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TOTTENHAM was inspired by the mosaics of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, at the Tottenham Court Road London Underground station. Your goal is to upgrade subway lines. Using explosive charges, you must clear a path from the start to the end, in order to lay the line. Pests in the area must also be eliminated.
In ORANGE, you spray herbicides on giant invasive plants in order to halt their growth, and ultimately eradicate them. The game is supposed to have a message.
This is another game I built around a piano piece. In this game, you play as a young composer, and the scrolling-platforming gameplay serves as a metaphor for his creative process (among other things).
The sequel to Ceramic Shooter; this game is composed of one continuous level, which is synchronized to the background music. As in the original, throughout the majority of the game, the goal is to not shoot or crash into anything. However, these objectives may change as the game progresses.
This relatively short Platform/Adventure/Exploration game was made for the TIGSource Adult/Educational Competition (though the game does not feature any mature elements). In the game, you play as the businessman Mr. Jones, who is tired of his adult life. Following an abrupt layoff, he goes home, falls asleep, and has a vivid, surreal dream that both parallels and contrasts his waking life.
An entry to the informal TIGSource Love Letter Competition, Coulomb's Law is a game about love and attraction (and electromagnetism). In order to guide the lovesick positive charge to meet with the object of his affections (a negative charge), you must place other positive charges to repel him and guide him through the level. The game placed fifth in the competition.
In A Sea of Soil, you play as a small green worm who must navigate his way through tunnels and other terrains, loaded from various image files. At its heart, it is a simple maze game, but the freeform nature of the level design (almost any image can be loaded and played) makes it something different. Essentially, it is like playing a game based on the 8x zoom function of Paint.
Suprematist Game #1 is a simple, minimalist game made in the style of early Suprematist art. Try to keep the distances between the red circle and each of the two off-white polygons equal.
This game is an "Anti-SHMUP," as the goal is to avoid shooting things. You must pilot a malfunctioning ship (with a constantly shooting cannon) through a civilian sector, where you must cause as little damage as possible. With seven bizarre, timed levels, each concluding with a boss "fight," many strategies must be employed in order to accomplish this deceptively simple goal. This game will work on Vista.
Based on the Atari game based on the movie The China Syndrome, this game is truly a retrostyled experience. It uses an experimental, minimalist graphics style, as well as archaic audio from the PC speaker. In the game, you must collect neutrons to keep the chain under control. Be quick, but don't hit the walls of the reactor, or any other obstacles. This game will work on Vista.
The Red Wedge is an experimental and abstract side-scrolling platformer SHMUP. While shooting various enemies, you must also jump on moving platforms and avoid falling off the screen. The graphics are entirely vector-based, and the audio is a mixture of MOD music, self-engineered sound effects, and PC beeping. This program should work on Windows Vista.
EXPANDED EDITION: R-Theta II is a game based entirely in polar coordinates. The Expanded Edition includes many new features and gameplay elements, including nine new enemies and improved game options, such as the ability to fully customize controls. An earlier version of this game has been featured on a cover CD of the October 22nd issue of the Czech computing magazine Svĕt-Pocitacu.
I have uploaded Version 1.4, which includes new music formats and minor game changes, as well as some bugfixes of problems that were present in Versions 1.2 and 1.3. Please make sure to extract the entire directory before playing. Windows Vista users should download the Vista Compatible Version.
Bureaucracy is an original card game in which you must promote and demote rows of cards by playing cards above or below such rows. A full help file, including a playing guide, is included.
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