F-F-F-F-FREE GAME TIME!
As promised, here's a selection of
downloadable games. Yes, I promised that ages ago, but Civ IV and GTA IV are more important than any of my promises.
For the unfamiliar, downloadable games need to downloaded, this is a very technical process requiring possibly an entire ten seconds of thought. I'll be using the universal rounded-up Batman unit to measure file sizes with casual inaccuracy.
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First some Gamma 256 games:
Mondrian Provoked features levels based on Mondrian's art and Frogger's gameplay. In English? Dodge the blocks, stupid.
Size: 274 Batmen.
Bloody Zombies has a very descriptive title. Lawnmow your way through the levels and zombies, using the crimson waves of blood from felled undead to reach higher platforms. WASD to move, mouse for the lawnmower. Volumes of viscera.
Size: 549 Batmen
Mr Heart Loves You Very Much is a short, sweet puzzle game involving pushing the square you're in and rotating the level to reach Mr Heart, who loves you very much.
Size: 255 Batmen
Dive is a lovely underwater game with everything from penguins and squid to say hi to.
Size: 650 Batmen
1A90 is a non-scrolling side-scrolling shooter. Each hit enemy, death and bullet time out's pixel will be added to the background and each one will cause reactions with the others. You can design your own bullets and it's all about creating interesting reactions and experimenting.
Size: 454 Batmen
Sunset Runner or the Suspiciously Long Train has you saving your friend from being squished while dodging obstacles on top of a (suspiciously long) train.
Size: 655 Batmen
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Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! is actually a demo but I simply had to post it for it's name and out of context screen grabs. The game itself is - as Rock, Paper, Shotgun put it - 'Cluedo meets Clueless' set in the 1920s.
Size: 8.5 Kilobatmen
Jet Set Willy Online brings Jet Set Willy into the heady future 2008 where we drink tea from hover-cups in our sky castles. It's Jet silly Willy! Only online! I just spat out my hover-tea.
Size: 520 Kilobatmen
Chivalry is Not Dead is a point and click adventure game where you decide the outcome. Rather than the usual branching structure, this an adventure of bushy causality with many different things affecting many different outcomes.
In their words: 'Chivalry is Not Dead is not an epic. Like a bedtime story, it'll be over in an evening, but also like a bedtime story, it won't always be the same every time you play it.'
Size: 3.55 Kilobatmen
The Blob is set in a drab, grey city but fear not! As the titular character you can absorb the colourful inhabitants, mixing colours and painting objects and buildings as you collide with them, breathing life into the city. It's full of the kind of joy rarely seen in modern videogames outside of the Katamari series.
Size: 48.5 Kilobatmen
Trilby: The Art of Theft is from Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation internet fame. It's a 2d action stealth platformer that mixes things up admirably and arms you with an umbrella.
Size: 1.24 Kilobatmen
Droid Assault is essentially a remake of Parandroid on the Commodore 64, which is fine by me, because that was a great game. As a vulnerable droid you have to hack and take control of more powerful ones and capture all the droids in each warehouse before production can begin again.
Size: 15.8 Kilobatmen
Freedoom is nothing new, it's like Doom but free! The new hotness is
Oblige – which randomly generates levels from Doom 1, Doom 2, Heretic and Hexen. Not tried it with Freedoom yet but it should work. Oh Doom, I can't quit you!
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Size (Oblige): 298 Batmen
War Twat (yes, it's called 'War Twat') is a shooter pretty much made to give you an epileptic fit. Give it a try. There's even a kids version called 'War Bus' but if you let a child play this you are a terrible human being.
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Size: 2.65 Kilobatmen
Charlie Foxtrot & The Galaxy of Tomorrow is an excellent game to finish this list on. It's a point and click adventure filled with nods to sci-fi movies and tv but more than that it's a very well made, very witty game, seemingly with something to say for every click. Download it.
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Size: 2.45 Kilobatmen
That's all for now, enjoy.