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]]> 01 Oct 2008 11:27:41 BaboViolent 2
]]> 02 Sep 2008 05:33:17 Nimja Clanquest
]]> 13 Aug 2008 10:45:36 Caveman Craig
]]> 31 May 2008 12:58:22 Hordes of Orcs
]]> 24 Jan 2008 12:26:46 Dark Reign: The Future of War
]]> 24 Dec 2007 09:06:14 SilkWood
]]> 06 Dec 2007 08:35:57 Tuber vs Solanars: Strategy
]]> 14 Nov 2007 02:21:27 Barnyard Brawl
]]> 28 Sep 2007 07:29:41 When Orcs Attack!
]]> 19 Sep 2007 08:37:54 Fatal Parsec: Episode 1
]]> 14 Sep 2007 11:19:39 Avenue of Death
]]> 07 Sep 2007 01:28:36 Spy a Solution
]]> 31 Aug 2007 08:21:22 Epidemic
]]> 07 Aug 2007 03:13:41 Survival: The Ultimate Challenge
]]> 31 Jul 2007 06:05:27 PixelFi Remixed.
]]> 22 Jul 2007 03:05:58 Exisled
]]> 20 Jul 2007 04:13:17 Liberal Crime Squad Liberal Crime Squad is a political role-playing game with rogue-like elements where you recruit extreme liberals in an attempt to change the ultra-conservative USA.

In the beginning you create your LCS founder's background and start alone, but you can recruit as many liberals as you like. The mission is pretty straight forward, change the nation, place liberals in charge. There are many ways to do so, using raw violence, kidnapping important people and converting them into sleepers, changing public opinion, invading the radio station and broadcasting your ideals, freeing criminals, and so forth.

Please be aware that LCS is a rather mature game with lines inappropriate children, but they add a nice comical aspect to it.
]]> 17 Jul 2007 07:32:12 Desktop Tower Defense Desktop TD is a fun flash based puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze for them to follow. Strangely addictive yet stress relieving... how many levels can you survive?
]]> 03 Jul 2007 01:44:20 Base Invaders In Base Invaders the objective is to repel enemy waves (little creatures called Invaders) by building walls and placing all sorts of elaborate traps around your tower. There's a proper tutorial to get you going in no time, plus each level introduces a new weapon or two instead of offering the entire selection immediately from the start and confusing players to no end.
]]> 29 Jun 2007 05:23:56 Bloodletting This was my entry in the GeeksWithBlogs.com game contest in 2006. The game is similar to Magic, but in a post-apocalyptic world. Includes special card art in anime style. Freeware.
Requires DotNet 2.0 runtime.
]]> 02 Jun 2007 09:55:44 Impossible Creatures Set in the mid 1930s, Impossible Creatures takes place on a mysterious chain of islands in the South-Pacific. The island environments are far from drab and lifeless, forming rather an interactive wilderness that is as beautiful as it is harsh, challenging a player's creativity to build units with more than just combat abilities. The game will ship with a powerful yet easy to use set of tools, opening up MOD possibilities that will give users the ultimate freedom: from building their own custom islands to importing their own wild animals that can be used in creature combinations.

Impossible Creatures was previously known as Sigma: The Adventures of Rex Chance.
]]> 25 May 2007 10:48:40 StarTopia Startopia takes gamers to a once thriving galactic network of starships, space stations and planets left lifeless with redundant scars of the apocalypse. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations that once served the commerce and communication of the old empire - reuniting the surviving alien peoples under one banner.

