Worth a post on its own for its illumination of the Japanese indie game scene, TIGSource has a lengthy exposition on the results of a recent Japanese '3 Minute Game' competition, with tonnes of freely downloadable content.

Blogger Ithamore explains: "Each game is suppose to be based on a 3 minute theme, but longer mini-games have also been accepted", and then points out a recent highlight: "Granspope Frial is TERU-soach’s best effort in most ways. The graphics have a clean, interesting style, and the design’s concept has some good potential. You race as a bird against the clock by pressing a single key (‘Z’ or ‘Space’) to fly through a course covered with acceleration bars, which boosts you at the angle at which you touch them as long as your momentum is increasing."

Most interesting, though: "Recently, the number of decent games submitted to 3 Punge has been improving. There still haven’t been any gems to match the sparkle and shine of Omega’s Every Extend and Dan! Da! Dan! from the 2nd and 5th contests." Didn't realize that Every Extend started out as part of this competition!