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Cat Tank Battle is a turn-based multiplayer game in which up to six players can join a room to battle it out against one another and be the last tank standing at the end of the conflict. In addition to the normal artillery rounds, you can also teleport, fire a high-powered warhead or even three consecutive shots with just one turn, although players are only allowed to use each of these just once in every game.

You can find Cat Tank Battle on Mogera and Facebook too. No registration is required to play the game. Continue reading

The Murigee competition is a 48 hour Flash game coding challenge organized by Babarageo, Ken'ichi Hoshino, and Shunsuke Miyahara (formerly the producer of Shockwave.co.jp), with the games usually hosted on Mogera after completion. A 'Chou Murigee' (Super Murigee) event will be held at the Asagaya Loft in Tokyo this 7th of February 2010, with notable attendees such as Yoshio Ishii (creator of Cursor*10 and Hoshi Saga series), dice (Kagi Nochi Tobira series), Polygon Gmen (Transmover) and Jinsei Owata (The Big Adventure of Owata's Life) already confirmed to be participating. There is no charge for game developers who are attending this open event, but the entrance fee is only 1500 yen (USD $17) for everyone else and you do get a free drink coupon with it.

Everything you need to know from the schedule to the guest list is here (non-Flash version). Marcus has kindly provided a map for the location, and you can also contact babara via email (babara [at] babarageo.com) for more information if needed. He speaks English as well, but try to keep your emails short and simple for him to reply to. (source: babara) Continue reading

Some people really dig genre pieces, works that stick to convention and don't really deviate from the norm. You experience them because you enjoy the tropes of the genre and the familiarity of it all. This game is a standard hop-and-bop platformer, but if you have a platformer fetish like I do you'll most likely squeeze some enjoyment from it. Obake takes elements from Mario and Kirby and mixes them in a not-too-radical fashion, but does it with a decent amount of polish and a fair amount of charm.

You play as the titular Obake (Japanese for 'thing that changes') and take him through a six-world romp. The aesthetic is slightly off-kilter retro, and should appeal to fans of the 16-bit era. In your normal ghost-like form you can only move and jump, but if you press the down arrow you can possess an enemy. When you do so you gain their mobility and attack patterns, each of varying strength. The game takes Kirby's absorption motif a step further by also giving you that enemy's health. This coupled with generally low difficulty makes the game fairly easy, but it's fun to mess around with the various forms and explore the levels. The six worlds go a long way as well, so if you're into this sort of thing there's a lot of content to be played.

Nothing revolutionary, but a nice way to kill a couple hours.

And because I like you guys so much, here's an extra game at no additional charge: http://mogera.jp/gameplay?gid=gm0000000345
You play an albino deer,tripping on some psychedelic, that throws rocks at police. Enjoy.