Archive for May, 2009

(ags) Ben Jordan Case 3 – Something witchy this way comes!

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

May20 Today is another Ben Jordan adventure game!  Wow, Ben Jordan seems to be getting a lot of cases under his belt now.  The Skunk Ape, the lost galleon of the Salton Sea and now his third adventure, The Sorceress of Smailholm.  I keep wanting to say Snail home but Smailholm it is.  This time it takes place in Scotland… oooh spooky Scotland, land of Highland Flings, Caber-tossing,  and the most horrifying thing of all HAGGIS! (No offense to the Scottish but I think minced sheep heart, lungs and liver with oatmeal, suet, and onions boiled in an animals stomach is pretty darn scary!)  Since I am going to be revising the format a bit, I should start by saying what I think of it.  So here it is. 

What I think of it:  It doesn’t seem much different than case 2 in graphics and design, however an interesting story coupled with a “competitor” for Ben Jordan makes up for that.  Ben Jordan’s 3rd case is fairly solid.  Details after the break.

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Tombed by dessgeega

Monday, May 18th, 2009

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I’ve linked to the update of tombed.  Apparently the author felt the Z and Spacebar could be used along with the shift and also removed blur.  Okay this is neat and pixelly.  You play Danger Jane as she tries to dig her way to treasure.  Only there’s an ADVANCING WALL OF DOOM, DUH duh DUHHHHH!  Okay well I’m beat after that.  Essentially you use the shift key to dig and arrow keys to move.  Not so tough, except the huge spikes just keep coming down and are relentless.  I couldn’t keep up, eventually I came to a part that was too hard and the wall overtook me.  Graphics are as I said neat and pixelly, and the sounds, sounded like they almost came from the pc speaker, except they were coming out of the regular speakers.  Nice little retro game.  Get it here: tombed.

Name: tombed

Developer: dessgeega

“I’m done!” by rob

Monday, May 18th, 2009

MiniReview3SS Okay okay, so “I’m Done!” is not actually a title.  Why did I put it there?  Well that’s what the post of rob’s final entry for the Ludum Dare 48 hour compo #14 was titled and since he didn’t have an actual game title other than ld14, I decided “I’m done!” is the title to this game.  No.  You CAN’T change it now.  I don’t care if you’ve thought up a better title by now.  This is the way it is.  A quick note, rob’s entry is number 3 instead of 4, because he had a flash version, and I managed to play that.  Okay so basically you move with the arrow keys.  Jump with the ‘A’ button.  Fire with the ‘S’ button.  Pretty simple in execution, just three levels.  Basically you have these walls with very fine hats.  You have to find a way to defeat them.  I won’t tell you how, but you can shoot them.  Jump and shoot, shoot and jump.  Actually I find this entry fairly original.  Play this game it’s not too hard, and it’s pretty fun.  The graphics are fairly adequate  for a 2 day flash game.  I’m sorry to say the music is highly annoying.  So I just played it silently.  Anyhoo have fun.  Get it here: I’m Done!

Name: I’m Done!

Developer: rob