This simulation gives you the opportunity to rebuild and successfully maintain a series of giant Torus space stations that are scattered across the galaxy, providing a suitable home for the many alien races that inhabit space, and perhaps turning a tidy profit for yourself in the process. Of course, there are plenty of other enterprising individuals out there with the same goals, not to mention the many hazards that exist in deep space.
]]> 25 May 2007 10:27:40 Tzar: The Burden of the Crown Tzar is a fantasy-medieval real-time strategy game with a touch of RPG. You play one of three distinct races, European, Asian or Arabian. Your civilization and your economy will depend on your ability to harvest four different resources, master two different trade methods and defend your kingdom with powerful and unique warriors. Expect to conquer territory fighting with - or against - Ninjas and Samurais, Stone Golems, Ogres and Dwarven Axe throwers, flying units like Dragons, Flying Carpets and Bats as well as a host of powerful ships like Pinques, Hulks and Galleons.
]]> 25 May 2007 02:32:21 Shogun: Total War Total War is the complete experience of warfare presented in the most realistic way possible through the use of state of the art technology in graphics and AI. You'll need strategic brilliance to manage your campaign, with the training, recruitment and funding of your armies. You'll need cunning to deploy spies and emissaries to outwit your opponents while maintaining a web of alliances. And you'll need tactical brilliance to take your army out onto the battlefield and crush your enemies.
]]> 18 Apr 2007 07:12:09 Moves This is a very simple board game for 2 players (or 1 player versus the computer). Both players get 7 pawns and 1 king on a 8x8 board. The goal is to get your opponent's king or 6 of his pawns. Each turn, the player may select 1 stone and move it straight or in an L-bow. You cannot jump over stones, but you can step onto your opponent's stone to take it. The numbers on your stones indicate the number of tiles they can move in a turn. When the Mastermind option is selected, the stones change in value when you move it. Pawns can get numbers 1-4, while the king only gets 1 or 2. A challenging game!

Setting the Mastermind option (to change the alue of your stones each move) will show numbers on the board so you will know the number you will get when you move a stone there.

This games comes with 5 imaginary friends of fine-tuned artificial intelligence to play offline against your computer.
]]> 17 Apr 2007 04:47:13 RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is the second game in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. The basic gameplay is: you build a theme park with rides and shops and scenery. There are many scenarios to play each with the own goals and challenges to complete.

There is also a editor, where you can design your own scenarios. This game adds a few things to the first game, the obvious: new scenarios, slightly improved graphics, more rides, shops and scenery. But other than these there wasn't much this game has to offer that the first one didn't. Even so it is a very good game, with a lot of replayability.
]]> 15 Apr 2007 11:10:22 Proximity I made this game in 2005 as just a little thing to do in between projects, and it's spread to just about everywhere on the internet that has games and is my most popular game by far.

It takes all the elements in common strategy game and distills them down to their core: competing for territory and having battles. However, in this game, once a tile is placed, it can no longer be moved, only captured, so unlike most strategy games, a game of Proximity is usually over in about 10 minutes. Also, since the rules are pretty simple, it appeals to a lot of people who aren't normally into the big, unwieldly, and complex strategy games out there.

I'm currently working on a sequel, as well as looking for ways to get the game onto consoles, and hopefully a board game version eventually.
]]> 11 Apr 2007 03:59:23 Puzzle Quest Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a brand new, genre-bending title that ups the ante on traditional puzzle games by incorporating strategy, role-playing elements and a persistent storyline. Set in the Warlords universe, the game challenges players to save the land of Etheria from evil Lord Bane as gamers engage in battles fought by means of competitive, head-to-head "match-three" style puzzle games in one of three gameplay modes: Single-player, Instant Action or Multiplayer. Victory will advance a player's customisable hero, magical arsenal, creature companions and more—ultimately rewarding gamers at nearly every turn and deepening their immersion into the richly diverse world. The game's remarkable mix of classic puzzle gameplay and an abundant suite of characters, customisations, spells, companions, tameable monsters and more provides a fresh take on the puzzle genre that offers endless hours of replayability. Designed specifically for handheld gaming systems, Puzzle Quest can be enjoyed in long or short doses, cultivating a casual but deeply satisfying and compelling gameplay experience.
]]> 31 Mar 2007 09:08:10 Worms World Party Worms World Party is a turn-based game. The objective of the game is to reduce the number of your opponents worms to zero. The game has a large amount of weapons, tools, and other abilities to arm your team of worms with.
]]> 29 Mar 2007 06:09:46 Sphere Of War Sphere of War is a FREE online multiplayer strategy game. The name of the game is world domination. Do you have what it takes to dominate the Sphere of War?

