All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'experimental' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us A enormous rise in the human population.
A computer network so large that nothing can control it.
A system overloaded with network crimes floating in the blink of corruption

With the introduction of the new central processor "Project-K", and the birth of "Eden", the system finally seemed to start moving toward completion.
But during procession of the almost eternal amount of information lying within the network, Eden starts to doubt the very existence of itself and it's purpose, finally dropping into a unwakable sleeping state because of the many paradoxes that exist within the human world.
The player sets out on a journey to find "Eden" hiding somewhere in the visualized cyberworld created by the network. The cyberworld continually changes its form as it is hacked over and over again by outside forces.
Will you be able to destroy all firewalls infected by the computer viruses and wake "Eden" from its long sleep?

]]> 29 Nov 2006 05:23:01 Vespers3D is Orange River Studio's first experiment into a new genre of computer gaming, 3D Interactive Fiction (3D/if). It is adapted from the text-based interactive fiction game Vespers, by Jason Devlin.

Vespers, the text IF game, won numerous awards in recent interactive fiction competitions, including first place at the 2005 IFComp and "Best Game" and "Best Writing" (among others) at the 2006 XYZZY awards. Now Jason has joined Orange River Studio in our attempt to bring Vespers to life in 3D, while maintaining the richness of the original text version.

You can play the online Java version of Vespers here.

]]> 21 Nov 2006 08:02:13 Ride on top of a rocket cycle in three game styles: rocket war, rocket ball, and rocket race. You have a cable gun on the left and right sides of your rocket that can connect to pylons, rockets, or rocket riders. Attach cables together to create clotheslines, leash people to pylons, and other creative handiwork.

This game was under-advertised. The music is awesome surf guitar by Dick Dale, and the artistic style of the game is fabulous.

]]> 05 Dec 2006 12:24:16 Presenting rFactor, the new racing simulation series from Image Space Incorporated. After successfully creating over a dozen products in the past ten years, Image Space takes the next logical step, creating a completely new technology base and development process. This new isiMotor 2.0 environment will be the foundation on which to build exciting products for many years to come.

The first installment in the rFactor series features mixed class road racing with ultra realistic dynamics, an immersive sound environment and stunning graphics. This is the game you will want to play.

rFactor provides unprecedented flexibility, allowing the series to grow and evolve with mod community involvement, race club formation, and feedback from users worldwide. We hope you enjoy the ride!

]]> 07 Dec 2006 08:24:27 The Endless Forest is a social screensaver, a virtual place where you can play with your friends. When your computer goes to sleep you appear as a deer in this magical place. There are no goals to achieve or rules to follow. You just steer your deer through the forest and see what happens.

]]> 01 Dec 2006 02:05:34 In the Bridge Construction Set you design and build bridges and then stress test them to see how your creations hold up under pressure. If when test vehicles pass over your bridge they make it safely across you know you've succeeded. If they plummet into the river you know you need to go back to the drawing board.

]]> 26 Sep 2006 12:24:58 Tank game written in C++/OpenGL to learn those things. And tons of other stuff.

Download the demo if you want and message me for the code to unlock the full game.

]]> 22 Nov 2006 04:15:27 The world of Darwinia is a virtual themepark, running entirely inside a computer network and populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians. Unfortunately Darwinia has been overrun by a computer virus which has multiplied out of control. Your task is to destroy the Viral Infection and save the Darwinians from extinction.

]]> 02 Dec 2006 03:37:52 Toblo is a free, fast-paced capture the flag game that has two teams using the world as weaponry, throwing bombs, and generally destroying things. During the course of a Toblo capture the flag match, the structures in the wild and wacky world full of colorful blocks are reduced to block rubble.

]]> 14 Dec 2006 06:41:34 The goal of the game is to construct a machine that will guide the professors' famous Macroton devices from their starting positions to a final reactor tube where their energy will be extracted and stored for later use. Over thirty different tubes of various shapes and sizes must be combined to complete the machines including spirals, switches, anti-gravity devices, twisty turns, and precipitous drops.

]]> 22 Sep 2006 01:49:43 Mount & Blade is an indie game with a phenomenal combat model and a barebones, historical (no fantasy elements) world. In this world you can take on missions, trade goods, hire or recruit followers (and train them), join the army and gain rank, improve your combat skills with a variety of weapon and of course, fight.

