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[s0]

Ok I'm trying to remember a PC freeware game I played in the early 00s: It was a local multiplayer game (may have had an SP mode with bots too) where each player controlled a differently colored paintbrush and tried to paint the largest area of a canvas. Everyone was on the same canvas so you could paint over other people's colors. It had cartoony pixel graphics and I'm pretty sure it was a Japanese game.

Anyone?

Battle Painters.

thank you a million times! i wasted like half an hour googling after i made that post but had no luck

this and super mario war were the most played games on our class computer in high school

[Canned Turkey]

Holy crap the music to that game is catchy.

[Dr. LudoS]

I didn't knew about Battle Painters, but this game looks like quite fun!

I'll try it, thanks for highlighting this retro gem!

[Derek]

Ok I'm trying to remember a PC freeware game I played in the early 00s: It was a local multiplayer game (may have had an SP mode with bots too) where each player controlled a differently colored paintbrush and tried to paint the largest area of a canvas. Everyone was on the same canvas so you could paint over other people's colors. It had cartoony pixel graphics and I'm pretty sure it was a Japanese game.

Anyone?

Battle Painters.

thank you a million times! i wasted like half an hour googling after i made that post but had no luck

this and super mario war were the most played games on our class computer in high school

Wow, even though it isn't a game I've ever played, it's somehow really satisfying that someone found it. Also, yeah, it looks super fun.

EDIT:

A precursor to Splatoon?

[Raiyumi]

Woah, I completely forgot about battle painters. That brings back so much nostalgia.

[s0]

i'm looking for another game: this one is some kind of 3d platformer for either the original DS or the 3DS. the setting was like a magical forest type of thing and the main character may or may not have been a mushroom.

EDIT: nvm found it. it's literally called mushroom men

[JWK5]

EDIT: nvm found it. it's literally called mushroom men

Damn it, I was too slow, lol. I went to post but I got distracted by a side link that lead to a side link that-- and so on.

[Martoon]

Edit: Derek has identified the game. It's Blocksum. Thanks, Derek!

Okay, this is a game that I was playing in 2012, so released some time before then (but I think it was somewhat recent, so let's say it came out 2009-ish to 2012).

What I can remember:

It was a big grid of squares, with a number on each square. I believe you eliminated groups of adjacent squares, based somehow on the numbers (I can't remember if the group all had to have the same number, or were consecutive, or what).

It was lo-res, pixel style. This is what makes it stand out in my memory from most of the other grid-of-numbers puzzle games. It was definitely big chunky pixels.

It ran on PC (Windows). It was indie. I can't remember if it was freeware, or a paid downloadable title.

Sorry, I know that's not much to go on, and it's a long shot that anyone will identify this game. I just remember that it was fun, and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.

[Tanner]

Sounds kind of like Mamono Sweeper.

[Martoon]

Sounds kind of like Mamono Sweeper.

That's not it (but thank you). The numbers weren't hidden, and it was a full screen PC game (not Flash).

[agersant]

Ok I'm trying to remember a PC freeware game I played in the early 00s: It was a local multiplayer game (may have had an SP mode with bots too) where each player controlled a differently colored paintbrush and tried to paint the largest area of a canvas. Everyone was on the same canvas so you could paint over other people's colors. It had cartoony pixel graphics and I'm pretty sure it was a Japanese game.
Anyone?

Battle Painters.

Wasn't there a Mario Party minigame that was like this? Looks like a super fun game!

[Derek]

Sounds kind of like Mamono Sweeper.

That's not it (but thank you). The numbers weren't hidden, and it was a full screen PC game (not Flash).

It's not Blocksum, is it?

http://www.tigsource.com/2007/02/03/freeware-indie-game-of-the-year/

Doesn't have chunky pixels, but...

[Martoon]

It's not Blocksum, is it?

http://www.tigsource.com/2007/02/03/freeware-indie-game-of-the-year/

Doesn't have chunky pixels, but...

Yes, that's it! Thank you, Derek!

I think I remembered it as chunky pixels because I was running it full screen on an HDTV, and it's a fairly lo-res game.

Looks like it's time to get hooked on this again... 

[quantumpotato]

Hi, there's a game series that uses the savegames of other games as level generation etc for its own. It had a funny name and a website with a black background, games arranged in a grid 2 thumbnails wide.

keywords: procedural generation, 2d games.. etc?

[DWORD]

I remember playing a 2d side-scroller/plaformer game on SNES  where you could play as boy or girl (or both in coop). I don't remember the objective precisely, but you had to throw some stuff/junk inside a portal/vortex and you could shoot creatures. I believe the player(s) were travelling through time because there where some futuristic levels and some jungle levels (it might have been just different locations of the same planet or space travel, but for some reason I believe it was time travel). It has splitscreen coop mode.

This is the only game I don't remember from my childhood. I can remember every other game that I have played on the SNES, even obscure games like Alcahest that wasn't even released in the west (and I live in Brazil, even if it was in English I wouldn't understand it anyway, but I finished it).

Thanks.

[valrus]

Hi, there's a game series that uses the savegames of other games as level generation etc for its own. It had a funny name and a website with a black background, games arranged in a grid 2 thumbnails wide.

keywords: procedural generation, 2d games.. etc?

Maybe http://sharecart1000.com/?

[AmericanBarbarian]

Hi, I'm looking for a japanese flash game from about 2009-ish era.  The basis of the game was that the player was a little guy with a sword which hacked down when you clicked.  The idea of the game was to grind through levels to upgrade the size and length of the sword to do more damage.  At the end of the game the sword would be the entire size of the screen so you could hit every enemy on screen in one swing.  The graphics were very basic with pixel art.  The name may have been "Click Sword Hero" or something around that.  It was hosted on some japanese flash game portal and there were several other games by the same designer on it, including a RPG like puzzle game where you would solve battles by positioning heroes in certain rows and columns.

[s0]

http://jayisgames.com/games/ginormo-sword/

this one?

[AmericanBarbarian]

http://jayisgames.com/games/ginormo-sword/

this one?

Yes, the exact one.  Thank you! I actually found it from jayisgames just a minute before you posted. I wasn't convinced I was going to be able to find it off of jayisgames.

[ProgramGamer]

This is addicting. I should not have clicked that link.