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My next Flash Friday entry is called Star Crash by Glowing Eye Games. We’re not talking about some cheesy 70’s B-grade star wars rip-off either. We’re talking about a flash game. I really don’t know what this game has to do with stars other than the space backdrops, or maybe the flying, blue, glowy, thingy. But it’s a simple game where you collect the blue glowy “stars” and orange glowing spirals. You must simply avoid the red glowy thingies, or else it’s game over. It’s simply a survival and get points game. Nothing spectacular. Also your mouse cursor is an eye, a glowing eye. I mean how weird is that? It’s not that bad to play though. It does start to get frantic. This is a good example of a beginners game. If you want to get your feet wet making a game, do the simplest thing possible. |
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Archive for March, 2009
Star Crash – Sorry, no Caroline Munro – Flash
Friday, March 27th, 2009Avernum – Underworld revolution
Thursday, March 26th, 2009“You have been banished to the underworld, never to see the light of day again. You have been cast down into the dark, 
volcanic pits of Avernum, filled with foul monsters, constant warfare, and thousands and thousands of your fellow prisoners. You have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the caverns, eventually to die there, forgotten and un-mourned. But you need not accept your fate. Will you be the first person to escape from Avernum?”
That is pretty much the description off the Spiderweb Software website, shortened so you wouldn’t feel as though I were trying to add filler. I had just started up the demo for one of indie software’s classic games, the original Avernum, and after reading the opening passages, I couldn’t hope to remember what they said, other than, You have been banished to the underworld. Okay that is not to say there’s too much text there at the beginning, it is a CRPG after all, but I wanted to get right into the game. I did read it, but I read it rather quickly.
Foosball Maniac – Iceball, Yoosball, We all scream for Foosball!
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
What combines the “English” of pool, and the competitive edge of air hockey, with a little soccer (English football) thrown in? Nope not bowling. Hehe, I know, bowling doesn’t have any soccer in it at all. Try again. Umm ran out of guesses? Actually I have, okay, it’s foosball! Yay! Who doesn’t like foosball? Well actually I haven’t played it in years, so I don’t remember if I like it or not. This, little fact, should hopefully have no bearing on this review.