All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'Arcade, casual, free' on The Great Games Experiment All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'Arcade, casual, free' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'Arcade, casual, free' on The Great Games Experiment en-us Maze Runner Advanced This is a game which you can make while reading The Game Programmer's Guide To Torque.

This is the alpha version of the game, containing polished art (by Canon of frogames) as well as an editor so you can make your own levels.

This game is available for Windows and OSX. Give it at try and if you enjoy playing it, consider checking out the book and other products make by me at the Hall Of Worlds Products Page. Also check out Canon's work over at frogames. They've got some great content packs for TGE and and upcoming game.
]]> 01 Dec 2006 10:41:22 Arcade Phoenix
]]> 15 Sep 2007 05:23:45 100 Invaders GAME: a sub-dimentional invaders game,. destroy the invaders and their ghosts.
RELEASED: 2005
]]> 12 Mar 2007 05:11:34 Gamma Bros The Gamma Brothers spend their days working in a huge space station near Jupiter. No one works harder than Buzz and Zap. What could they possibly be working on? Something very important, no doubt.

The Gamma Brothers also understand the importance of not working. Every day at quitting time they hop into their commuter vehices for the long, difficult journey back to earth. Every day on their way home, they are attacked by ships and creatures of unknown origin. Every day, to and from work, they must survive many vicious and clever alien attacks!

It is up to YOU to guide the Gamma Brothers home. Prepare yourself for the ultimate space commute battle! After all, it is dinner time on earth, and the Gamma Brothers' families will not be pleased if you don't get Buzz and Zap home safely.
]]> 26 Nov 2006 12:41:00 Gundown Gundown an oldschool arcade game at heart, where you must obliterate every soldier, ship, motorcycle or pixel that moves by controlling your artillery contraption. Use upgrades between rounds to beef up your firepower. Addictive!

Liberally taking aspects from popular arcade games like Space Invaders and the likes, Gundown borrows the similar gamestyle but adds in its own unique style of elements, such as: angled shots which require more tactic on the player's behalf, firepower upgrades to leave more destruction, and plenty of particle effects to keep the player's bloodlust at bay. :)

Controls are simple to use, and the gameplay is simple to grasp. Gundown is a game that is simple enough to get used to, but offers a continually challenge experience.
]]> 08 Jan 2007 02:32:44 Torque Combat Torque Combat is a game StarterKit included with the TorqueX game engine by GarageGames. It is bundled with full source code and demonstrates:

  • TorqueX 2D Framework
  • Local multiplayer capabilities with keyboard or Xbox360 game pad
  • Two different types of game play: Assault and Sumo
  • Playing a TorqueX game on a retail Xbox 360 through the XNA Creator's Club
]]> 10 Jan 2007 02:52:18 Lunar Rescue Remake Tribute to the Taito classic arcade machine from Trevor Smila Storey.

Controls a lunar lander module that must navigate through a field of asteroids to the bottom of the screen, rescue an astronaut by hovering above a plateau, and travel back up to the top through a swarm of enemy ships.
]]> 08 Feb 2007 01:32:43 LaserAge LaserAge is a retro game similar to Galaxian and Galaga clones. This shooter features power-ups and is highly detailed, combining nostalgia with 24-bit color. Four levels have 100 waves of ships. Destroy 15 enemies with 13 power-ups. You can play in windowed and full-screen modes; then show off your skills to the world with Web-based high scores. Your ship can be controlled with the mouse, which comes in handy when you're trying to dodge enemy fire. The Gold version features a new interface and a massive list of bug fixes.

Genre: Arcade
Developer: Ingava
Version: 2.0A
]]> 07 Dec 2006 08:46:07 Starry Sky Starry Sky is a simple arcade game in which you play as a blue circle fighting against red squares. Yup- that's about it. You use the arrow keys to move the character around the screen and use the spacebar to make the character light up. When the character is lit, which can only be done for a limited time, you can destroy enemies. Otherwise if you are hit by an enemy, you lose some of your health. The objective of the game is to finish all 10 waves with as much health as possible.
]]> 29 Dec 2006 12:00:53 Wacky Sleigh Ride Wacky Sleigh Ride (WSR) is a Christmas fun-racer. You can show your driving skills on three different courses either in training mode or mulitplayer against other players!
WSR is created with the TORQUE GAME ENGINE from GarageGames.com.
]]> 07 Jan 2007 04:09:48 Flying Invaders From the classics is born yet another clone!

The Flying Invaders is a free space invaders (tm) clone, but there is more, this clone comes complete with source!

Thats right, you can download not only a playable game, but the source code to see how to make the game yourself!

I wrote this game for beginners using Aurora who wanted to know how to use 3d and 2d together to make something unique, but as a challenge, I used the 2d surface that one would normally use for the HUD to place the game on, and the backdrop is a rotating sun, with an orbiting planet that has its very own moon!

I left alot of features out of the game so that others who are learning could add in what could already be there, this was to reduce the complexity of the code since the target audience in mind was new game developers!

This was written in Aurora, so you would need to get a demo version of Aurora and once you load the project, simply follow the instructions for creating a BASS.Lib file and then compile away!

