After a short break comes a new release from Poppy called Monster’s Valley. Once again, beautiful pixel graphics and simple gameplay make this a wonderful addition to the growing collection of games from Poppy, TomTom and Jerry collective.

The task this time is: Let monsters jump not to fall in the valley.

In case you missed previous releases, it’s never too late to catch up including Sweep Man (itunes link) which is now free!

Previously: Brave Man, Apple and Monster, Hotdog Panic, Sweep Man and Giant Metal Robot

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $0.99
Developer: Poppy

Glory Math is a generative art application for the iPhone. Starting with a blank screen, touch, swipe and shake to create constantly evolving shapes and fields of color. Explore color noise, merging liquids, and spastic color bars, each only briefly maintaining existence. In the end, all devolves into a single color state.

Created by Coffeeshopped, an Austin-based web/iPhone software company ran by Chadwick Wood.

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $1.99
Developer: Coffeeshopped

The first of four episodes of Pixelate’s Black Forest series of mini games is now available for download. Pixelate, the team behind Mr. Bounce are bringing a series of tiny, experimental games this month, one episode per week. We have had a little preview of all four and enjoyed them thoroughly. For now, you can enjoy the first of four followed by more in the next few weeks.

All episodes feature a little ghost as the main character, but have completely different game mechanics. The player takes on the ghost’s role who finds himself in unfamiliar, alien environments. There is no tutorial – only five small icons that indicate what keys and buttons the player can use to interact with the game world. Like sketches, every episode deliberately does not aim to be a “complete” game, but is rather an effort to create emotional experiences that are more personal and different from the ones traditional game design has to offer.

Have a play here and  you can follow Andrea Szecher for latest updates/releases on Twitter.

Created by Pixelate, the team behind Mr. Bounce, The Black Forest is a series of tiny, experimental games with the first season of four episodes to be released online this December. Episodes will be released one per week and all feature a little ghost as the main character adopting different game mechanics in each episode.

Pixelate have already explored this area by releasing ‘Understanding Games’: a series of four games explaining the basic concepts of video games which are all a must watch/play. This time around, Pixelate promise to create emotional experiences through a number of mini game experiments in the series which may even see releases in the AppStore.

Season One:
The player takes on the ghost’s role who finds himself in unfamiliar, alien environments. There is no tutorial – only five small icons that indicate what keys and buttons the player can use to interact with the game world. Like sketches, every episode deliberately does not aim to be a “complete” game, but is rather an effort to create emotional experiences that are more personal and different from the ones traditional game design has to offer.

You can find out more by visiting pixelate.de.

Pixelate are Andreas Zecher, Martin Straka and Marek Plichta.