an Ernie for best in game audio from Bytten. The Bytten Ernie awards reward independent games that stand out of the crowd. Resident reviewers Andrew Williams and Steve Blanch choose games over the past year that excel in a particular area, show originality, or deserve recognition in some way.

Congratulations, Digital Eel!

 

I’ve uploaded a little while ago the first of the Gaming the IGF 2009 series, about Mac game finalists in the IGF 2009 competition. First up, Phosphoros of Digital Eel, whose game Brainpipe is a finalist in the Excellence in Audio award category, and Jason Rohrer, whose game Between is a finalist in the Innovation award category. Enjoy.

Ever wanted to play a game that melts your mind, or reminds you of having sex with Yog Sothoth (what the hell is Yog Sothoth??)…well, now you can! Brainpipe for the Mac has been released. MacPipe, as Digital Eel calls it, offers the same game-play as the PC version…but with no PC! Wheee!

Here’s a quick list of Brainpipe features from the press release:

A simple and intuitive interface*
10 levels of ramping perplexity
8 pleasurably distracting obstacles
Striking 3D graphics (Ow, my eyes!)
Immersive stereo sound & music
EELMIX sound management
Supports mouse, joystick and gamepad play
Allows windowed mode (but not Windows)
No pesky DRM

*Designed by simple and intuitive, but mostly simple, people.

Hop on over to Shrapnel Games to check out the demo and download the game.

From the dudes who brought you Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space comes the newest entry from Digital Eel…Brainpipe! A game “about transcendentalism, unhumanity, ganglia, and Jonathan Winters”. It is a game that answers the question, “If Timothy Leary had designed a computer game, what would it look like?”

Unfortunately, the publisher, Shrapnel Games, doesn’t feel it answers the question, “Why do drive-up ATMs have Braille keypads?” I’ll answer that one…because stupid banks rip out walk up ATMs, requiring those of use without cars to use the drive-up ATMs.

But I digress.

As you play Brainpipe, you will swoop through glowing neon tunnels while collecting glowing glyphs and avoiding dangers that will shatter your psyche and unleash the dreaded brain drain–whereupon your skull implodes. Now we know what happened to Timothy Leary.

The game is available for Windows users now, but a Mac version is promised very shortly, and this is one publisher you can count on to come out with a Mac version in a realistic short period of time (not shortly=about a year). You can get more info about the game on the game page, and save your pennies for the $14.95 to grab it once it’s available.