I just found out that the amazing physics based hammer-swinging game, Hammerfight by Russian Konstantin Koshutin and previously known as Hammerfall is available to purchase on Steam for €6.99. It has actually been available for a while as fun-motion.com reported it last Autumn. I'm gonna get the game so I can see how much has been improved and added to the commercial version compared to the free demo. I'll write a review afterwards, so wait for it (or get the game yourself if you are curious enough).

I did a feature on the Hammerfall demo on the old Alt+Games site, and now seems a good time for a re-run in the new site. Here you go:

I think that the FunMotion blog entry about this game started it. The Hammerfall v0.21 demo posted on a Russian GameNow.ru forum by a user with nickname GKosh has raised interest and inspired numerous blog post among indie game bloggers recently. I dl'd the demo and now it's official: I'm joining the bandwagon. Hammerfall is indeed a very promising and innovative action game demo for Windows machines.

Steampunk Action

The player controls a stempunk-style flying copter thingy which drags a massive rock on a chain behind it. The basic idea is to swat at enemies by swinging this rock-in-a-chain. The copter is controlled with the mouse; the rock follows behind following the laws of physics (yes, this game uses physics engine, too). The player can swing the rock into action with a circular flying motion.

This article is a port and update from my previous Alt+Games site . I'll post these in our new site once in a while as I return to the games I've covered earlier.

A review of IGF07 finalist: Gamma Bros offers tight-grip 8-bit-neoretro-shoot' em up action in your web browser.

Gamma Bros is a Flash based web shoot 'em up game developed by Pixeljam Games. The game was one of the finalists on this years Independent Game Festival's Web-based Games series, and was edged out by Samorost 2, which won the series.

The game operates similarly than other vertically or horizontally scrolling shooters, with one crucial exception: besides moving his/her starship on all four directions (with the arrow keys) the player can also shoot in each direction (with the a, s, d and w keys). The enemy waves come from every direction and the action is twice as hectic compared with traditional shoot 'em ups. An excellent innovation to the 2-D shmup genre and it works really well in practice too.

This article is a port and update from my previous Alt+Games site . I'll post these in our new site once in a while as I return to the games I've covered earlier. Depths of Peril seems to be doing well and the game has been ported to Mac since my last article about it so I'll republish the original text with only minor updates. 

Depths of Peril is a single player computer rpg game for Windows and Mac machines developed by Soldak Entertainment. The players takes on the role of a clan chief and tries to war and intrique his way to be the sole leader of the city Jorvik. Depths of Peril is an interesting mixture of an isometric action role-playing game in the Diablo vein and inter-clan diplomacy reminiscent of the Civilization franchise. The game is available for both Windows and Mac. There's a free demo, the full game costs $19.99 and there's 30 days' money back quarantee.

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In my previous post we quickly took a glance to Evochron Renegades, a space combat, trading and exploration game in the vein of Elite and such. Evochron (and other Starwraith-series games are made by Shawn Bower, who kindly gave a bit of time to answer few questions through email.