Here’s a video showing gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgC6S-wQYXg

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Igneous is a project by a group of DigiPen students which is claimed to have face-melting powers. You are a totem, and the underground world you reside in is, uhh, kind of exploding. Luckily you have the power of… rolling, and jumping! Unluckily, this underground world is really, really exploding hard. Blocks and rocks are flying everywhere, and the ground is literally falling away underneath you. The gameplay is incredibly frantic, the graphics are incredibly beautiful, and the physics are entirely frightening. The game is unforgiving, and this can be frustrating, but the rush it gives you will indeed melt your face.

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You might have heard of this little piece of software before, it has been used to great effect in games such as GTA IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and even in movies. The company behind the software, NaturalMotion, naturally, has been kind enough to use a free version of their animation software to mess around with, with the only limitation being that you can only render your creation out to a video file. This is a fully functioning professional piece of software, so it isn’t very easy to learn, but as you can see, the results can be totally freaking rad.

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In the spirit of Crayon Physics and Magic Pen comes Numpty Physics, another ‘draw and play’ physics game. What sets this one apart from the others? Well the creator claims not to have played them, so at the very least you’ll get a bunch more brainteasing levels. It also works a little different, and it’s free, so you really don’t have anything to lose. Give it a try, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

Also, it has a funny name.

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Bloboats is a lot like the Super Mario games… if Super Mario was a boat, the Mushroom Kingdom suffered from an acute case of global warming, and all Goombas evolved into weird squid monster things. Also, because wheels are for suckers, you can totally roll around on land. It can be a little difficult to get the hang of the boat sometimes, but I guess that’s part of the whole “simulation” thing, isn’t it? Overall it’s a very charming little game, and I command you to check it out.

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Rigs of Rods is what happens when math and programming geeks get dirty. Starting out as an off-road driving simulation with damage morphing, RoR now also packs in fully interactive trucks, boats and airplanes, and a community that keeps adding more and more unique vehicles and environments to the game. It’s like playing with toy trains, except you’re driving cool vehicles that don’t need no stinkin’ tracks. Sure, sometimes you can find challenges within the maps, time trials and such, but this game really only exists so you can smash big trucks into each other. It does it real well too.

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Toribash is an experience in itself. YouTube is full of videos that can explain the game way better than I ever could, but the only way to really understand it is to play it. I could sum it up as “what if your karate chop action figure could do a lot more than just karate chop, and you had two of them and they were also acrobats and were fighting on the moon? Oh, and they bleed.” but that would still not do it justice. It’s a bit hard to get the hang of and it’s pretty much useless if you don’t have someone to play it with, but when the stars align so do knees and crotches to create CONTROLLABLE RAGDOLL MADNESS.

Play it, love it, then realize the next morning that you are still playing it.

Did I mention you can pull of your own head and kick it towards your opponent? Yeah, you totally can.

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Stunt playground is like a cute little Stuntman, except free of course. Another showcase for the Newton Game Dynamics physics engine, stuntman allows you to choose from a variety of cars to drive and jump around with and, best of all, has a fully function level editor that will have you creating challenges for yourself and your friends in no time. Crashing cars is always fun (except in real life, of course!).

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JellyCar. Now there’s a concept. You have a car, it has a jelly-like consistency. There are obstacles, they also have a jelly-like consistency. Every thing seems to be made of jelly. This could make things quite slippery. While you might think that this would make objects easier to pass, you would be thinking wrong. Devious level design makes reaching the end of the level a challenge you should not underestimate.

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The sequel, JellyCar 2, is now available on the Apple App Store, but is not free.

JellyCar 2

Newton Playground is a demo made for the Newton Game Dynamics open source physics engine. It is basically a showcase for the abilities of the engine, and you can really use the playground to push the engine to its limits. Once again, it is a nice sandbox where you can just create bunch of stuff and then drop a ball on it to destroy it all. The very purpose of a physics engine, right? You can also open some pre-made scenes so you can play around and see what the playground has to offer. Because it’s 3d and because of the interface and the sheer possibilities it can get a little complex, but once you get the hang of it it’s a whole lotta fun.

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