the maps have titles on the maps page. pretty generic though. sci-fi. vikings. japan...
the sci fi one looks like it has lots of large buildings but they are actually prefabs, made up of smaller blocks, which slip down nicely.
― koogs, Sunday, 4 July 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
i appreciate the No Sound aesthetic, too
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 July 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
it's a lesson that should apply to book covers, too - if you don't have any good ideas for what it should be, it's almost better to just go with nothing at all
Japan seemed easier, always something small nearby. got 80 something percent on solo a couple of times.
― koogs, Sunday, 4 July 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
the other thing this BADLY needs is a mini-map. doesn't need to be, and probably shouldn't be, "live" ... but being able to know at a glance whether you're heading towards viable terrain or the bottom right corner of the map would be really nice.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 5 July 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
https://lonebot.itch.io/possessed
fun gamejam winner. someone should make more based on this mechanic.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 August 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
good stuff!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
more from same peoplehttps://lonebot.itch.io/what-goes-up
your player sniffs when idle
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
possessed is nice
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 16 August 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Made it through What Goes Up. Nice brain tickler.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
The games that are free on GOG: https://www.gog.com/partner/stay_at_home
I can recommend Flight of the Amazon Queen, Beneath a Steel Sky (last two both SCUMM games), Samorost, Treasure Adventure Game
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 20 August 2021 06:24 (two years ago) link
Syndicate Plus and Syndicate Wars also currently 100% off (which I guess is different to free which is why they're not showing on that list?).
― JimD, Friday, 20 August 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
https://pedropsi.github.io/tag.html?search=puzzlemostly pen & paper style puzzles
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 29 August 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
Always impressed with how much people can squeeze out of the Pico-8 system, this one is playable in the browser and if you like trains;
Cab Ride
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Actually realised that's the previous version, if you hunt down the cart on the Pico-9 website you'll get the most recent one which features more stuff.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
erm, Pico-8
pico 8 highlights video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrb23YNeAK4
(i need to finish the one i'm in the middle of, but i'm slightly bored of it and i don't see why anyone would play it when they could be playing anything else. also need to finish the one before that...)
― koogs, Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
SteamWorld Dig 2 free on Steam for the next few hours
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
thanks!
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
been meaning to up load a fun level I designed for this, because of the film Dune right now. This is a well done reworking of the classic real time strategy game (original?!?) Dune 2 for the PC, this fan made re-design operates very differently to the original but it keeps the same everything else, style of graphics, sounds, etc. I enjoyed it as a fan of the original but don't know if it is appealing to new players? One for the retro gamers and dune fans, at least.http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/
― Swanswans, Friday, 12 November 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
Oh nice, SteamWorld Dig 2 is so good! Hope some of you got that. I have it on Switch.
― Evan, Friday, 12 November 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
i enjoyed this
https://kultisti.itch.io/sulka?ac=qfCyYFQF-tw
little platform puzzle thing
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
thanks
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:35 (two years ago) link
nice play mechanic, good way to kill a half hour!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 January 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
indeed
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 January 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
fun and cute!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
yeah, written in 60hrs for some jam or other, i think
would be great with a level editor and shareable levels, could easily fit them in a url, or a tweet.
― koogs, Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
Are we just not mentioning the obvious free online in-browser game for some reason
― lukas, Friday, 14 January 2022 05:06 (two years ago) link
there's w0rd1e talk in the spelling Bee thread
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link
which is naturally searchable by the word "tomtit"
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 January 2022 07:05 (two years ago) link
Also searchable by "spelling bee."
― Wordle Stephen Curry II (Leee), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
What fun is that
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
https://jesper-hustad.github.io/NoPixel-minigame/index
idk who follows nopixel but this has been my recent brain recalibration.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
ouch that hurts my brain.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:19 (two years ago) link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Patricks_Parabox/
free demo that's worth playing
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 31 March 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
https://antgame.io/ - place red ant hills, get ants to eat as much green food as possible. Try to get near the top of the leaderboard, near impossible imo!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
this reminds me too much of my "back porch situation", i will have to bow out
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
been doing the brain bashers daily tracks for a while now (the 10x10 take about 3 minutes each generally - https://brainbashers.com/tracks.asp )
but looking around he has others and these are a similar kind of fun, but longer:
https://brainbashers.com/3inarow.asp
(colour the boxes, avoid runs of 3 in a row, equal number of each colour in each row / column)
― koogs, Saturday, 13 August 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
Thanks koog, those are fun...I suspect a bunch of them use the same underlying math just with a different visualization...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 13 August 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
i have thought about the train tracks thing and the random walk for generating the tracks is easy enough but i can't get a handle on how you'd decide which squares to reveal to make it solvable and distinct.
the three in a row, again, trivial to write a solver that looks for two in a row and puts an opposite square on the end, or for two with a gap and full that gap, but when you've exhausted those, recursively, there's still a way to go.
― koogs, Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
https://nandgame.com/
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Man that’s homework
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
things i haven't really thought about since ~1989.
iirc a combination of NAND gates can do anything, NOT and therefore AND is trivial and de morgan's law says !(A AND B) = !A OR !B so OR is easy enough. i am thinking about XOR... (it's not a great experience on a phone...)
― koogs, Sunday, 20 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Fun Threes / 2048 / slider game with corn and poop of farming -- feels less like homework because there are no numbers!https://kryogenix.org/farmbound/
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 20 November 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
https://grimacesbirthday.com
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 15 June 2023 03:13 (ten months ago) link
one-button gamehttps://seudonimm.itch.io/hold-space-to-fly-straight
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 20:22 (ten months ago) link
that is nifty but i agree with the comments that you should never actually try to fly straight
― ✖, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:12 (ten months ago) link
https://kloonigames.com/wordsolitaire/
― ledge, Monday, 3 July 2023 14:41 (ten months ago) link
got within five letters of clearing it today.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:12 (ten months ago) link
I've played this a couple of times and managed to clear it both times, but it took me ages. It's a good game but it doesn't feel addictive like a wordle or semantle.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:31 (ten months ago) link