I'm trying to find a free PC game that I think I downloaded from a thread here years ago. I'm not 100% sure, however, since I'm roughly estimating that I played the game in 2005-2008. I searched back through pages and pages of the appropriate boards here, but couldn't find anything - it's possible that I've either missed it, or perhaps I found it somewhere else, since the timeframe doesn't match up with this place all that well (I could have the estimated year wrong, too) - are there any other forums that were running around that time that I could check?
The actual game was 3D, had simple graphics (potentially some kind of "retro filter" over everything?), and consisted of you jumping on blocks in a void to climb higher and reach the end of a path.There were probably 2-3 levels to the game - transitions, I believe, happened when you reached the end of the path, and weren't actually marked by anything. The game was short, and could be beat in less than a half hour, certainly less if you knew what you were doing.
To go into a little more detail about the gameplay, there was a strange wall jump mechanic - or at least I think it was a wall jump, I believe I could only use it up against walls - that seemed to work a bit inconsistently. I didn't quite understand it at the time, but looking back now, maybe you could only use your second jump while you were still traveling upwards from your first one?
I don't remember you having any friction or acceleration - the physics were very simple. I don't think your jumps kept you in the air for long at all. The platforming was simple, static blocks, though - no traps, moving platforms, or anything like that.
I don't remember much about the graphics except that in one of the later parts of the game, you could see a face far off in the distance, probably meant as an easter egg. I think you may have had to stand in a specific spot for it to be visible.
I don't remember if the game had any audio at all.
One other thing that might help this be found (since it's a very vague description of what sounds like a pretty bland game) is another, more striking game by the same developer. It was some sort of 3D game that I'd theme as a "virus" or "corrupted computer" game where you wandered around in a void and read text that appeared above the heads of NPCs. I don't think you actually spoke to them (more like listening to what they were saying?), though there were a couple meta ones that were hard to reach that I think spoke to you that I feel like said something to the extent of "ABORT PROGRAM", or maybe something more creepy and directed at the player. I just remember being unnerved when I found it.
The most striking thing about this second game was that it was like, 80% bright red - to this day, I have no idea if this was due to a rendering issue with the laptop I played the game on, or if it was supposed to be a blinding mess. I'm leaning toward the former, since I don't think graphics were wiped from your view properly when you turned (except sometimes?), resulting in trails of stuff like the Solitaire win animation.
The dev was also working on some kind of game where you slid down a slide that turned along the way, kind of like the ones in Super Mario 64. I think he had a thread up with screenshots of it, and may have even had a screenshot of it as his avatar? I never went back to see anything more on it.
Edit: Found it! It's DRYPOINT:
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=8241.0
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