Posts Tagged ‘reviews’
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 »
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Elf dentistry aside, our next game involves a toy box. A MAGIC toy box. In fact a magic toy CHEST. What would you expect a magic toy chest to do? Well I would think make toys. I mean it’s magic, and it’s a toy chest, what possible magic could a toy chest do, but magically produce toys. At least that’s what I was thinking. Didn’t you at least a little bit think about that when I said it? Apparently the MAGIC toy chest doesn’t like to make toys either. Nope, it was all a clever ploy by Johnny (or Jimmy, or Timmy, or whoever that kid’s name is), to get you to help him do his chores. I mean his Mom tells him to clean up the room and does Johnny get industrious enough to do it himself, heck no. Sure just promise any Joe that there’s a magic toy chest awaiting him and then cruelly snatch it away and tell him he has to help you put away the toys.
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Tags:game, games, Graduate Games, independent, Indie, physics, point'n'click, review, reviews, windows
Posted in Casual, physics based | No Comments »
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Okay. While looking through completed WME games I might enjoy, I got on to this Barrow Hill by Shadow Tor Studios. I almost wasn’t going to review this, because of the subject matter I determined would be acceptable. But looking at the first person perspective I sort of felt it wouldn’t like get gory or anything. Now the case may change with the full version, but the demo is just fine. I also wanted to choose something a little bit different than I normally play. Firstly the first person perspective adventure games (say like Myst) is not something I play usually. Secondly I really don’t care much for supposedly “scary”, horror, or thriller games. Mostly because as horror movies, these games get more realistic and thus a bit more gory. Luckily this is an adventure game, so the chances of this being truly that bad is small.
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Tags:Adventure, game, games, independent, Indie, point'n'click, review, reviews, Shadow Tor Studios, wme
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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.
