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Leviathan

2008

Play a sea monster, destroy ships, bash airplanes, create chain reactions and grow bigger. Inspired by Death Worm.

Download Filesize: 10.7 MB

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Pazzon

2008

A weird dream-like adventure platformer with a vague story about religion. I hope it makes you think.

Download Filesize: 6.2 MB

Play This Thing in-depth article
“Animal Farm the video game” – Auntie Pixelante

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Deaths

2008

What makes this game unique is the fact that it uses an online database to register the locations of player’s deaths. As such, when you play it loads the data and you’ll see where other people died.

But it gets more interesting. Bodies can be hints for traps, and can also be used as stepping stones to get onto higher ledges.

Download Filesize: 7.7 MB

Rock Paper Shotgun article
TIGsource article

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Vectro

2008

A simple minigame concept in which you cycle between 3 weapons at regular intervals. The game was developed within a few hours for a “design a mobile game” class.

Download Filesize: 1.2 MB

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Paperblast

2008

A simple arena shooter game controlled entirely with the mouse.

Download Filesize: 6.9 MB

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Execution

2008

This game is an experiment. Try it.

Download Filesize: 1.3 MB

Kotaku on Execution
Destructoid article
MSNBC article on Serious Games
Ludus Novus: Changing Games Forever
Random quotes:
“you made me be shocked by myself”
“It hit me with a very real sense of guilt”
“I really dont know what to say”
“I havent been “touched” by a game like this before”

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Mubbly Tower

2008

The Mubblies from Frozzd are back, but in the form of an ancient civilization. In this physics based game, your task is to build a tower as high as King Mubbly wishes. Of course, he wants it to go higher and higher.

Meanwhile, the neighboring Wobblies for some reason think it’s fun to push over towers.

Download Filesize: 10.6 MB

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Credits: C418 (music), Ferry Spaans (graphics)

Karoshi 2.0

2008

The first Karoshi game did quite well so I decided to make a sequel. Karoshi 2.0 adds another 50 levels and an epic boss fight. Again, the goal is to kill yourself in every stage, but this time it requires more outside-the-box thinking than ever. Highly recommended.

Download Filesize: 8.7 MB

Internet Game of the Month (EDGE magazine)
“some of the most LOL-worthy and mind-bending puzzles I have ever seen” – TIGsource (article)
“one of the most intelligent games i have played in a long time” – Auntie Pixelante (article)

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Karoshi

2008

The goal in Karoshi is to kill yourself in every stage. A puzzle platformer that will make you bend your mind. 25 levels in total.

Originally made as a joke game, Karoshi quickly gained popularity and remains to be my most popular series. “Karoshi” (過労死) is Japanese for “death from overwork”.

Download Filesize: 4.0 MB

Gavin Carter (Fallout 3 Lead Producer) on Karoshi
GameSpy: Suicide in Videogames article
Indie or Die, the Escapist article

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Frozzd

2007

The universe has been frozen, and you’re on an adventure together with King Mubbly to free others and fight the Frozzd. Run around on differently shaped planets while strategically attacking and defending with your little army. The game has a total of 12 large levels with each a unique enemy type.

Frozzd was designed for YoYoGames’ Winter Competition and won first prize!

Download Filesize: 5.7 MB

“If only every freeware game had this level of professional polish, then maybe there would be much fewer wars and absolutely no terrorists.” – PC Zone UK
Interview with indie games blog
Play This Thing article “better than Super Mario Galaxy”
YoYoGames blog: Winter Competition results

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Credits: Kevin MacLeod (music)