Players have the ability to create their own unique characters and build those characters as they choose. Those with a penchant for war can train their character to use a variety of different weapon types and defend themselves against them as well. Team up with your clan mates by forming or joining a Militia and see if you can climb the Militia ladder to the top.

Those who desire an economic challenge will find a host of challenging features as well. Start your own company, hire and fire employees, buy resources and produce items to sell on the player market. Buy and sell stock and build your own multi-millionair stock portfolio.

Think you know how to run a country? Get yourself elected as president of one in Sphere of War and find out. Control taxation, natural resource commerce and country warfare as the president of a country and see if you can create the next world super power.

Visit www.sphereofwar.com
]]> 29 Mar 2007 04:24:22 Tower Defense Extreme

Flash Tower Defence


1)Intro, What is a TD ?

Well, some weeks ago I said I would update this section. I finally did.

- For those who already know what a 'Tower Defense' is, I will just say, this one use the main features of them, but I'll also add my own.
- For those who don't, Tower Defense consist of a map, on which monsters spawn from a defined spot, and walk on a path. You got to build towers along this path to kill those monsters. You can upgrade those towers, and research some advanced one.
Tower defense was made popular by the warcraft 3 modification and 'Master of Defense'.


2)Features

The game is still under development, but some features are already done (or at least 'playable').
-You'll be able to choose several game mode, classical TD, contineous spawn, labyrinth, checkpoint and so on, i'll explain all of those once the game is released.
-You start with the ability to build 4 basic towers: ground, air, ice, and a ground splash, from there you'll earn new towers as the level in research increase.
-You can use 'knowledge' points, tu upgrade tower element (like fire, air, ice, etc...-, to sell tower for a more good price and earn more money on each kill. Those knowledge pool are also needed to the advanced and elite towers.
-An editor, people who like the game will be able to make theyr own map, and it will become available for the community.
-A random map generator: You can choose to play pre-made maps or to generate random maps, you won't play the same map twice if you don't want to!
-Once the game is released, multiplayer support will be added, a tournament/ladder aswell.
-All of those features will be available when the game is release, but once it is, i'll work on a multiplayer gamemode.
]]> 18 Mar 2007 05:30:39 Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-time strategy computer game set in the Middle Ages. It was released in 1999, and it is the second game of the Age of Empires series developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft.

In the original Age of Kings, the player can choose from 13 civilizations. Each has a distinct personality, with particular strengths and weaknesses patterned on the real civilizations. Each civilization also has some unique units (ships and warriors) with more-or-less historically accurate names.
]]> 17 Mar 2007 12:53:35 Stronghold Create the best castle you can, then defend it against the hostile approaching hordes. Enter into the world of the dark Middle Ages, a world where castles represented the safest sanctuary. Set in medieval Europe, Stronghold brings you a brilliant combination of simulation and real time strategy game styles.

Features:
A stunning blend of medieval simulation and real time strategy. Besiege opposing castles, or defend your own fortress.

Exclusive maps from the Excalibur pack:
New maps with new challenges. The historical maps featured in the Excalibur pack enable you to reconstruct ruthless sieges of famous strongholds: Camelot, Mordred's fortress, Tintagel, Edinburgh, Harlech, Haut-Koenigsbourg, Koblenz Stolzenfels and the Tower of London.

6 more Firefly created maps:
Earn your claim to fame as a castle administrator in three new economic maps (Calanais, The Wolves and There be witches!) and defend your stronghold against perils from without. There are also three new invasion maps included for the warriors among you (Desperate Measures, Stranglehold and The Gauntlet), where you can fight your neighbors in epic feuds.

