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Cthulhu Remakes Commonplace Retro Books And Asks For Nothing

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2008-12-22 11:44:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
...Commonplace Book Competition . Now, I obviously lacked the time to play through all those lovely and quite freeware games, but I can at least comment on a few. Here goes This Cursed Rock is a beautifully pixel-art illustrated arcade-adventure-platfromer with an interesting story and a distinctly Lovecraftian mood. Haven't quite finished it...
 
Tags: simply brilliant, brilliant, highly playable, highly, remake, faithful remake, brilliant remake, controls, original arcade
 
 
 
 
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Cthulhu Remakes Commonplace Retro Books And Asks For Nothing

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2008-12-22 11:44:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
...Commonplace Book Competition . Now, I obviously lacked the time to play through all those lovely and quite freeware games, but I can at least comment on a few. Here goes This Cursed Rock is a beautifully pixel-art illustrated arcade-adventure-platfromer with an interesting story and a distinctly Lovecraftian mood. Haven't quite finished it...
 
Tags: simply brilliant, brilliant, highly playable, highly, remake, faithful remake, brilliant remake, controls, original arcade
 
 
 
 
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Best Of Indie Games: Melancholic Naked Assassin Musings

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2008-12-06 00:00:40 by timw in GameSetWatch
...Commonplace Book competition, a tower defense-type strategy game, a game about drug addiction and abuse, an interactive fiction work which finished a respectable third in the recent IFComp contest, and more Game Pick: ' Teppomanto ' (Ikiki, freeware A 2D action game from the developer of Nikujin and Teppoman, where players assume control over...
 
Tags: game, experimental game, action game, game pick, indie, indie games, commercial indie games, players assume control, control
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn: The balance of trade

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2008-05-06 15:05:14 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...commonplace, so getting a TV that could display NTSC or getting a signal converter would be required. Also, one would need a transformer and power adaptor to avoid frying the machine with our 240v 60hz power points. Importing a game six months in advance of the Australian release was almost unheard of Flash forward to today, and the current...
 
Tags: local, local retailer, support local suppliers, australian, australian retaillers, import, import games, games, australian residents
 
 
 
 
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Call of Duty 5: World at War starts to surface

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2008-06-10 11:46:00 by Phil Larsen in Nintendo Wii Fanboy
...commonplace We want great games to be commonplace on the Wii, and COD5 is shaping up nicely. Stay tuned for more details as they arrive Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google
 
Tags: call, duty, war, world, church-picnic call, wii, world war, cod4 engine, super-fine graphics
 
 
 
 
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Weekend Download

2008-12-27 12:00:35 by Editor in Jay is Games
 
...Commonplace Book Competition has ended, yielding heaps of creative, unusual, and slightly dark games. Entrants were challenged with using a line from H.P. Lovecraft's "Commonplace Book", a notebook of disjointed, cryptic ideas, and create a game around these snippets of text. Below are a few of the top picks as chosen by the TIGSource community
 
Tags: slightly dark games, cryptic ideas, commonplace book, top picks, tigsource community, download, unusual, snippets, windows
 
 
 
 
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Passage

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2007-12-12 14:05:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
I could easily come up with a 500 words piece on the excellence Passage , but I wont. It would simply take a bit from joy of discovering its beauty by yourselves and I really wouldn't want to spoil anything for you. Knowing that it's an incredible, unique, moving and handily free game that can be played in less than 5 minutes should be all the...
 
Tags: commonplace book project, simply trust, simply, handily free game, download passage, excellence passage, max episode, words piece, wash
 
 
 
 
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Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa

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2008-01-04 15:52:00 by GAMEFURY in GAMEFURY Game Reviews
...commonplace for newly released MMOs The first thing that a player will notice is that the game is far more action oriented. It plays more closely to Mass Effect than the other games within it's own genre. Instead of the typical 'swords and bows' weaponry, this game focuses on different types of guns. In most MMOs, you can generally know...
 
Tags: game, game focuses, game content, gamefury game, level, generic level grind, players, tabula rasa, enemy takes
 
 
 
 
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Family gaming a waste of time? We sure don't think so

2008-01-17 06:40:00 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...commonplace for the whole family to sit around the kitchen table with a board game like Monopoly or Chutes and Ladders , and spend fun-filled episodes of quality time with one another Some would say that times are different now. Families find themselves increasingly busier than ever, and setting aside time to game just doesn't seem to have...
 
Tags: time, game, board game, game time, family, quality time, single player games, games, super mario bros
 
 
 
 
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Exceedingly Arousing Resonance Screenshots

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2008-01-24 10:40:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair