Posts Tagged ‘Freeware’

(ags) Annie Android – Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you. – AGS

Monday, March 30th, 2009

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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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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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Dungeons of Fear – Welcome to the dungeon, we’ve got fun and games…

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Mar24b All right, all right, I know… it’s “Welcome to the jungle” … but I’m speaking of the dungeon.  The DUNGEON OF FEAR!  I mean DUNGEONS OF FEAR!  As in many dungeons, as in plural.  Dungeons of Fear is a text based game, and a website, by Brian Sauer.  Teh greatest website EVAR!  Okay, so I exaggerate.  I went to this guy’s page, and saw all these games he had on there, and that impressed me.  Am I’m not easily impressed… (Tin foil? ooooh shiny!) – wait wait, I said I’m not easily impressed, and said nothing about not being easily distracted.  “Ooh string!”  If one looks at the website, one doesn’t think much of it.  When one looks at the games on the website, one doesn’t think much of it.  However, the one thing that’s really hard for aspiring game developers is to finish games. 

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