All campaigns and missions of the original version:
In Stronghold Deluxe, you can build and besiege fortresses as before in the 21-mission campaign, or concentrate fully on building and administering your castle in the economic campaign.

27 user created maps:
Can you never get enough of catapults, killing pits and boiling pitch? Then enjoy yourself on one of 27 user created maps, tested and carefully selected by Firefly. All your battle dreams will come true with this extensive set of maps.

Besiege your neighbors:
Fight fierce and furious battles against other lords in a LAN or via the Internet using the GameSpy support function.

Create your own scenarios:
Use the scenario editor to create your own missions to play yourself or with your friends.

Patch 1.2 included!

Feudal conflict against 4 insidious opponents: Repel the attacks of the Rat, the Pig, the Snake, and the Wolf.

Historical castles authentically modeled from original structural drawings, plus over 80 other medieval structures.

Authentic weapons for attack (Mangonels, Balistas, etc.) and defense (e.g. boiling oil, kill holes etc).

Your own castle can be designed from many structures, including traps, moats and secret gates.

Many different types of troops and town folk. An extensive inventory with hundreds of characters, each possessing various unique skills.

Production chains for food and weapons require careful planning to enable their smooth operation.

Dozens of hills, dense forests, waterfalls and landscape details bring the game alive, as well as, open important strategic options.
]]> 13 Mar 2007 10:40:58 Winthrop In the near future, the world as it was known collapses and emerges once more as a network of barely connected city-states.

No longer the wide-eyed youth, you yearn to explore the world to learn the true mystery of the other city-states. Guide your team through this dangerous, unexplored world, and do battle in rich, multifaceted system that rewards thought and planning as much as brute force.
]]> 10 Mar 2007 05:48:18 UFO: Afterlight UFO: Afterlight is the third in the UFO series from Altar Interactive. Set fifty years after the war on Earth, the people of Earth have been forced by the Reticulans to leave. Some of them were sent to the orbital station above the Earth, and their story is told in UFO: Aftershock. Another group were tranported to Mars, and this is their story. With 10,000 cryogenically sleeping people in their care, a group of about 30 talented humans have to carve out an existance on Mars. The terraformation of Mars as well as defending territory from alien invaders are all part of their mission. Not only do you have to manage the day to day operations at the base - such as research, production and construction - You also have to fight out battle in pausable real-time with many levels of intricacy such as the ability to make detailed plans for your soldiers. As the game progresses, new avenues of research opens up which in turn opens up new skillsets and weapons for your soldiers. You will get to know your personell intimately as they progress, and with a strong RPG-element you can mould them into a fighting force with diverse abilities.

This game contains many different types of gameplay which, as a whole, creates something that is a lot more than the sum of its parts.
]]> 09 Mar 2007 09:06:20 Spaceward Ho! paceward Ho! is a strategic game of awesome scope. You control the entire military and economy of a spacefaring race. Your goal: explore and colonize the galaxy.

Unfortunately, you are not alone. Alien enemies bent on galactic conquest will oppose your expansion. You fight them by developing new technologies and expanding your empire, or you can ally with them to turn enemies into friends.

Terraform newly discovered worlds or mine their natural resources. Maneuver your starship fleets, both in defense of your own systems and in offensive strikes against the evil aliens. Your strategic decisions will determine the fate of the galaxy.

It's incredibly fun to play alone against the excellent computer players, and even better with other humans on the internet.

Spaceward Ho! has won numerous awards over the years, including being inducted into the MacWorld Game Hall of Fame and winning Best Network Game of the year.

The new version 5 is better than ever, with free internet play on spacewardho.net, combined fleets, new battle options, an all-new user interface, and much more.
]]> 04 Mar 2007 05:23:38 Freedom Force Freedom Force is a computer game developed by Irrational Games and published by Electronic Arts in 2002. The player guides a team of superheroes as they defend Patriot City from a variety of villains, monsters, and other menaces. A sequel, Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich was self-published in early March, 2005.

