- 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…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0. Go in Pieces! — Puzzles are universal things. A 3-year old child loves playing her big colorful 3-piece puzzle, a 30-year old woman spends hours and days with a 3-thousand piece puzzle of a Scottish castle. A big colorful puzzle is a great present. However, a «personalized» (i.e. unique) puzzle is also stylish. Just imagine giving your girlfriend the cool puzzle, which, when solved, becomes a memory photo with you and her in some romantic…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.2, I'm Fallen Into Pieces — There is common multipurpose design technique that allows making some obvious things less trivial: An effect of Puzzle. Puzzles are commonly drawn as images «cut» into several fancy-form pieces. In the real world, puzzles are very popular among both children and adults. In terms of computer design, a puzzle image is rather a «symbol», but very commonly used. Still, how can you create a realistic-looking and yet not…
- Aesopica, Moral and Wisdom of Classics — Aesop was a half-legendary ancient Greek, a released slave and Croesus adviser, with complex and tragic lot. His «virtual heritage» is a genre of fable, and the collection of fables is named Aesopica (I named this heritage virtual because it’s unknown whether real Aesop had written some, all or none of those fables). The influence of Aesopica and its fables on Western Culture can’t be overestimated…
- 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…
- Cube Puzzle, Rubik' Big Brother — If you’ve caught the time of Rubik Cube’s popularity, you are very likely to have seen folks playing with it like if that was the only thing they could grab in the endless universe. But the time flew by, and the toy that used to keep folks captive magnificently was no longer interesting: all puzzles were solved, and the mind was seeking for something new. Well, what new or unexpected could be possibly pulled out…
- 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…
- OnLine TV Live - the whole TV world on your palm — Today, conventional TV technologies are being aggressively replaced by digital broadcasting and the boundaries between familiar television programs and the ones being streamed from the Internet are getting extremely thin. So if you have the whole Internet at your disposal, why not use it to turn your computer into a worldwide television receiver? If you have a connection that allows you to watch video online, you have a great…
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