Fusion Shift

A 2d, top-down, space shootin' adventure game... pew-pew! Follow the entire development of Fusion Shift and have your say on our ModDB page.

Octopede

Nom nom megabyes! Available on Desura , Indievania and now Beamdog.

Cloud Runner

(temporary title) Follow, comment and contribute to the development of our newest game on ModDB.

Domination Tower Defense

Traditional RTS meets Tower Defense in an all out frantic mess. Follow the entire development of Domination Tower Defense and have your say on our new ModDB page.


Pew Pew Puzzle Lasers: Introduction

9 January 2012
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Pew Pew Puzzle Lasers is a 2D puzzle game where the player must guide coloured lasers to the corresponding coloured target. There are several blocks on each level, some pre-placed and some are placed by the player. These blocks have different effects on the lasers and must be placed, rotated and used together to bounce [...]

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Octopede: Reviewed on Stack Exchange Gaming Blog

7 January 2012
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A review of Octopede has been posted on Stack Exchange Gaming Blog (blog.gaming.stackexchange.com) by one of their community members. Thanks to GnomeSlice for choosing Octopede for his first review over at the gaming community blog. Read the full review at: http://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/2012/01/octopede/ …The game takes place on a single, rectangular stage, as shown above. However, as you [...]

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Octopede: Reviewed on Aged Gamer

6 January 2012
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Aged Gamer (www.agedgamer.com) has posted a review of Octopede. Thanks to Thomas Faust (guest contributor) for sharing his thoughts on Octopede and Geoff Gibson for posting it on the website. Read the full review at: http://www.agedgamer.com/2012/01/05/retro-remix-octopede-snake-revisited/ …Octopede is a modernized version of the tried and true formula, truly a Snake for the 21st century. Gone are [...]

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The Cloud Runner: Development Announced

23 December 2011
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Another of Orbital Games’ projects, The Cloud Runner (temporary title) has been revealed. While still in the early concept phase we are interested in everyone’s impressions of the game and as always encourage community to contribute to the development. We we will be featuring all aspects of development via both our official site as well [...]

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Pew Pew Puzzle Lasers: Development Announced

25 November 2011
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Orbital Games is delighted to announce our latest title “Pew Pew Puzzle Lasers”. This game has only been in development for 24 hours and already we have nice stable tech-demo, user interface, working menus and even a level editor. Alpha will be released to the public next week, giving us time to make a fair few test [...]

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Octopede: Reviewed by The Indie Game Magazine

10 November 2011
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The Indie Game Magazine (www.indiegamemag.com) has posted a review of Octopede. Read the full review at: http://www.indiegamemag.com/octopede-review/ 1999 was the year I first encountered the game Snake on my parent’s Nokia mobile. Since then I’ve found myself enjoying several variations of the classic arcade title but none have won me over as much as Octopede, developed by Orbital Games. Like any [...]

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Octopede: Live on BeamDog

8 November 2011
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Our debut title Octopede has been approved for distrubtion by the kind folks at BeamDog. Head over to http://www.beamdog.com/products/octopede to grab your copy now!

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Octopede: Thoughts on the Control System

7 November 2011
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Hi, Octopede has received mostly very positive feedback, which has encouraged us at Orbital Games to keep at this game development lark. One of the major criticisms of Octopede was the control system. If the control system were a bit different, perhaps the Indie Mine Review of Octopede  would have been  all positive, instead of just [...]

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Octopede: Updated

4 November 2011
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We’ve added a small change to Octopede which adds another control option and hopefully fixed the problems some players may have had which causes graphics card errors when trying to launch Octopede. The Octopede can now move in all 8 directions by using just the left stick of an Xbox 360 controller (for PC and [...]

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Octopede: Reviewed by The Indie Mine

3 November 2011
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The Indie Mine has posted an in-depth review of Octopede. Thanks to Jeff for taking the time to play and write about Octopede. Read the full review at: http://theindiemine.com/octopede-review/ On its surface, Octopede is a riff on the 70s arcade classic Snake.  Cast in the role of a “rogue computer worm,” you race through a neon simulation of [...]

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