There is no ultimate goal.

Mount & Blade is created by the dynamic duo of Armagan and Ipek (and probably a few more people now that assets are becoming more work-intensive), better known as TaleWorlds.

]]> 28 Nov 2006 03:51:19 Plasma Pong is a variation of Pong that utilizes real-time fluid dynamics to drive the game environment.

Players have several new abilities that add fun twists to the classic game. In the game you can inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area. All these abilities have fluid-based kinetic effects on the ball, making Plasma Pong a fast-paced and exciting game.

]]> 27 Nov 2006 01:39:25 You play the role of a military Commander hidden deep within an Underground bunker. Your mission - to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst disabling their ability to attack your own. Start by launching your battleships, subs and bombers in order to decimate your opponent's defences. Scramble together your alliances but remember only one can stand victorious.

Prepare your pre-emptive strike before one of your supposed allies gets the same idea. Choose the perfect moment for betrayal, obliterating your opponents with an apocalyptic thermonuclear barrage, but get it wrong and their devastating counter attack will bring you to your knees!

It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

]]> 01 Dec 2006 03:32:09 In this graphical adventure game, Russell Stone works as a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.

Just as he is on the verge of packing it all in, he receives some interesting news. A former member of his congregation has died and left the Rabbi a significant amount of money.

A blessing? Or the start of something far more sinister? Can Rabbi Stone just accept the money and move on? His conscience says no. Step into his shoes as he travels all over Manhattan in his attempt to uncover the truth.

Features rabbinical conversation methods, a unique method of fighting, an original score, and three different endings!

]]> 04 Dec 2006 10:19:54 Sacrifice is a beautiful and innovative RTS played from the battlefield instead of above it; through an adventurous campaign, you, as a great mage, must decide which of the five elemental gods to serve, and thus the fate of the world as it approaches Armageddon.

]]> 06 Dec 2006 04:03:24 Call of Cthulhu -- Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements. You will draw upon your skills in exploration, investigation, and combat while faced with the seemingly impossible task of battling evil incarnate.

]]> 26 Nov 2006 01:18:28 Toribash is a turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes. Focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing.

The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood.

]]> 04 Dec 2006 10:55:41 Rumble Box is a fast paced 3D action beat-em-up with a unique premise: all of the characters are made of simple objects which stay around in the level even after the character is defeated. The objects pile up, changing the gameplay landscape and altering your combat tactics.

The game takes place inside a giant box, and the ultimate goal of the game is to pile up enough defeated enemies to get out of the box.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 01:17:32 Bontago is a single or multiplayer 3d real-time strategy/puzzle game. By stacking blocks each player increses their area of influence, and can build closer and closer to the goal in the middle of each level.

]]> 03 Dec 2006 10:02:40 Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, or NERO for short, is a unique computer game that lets you play with adapting intelligent agents hands-on. Evolve your own robot army by tuning their artificial brains for challenging tasks, then pit them against your friends' teams in online competitions!

]]> 10 Dec 2006 05:23:36 A simple, non-violent, physics-based multiplayer game for the whole family ;)

Actually, just a prototype of an idea for that kind of game. Mainly, I wanted to learn some networking stuff (used raknet) and practice some more 3d stuff in OpenGL with C++.

Has something like 5 gametypes and supports an infinite number of players ;) The networking code breaks down when you add lots of people, but that just makes it more fun! (And you can have as many instances on one computer as you want - unlike some engines ;)

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]]> 28 Nov 2006 02:28:18 Virus is a nice puzzle game. You have to press last appeared number on the screen, and every time you do this a new number appears. It gets harder and harder because old numbers don't get removed. You can play the game in two different modes: single player and multiplayer. In single player mode your score increases on each good move. The game ends when you make a mistake. In the turn-based multiplayer mode you play against a human opponent, where both players control their own playing fields. The first one who makes a mistake, loses the game. The game is only available for graphing calculators.

Language: English
Requirements: TI-83/84 Plus (graphing calculators)
Version: 1.1a

]]> 29 Dec 2006 04:33:54 Plot

In 2007 the U.S. government successfully sends a probe to an alien world in a parallel universe. The probe starts transmitting video images of the world back to Earth. Then, just minutes into the mission, an alien life form discovers the probe and damages it, causing an unforeseen backlash of energy to create a black hole threatening Earth. Cutter Slade, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, is given the job of escorting three scientists on a mission to this alien world to recover the probe and close the black hole.

