LATEST NEWS from DIGITAL EEL
BIG BOX OF BLOX GETS SYMBIOTIC!
PRESS RELEASE - Staffordshire, UK - July 1st 2008: Astraware and Digital Eel are excited to announce the release of Big Box of Blox for Symbian® S60® smartphones. This blox-stacking extravaganza is already available for Palm OS® and Windows Mobile® smartphones and PDAs.
 Big Box of Blox is a blox-stacking game taken to outrageous extremes! Using stylus or button controls, players arrange the three-blox-high stacks as they fall. Match blox in groups of three or more, vertically or horizontally, to eliminate them - but that's not all!
Don't just stack the blox. Smash them, blast them, mutate them or explode them in a shower of flames! Use special blox including jokers, bombs, frogs, mushrooms, fireballs and slot machines to clear the board before it reaches the top!
 Big Box of Blox includes five mind-bending game modes: Flaming Peelout, Blok Atak, Groink, Mushroom King and Asylum Cubez, and players can even create their own combination using the special Custom Mode.
Faithful to the critically-acclaimed PC version, Big Box of Blox features cool psychedelic graphics, awe-inspiring animated backgrounds, brain crunching sound effects and an epic music soundtrack. The game's graphics reflect the dark and mysterious nature of the PC original, but smartphone-owners are sometimes known to go outside into the light, so Big Box of Blox also includes a gamma adjustment slider so users can select their preference from dark and atmospheric to vibrant and acidic.
As an introduction, Club Astraware members can get Big Box of Blox FREE during July 2008. Existing Club Astraware members just need to log into their account to get their free copy of the game.
Non-members can join Club Astraware here --it's completely FREE and only takes a couple of minutes, or they can purchase Big Box of Blox for S60®, Palm OS® or Windows Mobile® for $9.95 here.
Presenting Weird Worlds: The Soundtrack
Music from Beyond the Purple Void
Direct from the Mystery Kitchen, Digital Eel and Shrapnel Games are pleased to present Weird Worlds: The Soundtrack, a mystery mix of game music from Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space! (Read the official Shrapnel Games press release here.)
Weird Worlds: The Soundtrack is a brisk twelve minute medley that includes 20+ tracks and loops from the game as well as alternate material not used in the final version. In this way it "beats the bootlegs" by providing bonus material never heard outside of the Mystery Kitchen before!
Weird Worlds: The Soundtrack is absolutely FREE to download and share (provided that you tell all of your friends to buy lots of Digital Eel games, of course) and comes in two delicious MP3 flavors: 44100Hz stereo/128Kbps (11MB) and 44100Hz stereo/486Kbps-vbr (21MB).
Weird Worlds: The Soundtrack features the "missing" Weird Worlds theme loop, the Tchorak theme, the Tan Ru theme, the Damocles theme, Primordius' theme, the Muktian theme, the Garthan theme and plenty more. So sit back in your crash couch, relax and let Digital Eel transport you on a musical mystery tour of the galaxy, from Sector Prime to far Quarnix and beyond the Purple Void...
Put some PHOSPHOROUS on your desktop!
Once again Digital Eel artist and psychedelic visionary, Phosphorous, sends his regards to everyone with some ogle-worthy desktop art direct from the Mystery Kitchen, this one titled simply "Hut". Standing somewhere upon the borderland of both fantasy and science fiction, this is a place I'm sure we'd all like to live in. (If we were aliens with a slightly more relaxed architectural aesthetic, perhaps.) Download the 1152x864 .bmp format image of "Hut", zipped, here!
A priceless artifact of antiquity lies hidden, deep within a confounding tangle of goblin-infested warrens. A lone but fearless dwarf must seize it. A numberless horde of monsters must protect it. Who will prevail? Choose sides, play the game and decide!
Digital Eel presents GOBLIN SLAYER
A free boardgame download!
GOBLIN SLAYER is a quick, easy to play boardgame of heroic adventure and underground combat for two players. One player controls the evil denizens of the "Cave of Woe", an innumerable tribe of goblins (and an optional "guest star") who jealously guard a fabulous object. The other player controls Stormbeard the dwarf, armed with his legendary battleaxe, who must explore the cavern complex, "acquire" the ancient artifact and escape alive. Not so easy!
GOBLIN SLAYER features a special geomorphic game board designed to create a "perfect" but different cave system each time the game is played. The map tiles are perfect for use with your favorite paper roleplaying game as well!
The GOBLIN SLAYER zip file includes the game manual, a color "splash" image and nine large monochrome images of the game board tiles for printing. All you need to supply are common components found in other boardgames, like ordinary dice, coins or poker chips, and pawns or figurines.
GOBLIN SLAYER is freely distributable according to the terms stated in the manual. Feel free to share the game so everyone can play.
To get it, visit the GOBLIN SLAYER web page or grab the game right here!
The Eel is Loose! The Eel is Free!
AT SHRAPNEL GAMES
So get all three! Free games, that is.
Websites: Plasmaworm, Dr. Blob's Organism
and Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox
PRESS RELEASE
MYSTERY LINK
Warning: Prolonged exposure to free Digital Eel games can make
you silly. You may experience side effects such as facial twinges,
spontaneous laughter and fun. If side effects persist, enjoy them!
ESCAPE FROM THE ORDINARY
Join Le Chef in his kitchen and play a matching game like no other!
The electrifying Weird Worlds starship combat boardgame!
Happiness is a warm particle vortex cannon.
Independent Games Festival 2006 Award Winner!
Boldly blow up stuff where no one has blown up stuff before!
YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
With mighty star empires poised to unleash terrible interstellar war, the fate of the galaxy is uncertain and hangs tenuously in the balance. Yet, an ancient alien prophecy tells of a new age of great heroes, and of an epic battle to be fought beyond the rifts of time... Beyond the Shadows of Infinity!
+ Explore weird worlds of wonder and plunder.
+ Experience strange adventures and exotic quests, like "fetch me a bucket" or the deadly "placate the Tchorak" challenge.
+ Live another life --as a disgusting alien! Create and play any character you can imagine, from a slimy wormlike vent-dweller to a tentacled floating brain.
Infinite Space Olnine: Shadows of Infinity offers graphics rendering technology so excruciatingly beautiful that your eyes will literally explode, and more skills, powers, quirks, feats, levels, quests, items, monsters, minions, onions, grunions, bunions and punions than any other olnine game!
So, you ask, how much does it cost? That's the best part. You decide! Choose between three easy monthly payments: $11/month, $12/month or the $100/month zircon-encrusted platinum plan. What a deal!
Get ready to enter the vortex on April 1, 2007. The Shadows of Infinity await you!
Look! Amazing! Whoa! Check it out!
THREE MESMERIZING GAMES
FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF FREE
PC and Mac versions exclusively!
 Nifty nooz: If you'd like to read an overview of the independent game development movement, check out L. B. Jeffries' article, Rejecting the Conventional Industry: The Independent Gaming Scene, at PopMatters. According to Jeffries "What makes the games these people produce so impressive is not just the dedication of the people making them, but the staggering creativity that makes so many of them stand out." We agree, except for the staggering part. I mean, you could bump into something. Also, many thanks (three or four, actually; there are three or four of us depending on how you're counting) to L. B. for mentioning Weird Worlds and our latest game, Soup du Jour! The man's got great taste in games, I tell ya.
Ripcord out.
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