I was surprised to find a DOS game from around 1989 that had been ported over to linux. (and Windows) I don't know if any of you remember Blockout by California Dreams, a 3D Tetris like game. I believe it is available in Fedora, I know it is in the debian/ubuntu repositories.
Or you can get it online http://www.blockout.net/
coolio! had been playing that over and over.
There are lots of retro games where at least the engine is ported to support recent version of M$ operating systems or linux:
Ranotherworld -> Another World, Reminiscence -> Flashback (kind of a sequel to Another World), free clients for Dune 2 and Syndicate, Privateer Gemini Gold Openc2e for the Creatures series (although not yet fully functional). For most of them you need the original game files.
Then there are genuine gems like Cultivation (http://cultivation.sourceforge.net/), a really neat but small game.
PS: I got King of Shredded Potatoes running, the trick is to press Space directly on the first screen, where you can also scroll down by pressing arrow keys... I found Gargoyle to be a nice looking IF interpreter.
Bioware published a bunch of Star Wars games, so... the solution is undetermined.
Yeah, I remember Blockout, and I have a java version for the phone called BlockAway which is just as good.
Bioware published a bunch of Star Wars games, so... the solution is
undetermined.
Right, but what did George Lucas have to do with those? =)
Even the old LucasFilmGames were better than todays Lucas' movies.
BTW: I finished King of Shred's and Patches, kind of nice, but often not very intuitiv parsing. Some things need to be described too complicated, some to easy. And still some bugs and oddities. Anyway, it was quite some fun.
BTW: I finished King of Shred's and Patches, kind of nice, but often
not very intuitiv parsing. Some things need to be described too
complicated, some to easy. And still some bugs and oddities. Anyway,
it was quite some fun.
I was frequently frustrated and made liberal use of the 'think' and 'hint' commands, but overall thought it was pretty amusing.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00515LD0K
@Sig: I hope he fixed some of the bugs before he uploaded it there... But nice idea
Totally unrelated and probably old news: http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=211.0
Still suprised me to find it!
oh dear god... im in heaven. I've been looking for this game since I lost it while i was moving to another state (about 9 years ago)... i used to run it on Win98 and got it to work on XP before I lost it in the move.
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Anyone else remember Pandora's Box? The one designed by the Tetris dude? Pretty great puzzles in that one
Wed Sep 07 2011 14:28:47 EDT from the_mgt @ Uncensored@Sig: I hope he fixed some of the bugs before he uploaded it there... But nice idea
Totally unrelated and probably old news: http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=211.0
Still suprised me to find it!
He actually has been spending a good bit of time on just that, as well as making an interface that will work for the Kindle. The hope is that the new platform will open up the genre to a wider audience.
If you haven’t played the desktop version ofKing, or even maybe if you have, I’d of course love for you to buy a copy to play on your Kindle. It’s basically the same experience on the Kindle that it was on the desktop, only with the bugs and typos that slipped into previous releases fixed and with a Kindle-ized interface that, in the opinion of myself and Amazon, looks and plays pretty great.
And whether you buy it or not, I could use your help getting the word out. If you play it, a review for Amazon would be very helpful in attracting more eyeballs. If you know someone who is not currently an IF nerd but that has a Kindle and just might enjoy it, please tell them about it. And of course blurbs on blogs, Twitter, etc., are always valuable.
If King does well enough to justify it, I hope to turn my fledgling Antiquarian Productions into a sustained venture for getting IF onto the Kindle. With a reusable engine now working at last (and don’t get me started on what a challenge that was), we have the potential to bring out the best of the IF community’s work on the Kindle, to reach new people who have never heard of IF but would love it if they did, and to give some long-suffering authors a chance to earn a little money from their work. It’s early days yet, and much is uncertain, but the potential seems pretty awesome from where I’m sitting. Won’t you help to make it happen?
I think his blog is very worth reading anyway, as he has been writing a great deal about the history of video and computer gaming as a whole, not just IF.
Nice to hear. Though I am not into ebooks and readers for leisure and the books I would need as ebook won't be released as such. Damn academic writers, charge 100-150€ for their PhD thesis paper as a hardcopy of a book... Almost everything I like to read atm costs 50€ (250 pages...) up to 200€ (OOP or more than 500pages). And these are the books that cry for a "search" function and easy copy&pasting for citations in my writings.
But yes, his blog is very inspiring, but very long posts. I am trying to read up, but don't find much time. I will spread the word about IF on kindle. Have been wondering why there is no interpreter for the mobile platforms (or maybe there is and I haven'T noticed?)