August's Best Indie Games

cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has just published its August Independent Video Games Round-Up. This month's article looks at ten indie titles and is highlighted by the seemingly Katamari-inspired freeware game The Blob, Kudos, from the same mind as last year's amazing Democracy, and DevastationZone Troopers, a 3rd person shooter that lets you redefine your landscape by blowing holes through the walls to get into and out of tough scrapes. A panel of four game industry veterans reviews and rates every game giving a variety of opinions on each of them."

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I misread the comment

[CrazyJim1]

I thought someone made Katamari-Democracy.

Re:Best Place to Find Independent Games?

[Lerc]

Well there is Gametrove which is a fairly good place for the shareware titles.

If you want to see some more radical or experimental ideas, try Ludum Dare which is for the 48 hour game development competition. The site isn't 100% at the moment, but the competitions have turned out some great ideas. The Games are not totally polished and some aren't very finished, but there are some gems to be had.

My own past LudumDare Games: ( Not the best ones out there, I've yet to win a LudumDare)

A lemmings style game only the critters are even smaller, and they are Ninja!
http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/Cruft/TTN.zip

This one was actually a 12 hour game written a week before the LD48 as a warmup
http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/Cruft/LDWarmup. zip

Same as above only for linux.
http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/Cruft/TailV.tar .gz

Urm.. Not sure how to describe this one.
http://screamingduck.fileburst.com/darkvslightinst aller.exe

All free. I do shareware games too but I'll plug those another time :-)