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Hi everyone! I just put Three Thirty-Three up on itch. It's free, and it plays right in your browser, on a computer or a phone.

You're a demon bound to 3:33 in the morning. They summoned you inside a circle of salt, and now they want you gone. Priests kneel round the clock and light candles, and every candle pushes time forward. When it strikes four, you're dragged out of the world.

The idea for this one came from the TV series Supernatural. If you've watched it, you'll know the salt. This time you're the demon.

• Tear the priests apart to wind the clock back, and snuff their candles
• Shriek to scatter them and blow the salt back
• You can't cross the salt, but you can reach over it
• The Bishop comes at 1:33. Bring him down and the clock goes back five minutes
• Your score is how long you held 3:33
• Free, with an optional tip

Play it here: https://lelandrangel.itch.io/three-thirty-three

I'd love to hear how long you held it!

Hi everyone! I just put Undertow up on itch. It's free, and it plays right in your browser, on a computer or a phone.

You're the thing under the fishing pier. The fishing's been bad in Hollin Harbor all autumn, and tonight the lamps are lit, the tide is in, and you're hungry. Reach up with an arm, take hold of someone, and drag them down into the dark. Tip rowboats over. Scream enough and the town rings the bell and comes with harpoons.

• Every one you take scores, more for a harpooner or for pulling them straight off the pier
• Take them fast for a feeding frenzy, up to four times the points
• The more you feed, the more you grow: a fifth arm, a sixth, a stronger grip
• At dawn you find out what the town will call you
• Free, with an optional tip

Play it here: https://lelandrangel.itch.io/undertow

I'd love to hear what the town called you!

Hi everyone! I just put Orbital Decay up on itch. It's free, and it plays right in your browser, on a computer or a phone.

Something vast has come down on Earth, and you're alone on a dark, tumbling station overhead with a leaking suit. Get the air and the power back, stop the spin, and find out what's in Crate 44-L. The orbit's falling the whole time.

There's no gravity, so you don't walk: you push off rails, drift, grab hold, and throw things to change course. Every move has to be planned.

• A story you play through, start to finish, with checkpoints
• Mouse and keyboard, or touch on a phone
• Free, with an optional tip
• Headphones on if you can

Play it here: https://lelandrangel.itch.io/orbital-decay

I'd love to hear how far you got before the orbit gave out!

Thank you!

Good question! You're right that there's never a moment where turning down a brain makes your score worse. What stops "be as big as possible" from being the whole game is the hunger: you lose a bit every second, plus about 2% of your head, so the bigger you are, the faster you shrink. A brain eaten early in the night has mostly melted away by sunrise. One eaten in the last 20 seconds keeps about two thirds of its value.

What does last from those early brains is the chain: every brain loosens it a little, for good. So the early night is really about getting the chain long enough to reach the whole graveyard while your head's still small and quick. The last half minute is where your score gets made: chain your feeds into a frenzy (back-to-back brains are worth up to 3×).

And being big costs you. You're slower, and people spook from further away. A huge head too early can leave you crawling round an empty graveyard while it shrinks.

So it's less "stay small" than "don't peak too early." Thanks for the question!

Hi everyone! I just put Noggin of the Dead up on itch. It's free, and it plays right in your browser, on a computer or a phone.

You're a zombie chained to your own grave. The town was afraid you'd come back, so they buried you under an iron mortsafe and chained your ankle to it. Tonight the blood moon split the ground open, but the chain held.

Groan to knock the living flat, then grab the bodies and drag them in to feast. Every brain swells your head and loosens the chain a little. A big head is slower, but it groans louder and reaches further. Go hungry and it shrinks. Whatever size it is at sunrise is your score.

• One night, two minutes long: quick rounds, easy to go again
• Mouse, keyboard or touch
• Free, with an optional tip

Play it here: https://lelandrangel.itch.io/noggin-of-the-dead

I'd love to hear how big your head got by sunrise!

Hi everyone! I just released INFALL.

A black hole has opened in the middle of the screen. It drags on your ship, your shots and every alien in the sector, and everything that falls in makes it bigger. You fly like it's Asteroids, your guns fire on their own, and every level you pick one of three cards to build your loadout while the swarm closes in.

• 9 weapons and 9 ship upgrades
• 4 bosses across 4 sectors, each with its own sky and music
• A Hangar of upgrades that stay with you between runs, and a daily run
• Five harder depths for when you're good

Update 1 is out now, and it's free: combos, four new ships, Endless and a new sector and boss. There's a free demo too.

$4.99 on itch: https://lelandrangel.itch.io/infall

I'd love to hear what you think, especially what killed you!