Today’s game is a mixture of match-3 and crossword puzzle. The game is called Buzzword by Desktop Gaming. I only played the trial which is 60 minutes, but I felt it was good enough to get a feel for the game. The goal of the game is to reach the next level by filling the “honey” meter. 
Archive for March, 2009
Buzzword – Buzz, Buzz, BUZZZZZZ!
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009(ags) Shifter’s Box – Start thinking inside the box. – AGS
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Today we have another AGS created adventure game freebie, by Ben Chandler aka Ben304. The game is called Shifter’s Box, Outside-In. And we play the role of Sally. Just a girl outside the city enjoying the wonders of nature. To introduce us to Sally and her adventure and narrate the story is the framed, severed head of Ebenezer Leary a 19th century hobbyist and scientist. Sally is just taking a walk, when she stumbles upon a box with a strange symbol. She wonders what’s inside. When she finally manages to open the box, she’s transported to another world. On her adventures, Sally encounters strange worlds and interesting characters. Can you help Sally Get home?
(wme) Mental Repairs Inc – Another ghost in the machine? – WME
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Machines that think? Well that’s what our next game is based on. It’s called “Mental Repairs, Inc.” by Renzo Thönen. Mental Repairs, Inc is another adventure game, but made with the Wintermute engine this time. Mental Repairs, Inc is about someone named Henrik Liaw, a ‘machine psychiatrist’. What? A shrink for machines? You’ve got to be kidding me right? No, actually, this seems very logical. In this game in the future all machines have computers (pretty much like today), and the AI is so advanced they now represent human mental processes, in other words virtual minds. What do we do when humans need debugging, we go see a shrink. So it’s only natural that machines with advanced AI, need to see psychiatrists to help fix them from the inside.