Code Hero isn’t your basic first-person shooter. You’ll have enemies, and you’ll be “shooting” them, but it won’t be with assault rifles and pistols. Instead, you shoot lines of Javascript to command the environment around you. Need a platform moved over? A certain kind of enemy eliminated in one fell swoop? There’s a code for that.
You’ll only need to one button to play Fotonica, a first-person platform jumping game oozing with style that its creators say is created in the fashion of “ugly 3D of the ’90s”.
Specter Spelunker Shrink is a platformer by Ken Grafals that lets you grow and shrink your character to your needs. It’s not very long – supposedly about an hour – so can anyone finish this during lunch?
Nearly 24 hours after it went out in mid-April, John Warner checked on the numbers for Raycatcher – a game he and a partner designed and distributed over Steam. The first day, it sold 1,000 copies for $US5. But pirates had also made 35,000 copies for free.