A v. cool short from the extremely talented Tyson Ibele

Crytek have announced that CryEngine 3 will be revealed at the upcoming GDC.  Cryengine 2 is still the best engine out there on the market in many ways, in my opinion.  Best editor, best feature set, best rendering fidelity etc.  I'm curious as to whether this is really a whole new iteration, or simply a refined version of CryEngine 2 with console support.

Either way its got me excited, and I hope Crytek continue to stay ahead of the game.  There are far too many games out there that have jumped on the Unreal3 bandwagon.  I want to see more games using CryEngine as middleware.

I do enjoy it when developers give lists of favourite games and why.  I find it almost impossible myself and If I do manage a 'top 10' list its almost immediately void when I remember one of those 'how could I forget' games and the whole list needs to be restructured.

Its always interesting and informative to hear other peoples opinions as a designer, and v. cool when you discover something new from it.

These lists of games are more based around Historically significant games or 'Canon' games and games that you should be playing right now, or 'Pop' games.

I'm going to have a think about the subject and try to form my own list in due course, I'll post as a follow up.

I am very happy to say that I will soon be part of the team at Travellers Tales, probably most famous for making the Lego StarWars games! :D

Having played the closed beta for a few weeks now, I can highly recommend that everyone check this out! :)  Its just great fun. If you didn't read the previous post, Quake live is Quake 3 in your browser, and free.

Tag the power of paint has players wield a paint gun, which squirts out coloured paint with special properties.  Each different colour empowers the player with a different ability, Red being speed, Green jump and blue sticks you to walls.  The game is a crazy puzzle platformer using and combing the powers to navigate increasingly complex levels.  It also has a nice Cell Shaded aesthetic.

Download it HERE

A site dedicated to a click free experience.  See how long you can go without getting the urge to click the mouse.  Its very intuitively designed and works fairly well.  Will we ever see a day with a no button mouse?

I remember playing the concept study demo of this a while back, i thought that it was going to be left as a concept but it seems it is being made into a full game, and i'm excited for it.

The game has a brilliant torn paper collage art style and an interesting gameplay style, where by you control the character with WASD controls, but also control the orientation of gravity using the directional controls, it makes for quite a unique platforming experience interspersed with gravity based puzzles.  I look forward to the full version.

LINK

Samorost 1 + 2 are point and click adventure games, done very well in flash.  Their style of play is more similar to the likes of the old 'Goblins' games rather than a Monkey Island game.  The puzzles are fairly simple, but the journey is subtly amusing and enjoyable.

Samorost 1

Samorost 2