During last 5 years people have not made any incredible advances in computer gaming. Over 90% of new shooters, strategies, simulators and 3D RPGs – is just reinventing of the wheel over and over again.

    Two programmers working for small developer companies had same thoughts. Chris Hecker and Sean Barrett had an idea of utilizing the awesome power of modern computers to calculate and operate incredible amounts of on-screen characters in a game at the same time.

    As a result, the guys have organized a funky thing – The Indie Game Jam, a four-day jam-session for programming fanatics. In one weekend the organisators of this event have created tools and a platform for controlling insane numbers of monsters at the same time.

    As a result, fourteen developers participating in the project have created 12 games filled with monsters in just 4 days. You cnt play any of these games just yet, but all code will be distributed under the GNU license and will be published on SourceForge quite soon. Now, even the screenshots, showing games so full of characters that they resemble times Square in NYC, view from above, look very promising and fun.   

    Here is what I want to see released ASAP:   

Angry God Bowling

    This game is written specifically to demonstrate the capabilities of the engine. You need to roll a bowling ball and hit people with it, who run around in panic and try to stay close to priests. Total chaos.

Worship

    Something like 3D Missle Command: you need to protect Jesuses from hordes of demons. A readme file says that the source code contains line:

#define MAX_CHRISTS 5

Dueling Machine

    Also an awesome idea. In a town full of people, you need to locate and shoot your target. You have a gun with one bullet and a device that shows how close you are to your victim. In order to win, you have to scout the whole town.

    Conclusions: it is possible that games like this will become more popular – sometimes all you want is blood and gore, not good-looking 3D models and SFX. And you can play Angry God Bowling just because of its name.