http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: The latest free game using Alawar's gamebox en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:19:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-99136 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:32 +0000 sukibabe 99136@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Alawars Latest Game</strong></p> <p><u><strong>Flowery Vale</strong></u></p> <p>It&#39;s a match 3 </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-98800 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:34:19 +0000 sukibabe 98800@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Alawars latest game</strong></p> <p>There is a new one up and it&#39;s <strong><u>&quot;Arctic Quest 2&quot;</u></strong></p> <p>On another interesting note, it actually put an icon on my desktop this time! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-97603 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:24:57 +0000 Dragonlair 97603@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I finally got the game. Most of today I could not load the Gamebox - server errors. When it finally cleared, the game was there. However, I still see all my games doubled in the list. </p> <p>I&#39;m still waiting for them to reply to my email but at least I&#39;ve got the game now. You used to have to download and install and THEN activate in a separate step. Now it&#39;s all done in one &quot;swell foop&quot; (as one of my OOOOOOLD professors once termed it). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-97550 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:49:02 +0000 Dragonlair 97550@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don&#39;t see ANY game - I see just a blank screen for the free game.</p> <p>Also, all of a sudden, all MY games show up twice in the list of my games! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-97543 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:39:50 +0000 StevieD 97543@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Alawar have changed their offering again....it&#39;s Mahjong Artifacts 2 this time around. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-96578 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:07:57 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 96578@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Neither do I. I find them too stressful; tohugh I do like some of the farm management games. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-96576 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:04:52 +0000 Dragonlair 96576@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>At least they changed it close to on schedule. I checked last night and it was still magic tale but it has changed now.</p> <p>It&#39;s not my weekend. This and Realore are both time management games and I just don&#39;t care for them. Oh, well. It&#39;s not like I don&#39;t still have plenty of games! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-96569 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:08:30 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 96569@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve not bothered checking the game box since having to reinstall Win 7 last month. in fact I&#39;ve only just got around to reinstalling the gamebox. There is a new game available called birdies a time management game that the kids will probably love. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-94523 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:35:02 +0000 Dragonlair 94523@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sukibabe,</p> <p>You CAN still buy from Alawar without joining their &quot;club&quot;. Just read the details on the right side of the game page. I noted it <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10323">here</a> the other day when I noticed it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-94517 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:00:46 +0000 sukibabe 94517@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>I don&#39;t think I would say Rock on Alawar</strong></p> <p>I have not seen a &quot;Free&quot; game in a while, my Free Game Tab shows up blank white on both computers!</p> <p>Click on a game and there is no price, just <u>&quot;Download Now&quot;</u>, or <u>&quot;Alawar Unlimited&quot;</u></p> <p>At $99.95 a year, I won&#39;t be joining!</p> <p>Which makes me wonder about the beta program! Still waiting for <u>&quot;Weird Park- Broken Tunes&quot;</u>! Last one I did was <u>&quot;Hidden Worlds&quot;</u>, which was well after Weird Park and has been released!</p> <p>I see they have also taken away the deals that used to be on the right side of the home page... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-91680 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:02:20 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 91680@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I remember getting Roboball when it was released by Alawar. Less than six weeks later they gave it away on the Gamegiveawayoftheday. It&#39;s a sweet little breakout, though some complained that the movement caused a sort of seasickness when they played it for extended periods. The game had a little comedy as well, when the robot wins a level it does a few funny movements. Not played it in a while. Will dig it out and have a go. :) Thanks for reminding me about Gamebox. I&#39;m always forgetting to check, though it&#39;s rare that they give a game away that I don&#39;t already have. Most of those that I don&#39;t have I wouldn&#39;t purchase anyway. Still, I prefer Alawar to BFG and Gamehouse. Once you get the serial code for an Alawar game it&#39;s re-usable forever. As for Gamehouse and BFG it always worries me about what if they go bust or are bought out. That happened to Reflexive games who were one of the biggest game developer/distributors several years ago. I purchased over 900 arcade games from them and now can no longer re register any of them because they were bought out by Amazon who have since reneged on a promise to allow re-registering of your old Reflexive games. So now I&#39;m stuck with 900+ demos of games I used to own a licence for. </p> <p>Rock on Alawar :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-91671 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:43:06 +0000 Dragonlair 91671@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Alawar finally updated the game of the month. I&#39;ve been checking and it kept showing a blank box for the game. Today it updated it to <strong>RoboBall</strong> - a cute little breakout game. I&#39;ve got it so I didn&#39;t get it here. