Pixel has a new game out:
Akantares!
Click the little red graphic on the lower-left to download. Don't get too excited, it's not Cave Story 2 or anything, but rather a simple one-on-one missile-trajectory combat game. Fire missiles at your opponent's planet, using the gravity of both your planetoids and the gray spheres scattered throughout the playfield. The game features what I think is Pixel's first net code.
Instructions:
Menu 1: Enter your name.
Menu 2: Lobby. The big white list shows Name and Time for waiting players. The lower-left button is Refresh, and the four buttons on the right are (from the top) Call, Wait, Single Player, and Quit.
If you wait, you will apparently show up in the lobby (there must be some central server), because when I tried waiting, in under a minute I was playing against some presumably Japanese person named “kei” (excellent win, kei!).
Main Gameplay: Adjust direction with the slider and click the button to fire (you probably figured that out). If you’re playing against another human, you’ll also get Emotion buttons to make different faces at your opponent.
Emotions Row 1: Blank, Happy, Angry, Sad, Pleased, Silent, Stupid, Nose
Emotions Row 2: Afraid, Surprised, Despairing, Glasses, Grinning, Annoyed, Confused, Neutral
Sometimes it seems to have trouble connecting; I've gotten stuck more than once with it saying "Acquiring Coordinates..." when it tries to start a game.
In fact, I've only been able to connect the one time so far... No, wait, make that two times now, so maybe the problem wasn't on my end after all. Feel free to comment if you have any better or worse luck!