Posts Tagged ‘Casual’
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
The wonderful world of box pushing…
Remember the days when box pushing was fun? Slide a box here, move there, make sure you don’t trap yourself. Ahh, the joys of being a warehouse keeper. What? Those days aren’t over. You can experience them over and over again. That’s right be it PC or Mac, XBOX or Playstation, you can have the fun again of playing the box pusher. You know the game I’m talking about. Sokoban and it’s millions of variations. In fact even yours truly had the opportunity to create levels for a 3d Sokoban-style game called Grek’s Puzzle Challenge (the last game on the page). Originally created in 1980 by some Japanese dude (you can read the Wikipedia entry as linked above), it has come to be loved and played by millions. It’s no surprise, then, that it should come to Xbox Live Community games, in the form of Penga’s Peril.
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Tags:Abandon Interactive Entertainment, Casual, fun, game, games, independent, Indie, sokoban, xbla, xblig, xbox, xbox live, xbox live community games
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I’m talking about Snake, the classic game where move your snake around the board and eat and eat and eat until your tail grows so long that you eventually run into yourself. According to your friend, and mine, Wikipedia, Snake originated in the 70’s with Blockade by a company named Gremlin Industries (not to be confused with Gremlin Graphics that eventually became Gremlin Interactive). Snake has had a long career and today’s game adds to that distinguished career. Atomic Worm by Charlie Dog Games is more than just your average snake clone. Although the developer might rap me in the mouth for this, I believe it’s a combination of snake and a match-3 game. That’s right, a match-3. I didn’t intentionally start out to review another one of these games, but it appears i have. Of course it’s not a traditional click 3 items, or falling block match-3, it’s a snake variant. It’s also another freeware title. I guess I just seem to be getting a lot of freeware stuff. 
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Tags:addicting, Casual, Charlie Dog Games, free, Freeware, fun, game, games, independent, Indie, retro, retro styled, review, reviews, windows
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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. 
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Tags:Buzzword, Casual, Desktop Gaming, game, games, independent, Indie, Match-3, review, reviews, windows
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