Call of Duty Warzone #1
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 27 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289310/Helltaker/
A silly, funny, cute and short puzzle game about forming a harem of demon girls. Great music. Can't remember exactly how this came to my attention, but I think it got some kind of recognition during awards season/year-end best-of lists.
― Nhex, Monday, 4 January 2021 07:39 (three years ago) link
it's a good time!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 January 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
has anyone tried this?https://tocogames.itch.io/infinitepizza
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 18 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
https://okogame.ch/^full screen plz
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
https://rob1221.itch.io/chessformerfun if you like sokoban more than you like chess (I do!)
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 11 February 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
good stuff!
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 12 February 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
i hit a few stumpers but i should go back
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 February 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
this game is simple and stupid and i cannot win
https://dotsandboxes.org/
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 09:40 (two years ago) link
something i firefox(?) means i don't see chosen lines, which makes it extra difficult. but i wonder if it's one of those things you can't win, like Nim, if you go first and the computer plays perfectly?
is that only 2^24 combinations. actually, fewer given there's got to be an equal number of 0s and 1s. um, perhaps not because order is important.
or is it 24! which is 6e+23 which is a few more.
― koogs, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 10:16 (two years ago) link
You can switch who plays first, doesn't make a difference to my miserable performance.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
After googling and getting it to show some hints I can now beat it fairly reliably going first or second, but I suspect only because the computer makes the same moves every time, I'd probably still be shit against a decent human player.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
i have been doing these, train track puzzles, which i first saw in the guardian on saturdays
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/tracks.html
― koogs, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
nineletterword.tompaton.com/random
has a questionable word list.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
http://lalo.li/ddd/click to make ball barriers. use the ball barriers to help the falling ball hit the black ball. now work around the obstacles. rinse repeat.
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 June 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
^^^ good one, feels like something out of the heyday of this genre/thread. got to 30 points and called it a night.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
also scrolling through thread i had a nice little nostalgic moment for that wacky weekend in May 2013 spent, with the rest of the folks itt, totally hooked on the strange abstract world of Candy Box.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
oh god
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
i'm so bad at that ball one. infuriating
― ciderpress, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
this is like a cross between katamari damacy and whatever that game was a few years ago where you were a blob that got bigger by eating other blobs:
https://hole-io.com/
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 10:47 (two years ago) link
I like it
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
That Dots and Boxes, I won playing a 2x2 square arena lol
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
I enjoyed hole.io a lot. Probably too much. I was meant to do some work today.
*shakes fist at ledge* (but thank you)
― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
Wait, it isn't hole.io, it is hole-io dot com. Looking forward to the .io being some dodgy porn site that I've now said I enjoy a lot on the internet.
Luckily I am way too bad at the bouncy ball golf game to get addicted to that but it's a pleasingly simple concept.
― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
oh man a friend and i went head to head on hole.io big time when it came out on mobile, whenever that was. good times
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
check out the non-free game donut county too.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
wow, hole-io is very very compelling
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 2 July 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
goddammit. now i'm a double silver star. if anyone sees a giant karl malone on there, that's me. i'm getting pretty good at "Classic" mode - I almost always get 10 or 20 stars
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 July 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
:(
I just realized I've been playing most bots, probably. every time i start near other "players", i notice almost all of them make a straight bee-line toward something, instead of exploring the surrounding area for the smallest objects (a strategy that leads to victory almost every time). speaking of "victory almost every time", i'm starting to become suspicious that....sigh
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
however i will continue destroying these bots until i am triple silver star.
for tonight.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
there's a solo mode which is just you against the scenery.
i find some scenes have nothing small and you really struggle to get started. and when you are large it gets laggy. maybe I'm just terrible.
― koogs, Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
no, those are problems for me too. the bot theory is helpful actually, i'd wondered about those mysterious high-speed bee-lines towards stuff. but hey, computer opponents have been a mainstay of video games since the golden age. just think of them like the ghosts in pac-man and enjoy the loop of chomping stuff and getting bigger.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 4 July 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link
It is pretty easy to win unless you get born somewhere with no small stuff but yeah still satisfying. Solo mode is harder, best I've managed is about 75% but I've only tried two or three times.
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Sunday, 4 July 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
i got to the 80% threshold, but it's VERY map-dependent. like what you want is to be in one of the maps with a ton of marsh grass and bamboo to just chow down on at the beginning.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 4 July 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
yeah, there's one map where the little marsh grass is actually worth +2 at the beginning, while the bigger trees and things like that you can barely swallow are only +1
and there's another map where I can't seem to get past 30% no matter what.
one suggestion for this game is that they could put the title of the map somewhere when you play it! if you're playing on rando, sometimes it's tough to know where you actually are.
i did submit a tip to the developer and asked them about the possibility of creating private rooms, or somewhere where you could count on more humans
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
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
― 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