- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- Game Cheater ArtMoney 7.21. Funny Tricks. — Game cheating is not so fair, but sometimes it’s a very joyful thing. When you have hundreds of monsters in the next room, and only five ammos — is it a fair play? So, who can blame you for such a natural wish of having five THOUSANDS of ammos or, better one big bad RPG? There are much more examples — like «not enough money» in strategy games, or «not enough mana»…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- Multis 6.6, The Essence Of Tetris — Since its invention in 1985, Tetris puzzle game has gone through zillions of remakes, ports to various platforms (even cell phones in the last years), design changes and even changes of the game itself. The «Classic» Tetris with seven classic bricks, still keeps its popularity, but we’ve seen and played several successive versions with the changed shapes, or different initial states or other rules. None of them can repeat the…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- Total Game Control, The Helping Edge — Is it even appropriate to compare the feeling of playing a dynamic action game with the keyboard and the feeling of playing the same game with an intuitive control device — like a steering wheel for racing or a joystick for an action game? When you have no time to think of your next move and have to take an action now, often by the intuition, do you have time for looking for the right shortcut…
- TETCOLOR 2 - a new life of the good old Tetris concept — If you were a kid once, you definitely know what Tetris is. This genius game was invented way back in the days when computers were only evolving into what we see today on our tables. However, the concept was so wildly popular that it spawned hundreds of clones and basically laid the foundation of today’s casual games genre. If you still get nostalgic of the times when you spent endless hours playing Tetris, you should check…
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