A casual Basketball-game really do not sound like an enhanced bundle of fun, doesn’t it? Time to learn a lesson, because this Baskeball game is so simple like throwing balls at the basket in the real world. At the same time so well executed, that it is somehow a must-play game over the christmas days. Get some friends, maybe booze and let the fun begin.

Your aim is to throw balls at the basket using the mouse. That’s basically it. The one who throws the most and best baskets wins. The significant detail here are various multiplayer-modes. You are able to create group-contests. Also statistics about every throw are delivered somehow in realtime. Well, best just have a short play to get the idea. And yes, this feels like the Commodore 64 / Amiga “playfever” is coming back home again. Lift the cup for this unusual “winter game”. (via)

Captain Forever is a silent space game with a simple gameplay: Shoot other ships and upgrade your own with the parts, the destroyed ships left over. A deep game, with a dense atmosphere. Fun. For the silent season of the year. (via)

The game Deflectorpool from the game- and tool-creator Tomas Pettersson is like a strange dream. It combines an interesting game-mechanic with oldschool demoscene or Amiga500 vibes. This one is hard too describe. You have to play it yourself. (via)

Ballgames, I love them! Sometimes. Especially, if they are decent and addictive at the same time. (I once tried to do the same genre with the game scnclr-X, so check it out). Balbodro is such a game, that looks simple, elegant, but has addictive qualities and by the way a really nice sound design. In order to “clear the screen” you have to select balls with the mouse. They fall to the ground and clear boxes of the same color. If all boxes are gone, you proceed to the next ground. (via Superlevel)

Pixeljam are back. After Dino Run they made in cooperation with Adult Swim Games the game “Mountain Maniac“, a strange mixture of Frogger, Pachinko, a fun casual game and some irritating storytelling. You play the “montain maniac” and have the goal to score points by destroying the city below the mountain. You do this by shooting of rocks out of the mountain. Insane stuff. A very retro-gameplay, if you ask me.

What once again is so cool about the Pixeljam-style is the “neo-retro” artwork, that are blocky, pixeled, but at the same time huge and detailed as well. The games are somehow “airy”.

Continuity is a very smooth flashgame for the browser. The creator really understood, how to create flow with music, volume levels and a clean and puzzly webdesign. It is not only the effect-side of this game, that is interesting, but also the gameplay itself is worth a look. It’s basically a platformer, but you can rearrange the position of the single level parts. Really nice game! Pick of the week. I guess!
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The guys at the Indiegames-weblog had a really nice finding of a Megaman-like game. Nezumiman is very close to the gameplay of the, let’s say NES-version of Megaman, but what makes this game so special are the cute cute graphics and the cute and catchy music. Instant love, if you would ask me. Perfect game for this winter!

Unfortunately only available for Windows. Mirror-downloads available here and here and they are about 18 MB in size.