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
good stuff!
― 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
erm, Pico-8
pico 8 highlights video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrb23YNeAK4
(i need to finish the one i'm in the middle of, but i'm slightly bored of it and i don't see why anyone would play it when they could be playing anything else. also need to finish the one before that...)
― koogs, Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
SteamWorld Dig 2 free on Steam for the next few hours
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
thanks!
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
been meaning to up load a fun level I designed for this, because of the film Dune right now. This is a well done reworking of the classic real time strategy game (original?!?) Dune 2 for the PC, this fan made re-design operates very differently to the original but it keeps the same everything else, style of graphics, sounds, etc. I enjoyed it as a fan of the original but don't know if it is appealing to new players? One for the retro gamers and dune fans, at least.http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/
― Swanswans, Friday, 12 November 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
Oh nice, SteamWorld Dig 2 is so good! Hope some of you got that. I have it on Switch.
― Evan, Friday, 12 November 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
i enjoyed this
https://kultisti.itch.io/sulka?ac=qfCyYFQF-tw
little platform puzzle thing
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
thanks
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:35 (two years ago) link
nice play mechanic, good way to kill a half hour!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 January 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
indeed
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 January 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
fun and cute!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
yeah, written in 60hrs for some jam or other, i think
would be great with a level editor and shareable levels, could easily fit them in a url, or a tweet.
― koogs, Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
Are we just not mentioning the obvious free online in-browser game for some reason
― lukas, Friday, 14 January 2022 05:06 (two years ago) link
there's w0rd1e talk in the spelling Bee thread
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link
which is naturally searchable by the word "tomtit"
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 January 2022 07:05 (two years ago) link
Also searchable by "spelling bee."
― Wordle Stephen Curry II (Leee), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
What fun is that
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
https://jesper-hustad.github.io/NoPixel-minigame/index
idk who follows nopixel but this has been my recent brain recalibration.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
ouch that hurts my brain.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:19 (two years ago) link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Patricks_Parabox/
free demo that's worth playing
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 31 March 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
https://antgame.io/ - place red ant hills, get ants to eat as much green food as possible. Try to get near the top of the leaderboard, near impossible imo!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
this reminds me too much of my "back porch situation", i will have to bow out
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
been doing the brain bashers daily tracks for a while now (the 10x10 take about 3 minutes each generally - https://brainbashers.com/tracks.asp )
but looking around he has others and these are a similar kind of fun, but longer:
https://brainbashers.com/3inarow.asp
(colour the boxes, avoid runs of 3 in a row, equal number of each colour in each row / column)
― koogs, Saturday, 13 August 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link