Indie developer GarageGames has opened the floodgates on its web-gaming application InstantAction.com.

While an official announcement is not due for another day or so, a GarageGames representative confirmed to Shacknews that anyone who signs up for the beta via the service's official site will be able to instantly access the beta.

The beta currently contains four titles from multiple studios--Marble Blast Online, ScrewJumper, Think Tanks, and Cyclomite--with a prototype version of TRIBES spiritual sequel Fallen Empire: Legions slated to arrive by the month's end.

For more on InstantAction and its upcoming titles, check out our past coverage.

I first saw Screwjumper, Frozen Codebase's premiere effort at IndieGamesCon this year, and was impressed by how simple it was to play and how that challenge motivated me to keep improving my terrible performance.

With the game's Xbox Live Arcade release coming up as well as its eventual InstantAction offering, I spoke with producer Ben Geisler and design director Norb Rozek to learn more about the game, the company, and its views on independent development.

Norb Rozek: We were actually going to launch this company with a completely different game idea, but then we had everybody that we know tell us that we were on crack for thinking of this idea, so we said "wow, gosh darn, we better get a different idea." I was like, "I have this idea called Screwjumper," and everybody said "alright, let's do that." Thus was born this weird figure of darkness, this avenger of evil, the Screwjumper.