The game is noted for its humorous but respectful evocation of the Silver Age of Comic Books; in particular, its visual style emulates the art style of the Marvel Universe co-creator, Jack Kirby. Also important is its versatile, expandable game engine, which has allowed a considerable fan-community to spring up. Total conversions featuring Marvel and DC Comics characters have considerably extended the life of an already entertaining game.

The alien mentalist, Mentor, fleeing Lord Dominion and his invading forces, heads towards Earth in a small spaceship containing many canisters of the mysterious "Energy X." Lord Dominion's ships pursue Mentor and destroy his craft just outside the Earth's atmosphere; the blast scatters containers of the substance over the metropolis of Patriot City. Energy X strikes several of the city's inhabitants, giving them superpowers that typically echo their personality traits (for instance, Minuteman and El Diablo) or draw on the situation they were in when energized (e.g., The Ant or Nuclear Winter). Most of the game is set in Patriot City, but a number of other locations and time periods are used, including magical realms, prehistoric times, and realms entirely removed from time and space.
]]> 03 Mar 2007 12:41:40 Cloak, Dagger and DNA 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 Zatacka Zatacka, also known as Achtung, die Kurve!, is a freeware, multiplayer DOS computer game that supports from two-player up to six-player gaming.

The game bears some resemblance to the game Snake, though in Zatacka the main goal is to make your opponent hit the wall, his kurve or your kurve. As a result, the game resembles closely to the famous Light Cycle of the 1982 movie Tron. You control the kurve by only two buttons: one makes the snake turn left; the other, right. Although the game has primitive graphics, the gameplay is considered very good and the game is loved by many fans worldwide.

There's a strategic and tactical depth that goes unmatched in the small-games-to-play-on-a-break gaming world. Even though the simplicity is striking (anyone can play it) there are an infinite amount of tactics that can be applied in this game.

It takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master! Be warned though - it's addicting!
]]> 23 Feb 2007 01:06:02 Operation Survival You're on the way back from a successful mission. Unfortunately, the carrier that was supposed to pick you up crashed, and you'll be toast by the time they can send another. Your only hope of survival is to drive your tank to the nearest outpost, 460 miles away. But watch out, the survivors of the battle you fought are scattered all over the place, and are hungry for revenge!

This is an old game I made with VB, I revised a couple things in this late version. (Only a couple) And I think it's ready for the world to see my only finished game for the past year.

Only 150KB!
]]> 22 Feb 2007 10:49:04 Mezzo: Winter Edition Mezzo: Winter Edition is a puzzle game for Windows and Mac by ActionHead Studios. It's the company's first title and was released on February 15, 2007. The game makes unique use of combos to create a series of challenging yet enjoyable puzzles.
]]> 15 Feb 2007 10:45:34 Dune Dune, by Cryo Interactive, was the first attempt of making a commercial game based on Frank Herbert's Dune universe.

Dune blended adventure with economic and military strategy, and is considered by many the most immersive Dune computer game. Loosely following the story of the novel, the game casts the player as Paul Atreides, with the ultimate goal of driving the Harkonnen from Dune, while managing spice extraction, military, and later, ecology through the native Fremen tribes. As the player progresses, his troops are equipped with weapons from "krys knives" to atomics, tap into Paul's latent psychic powers, and get acquainted with such characters from the book as Chani and Liet Kynes.

The game, seen always through the eyes of Paul, is a mix between RTS and adventure gaming. While the basis of the game is the strategy component, dialog between characters and a linear plotline give the game more depth than most strategy games. The player is also required to do some miniquests involving talking to characters and traveling to locations, which adds a small adventure game element.



