Wind & Water Puzzle Battles

Well, our good friend James summed it up much better than I could, plus I just left a comment on his blog, so just go there and read it

Hah, And it's Anna Anthropy from Glorious Trainwrecks who's behind it, Even better!

The i of it

A very original concept, a capital I whose vertical bar you can change the size using up and down. Turns out you can use that as a mechanic for jumping and avoiding objects. Couple that with some fun levels and sort-of-narrative between screens ("Then...", "Thus...", "A few seconds later...") and you get a very interesting game



http://www.kongregate.com/games/gameshot/the-i-of-it

The Last Survivor

Run, jump, avoid stuff, rearrange blocks so you can reach unreachable platforms, and that's it! Minimalistic artwork, but the end bit was funny, worth playing it just for that alone



http://benn-gaming.co.uk/ld20.html

Pitch In

And, to wrap it up for this LD, here's another weird one: Instead of a single character jumping around platforms, this time you control lots of them, one at a time, throwing a single item around, trying to make it reach its destination. Different characters have different walking speeds and throw curves, so the puzzles become really interesting really soon. Love the gameplay



http://cambrian-man.com/pitchin/

Snail Bob 2

Another click-on-screen-to-help-the-character-reach-the-end-of-the-level-without-dying kind of game. Easy puzzles, loved the graphics - lots of cute animations



http://www.kongregate.com/games/Alex_SpilGames/snail-bob-2

Intruded

Do the screenshots look glitchy? Well, that's because the game is like that. It's a 3D game, you get this low poly girl walking around the rooms, trying to find the exit (and some red orbs along the way). All the action is being watched by security cameras, hence the washed out video effects. It actually looks much better in-game (plus it covers most of the code's glitches ).

Thankfully even though the cameras are in fixed positions like alone in the dark, at least they rotate, tracking the character as it moves around the rooms, making it much easier to navigate. Because of the fish-eye effect of the camera though, you get some distortions and might find some turns difficult to perform. Especially when you get to some levels with narrow pathways (falling over them = instant death) it becomes frustrating. Another problem that was very apparent while I was playing was the low frame rate I got in this netbook, but that's my own tough shit I suppose! (a couple of rooms were very difficult though, and the low frame rate didn't help at all).

Anyway, I played it to the end and liked it. It's a very bare bones game, without tons of background scenario and whatnot. Instead of a big budget game which has lots of boring in-between areas you have to travel through, in this game you get straight to the juicy level bits and try to finish them. No jumping is involved, just walking around (and sometimes avoiding some enemy drones).

And that's it I suppose

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/572871

Hard way

Yay, cannabalt madness! But with ninjas! And a spear! And you get different targets! Which all react differently! And you have to judge when to throw the spear at them! And the gfx are beautiful! And it's got tons of smooth parallax scrolling! And the music's a looped sample! And the game's really responsive to your input! And once you begin you don't stop playing! And I'm stopping this right now so I can go back and play MOAR!

http://fastgames.com/hardway.html

the golf game looks ace, will try when I get home

Shw

Is it just me, Or does Hard Way play just like the Forbidden Forest series?

Edit: Wankopedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Forest_%28video_game%29

MitchFrenzal wrote on 21.08.11 at 15:38:08:


To be honest, after trying the atari 800 version, I'd have to say NO! The Hard Way does away with all the idiocy of having to reload the bow and fire etc and instead relies on the player's fast reflexes like cannabalt.

Cave of no return

Cannabalt inspired, with tons of parallax scrolling and lots of animation frames on the main sprite. Cute!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/577594

Frantic Frigates

Yaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr Jimlaaaaaaaaaaaad! There be lots of fun to be had with this game

If you ever played Microprose's Pirates!, then you should feel at home mostly as it's a toned down version of the battle sequence of that game. The cannons fire automatically, aim automatically to the nearest enemy, there's no wind to be afraid of, and there's the mandatory powerup system where you can upgrade your ship and its abilities.

An interesting design choice (at least for nowdays) is that the game actually has lives. So no checkpoints, rewinding time, infinite energy etc - if you lose all your lives then game over sucker, do it from the start . I think I prefer that better than playing it to the end on the first go, it adds replaybillity (and I simply refuse to play a game again just to get medals/achievement/awards/what the hell you call it in your favorite gaming platorm).

Give it a shot, it'll get you hooked in seconds!

http://www.kongregate.com/games/BerzerkStudio/frantic-frigates



P.S. One of the screenshots is drawn by our own pixeller, sh3. Can you guess which one it is? Winners will get a signed autograph from Dr. Xuntavier! (also, extra points for knowing him )

The first hero

Very simple point'n'click game, but the graphics and animation are simply delightful!

http://bartbonte.com/portal/thefirsthero.html

...aaaaaand yet another edition of Hoshi Saga is out! An easy one this time, but charming nonetheless

http://nekogames.jp/hoshisaga/hoshi7/