Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner? Mega Man Christmas Carol replaces the robot masters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, plus that poor old bastard Marley.
Tipster BulletProof found this Tetrisesque block puzzle with an entrancing soundtrack and passes it along. But more curiously, “Bloktonik” seems to be in development for WiiWare (and for mobile), with a release date TBA.
Jason Rohrer (creator Passage, Immortality, and others) is back with another game, this one with the theme of regret (bet you never would’ve guessed from the title). Rohrer and a journalist writing about the design process game up with the theme, after nixing such topics as “stop snitching”, “torture policy”, and “stop-and-frisk”. The game itself deals with feeding animals … sort of:
Jay is Games’ Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5 is now up with twenty one entries. I always like spending some time with the contest entries when they’re finally up; even though there’s always an overarching theme (this go around, it’s ‘upgrade’), the games are usually a pretty diverse and interesting bunch.
