- 1..2..3..4..5th ball! — There is a good new way to give rest to your eyes and kill time during your lunch-break. It is the «5th ball» game from Frostworks. This game starts a potentially long series of logic games from the vendor. The goal of this game is quite simple, but it is «good simplicity», which makes you feel enthusiastic and gets you hooked to this game. You put balls on the game-table to build up five-ball…
- 3D Load Packer: Box to Box, Box to Box — 3D Load Packer from Astrokette Algorithms is professional-strength planning software for rapid and accurate placement of various boxes inside containers. Assume you have a huge number of objects with the near-rectangular shapes and significant difference in sizes (boxes), and you need to load them into one or more containers (for transportation or storage). The common solution for the problem is to plan the placement of the objects…
- 3D Drunken Clock Screensaver — The corporate culture has its own idol; Time is the name. «Time is money», right? — However, it is much more than just money. Time is reputation; if you don’t value the punctuality, you don’t value your good name. Time is command playing; when you are in production relay race, a single latecomer in your team may lead the entire plan to the crash. It would not be a gross…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- Nuclear Ball 2. Brick Destroyer. — Casual games help us to entertain, relax or just while away the time. So, if you have some spare time, the best way to spend it is to play an exciting arcanoid game called Nuclear Ball. Nuclear Ball is a nice casual game with rather simple rules. All you have to do is to just move the mouse to control the bat. You are to destroy all the bricks and stones using the ball and trying to not let…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- Table Tennis Pro, Sweat Your Guts Over It — If you like tossing a tennis ball over the net hung over the tennis table, whether you’ve actually done it or are just dreaming of it, you will definitely enjoy the computerized version of your favorite game. Of course, it’s hard — though still possible — to play it hard enough to sweat your guts over it, but the impressions and excitement of this game will be equal to the…
- Jumba, Balls with a Mission — What could you do with a few balls and a play board? Drop them on the board and watch them rolling down until they fall off? — Too boring. How about rolling for a mission? Your today’s mission is to clear the board from the balls on it. But it’s not about just sweeping them off. To complete the mission and win, you must get rid of the balls a certain way; namely, you’d have to pick one…
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