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Kill The Bad Guy is a stylish, mature puzzle game where you are tasked with manipulating the environment in order to kill war criminals, Mafia members, and other assorted miscreants, while making it look like an accident.

Kill The Bad Guy basically gives you the keys to toy box of death and sets you loose in fun sandbox environments. You can use a variety of distractions, diversions and lures to get your target exactly where you want them, then dispatch them with some fiendishly funny booby traps. It’s great fun devising brutal ways to bump off the bad guys, with a wide variety of tools at your disposal, there’s room for lot’s of variety and experimentation to be had.

Special thanks to @FreakOramaXD for informing us about this game!

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Got a great idea for a game but no coding skills? Take part in the 2014 Banana Jam!

Banana Jam is a fun new game jam from Nerd Monkeys in partnership with IPCA, in which, any member of public can submit a game idea no longer than 140 characters long (for tweeting purposes), with the best game idea being made into a full game by a group of young developers.

All game ideas submitted will be voted on in the Banana Jam poll, and the dev team composed of young developers will choose one game pitch from the most voted main genre.

The chosen game pitch will then go into production to create a prototype and, if any good, it will pass into alpha production, otherwise another pitch will be selected.

If your submission reaches the final alpha version stage, your game will have a strong probability to go into full production and be published by Nerd Monkeys. This means you’ll earn a royalty percentage of its sales!

So If you have a great game idea, join in the Banana Jam now!

Sky Battles is a fun arcade-style dogfighting game with nice looking visuals, fun gameplay and online multiplayer. The single player campaign looks pretty spectacular, pitting you against massive lumbering enemies, while the multiplayer is great for a quick fix of aerial combat. Sky Battles is in development for iOS and Android, but you can play the multi-player Alpha in a Unity supported Browser now.

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Wayward is a fun turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike inspired by Ultima Online, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. It features open-ended open-world gameplay, an extensive skill system, 200 items to craft and interact with, around 20 creatures to do battle with, procedurally generated worlds with 5 distinct environments. It’s great fun exploring the world as you’re never sure what you’ll find, it’s a bit like a turn based Don’t Starve, with a touch of Minecraft and charming retro 16-bit visuals.

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Pilotlight is a fun retro touch/mouse based platformer that tasks you with racing through levels as fast as you can, destroying fuel containers on your way. It’s a tricky, but fun game, with the touch/mouse based controls working surprisingly well. The levels are well designed and challenging, reminiscent of Super Meat Boy, but touch based and sporting some nice particle effects.

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Blockscape is a true next generation voxel based sandbox game where you can mine, build, craft and shape the world as you see fit. The mining and building tools available are very intuitive, and offer a variety of different shapes and sizes, not just the standard Minecraft sized block.

It’s currently in Open Beta stage 1, which just involves the building/crafting and exploring of your island. However, Stage 2 will bring more gameplay modes into play, such a God mode, Survival/RPG mode and Defence mode (Tower defence).

With it’s stunning visuals, and vast array of crafting tools, Blockscape is shaping up to be something special. Not just another Minecraft knock-off.

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To the Death is a very stylish side scrolling hack n slash shooter in development for PS4, PS Vita, PC, Mac & Linux, made by former Call Of Duty and God Of War Devs.

The finished game will allow you to switch between 2 great warriors who killed each other, but have a vendetta so deep it continues after death. You’ll be able to upgrade these Warriors with new powers and weapons, making them into some seriously undead badasses. So far the game plays wonderfully, feeling very much like a flying side-scrolling Devil May Cry (which is no bad thing), with the deliberately underpowered bullets being best used to buy time and keep enemies at bay, until you can swoop in and destroy them with your mighty sword.

The Prototype/Demo only features single player (full game will feature co-op), and is limited to a one-hit death scenario that works as an endless runner style game. It’s still fast paced arcade fun, and very remarkably satisfying. Unfortunately it looks as if the Kickstarter is destined to fail, as they still need over $350000 with only 4 days to go. Hopefully the finished game will see the light of day somehow though as it is a great concept, and comes from a team with an impressive pedigree.

Download the Prototype/Demo, Free

NeonXSZ is a great new space combat game, inspired by Descent and Quake, with RPG elements such as loot, levelling and upgrades. Gameplay is fast paced and fun, with ships remarkably agile and handling similarly to Descent, while combat feels more like Quake. You start off with fairly weak fire-power, but as you upgrade your ship, you’ll become a force to be reckoned with.

The customisation and upgrade system in NeonXSZ is particularly impressive, with dozens of ships to choose from and over 700 Upgrades available through loot drops and trading, you’ll be able to make your ship truly unique.

NeonXSZ is an excellent slice of space combat, that takes the Descent formula and adds so much more. It also offers a massive amount of re-playability thanks to the world, upgrades and enemy AI, all being completely procedurally generated.

The game is currently on Steam Greenlight, and only needs another 2000 votes to get Greenlit. There will also be a big update to the game soon, which will add lots of new environments and challenge arenas that you can gain control of once you beat challenging, scripted battles.

Download the Alpha Demo, Free

KeeperRL is a Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress inspired dungeon simulator with roguelike mechanics, where you play as a Sauron-like character, searching for ultimate knowledge of destruction.

It’s a great game with charming retro visuals, deep gameplay mechanics, procedurally generated worlds, and even features a story based adventure mode. The dungeon building is excellent and reminiscent of Dungeon Keeper, there’s a real sense of progress as you build and upgrade your lair. The turn based battle system is great fun too, with you controlling your main character and leading your minions into war, sporting a variety of scrolls, spells, potions and equipment.

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