Reflexive Entertainment, an independent game developer and the company responsible for the Reflexive Arcade — a casual game download portal located at (Reflexive.com), has been acquired by Amazon.com. Reflexive CEO Lars Brubaker made the announcement on his official company blog earlier this week (October 20, 2008).

Reflexive was originally founded in 1997 with the simple aim to “make great games.” Since then, it has released fifteen of its own independent titles in addition to distributing a slew of additional casual games via the Reflexive Arcade, which launched in 2003 alongside Crimsonland.

Brubaker explains in his blog that being acquired by Amazon will allow Reflexive to…

Reflexive Entertainment has released a downloadable version of its music flash game, Music Catch, for Mac and PC users. Originally, Reflexive released the online game in June 2008. After achieving quite a bit of success and fame, Reflexive decided to tweak the title, which resulted in the downloadable version released yesterday (August 26, 2008).

Music Catch can really be a very relaxing game. The point is to collect shapes, which are released in time with the music. Certain colors have different properties, like yellow ones are worth more points and boost your combo, red shapes make you lose points and decrease your combo and purple shapes cause your pointer to become a mini blackhole that suck in any shapes released. There are no lives to worry about or goals to achieve, you just play for fun.

Reflexive entertainment announced their affiliate program, called GameCenterSolution, for indie game developers looking to distribute their wares. The casual game site is offering a partnership for interested parties looking to get more attention for their titles, and better access to customer service, professional accounting, and customizable features.

Basically, on their end, Reflexive will make all the sales, deal with customer inquiries, track commissions and mail the game maker a check with 40% commission on every qualified sale. Developers can put the Reflexive banners or full downloadable game portals on …