…Flipside of the divine, that is. Our next game comes from Erik Svedäng and his team including Daniel Kaplan, Pernilla Akterhall, Björn Öjlert, Markus Nurmimäki, Stefan Hurtig, Johan Gren, Daniel Rydin, Johan Åberg, Petter Mabäcker, and Andreas Sundin of the University of Skövde in Sweden (I’m assuming Sweden because on his personal about page, it says he was born there) for a 10 week course in 2007.
Remember the good ol’ days, when real games required pointing and clicking your mouse? Well now those days are back. With the various adventure game creators out there it’s now more accessible to most computer users to make games that rival commercial games of days past.
This is the first adventure I’m reviewing on my blog hopefully with many more to come. The name of the game is Limey Lizard, Waste Wizard made by Shane Stevens with Adventure Game Studio. It’s a fun, old fashioned point and click adventure game. You step into the role of Limey Lizard, who happens to be a maintenence worker on the ship, “The Spicy Curmudgeon”, where your role happens to be… well… maintanence. If there’s a leak in the waste system of the ship, Limey is always ready to lend a hand. Well not really, see he’s kind of lazy, but heck who isn’t lazy these days!
Today I’m going to review Typomagia! The magic typing game! By Sol aka Jari Komppa.
Typomagia is a game of typing and magic! Okay, okay, it’s just a typing game (like word invaders if you remember typing tutor). There are two modes of play a “quick” game with the computer, or story mode. In both modes you have several categories of word lists. Chemistry, cities, colors, common, lands, orchids, programming. I chose common, simply because I wanted to play the general case. If you start the quick game first, it sort of gives you an idea of what you’re in for on story mode.