Arriving in this alien world, Cutter is separated from the other scientists and is hailed by the natives as their messiah, the Ulukai.

Technology

The game uses a voxel engine to render its objects and textures. This unique method is purely software-based; it does not rely on any hardware-acceleration via a graphics card. A voxel engine was chosen because there is no performance hit when rendering round or curved surfaces, thus allowing for a much more detailed Landscape. Had the same level of detail seen in Outcast been attempted on a hardware-accelerated polygon engine, there would have been a significant drop in performance.

]]> 14 Dec 2006 04:57:01 MDK2, the sequel to Shiny Entertainment’s 1997 hit, take on the roles of Max, Dr. Hawkins, and Kurt Hectic as you fight to save the world from an alien threat. Each of the characters in MDK2 provides a totally unique gameplay experience, delivered in a puzzle-packed action game.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 04:11:09 In this sequel to Stair Dismount - Porrasturvat, the player has to try to inflict as much damage as possible to a ragdoll stickman initially sitting in a truck. Things influencing how the ragdoll will behave is influenced by the placing of ramps, the figure itself and the speed of the truck, all set by the player.

]]> 05 Dec 2006 11:07:32 A really, really, really tiny first-person shooter, at least when it comes to download size, being under 100kB.

The game features a number of different textures, enemies and weapons.

]]> 04 Dec 2006 06:33:02 Game by Psygnosis.

Every self-respecting fantasy game has dragons, and nine times out of ten it's your job to slay the evil things. But Drakan: Order of the Flame is one of those rarer occasions when the dragon actually does your bidding. Drakan first comes across as a third-person action game like any other in the quickly burgeoning genre, but you'll know this game is onto something early on, when lanky redheaded heroine Rynn releases the kindly old dragon Arokh and takes to the skies on his back. Add great graphics, mean monsters, deadly traps, and huge areas to explore both from the sky and on foot, and you'll see that Drakan is clearly one of the better games in its class, even if it doesn't seem especially original. After all, Rynn's just a medieval Lara Croft riding on your average dragon. You won't remember Drakan for its characters, but you'll have fun playing it.

More at GameSpot

]]> 14 Dec 2006 07:55:14 It is a physics game where the goal is maximising the 'damage' done to a 3D stick figure; the player causes damage by briefly applying a force to the figure to make it fall down a staircase.

Made by the same developer as Truck Dismount - Rekkaturvat.

]]> 05 Dec 2006 11:00:02 A relatively simple game where you control the killer swarm to throw people up into the air... inevitabley falling to their horrible deaths. The goal is simply to make sure that their deaths are as horrible as possible.

]]> 29 Jan 2007 06:05:06 An intense Action Thriller that comes to life with exciting Anime style characters and storyline. Join, Konoko, as she unravels her uncertain past while heading towards a dark future with no one left to trust! Oni, provides a revolutionary gameplay blend of Hand to Hand combat along with energy and projectile based weaponery.

]]> 07 Dec 2006 07:58:39 Silence Of The Terminals (SOTT) is an Educational Multiplayer FPS.

Hack, Crack and Blast!

Two teams fight for control of technology, by hacking into each others terminals and taking the Disc back to your base.

Hacking is done by questions, these can be about HTML, C++, Java or anything else. Either enforce question topics, or everyone to their own.

Get to the top of your technology tree first by hacking and capturing and you'll get more powerful weapons, energy, health and more...

This is an experimental educational game.

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]]> 29 Nov 2006 11:09:11 We loved it so much, we made a movie!

Ok, maybe not a movie, but we started calling the original "Classic PuffBOMB", so we could remake it all that much better.

For now, go play the classic. Classic PuffBOMB

]]> 27 Nov 2006 11:08:15 Set in a cyber-punk universe and combining elements of Magic the Gathering, Risk, and Stratego, ChronX was one of the first virtual trading card games on the Internet.

]]> 09 Dec 2006 08:07:24 Apokalupsis is a single player RPG set in a near future American city (and the surrounding country side) after the collapse of the national government. The player must attempt to survive in a city where riots, food shortages, crime, and desperation continue to grow while the local government attempts to keep control through more and more Orwellian means including supproseeion of liberty and personal freedom, surveliance, and eventual dis-information, mass murder, and purges of undesirables.

