Sound Of The Underground: Spelunky

Relatively late to this, but picked it up from Qt3 over the weekend and do like it a lot. It's the new game by Derek Yu who you'll best know for his involvement in the IGF winning Zelda-but-a-fish (With lots of other stuff) Aquaria. It's called Spelunky. It's basically Rick Dangerous meets Nethack: An underground platformer where each level is randomly generated whenever you play. By widening the skill-set slightly and allowing a lot more expression than you'd expect in what looks like Rick Dangerous, it really minimises the horrific-death-happy repetition which blighted Rick. About the only cost is slightly akward controls. This is clever and neat. See it in action beneath the cut...

Here's some games in progress...

And here's some splendid death. Expect to be screaming in a similar way.