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Walker and Silhouette is a short interactive fiction game about a pair of detectives named Nate and Ivy, working together to solve a case for the Oldchester Criminal Investigation Department. The interface is an easy one to use, all a user has to do is to click on a highlighted keyword to investigate further or progress the story forward. Occasionally certain words like leave, think and help have to be typed in, but these situations rarely occur and wouldn’t cause too much of an inconvenience to any player.

The writing on display is good, the storyline is intriguing, and there are some clever puzzles designed just for the single keyword system. A windows executable is included with the Windows version, while Linux and Mac users can play the game by using a TADS interpreter to run the TADS 3 game file. (Mac/Win/Linux, 1.60MB)

In our latest employment-specific round-up, we highlight some of the notable jobs posted in big sister site Gamasutra’s industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Crystal Dynamics, Firaxis Games and more.

Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site’s daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly.

It will also be cross-posted for free across its network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on online worlds, cellphone games, ’serious games’, independent games and more.

Some of the notable jobs posted this week include:

Crystal Dynamics: Lead Designer
“Crystal Dynamics is looking for a talented, innovative lead designer on future AAA title development for Xbox 360 and PS3. We’re looking for a candidate who is driven, passionate about making games, willing to take risks, confident that the risk is worth taking and has a solid design background to make it happen. The candidate we’re looking for will have current multiplayer, systems and technical experience and excels in highly collaborative, team environments.”

THQ/Kaos Studios: Environment Art Supervisor
“We are seeking an experienced Environment Art Supervisor with the skills and passion to drive the designing, organization, modeling, texturing, dressing and lighting of realistically-grounded game worlds. Candidates should have a very strong sense of visual design and an amazing attention to detail. Candidates should be able to build and light environments from scratch by relying on a combination of photo-reference and concept art.”

EON looks to be in the vein of Cypher Prime’s Auditorium, but in space. Manipulating particles to move away from their source and fill other empty sources (planets?) using a lot of force bending and redirection. Apparently the game is complete, and now Intuition are looking for sponsorship, so you can assume it will be available soon. Should be fun!

I’m sure we’ve not mentioned Super Meat Boy in the last 48 hours, so here’s another look (courtesy of IGN) at Team Meat’s upcoming action platformer for the WiiWare and Windows. Nintendo World Report has an article about the PC version of Super Meat Boy up on their site, although it doesn’t really reveal anything that’s not already mentioned in the video shown above.

Also, click through for videos spanning Cletus Clay to Infinite Ammo profile through the new episode of Bytejacker:

Irukandji is a score-based vertical shooter that currently contains only one level to play, although by beating the game for the first time you do get another ship that can be used for your subsequent attempts at unlocking more achievements. There are multipliers and power-up items to collect, and you can also destroy enemies with your special missile weapon by holding down the C key.

Players can only unlock two ships in the demo. The full version features six different ships, a full set of achievements, online high score tables, and will cost a dollar to purchase. (Mac/Windows, 11.7MB)