(Or just download the full working game)
]]> 30 Jan 2007 09:01:16 Sopwith XNA Sopwith XNA is a remake/update of Sopwith II. I have tried to keep the fun simple gameplay intact, whilst adding a few extra bits and pieces of my own. This was a small project designed to let me learn better game development using XNA, as well as trying to keep focused on a single project through to completion.
]]> 08 Feb 2007 10:43:01 Ball 4 Revamped Guide your ball through 100 small levels, attempting to make it through in the best time.
]]> 29 Jan 2007 04:51:59 Forward Always Forward fast action shooter
with a need for stratagy
in a wonky oldskool style.
]]> 12 Mar 2007 05:39:11 Asteroids Story:

At 0400 hours, we received confirmation from NASA that an asteroid field larger than any recorded in the history of civilization is headed for a direct collision course with Earth. If just one of these asteroids were to hit Earth's surface, the impact would measure at approximately 50 megatons - 4,000 times the explosive power of the fission bomb used on Hiroshima.

Our entire military fleet is currently at war with the Martians and, as fate would have it, the asteroid field is too far away from Mars to reassign a Commander. You are the only armed ship within reach of the field.

Your mission is simple: Eliminate all asteroids. Our information sources believe gravitational forces have banded the asteroid field into eight waves. This will provide time between each wave to repair your ship.

Scientific analysis has shown the asteroids' outer shells are coated in almandine carconite, a rare, highly explosive mineral which is normally only safe at extremely low temperatures. This means a single shot from a laser turret will suffice to blow the asteroid into pieces, but be warned! The explosion will be so large that you are advised to stay well back. A severe explosion could interfere with your guidance systems, or ultimately obliterate your ship.

The entire fate of the world rests in your hands. Good luck.
]]> 12 Feb 2007 04:49:18 Tank Brigade Well, after quite a bit of work on JumpStart and one of its demos Tank Brigade I have decided to release the demo as a full working game. Basically its a single level game built around JumpStart. The Map to play on is randomly selected from a set list (currently 4 maps) and play exists of you trying to destroy all of the enemies on the screen. Some maps are generated procedurely and some are hard coded.

In the relased version sound is supported (turned off by default, turn it on in the options screen). I'll warn you now that the sound can get a bit annoing. Luckily you can press escape, go to options, turn it off, back, and resume game.

Graphics are completely from SpriteLib GPL. If anyone wants to take the time to create real graphics for the game I'd be happy to add them in and add on a credits screen.
]]> 05 Mar 2007 09:33:21 Hunchback Remake of the arcade classic hunchback.
Platform game where you must avoid hazards like fireballs, arrows and angry guards on your journey over the castle walls to save your love, Esmerelda.

Updated graphics and funky sound track gives the game a fresk lick of paint but the same game play that made it a "one more go" game remains.
]]> 05 Feb 2007 05:07:13 Bubblomania Bubblomania is the online remake of the cute and psychedelic bubble popping game.

Play it now!

]]> 27 Nov 2006 05:43:53 The Life in Matter played using only ONE key
takes place in a strange subatomic space.
]]> 12 Mar 2007 05:27:47 Rotation! There's a fair few "reaction tests" across the internet, and most of them follow one cliche idea or another - click at the right time, click the right amount of times and so on. This one is slightly different, and requires a bit more thinking than the standard methods.

There are two things to focus on, each of them a ring with 15 circles. You can rotate the outer ring with your mouse. When the colors of each of the circles match up, click the left mouse. If you've aligned them properly, you'll get points and extra time. Otherwise, you'll just lose some points. Then, the colors reset and you try again. Try to get the most rings possible in a minute and earn yourself a highscore!

There are 3 gamemodes, and 8 "skins".

Also, the song featured is named Obscurity, written by Dark Nebula.
]]> 29 Jan 2007 04:01:31 Shopper Rush You desperately want the new hot gadget and you're ready to do whatever it takes to get it. However, you share the same thought with over a thousand other people!

Shopper Rush is a 2D game in where you control a single character in a sea of AI players. Some levels will throw over 1200 AI players at you at the same time and your job is to get from one side of the shopping mall to the other, and be one of the 30 first customers in order to get your long-awaited gadget.

You also have a couple of tricks in order to get there before everyone else does. You can bump into people so they'll fall, you can push tables and other objects in their way, sprint past them or even spin around and make everyone around you fall. Great if you're stuck somewhere!

The basic game mechanics are based on group behavior and flow dynamics. For example; If 100 people are rushing to the stairs, chances are that it will clog up and you're probably better of taking the slightly longer route around it.

The game is a 5 week project at the University Of Skövde and deadline for the game is February the 16:th. It is also participating in the Swedish Game Awards.
]]> 08 Feb 2007 04:55:54 UFO Panic! UFO Panic! is a simple and fun arcade game, where you abduct aliens with your flying saucer, while avoiding and destroying the alien defences. Game control is simple and can be picked up in moments.
]]> 06 Mar 2007 02:48:39 Retroid
]]> 03 Jan 2008 01:00:19 Torch Runner
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