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Every self-respecting fantasy game has dragons, and nine times out of ten it's your job to slay the evil things. But Drakan: Order of the Flame is one of those rarer occasions when the dragon actually does your bidding. Drakan first comes across as a third-person action game like any other in the quickly burgeoning genre, but you'll know this game is onto something early on, when lanky redheaded heroine Rynn releases the kindly old dragon Arokh and takes to the skies on his back. Add great graphics, mean monsters, deadly traps, and huge areas to explore both from the sky and on foot, and you'll see that Drakan is clearly one of the better games in its class, even if it doesn't seem especially original. After all, Rynn's just a medieval Lara Croft riding on your average dragon. You won't remember Drakan for its characters, but you'll have fun playing it.

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]]> 14 Dec 2006 07:55:14 Plot

In 2007 the U.S. government successfully sends a probe to an alien world in a parallel universe. The probe starts transmitting video images of the world back to Earth. Then, just minutes into the mission, an alien life form discovers the probe and damages it, causing an unforeseen backlash of energy to create a black hole threatening Earth. Cutter Slade, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, is given the job of escorting three scientists on a mission to this alien world to recover the probe and close the black hole.

Arriving in this alien world, Cutter is separated from the other scientists and is hailed by the natives as their messiah, the Ulukai.

Technology

The game uses a voxel engine to render its objects and textures. This unique method is purely software-based; it does not rely on any hardware-acceleration via a graphics card. A voxel engine was chosen because there is no performance hit when rendering round or curved surfaces, thus allowing for a much more detailed Landscape. Had the same level of detail seen in Outcast been attempted on a hardware-accelerated polygon engine, there would have been a significant drop in performance.

]]> 14 Dec 2006 04:57:01 MDK2, the sequel to Shiny Entertainment’s 1997 hit, take on the roles of Max, Dr. Hawkins, and Kurt Hectic as you fight to save the world from an alien threat. Each of the characters in MDK2 provides a totally unique gameplay experience, delivered in a puzzle-packed action game.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 04:11:09 Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, or NERO for short, is a unique computer game that lets you play with adapting intelligent agents hands-on. Evolve your own robot army by tuning their artificial brains for challenging tasks, then pit them against your friends' teams in online competitions!

]]> 10 Dec 2006 05:23:36 An intense Action Thriller that comes to life with exciting Anime style characters and storyline. Join, Konoko, as she unravels her uncertain past while heading towards a dark future with no one left to trust! Oni, provides a revolutionary gameplay blend of Hand to Hand combat along with energy and projectile based weaponery.

]]> 07 Dec 2006 07:58:39 Presenting rFactor, the new racing simulation series from Image Space Incorporated. After successfully creating over a dozen products in the past ten years, Image Space takes the next logical step, creating a completely new technology base and development process. This new isiMotor 2.0 environment will be the foundation on which to build exciting products for many years to come.

The first installment in the rFactor series features mixed class road racing with ultra realistic dynamics, an immersive sound environment and stunning graphics. This is the game you will want to play.

rFactor provides unprecedented flexibility, allowing the series to grow and evolve with mod community involvement, race club formation, and feedback from users worldwide. We hope you enjoy the ride!

]]> 07 Dec 2006 08:24:27 Sacrifice is a beautiful and innovative RTS played from the battlefield instead of above it; through an adventurous campaign, you, as a great mage, must decide which of the five elemental gods to serve, and thus the fate of the world as it approaches Armageddon.

]]> 06 Dec 2006 04:03:24 Initially an MFA thesis, flOw is a game about piloting an aquatic organism through a surreal biosphere where players consume other organisms, evolve, and dive into the abyss.

In flOw for the PS3 you can play as one of five creatures, each in a unqiue environment.

]]> 05 Dec 2006 04:38:51 Ride on top of a rocket cycle in three game styles: rocket war, rocket ball, and rocket race. You have a cable gun on the left and right sides of your rocket that can connect to pylons, rockets, or rocket riders. Attach cables together to create clotheslines, leash people to pylons, and other creative handiwork.

This game was under-advertised. The music is awesome surf guitar by Dick Dale, and the artistic style of the game is fabulous.

]]> 05 Dec 2006 12:24:16 Toribash is a turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes. Focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing.

The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood.

]]> 04 Dec 2006 10:55:41 A really, really, really tiny first-person shooter, at least when it comes to download size, being under 100kB.

The game features a number of different textures, enemies and weapons.

]]> 04 Dec 2006 06:33:02 Bontago is a single or multiplayer 3d real-time strategy/puzzle game. By stacking blocks each player increses their area of influence, and can build closer and closer to the goal in the middle of each level.

]]> 03 Dec 2006 10:02:40 In Zen Bondage you cover blocks of wood shaped like various animals with rope. You have a limited amount of rope to cover the block in, which you do by twisting and turning the figure.

]]> 03 Dec 2006 09:45:00 The world of Darwinia is a virtual themepark, running entirely inside a computer network and populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians. Unfortunately Darwinia has been overrun by a computer virus which has multiplied out of control. Your task is to destroy the Viral Infection and save the Darwinians from extinction.

]]> 02 Dec 2006 03:37:52 Torn Asunder will be a top down shooting game. The player controls a mech that is at point in an invasion force.

]]> 30 Nov 2006 07:21:34 A enormous rise in the human population.
A computer network so large that nothing can control it.
A system overloaded with network crimes floating in the blink of corruption

With the introduction of the new central processor "Project-K", and the birth of "Eden", the system finally seemed to start moving toward completion.
But during procession of the almost eternal amount of information lying within the network, Eden starts to doubt the very existence of itself and it's purpose, finally dropping into a unwakable sleeping state because of the many paradoxes that exist within the human world.
The player sets out on a journey to find "Eden" hiding somewhere in the visualized cyberworld created by the network. The cyberworld continually changes its form as it is hacked over and over again by outside forces.
Will you be able to destroy all firewalls infected by the computer viruses and wake "Eden" from its long sleep?

]]> 29 Nov 2006 05:23:01 We loved it so much, we made a movie!

Ok, maybe not a movie, but we started calling the original "Classic PuffBOMB", so we could remake it all that much better.

For now, go play the classic. Classic PuffBOMB

]]> 27 Nov 2006 11:08:15 I always wondered if having a game set in very deep grass could be turned into a fun hide-and-seek type game. So, I threw together a prototype.

The player and the bots are Robo-Raptors (a great test for my rigid body animation exporter/importer from 3ds Max). You can kill the other raptors, but that's not the point ;)

Walking through the fenced-in area tramples the tall grass that fills the playing area. The AI follow any paths and will kill you if they sneek up behind you.

A fun idea on the backburner for now.

]]> 26 Nov 2006 04:46:08 A simple, non-violent, physics-based multiplayer game for the whole family ;)

Actually, just a prototype of an idea for that kind of game. Mainly, I wanted to learn some networking stuff (used raknet) and practice some more 3d stuff in OpenGL with C++.

Has something like 5 gametypes and supports an infinite number of players ;) The networking code breaks down when you add lots of people, but that just makes it more fun! (And you can have as many instances on one computer as you want - unlike some engines ;)

]]> 26 Nov 2006 04:33:08 Call of Cthulhu -- Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements. You will draw upon your skills in exploration, investigation, and combat while faced with the seemingly impossible task of battling evil incarnate.

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