Posts Tagged ‘retro styled’
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Okay 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.
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Tags:addicting, feedback, free, Freeware, fun, game, games, IGF, independent, Indie, retro, retro styled, review, reviews, scroller, scrolling, windows
Posted in Freeware, IGF, Match-3, Shooter | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Well today’s adventure game made in AGS isn’t about anyone named Daisy, but if you can figure out the reference I’ll randomly put your name in one of my reviews, and if you figure out the double reference, I’ll put your name your name randomly in TWO of my reviews. Anyways, today’s game is about a little bot named Annie Android by Ben Chandler aka Ben304. “Annie Android has her eye on that handsome Mailbot, but is shocked to discover that she has been assigned to be another bot’s partner! Help Annie win the heart of Mailbot and defeat the nasty RoboHQ!” is what the readme says. So let’s see if we can help her out. Annie Android is made by the same guy who made Shifter’s Box. So it’s sure to be interesting.
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Tags:Adventure, ags, Ben304, free, Freeware, fun, game, games, independent, Indie, point'n'click, retro styled, review, reviews, windows
Posted in Adventure, Casual, Freeware | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Wha-huh? Top Wafer Thin Pizza Batter? To Win Twenty Pieces Back? Till Wind Tears Prairie Bears? Tough Women Tickle Poor Boys? Oh wait I got it – Twenty Wait to Pay Bills, sounds like a headline doesn’t it? Heck I gotta million of ‘em. We could create acronyms till the cows came home. I don’t really understand what the letters mean either. But our next game is called T.W.T.P.B. And again I say “Wha-huh?” This doesn’t really give you any idea of what this game is about, but that’s where I come in.
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Tags:addicting, fun, game, games, independent, Indie, retro, retro styled, review, reviews, scrolling, Shooter, Spell of Play, windows
Posted in Shooter | 1 Comment »
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.
