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If you didn’t know any better, those would all be great titles for games. But only one is…Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, which has been released for free with no strings attached. Yes, free games! You can’t get much better than that.

Developer Digital Eel has chosen to release this great game for Mac OS X and OS 9 (wait, does anyone still use that?). In addition to downloading the free game, you have access to screen shots, wallpapers, mods with mod information, and even the source code. So, don’t wait, get out now and explore Sector Prime and the Purple Void today…for free!

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!

 

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.