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[Danmark]

^ Giants: Citizen Kabuto?

[saliman]

^ Giants: Citizen Kabuto?

That's it! Thank you so much, I never expect to get a reply, let alone this quickly! It's funny, though, how in my memory the graphics were a lot better than they actually are. Thanks again!

[Hima]

Hi, I've been looking for two games that I used to play so many years ago. I can't remember their names anymore, but here's the detail in case anyone can remember.


First Game
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- The game is a web-based interactive novel.
- The story is about a guy who work in fashion industry. Got involved in some kind of crime and got framed of murder. The main character's also cheating on his wife with a single mom.
- There are many many endings and variations.
- The graphic is done in graphic novel style. Strong contrast shading.


Second Game
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- The game is a match-3 game
- While playing match 3, there's an animatic cutscene keep playing on the right or the top of the screen, I don't quite remember.
- The main character is a woman in some kind of futuristic suit. The story is that she has to go fight some kind of robot or monster, I think
- The game apparently won an award or something. It was featured in IndieGame blog
- The screen is pretty orange. I remember orange being the main color of the interface.


Thank you in advance! I keep googling for hours and it really bug me so if you can help me I'll really appreciate it!

[Tanner]

This is frustrating, I know what game the first one is, but I can't remember the name, either.

[bamcquern]

I'm looking for a space invaders-style tower defense game. It's all controlled by mouse and it has somewhat simple bitmap graphics.

The game was made by a guy who has entered a few compos (ludum dare?), but he's probably more well known for being very prolific at making games on a website that looks like it's designed for kids. He's made several cheesy-looking platformers. He might have a forum where 13 year olds talk about about game development. He's like unintentional trainwreck material segueing into Leon Arnott levels of ludic experimentation.

Does this sound familiar?

[Danmark]

This is frustrating, I know what game the first one is, but I can't remember the name, either.

Same here.

As I recall, the title is a single short word. I often saw it mentioned alongside Facade some years ago.

[Ichigo Jam]

I'm looking for a space invaders-style tower defense game. It's all controlled by mouse and it has somewhat simple bitmap graphics.

The game was made by a guy who has entered a few compos (ludum dare?), but he's probably more well known for being very prolific at making games on a website that looks like it's designed for kids. He's made a several cheesy-looking platformers. He might have a forum where 13 year olds talk about about game development. He's like unintentional trainwreck material segueing into Leon Arnott levels of ludic experimentation.

Sounds like Moon Invaders from Hamumu.

[bamcquern]

That's it, thanks. I found it a few hours after I posted that, but I was too lazy to come back here and say anything. Having fun with the game.

[Slushy_]

Hope someone can help , this has been driving me crazy for a while.
It was an arcade game I played in the early 90's , a multiplayer stand up unit with 3 or 4 sets of controls. You controlled a kid and it was a platforming race against your friends  or AI . I can't remember if it was a sidescroller or fixed screen style. I'm leaning towards the later. Thanks for your time.

[raigan]

I hope someone knows what game Slushy_'s describing, cause it sounds awesome!


I'm trying to remember the name of a game that was entered in the IGF maybe 5 years ago, then again 1-2 years ago, I think. Made by a team of students, it's sort of a physics-based vehicle/robotics simulator where you could rearrange your vehicle (wheels, thrusters, servos) to complete various challenges. For example one room was a ramp made of ice, so you had to use a solid circle (laid flat) + rotating servo on top + rocket to make a vehicle that could slide up it.

It's *sort* of like http://www.crashtastic.com/ but without a ragdoll or crashing. Sort of like Panekit too.

It's possible that "robo" appears somewhere in the name... or maybe not.

Anyway, I'm really hoping someone else has played it; it was such an awesome game/experience, I'm hoping it was eventually released and I just never heard about it.

[Slushy_]

raigan , could you be talking about Incredibots? http://incredibots.com/

[raigan]

Sort of... but it's in 3D

It actually looks visually a lot like Crashtastic, just nice simple 3D.

[XRA]

trying to remember the name of a Saturn game I played back in the day, I think it was first person, controlling weird mech type stuff, in what could be described as giant futuristic vents (some kind of techy environment), it was really dark

HALP

[XRA]

found it, ROBOTICA / DAEDALUS

[Blademasterbobo]

I vaguely remember playing this 2d black and white... fencing game? If I'm remembering it correctly, dudes would jump through a window and you'd fight them off of... like a castle thingy? Also, I think it was on an old apple laptop. Is this a game that actually exists?  

[Slushy_]

Sounds like defender of the crown to me

[D-TurboKiller]

Alright, there's this really interesting 90's era PC game I played once. It was a worldwide competition where people (and animals!) from all over the world competed to be the ultimate champion over the silliest challenges.
I remember some of the characters: a fat guy that throws pizza, a kangaroo that throws boomerangs, a monkey that throws bananas, and even what looks to be an amazon woman if I remember right. Before every challenge you had the chance to spend money on training yourself or buying stuff like energy packs and ammo for your throwable weapon.

Some of the challenges were:
-Climbing a very tall building, while avoiding stuff being thrown at you, both from above and from your competition. Toilets, anvils, you name it. A chopper picks you up at the top. Be careful not to get hit, or you'll fall off and have to do your best to hang on again! Perspective is faced forward to the building.
-An isometric arena in a desolate land. You had to be the last one standing to win. The floor tends to rise and fall.
-A 3D labyrinth race. Can't remember how this works.
-A... hippo pushing challenge? Can't remember how this one worked, but it was pretty silly. Perspective was isometric I think.

I've been trying to find this one for AGES; I had some pretty good memories with it. Help would be most welcome!

EDIT: Haha, found it. It's called Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon. Turns out it's a crappy game for singleplayer, but I might get some fun out of it in multiplayer if I get it to work.

[paste]

If anyone finds this one, I will be thoroughly amazed.  All I can remember is that it was a platformer with a blue background on the IBM PcJr!  Also, the creators of the game had really high scores on it that were hard to beat.

Ha! I finally figured it out. It was Willy The Worm. I think it may have been one of the first platformers I played. Either that or Super Mario Bros.

[SirNiko]

Guy did a series of short flash games, one per day and posted them all to a blog. He did this for about 100 days and then called it quits. The games were all short, had simple graphics, and were vaguely arty insofar that they had odd mechanics like intentionally unresponsive controls or social awareness subjects. Towards the end he released a game made by a former student that was a typical platformer where enemies were candy and junk food and you collected vegetables for points.

I wish I could find this blog again. I think I originally saw it in a post on JayisGames two or three years ago.

EDIT: I found it! http://interactionartist.com/ There are a lot of little games here, and they all fall neatly under the "Art Game" label. "Steak" is my favorite, though for a different reason than the author may have intended.

[Yougiedeggs]

Game Boy puzzle game where you play as a tomato with a mohawk and sunglasses. I guess it was sort of like Sokoban, but more about maneuvering yourself through the level.