(loosely edited text from wikipedia)
]]> 13 Feb 2007 06:52:47 UFO: Aftershock UFO: Aftershock is a computer strategy game created by Altar and released in 2005. It's a squad combat game at its core with overlying strategic elements and a clear debt to the lauded classic X-COM: Ufo Defense, though a smaller one than that of its predecessor, UFO: Aftermath.

It's set in a post-apocalyptic 2050 and comes after the events of UFO: Aftermath. The game assumes that you took up the Reticulans offer of resettling the most able of humanity in a space station, while allowing the rest to die, consumed by the Biomass that the Reticulans could not control (However, if you were a particularly skilled player, you could reject their offer, and save the Earth while defending against both the Reticulans and the Biomass. Then this game can be seen as taking place in a parallel universe). Having lost contact with the Earth, you must find out what happened. The combat section is a real-time system with adjustable and pausable speed, and it has been improved to feature such things as multi-level battlefields and enterable buildings. The strategic section holds resource and squad management, research, development, some limited diplomacy and planning of attacks. As a departure from the X-COMs and the prequel, there is no air-to-air interception.

UFO: Aftershock as well has a mobile version. The license was given to Redboss Games, a subsidiary of Redboss.

(text from wikipedia)
]]> 13 Feb 2007 04:19:08 iKonquest iKonquest is a simple turn-based strategy multiplayer game of galactic conquest. The object is to conquer the entire (2 dimensional) galaxy. Each planet produces a fixed number of ships every turn. The game currently can only be played with other players. No AI has been programmed yet. It's a simple game similar to risk without the border restrictions.

The original game was created by Rick Raddatz in 1987. A second game for the K desktop environment called Konquest was developed initially prior to 1999? by Russell Steffen. Much of the concept was borrowed from the Konquest source repository.
]]> 07 Feb 2007 08:30:39 Spring Spring (formerly known as TA Spring or Total Annihilation: Spring), is a full 3D open source RTS engine originally created by the Swedish Yankspankers, intended to bring the gameplay experience of Total Annihilation into three dimensions. The core game engine is released under the GPL License; however, the prepackaged mod that comes with the standard installation requires that one own a copy of TA to legally play it. There is, however, an official release which uses fully free content, and there are a number of mods, both in development and released, that are also completely free to use.

Spring is being developed by the Swedish Yankspankers and the Spring community. The initial goal was to have the game run the mods and 3rd party units from Total Annihilation. This goal is now mostly complete, and the project has moved on to including additional features. The game is mainly focused around multiplayer games over the Internet or a LAN connection. There are currently no single player campaigns or missions, although there is some basic support for this through Lua scripting. There are also many skirmish AIs under development, allowing for offline play or extra players in an online game. Two skirmish AIs ship in the game package.
]]> 06 Feb 2007 11:53:14 Lux Lux Delux is a game of strategy and domination inspired by the board game Risk. Control your armies to conquer and hold strategic countries on the map. The object of the game is simple: Take over the entire world!
]]> 30 Jan 2007 03:10:38 Orbital Trader As planets rotate on their orbits, you must choose the most profitable trajectory. But beware: to win the millions of billions of dollars you deserve you'll have to make sure the planets prosper as well. The definitive space trading game.
]]> 30 Jan 2007 02:47:49 Pax Galaxia Pax Galaxia is an addictive real-time strategy game of interstellar conquest. Set up your supply lines to send your ships into battle. Surround your enemies and conquer the pieces. Only one star empire will control the galaxy!
Pax includes over forty different maps, an easy-to-use interface, strategic computer AI players, and much more. It's a super quick download, even for dial-up users. Don't delay, conquer the galaxy today!
]]> 30 Jan 2007 02:24:16 Flash Element TD This addictive little flash game uses the Warcraft defensive towers to protect your little strip of land from wave after wave of "creeps".

Place your towers around the track to prevent the creeps from reaching the end. You earn interest based on the amount of gold you have left at the end of each turn, so place your towers sparingly.
]]> 30 Jan 2007 12:07:07