What if you took Magic: the Gathering and combined it with Dungeons and Dragons. That would just be like so full of cool you’d be frozen when you played it. Well SpellBlazer by Seismic Studios is not like that, luckily for all cold-blooded animals. Okay so there is elements of an RPG, and then a card game in between. If you are particularly astute you will find that Seismic actually developed Wagons HO! which I did the programming on. So SpellBlazer was designed by the same guy. Of course I had nothing to do with SpellBlazer as I was contract programmer for Wagons Ho. Actually it’s been a fair bit since I played it so even though I know there are card based battles, I don’t really remember much about it. Well let’s see what we got here.
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SpellBlazer – Part card, part role-playing, all game! – flash
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Invalid Tangram – Confucius say: ancient Chinese furniture make great puzzle.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Okay hope I didn’t offend anyone by the title (you never know who finds offense at mock broken English). Seriously though the tangram started out as some furniture set that later materialized into a set of wooden blocks for playing. No really! Check out tangram on Wikipedia! Basically the object of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces which may not overlap. I think I played it once or twice, interesting puzzle. What does this have to do with our next game?
Well our next game just happens to be called “Invalid Tangram” by Josh Szepietowski. I don’t really know what’s invalid about it though, maybe the bad guys are “invalid” tangrams. Maybe your ship is, but who knows. I do know this is a very interesting mix of match-3 and vertical scrolling shooter. Well in actuality you can match two it doesn’t just have to be three. Josh made this at the Guildhall at SMU. Essentially a game development program at Southern Methodist University which is in Dallas, Texas. As is stated on his homepage — Invalid Tangram has been chosen as 1 of 10 Student Showcase Finalists out of more then 100 entrants in the 2007 Independent Games Festival. Invalid Tangram was one of four programmer games picked to be shown at The Guildhall 2005 Winter Exhibition. — Impressive, most impressive.
Star Crash – Sorry, no Caroline Munro – Flash
Friday, March 27th, 2009
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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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