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a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

i'm hella cute but i didn't get that message! boo

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject:

maybe you're just too elusive for anna stalker to locate?

though i kind of only have six friends.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

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the voice acting and dialogue made me laugh quite a bit.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The sequel to the amusing Poke646 mod for Half-Life, titled Poke646: Vendetta, was released over a week ago.

It's an impressive job, barely feeling all that old, with very solid level design and an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek plot. Highly recommended.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

I don't think this has been linked here yet: Biots

I was looking up a Rama reference and found it.

I found the descriptions to be more interesting than the actual "game".

Others may get more mileage.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

rider is pretty nifty. it's a motorcycle sim where you try to get your package to its destination on time without breaking any traffic laws (when cops are watching). reminds me of tokyo bus guide, but better since it involves motorcycles (and you don't have to observe crazy bus codes). it's a pretty nice chillout game. videogame sunsets!
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

I haven't played it myself yet, but Luigi vs. Mario (Mario Adventure 2) was released recently (well the abondoned project was released).

Shaper, if you didn't ever get the soundtrack to Gamma Bros., let me know. The soundtrack is by Mark DeNardo and I was actually going to get a bunch of his mp3s from him and I could probably get the Gamma Bros. soundtrack as well.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

i'm wary of that hack since most of the author's previous releases show no understanding of level design, that the author seems to think that hard = good so unplayable must = great.

actually i could say that about most rom hacks.

also the screenshots lead me to believe the author spent six months adding dithering to every sprite in the game.
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Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

kimkallstrom1 · . Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

http://www.pixeljam.com/downloads/
http://www.pixeljam.com/downloads/gammaThemeAcoustic.zip
http://www.pixeljam.com/downloads/gammaThemeVocal.zip

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Those, I have. They are not exactly what's in the game, but still good. Dig the vocal song, it's cute.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

6 Days a Sacrifice is now out. It won't make sense unless you've played the other three games in the series (5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes).

It juggles with a lot of ideas, too many ideas even. Some are excellent (The fifth day being perhaps the best part), some are mediocre, some are just poor. A lot of the developments feel forced, and it's mostly a narrative experience, rather than an adventure. It's not even that scary, serving just as exhibition for completists. Not as good as Trilby's Notes, but check it out if you want to see what happens to some of the key characters in the previous games, and a further look into the mythos Yahtzee tries to create. It certainly doesn't feel conclusive, and I do expect another game to be announced eventually.

Do give the three IF pieces he wrote beforehand. I suggest opening them with Windows Frotz, rather than the suggested interpreter.
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

La-Mulana's been translated into English.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Start a thread or I will.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Clean Asia (by Cactus):
Dodge bullets, ram enemies and collect subsequent debris to shoot back. Unbalanced, but contains interesting shooter ideas.

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Blocksum: A puzzle game about math? More addictive than you could possibly imagine.

JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Mike · . Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 7 Location: UK

Wow, so much I could mention! I searched all this stuff out primarily through being broke, and was suprised by the quality of the freeware games on the internets.

As has already been mentioned, download every Kenta Cho game.

Dokutsu Monogatari/Cave Story will blow you away. Probably the best freeware game ever in fact.

There's lots of demos for Touhou games on the web that are worth checking out.

Warning Forever would be flawless if it wasn't for it's incredably erratic scoring system.

Cho Ren DA 20K is simple but stupidly fun.

Shooters Solitude and RAY HOUND look absolutely amazing, but I can't get either of them to work, oh woe.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:15 am Post subject:

duck dash is a remake of an amiga game. you move a duck around a grid of tiles, collecting eggs and bonuses while avoiding enemies. tiles you step on crack and become impassable, but to counteract this you have the ability to shift the row or column you're standing on. it moves pretty quickly and there's a good deal of strategy open to you.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I've been having a lot of fun with this remake of the puzzler Pushover.
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ApM · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject:

Does it retain the gratuitous product placement?

FAKE EDIT: It does!

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

on of eyezmaze, the creator of the grow series, was commissioned to create a little flash game for the publishers of lineage II (whatever that is). it is fantastic. it's a puzzle dungeon of the zelda sort. there is next to no text. to solve many of the screens requires an intuitive leap, but the solution never violates the game's internal logic. the puzzles are satisfying to solve. my total play time (to the "true" ending) was one hour and twenty-eight minutes.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

so

is there any way out of the little room? specifically, a way would further my progress (I'm just resetting)?
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

little room?
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

the door that shuts behind you.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject:

i can't remember the particular instance you're thinking of but from my experience i'm fairly confident it's impossible to get stuck. (even if it looks like you are.) poke around a bit!
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:50 am Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I must be dense because I have no idea how to get the bronze key.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I figured that I would post this here since I know there are people who will enjoy it:

Push! is an RPG Maker game that has a totally ridiculous story but is really just a Picross game. I wish I was better at picross, because this game seems great.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

kenta cho has a demo up of a shooter based on conway's game of life. the edges of the screen generate green cells, which obey the laws of conway's life while firing at you. your ship spawns brown gliders, which interact with the green cells, turning them brown. when you release the fire key, all brown cells on the screen disappear. interesting!
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

understanding games (currently three episodes of which are online) is a good idea - a game that teaches you the principles of games. i don't think it's done very well, though - it feels more like a lecture on games intercut with brief playable portions, and i would argue that the whole thing does not itself constitute a game. i think i'd like to see something more like eric loyer's chroma, where the game evolves around you, as you play, to demonstrate the principles which are being taught.

it also reminds me of this flash game that attempts to tell the history of videogames by gradually introducing new elements to the same simple game. i can't remember what it's called or where to find it, though.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Don't know if this has been talked about before, but someone posted it on our internal list and it looks interesting.

Puzzle Quest demo

ApM · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:

I think that was part of the Game On exhibit, but the old website appears to be down. The Wayback Machine provides, though.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject:

thanks armpitman!

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:35 am Post subject:

so my pretty much favorite famicom game is now online and free. that's great. can we do that with every game? the sound's not perfect but the play pretty much is.
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Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

oh hells yes. for a long time this was pretty much the only game my brother and i would play on our 63-in-1 cart. (it was called "baltle city.")

Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

Kenta Cho makes math fun with L.A. 2: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/flash/la2/
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:37 am Post subject:

i played a slightly older version of that, and i was impressed by how well kenta cho managed to balance the game (even at that stage), considering how wacky the premise is.

digital eel made a shooter that uses conway's life rules too, but it's really a bit too hard to predict and react to. and it's not free, so it's beyond the purview of this thread.
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