]]> 29 Nov 2006 08:49:01 In Zen Bondage you cover blocks of wood shaped like various animals with rope. You have a limited amount of rope to cover the block in, which you do by twisting and turning the figure.

]]> 03 Dec 2006 09:45:00 You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip's marriage. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the course of Grace and Trip's lives - motivating you to re-play the drama to find out how your interaction could make things turn out differently the next time.

]]> 02 Jan 2007 03:43:06 K96 is a combat sim that takes place in the 26th century among many factions and star systems, including Earth.

Players can choose from a variety of weapons systems including tanks, 'Mavs, aircraft, watercraft, and spacecraft - with each class of weapons system having many variations.

]]> 21 Nov 2006 07:02:01 Maniac Machines is an experimental racing battle game, featuring rigid body physics, weapons and anti-gravity racing.

]]> 28 Nov 2006 02:31:37 Fire and Healing is Multiplayer Mahem. Either burn the forest down or defend it and revive it back to life.

]]> 10 Nov 2006 05:40:44 Cloud is a third-person puzzle game based around weather and atmospheric aesthetics.

]]> 14 Dec 2006 03:50:56 Initially an MFA thesis, flOw is a game about piloting an aquatic organism through a surreal biosphere where players consume other organisms, evolve, and dive into the abyss.

In flOw for the PS3 you can play as one of five creatures, each in a unqiue environment.

]]> 05 Dec 2006 04:38:51 A mystery set in the near future. You are visiting an underwater theme park / research station when something goes horribly wrong. Water begins to rush in and cuts you off from the outside world. You and a handful of others are trapped - and the air is running out, and if the deadly virus in the lab escapes, there will be no rescue. What happened? How did you all get here? And why can't you remember your name?

Originally in Japanese (PS2/Dreamcast) but now available for Windows in English

]]> 14 Dec 2006 08:03:40 Roach Toaster is an original (no really) freeware, turn based strategy game made in Game Maker.

It has bad graphics but awesome gameplay... Who cares?

Take control of an elite team of soldiers to destroy the neighbourhood's roaches.

P.S. Watch out for Roach Toaster 2!

]]> 28 Nov 2006 12:06:29 Conformity. A game that I made for the Phoenix IGDA game jam in 2007.

]]> 14 Apr 2007 08:27:43 Cloak, Dagger and DNA is if not the first then at least one of the first games ever to use make use of genetic algorithms. Each player (human or computer) controls an army which can be split up into smaller units and has to try to conquer the playing field and its resource-generating factories in a Risk-style manner of play.

Cloak, Dagger and DNA was developed by Oidian Systems and was planned to be part of a family of games around the theme of genetic algorithms, unfortunately interest was lacking and Oidian went out of business. Since then Don O'Brien (designer of the game) has released it as freeware.

]]> 26 Feb 2007 03:54:15 Create your own galaxy in this management title. Define planet properties in an attempt to create the most suitable habitats, and watch as the various inhabitants colonize the planet, make war on each other and battle for dominance.

]]> 13 May 2007 09:48:26 I always wondered if having a game set in very deep grass could be turned into a fun hide-and-seek type game. So, I threw together a prototype.

The player and the bots are Robo-Raptors (a great test for my rigid body animation exporter/importer from 3ds Max). You can kill the other raptors, but that's not the point ;)

Walking through the fenced-in area tramples the tall grass that fills the playing area. The AI follow any paths and will kill you if they sneek up behind you.

A fun idea on the backburner for now.

]]> 26 Nov 2006 04:46:08 Project Twilight Blades is an RPG, yes. But it will play a lot differently than most others out there. For instance, instead of a typical turn-based system, this will be an active time battle system. Also, much like an MMO, there are no random battles, you approach what you want to fight, or find a way to avoid it. The difference is that most of the game will be local, but the main cities will be online. This will allow you to trade and communicate with other players while in town. There will also be options to communicate with others in field, more on that will be released at a later time. Keep an eye out for more information as it is released!

]]> 23 Nov 2006 12:10:16 My first game - a souped-up clone of JetSlalom. Dodge the shapes, fill up the bar on the right, or just survive. The game makes me cringe when I see it because I only see the flaws, but little kids love it. Has high scores and is fully complete with menus and everything. Give it a download and then make fun of me!

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