CONSTRUCT Roundup

May 31st, 2013

I hope you had fun building your experimental games for this month’s simple but challenging theme. Let’s take a look at these 10 games:

Verbocity, by Pat

Clever but very difficult word game city builder mashup.

Tower of Pixel, by Alan Zucconi

Build a tower out by digging and carrying blocks, simple but surprisingly addictive.

Station Repair Squad 2904, by 0x0961h

Use different construction ships to build and repair a space station based on blue prints.

City Builder, by Jackson C.

Dig up dirt to build houes, apartments, and monuments.

Draw Ball, by Brandon (Game Name:Frenzy)

Construct a path by drawing with the mouse to guide your circle through a maze.

Seed, by Roan Contreras

Collect circles with your square in increasingly difficult levels. Beautiful music!

Seizure, by Brandon (Game Name:Frenzy)

Collect squares with your square, avoiding other squares.

Brick Toss, by Jesse

Manipulate a slingshot to toss bricks. Requires an Xbox 360 controller.

Lemmi, by Shalmezad

Control a little guy named lemmi to save a princess (although I couldn’t figure out how…).

Growstruct, by tcstyle

No gameplay, but a simple tree generation toy.

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TEMPERATURE Roundup

December 30th, 2012

November and December proved to be chilly months this year.  Despite that, we saw a decent turn out with a total of 7 games:

Hypothermia, by Jacob Albano

An adventure game about staying alive in freezing, arctic conditions.

Firesweeper, by Benjamin Davis

Minesweeper meets a forest blaze. Guess the right location of the fire, or be doomed to watch it spread!

5 Summers Left, by MICUURLOON

Alternate between Spring & Winter in this puzzle platformer.

Too Hot Too Cold, by Joseph Miller

Heat up or cool down your character to solve puzzles in this platformer.

Global Warming, by DANIELNL

Prolong your watery fate as the ice below you melts in this 1st Person Running game.

Temperature Gods, by Douglas Ianitsky

Stop the Ice God from freezing the planet in this RPG-style game.

Heating & Cooling, by DUNEBEAR

Catch hot or cold orbs to maintain the proper temperature in your apartment.

Hot Plates, by Mark Twang

A path finding puzzle game.  Use hot areas to increase the distance of your steps, while avoiding the cold areas.

Looking forward to seeing what 2013 brings – we’re in talks with developer friends about a new competition, so keep an eye out – it should be a good one!

3 Comments | In: Games, Theme | tags: Best of the Net, experimental gameplay, Temperature, Theme | #

VEGETATION Roundup

October 31st, 2012

This month we had a small but healthy crop of vegetation based games – perhaps most of us spent October vegetating? I know I did! Anyway, the games for this month still varied widely in their creative use of the vegetation theme, lots of growth and greenery in many forms!
 
Lets take peak through the leaves at these 4 games:
 
OrganiCraft, by Chicknstu

Grow trees and bushes procedurally by choosing the correct sequence of growth rules.

Plant Escape, by Blake

Escape the house first by collecting enough sun to burst through the window!

Growth, by DerGernTod

Dynamically grow a tree with trunk, roots, and leaves.

The Forest, by Martin_Monosys

Explore a bleak and spooky forest investigating mysterious lights.

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TIME MANIPULATION Roundup

September 30th, 2012

This month’s crop of games pushed, pulled, slowed, stopped, and jumped in time. Here we’ve got games of all kinds, from playing multiple timelines to bird chirping to trying to move a clock backwards.
 
Now let’s take a look at these 9 games:
 
TimeSpace, by Jake L

Shoots at ships with the advantage of reversing time to escape their bullets.

TwinFreeze, by Darren Daley

Survive an ever increasing amount of enemies by freezing them in place

TimeWheel, by MegaBrutal

Adjust the gears of an extraordinarily complex system in order to get balls to the goal.

Wartime, by Mrop

A turn based strategy game where you must take over planets, playing alongside previous selfs each turn.

The Ultimatum, by LostTrainDude

Embark on a stealth adventure in which you must literally manipulate a clock.

Poopy Monk Run, by Aditya Vijayakumar

Create trails of poo while avoiding your opponents poo, with the added twist of time reversal.

Towa Towa, by Aaron Oldenburg

Surprisingly educational game about ‘bird racing’ in which you must judge which of two birds chips a target amount of times.

Paradox Grandfather, by Samuel Garcia

Complex game where you fight battles in two time periods that affect each other.

Chronolabyrinth, by Oana

Navigate a darkened maze while trying to avoid being randomly jumped back in time.

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AUDIO INPUT Roundup

July 31st, 2012

This month’s group of games was very unconventional! All focused on singing, yelling, whistling, and making all sorts of noises. We had everything from roaring dragons to glass shattering resonance frequencies!
 
All this audio input made for some really interesting games, let’s take a look at these 6 games:
 
Tone Death, by DragonXVI

Incredibly fun game where you escape firey death by singing notes to shatter glass walls in your path!

Dragon, by Robbie Hunt

Make dragon noises to blow and spit fire on evil black knights!

Audio PONG, by Janne Zabobin

Guide your pong paddle by making sounds of different pitches.

Whistle Wave, by Chicknstu

Whistle to bounce your men into the sky to collect points.

Earwormz, by Dave Hooper

Whistle and make sounds to charge up a laser and blast earworms before they infect the author’s ear.

Super Nirvana Extreme, by Mrop

An inner peace guide through audio input, or lack thereof…

11 Comments | In: Theme | tags: Audio Input, Best of the Net | #

ROTATING Roundup

June 30th, 2012

Gather round for another round up of this month’s rotating themed games. This month features some abstract games of rotation, as well revolutions for love, power, and even survival!
 
Let’s roll on into these 7 games:
 
Fizzball, by JamieGameDev

Rotate the world to get the ball to the goal!

Slingit, by Brodavi

Harness angular momentum to destroy evil squares with a fireball.

Rota & Ting, by Guo Bo

Tilt the world to get two lovers in and out of trouble.

PRU-2306, by fr4ntic

Rotate to drop cores and restore power.

Tiny Whirled Piece, by Martoon

Match the rotation speeds of eternally recursive shapes

Ring of Marbles, by Shai Shapira

Shoot and dodge asteroids while avoiding destroying your own shield as it whirls around you.

Rotating, by Hessamoddin Sharifpour

Collect blue squares and avoid black dots by rotating and shooting.

2 Comments | In: Theme | tags: Best of the Net, Rotating | #