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http://www.kongregate.com/games/oivoi/soccer-physics

i was like "lol what a dumb game," then i turned on endless mode and played for like an hour

I like this, for a match-3. By the makers of A Dark Room. http://gridland.doublespeakgames.com/

Nice! I think the only way they could improve the game would be to license Marvel superheroes.

I have no idea what I am doing in this game. Other than matching random 3's.

yeah me too

Be judicious in your matches at night.

During the day, you're levelling up your resources. The only resource I really understand, though, is corn, which replenishes your health. The others just expand your buildings, I think?

At night, you are trying to balance the sword and shield matches, which provide you with bonuses, and the rest, which provide you with creatures to fight (you have to fight to advance time and level up). There is little point to making quick matches unless you need extra bonuses when you accidentally cause a chain reaction, it's better (if less exciting) to fight things one at a time, in order to survive.

My only problem is that the format makes me feel like there should be some incremental shift in narrative, or a revealed endgame at some point, but from the amount I've played so far it seems like this won't happen.

eventually you unlock some gems that during the day let you control time (?) and at night summon a witch (?)

Once your buildings get tall enough you can put a star over them, dunno what that does though.

IDK, it just pisses me off that there isn't so basic instructions about the game mechanics.

The star seems to prioritize the building, so resources go there first. I think.

i figured out how to summon the dragon but i haven't beaten him yet

IDK, it just pisses me off that there isn't so basic instructions about the game mechanics.

could not disagree more

We can never be friends.

*sobs*

I got stuck at day 20. Liked it, would like to learn more, but if I have to start over, I don't think I will.

Gave it another go.
House 1: food and storage. Built on gaining levels. Also toughens the generic melee enemies, I think.
House 2: increases the amount produced from matching red stones; also toughens the animals.
House 3: increases paper gains; also toughens archers.
House 4: increases metal gains; also enhances the sword (UPGRADE THIS)
House 5: increases wood gains; also enhances the shield (UPGRADE THIS)
House 6: appears when you get enough of the treasures that look like heart pieces.

I figured out some of the House 6 stuff but I won't go into it now. Haven't killed a witch/slenderman yet.

Love Hotel
http://3sillyhats.com/lovehotel/
Not new, but I just gave it a spin. Dirty 8-bit demake of SimTower, but probably a better and more streamlined game than the inspiration. Completes in about 30 min.

Hoooooooooooooffffff, beat Gridland. Damn. Not gonna do that again.

Has anyone tried any of the f2ps on arc like swordsman, neverwinter etc.?
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/swordsman

Aah just occurred to me that this is the wrong thread for this my bad.

I judge it acceptable!

boy howdy
https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

dammmmn

is that legal? archive.org has been an upright site in the past.

just a lot of mame roms not working great on my browser, legality probly borderline but ime there's plenty of borderline stuff on archive.org.

don't get me wrong this looks lovely but after a soundless and slow-mo 10 minutes i just figured i'd play them on mame m'self

i need to stop playing burger time

not sure how we missed this

http://www.clickerheroes.com

via http://www.sirlin.net/posts/podcast-sirlin-on-game-design which is worth a listen, if a bit of an echo chamber

you go to hell with clickerheroes
you have destroyed my day

seriously this is a mean thing to put into the universe

Hint: close the window and it'll keep playing.

yup, i do appreciate that i can leave it going overnight
but sigh what is the point of these things

I will say this, I appreciate that you can actually CLOSE THE TAB and it will grind gold for you while you're gone

I'm sure it'd be possible to construct something like this in such a way that the whole element of apparent choice is completely illusory, where the answer to any question along the lines of "should I upgrade the current guy or unlock the next guy? How about levelling the previous guy until I can unlock his next upgrade? Do I move onto the next level now or grind the earlier faster stages?" would always be IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER.

but... isn't that effectively already the case? *thinktimes*

ha i like jim's idea

there would be complicated skill trees and races and etc, but in the end only clicks per second would matter

but your choices would affect how your avatar looks!

eeeeeevil

i ascended

yeah
fuck this game

still playing burger time please send help

*sends you mr. hot dog instead*

HOW DARE YOU

Did you guys check out the community button in Clicker Heroes?

the subreddit?

For 24hs, you can ask for a free copy of Little Big Adventure at Gog.com if anyone's interested.

not sure how we missed this

http://www.clickerheroes.com

fuuuuuuuuuuuck

i would like to second that, again

happy that it uses flash so that I can't try it

yeah i lost a good five hours to clicker heroes before i remembered what cookie clicker did to my brain and pulled myself away. but...i still bookmarked it and go back occasionally to spend my accumulated money.

i'm enjoying this puzzle game transmission, created by the science museum in london. the sound design in particular is really well-done.

good stuff

okay, so i'm kind of embarrassed about this, but clicker heroes.
i'm on the eighth or ninth ascension now and am able to ascend once every two hours BUT now it requires regular supervision to move forward.
it's pretty fucking evil.