[Every Friday on Venus Patrol, designer Dominique ‘Dom2D‘ Ferland presents TIGSource DevLog Magazine, a visual guide to the newest & most interesting in-development games making the rounds on the invaluable TIGSource forums. Looking for inspiration, or just the very first look at the amazing games we’ll be talking about in the future? Click any image to learn more, and come back each Friday for the latest picks!]

Since 2009, TIGSource forum user St33d has been writing a pretty thorough devlog for a rogue-like platformer named Red Rogue. This week marks the end of that thread – Red Rogue is finally completed and released for everyone to play! It’s a very interesting entry in the rogue-like genre, with its mix of platforming, auto-combat, loot and traps. I’d also recommend checking out its soundtrack on Bandcamp!

There are a ton of new threads in the Devlog section this week. Let’s start with HarvestCraft, a game inspired by Harvest Moon, but with Minecraft‘s creativity aspects, all done in tiny, lovely pixel art. We’re glad to see Fez composer Disasterpeace join the devlog threads with January, a music generation game/tool involving snowflake-licking he’s been working on for a while now. Then there’s Reich, a turn-based strategy game in which you play the axis’ side of World War II – risqué, but quite interesting!

But the Big Question is can I build this in time for next wednesday ? HMMMNNNNNNNN..

Another tribute to the final weekend of the Sportsfriends Kickstarter, this time from local fave comic artist Maré Odomo, with an illustrated breakdown of why you should definitely kick in.

The eagle-eyed will note that not only does Venus Patrol designer Cory Schmitz make a guest appearance, but also chipscene regulars Anamanaguchi (“in someone’s living room”), my Wild Rumpus cohorts from this year’s Wild Rumpus/One Life Left/Venus Patrol GDC party, and David Mauro’s “Babycastles no Fukushuu: Manhattan Fury” & Hilary Florido’s “Codependent No Moe” custom-painted arcade cabinets for NYC game-event group Babycastles.

As before, this is the last weekend to make a difference in bringing all of the Sportsfriends games to a wider audience: donate to the campaign at Kickstarter.

Artist, game-maker and our own resident TIGSource DevLog editor Dominique ‘Dom2D‘ Ferland does faux-anaglyph justice to Sportsfriends, the previously-featured four-game ultra-collection of local-multiplayer greatness, including Johann Sebastian Joust, BaraBariBall, Hokra and Super Pole Riders.

The collection is in the home stretch of its Kickstarter and still needs a lotta love — dig deep this weekend and help bring these games to the masses, before it’s too late!

and you’d never have to worry about paying any copywright for the IP – because look – Waddington’s certainly never gave a shit right ?

Previously only been quietly released in small numbers at an event earlier in the year, Gun Godz & Super Crate Box creators Vlambeer have just opened up orders for the Super Crate Bundle to the world at large, as part of a new merchandising push with online seller Level Up Studios.

The Bundle, which comes in an actual Super Crate, is limited to 250 copies and includes a 36-track soundtrack CD for all their games featuring Phlogiston, Kozilek, Doeseone, Alex Mauer, and Brother Android, a Vlambeer T-shirt, a Gun Godz print, buttons, and a thumb-drive with copies of 11 Vlambeer games, including Gun Godz itself (which you, ahem, should probably already have).

If you miss your chance at picking up a Bundle, Vlambeer’s also released the soundtrack CD (you can thank me later for the amazing die-cut cover idea) and various T-shirts separately, including the fantastic front & back Gun Godz design — find all of Level Up’s Vlambeer merch here.

A reminder for all our Toronto indie friends and an update for those that might not have yet seen: this Friday, December 7th will see the latest meetup of the city’s Hand Eye Society — the progenitors of hyper-local indie game meetups — with a series of talks on the subject of roguelikes.

On hand will be N+ co-creator Raigan Burns of Metanet, who’ll discuss how the genre’s “minimalist proceduralism inspired indie hits like Spelunky” and debunk the myth that it “introduced the notion of permadeath as an antidote to the poisonous excess of infinite lives” with his “trademark intensi-passion”.

Metanet’s also brought in Kornel Kisielewicz from his native Poland to discuss DoomRL, his conversion of id’s classic first-person-shooter into a top-town turn-based spacebase-crawler, with pixels by none other than Spelunky creator Derek Yu.

Everything kicks off at 7pm at Toronto’s Monarch Tavern, and we desperately hope someone’s got an iPhone camera handy with a little tripod to bring us video after the event.

Pretty much the adorablest tribute to one of the best mini-games in the already-incredibly-adorable Rhythm Heaven Fever — the last, greatest swan-song game Nintendo created for the Wii — from Cucumber Quest artist Gigi D.G.

Find more of D.G.’s sketches like this at her tumblr and porfolio blog, and if you somehow have slept on Rhythm Heaven Fever itself, correct that massive error as quickly as you can.

Mt. Triforce, a tribute by the previously-featured “8 Bit Dreams” artist Campbell Whyte depicting Legend of Zelda‘s “collecting of the wooden sword, the meeting that begins the entire quest of the hero”.

The piece was originally created for Jimmy Giegerich’s art zine Bits in Multiples of 8, and now available from Whyte as a standalone print, alongside a number of other of Whyte’s holiday gift ideas.

QUICK GO VOTE THAT SHIT UP BEFORE IT GET BLAMMED :O

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