henke on 29/8/2006 at 15:44
Here is a trailer I've made for a game that has eaten up a lot of my free time the past weeks, although it's only a 3 level demo.
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Lugaru, by (
http://wolfire.com) Wolfire Software. (they also have 2 freeware games on their site) It's a quite freeform kung-fu game, in which you play a kung-fu bunny. The ragdoll physics and low gravity help to give it a very wire-fu feeling. Check it out.
Henke's Further Recommendations:Jailbreak, a <strike>sneak</strike> avoid-em-up of sorts. Very fun.
(
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm) - home of "5 days a stranger"(point-and-click adventure), 1213(Flashback-esque thingy) and others.
(
http://jet.ro/dismount/) - Stair and Truck Dismount
(
http://www.ragdollsoft.com/ragdollmasters/) - Ragdoll Masters, a very simple (and very fun) fighting game.
doctorfrog on 31/8/2006 at 04:51
(http://www.pakoon.com/) Kumoon is a 3D puzzle game that has you playing a chick with a gun. Chick, as in baby chicken. You shoot boxes, which react in a semi-realistic physics-simulated fashion. Once a level is solved (given that this is more proof-of-concept than anything, this is pretty easy) you can use unlimited ammo to blow up everything on screen and watch it all react with each other. Oh, and all the stuff you shoot stays on screen, without vanishing, up to an arbitrary number of objects that you can change.
Other levels can be made using text files with individual box coordinates, or names of typical box structures, such as pyramids or walls.
(
http://www.pakoon.com/)
Jailbreak, the game Henke refers to above, can be found with a Google search for the terms "Jailbreak," "Stephen Roantree" (its author), and "Deliberate Games." The game can, as far as I can tell, only be found at a certain well-meaning and valuable site that hosts older games of ambiguous copyright status, though Jailbreak itself is totally free and legal for distribution. It is, if you will, a kind of rest
HOME for games that might be construed as
UNDER the radar of the
DOGS of the gaming industry. (I understand your anality, TheOutrider, but I hope you alerted Henke of your edit, since it removes just about any possibility of the average user finding the game if they are interested in it.)
Rogue Keeper on 6/9/2006 at 07:59
Gweat, I'm hooked on this now! I always wanted to try that cycle race. It's good minigame for breaks at work. Hopefully they add LAN MP, this game just begs for it.
TheOutrider on 6/9/2006 at 18:03
(
http://armagetron.sf.net/) Armagetron may just be what you're looking for.
[edit] in other news, I'm stuck to using company internet from horrible computers right now. will update this again once I've moved into my flat and have interwebs at home. [/edit]
Uncia on 10/9/2006 at 12:15
Fewer excuses, more moving!
Matthew on 20/9/2006 at 16:28
Oh sweet YES. First game I ever bought. Download'd
Thirith on 20/9/2006 at 16:59
It was one of my first games as well, so I downloaded it... and the game sucks. It probably did back then, too, but we weren't exactly spoiled at that point in computergame history. The remake is definitely done with a lot of love for the original, but you get better gameplay on a mobile phone. :(
Matthew on 20/9/2006 at 17:12
Well, I play the original on an emulator from time to time, so if it's true to that ... ;)