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/6#post-90713 Fri, 06 May 2011 13:43:11 +0000 Dragonlair 90713@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Alawar changed it&#39;s game pretty much on schedule this month. I didn&#39;t check it right after the first but as of a day or two ago, it was <strong>turtix</strong>. Still and oldie available other places. However, it&#39;s free! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-90073 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:01:06 +0000 rta53 90073@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Dragonlair,</p> <p>Thanks for the tip. Seems like I had tried Gamebox before on another computer but never got around to using it. It worked fine this time. I ran the free game in admin mode the first time and it still loads as the full game. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-89997 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:08:39 +0000 Dragonlair 89997@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>rta53,</p> <p>The free game is ONLY available through the Gamebox. That is Alawar&#39;s Game Manager and you need to download and install it before you can see the free game of the month. It&#39;s totally free.</p> <p>However, if you have Vista (and possibly 7), you need to run it in Admin mode for it to recognize your full games as full. That is only needed when you actually run the game for the first time. Once it&#39;s tagged as full, it stays tagged, even if you don&#39;t run in admin mode. It&#39;s a limitation they have never documented but I found. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-89993 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:53:29 +0000 rta53 89993@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>So do you have a link to the Smash Frenzy 3 game? I checked Alawar&#39;s site and I didn&#39;t see anything about a free game, monthly or otherwise. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-89773 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:38:47 +0000 Dragonlair 89773@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>At least they&#39;re changing it monthly (on time) this time. It&#39;s a good game but I&#39;ve got it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-89772 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:15:37 +0000 StevieD 89772@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>And they&#39;ve changed games again.... Smash Frenzy 3 (Magic Ball 3?) is now the freebie. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88968 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:16:51 +0000 StevieD 88968@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>And another game is on offer now....Tank-O-Box. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88338 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:22:05 +0000 sukibabe 88338@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Thanks Guys!</strong></p> <p>I didn&#39;t realize it either until I had compared the 2, I installed the beta on my Desktop, and left the current one on my laptop, so I was looking at both! Usually the &quot;About&quot;, is pretty much that, about nothing, rofl</p> <p>The only thing I noticed in the beta, was they took out the large file warning, that&#39;s about it, other than they might have something up their sleeve, because they said in the email it could handle new features, well then why didn&#39;t you include them in the dang test!!!</p> <p>They are getting so freaked out about piracy over on the forums, I think the new manager has something to do with it, but as we all know, they will find away around whatever BFG does, including the latest, installing progression blockers! That just makes the game for the legit buyers game buggy and they are really ticked about it!</p> <p>Take care all!</p> <p><strong>P.S. Whabbit</strong>, I know you are very busy and all, but just once could you answer my pm, lol</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88304 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:18:09 +0000 RosnSC 88304@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Suki, ditto what pavid said. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88293 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:17:58 +0000 pavid 88293@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Suki,</p> <p>Thanks for the info about the BFG options. The quick exit option will solve one of my major annoyances with the BFG game manager. I hate having to close it every time I leave one of their games and you have fixed that for me. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88288 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:14:28 +0000 sukibabe 88288@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>I must say I was getting a bit worried, but it still says beta, so I just kept checking, rofl</strong></p> <p>I finally got a beta testers coupon from Alawar! The game it was for I didn&#39;t like, so I decided I would try and use it on Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story CE, didn&#39;t think it would work and almost didn&#39;t! Plimus accepted the coupon, but Alawar didn&#39;t send the reg key, it was listed as &quot;incorrect amount&quot;, so I now go back to Plimus who had posted it to my card, to try and undo it, had to dispute it and ask for a refund!<br /> Later on in the day, Alawar came thru with the reg key, so they just went up another notch in my book!<br /> I will have to use the Game Box to download it, because the Box is set to install everything to my F: drive!<br /> If you go the other way, they is no option anymore on their games to custom install and they among a few other sites, are trying to push the &quot;Bing Toolbar&quot;, lol</p> <p>Dollhouse, was suppose to have been a collaboration with BFG, guess they didn&#39;t like the terms and released it themselves! I had beta tested the game for BFG, much improvement in the Alawar version...</p> <p><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~and saying hi to all, I know I have been MIA </strong></p> <p>Suki</p> <p>@Dragonlair</p> <p>I just beta tested a new(how I hate to use these words)Game Manager for BFG! This one holds true for the version that is still running! On the manager at the bottom hit &quot;options&quot;, select &quot;about&quot;, there is an option for <u>&quot;Quick Exit&quot;</u>, just check that, it only works for the games you have purchased! I also <u>unchecked</u> the nosy one for &quot;Information Sharing&quot;, rofl </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88213 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:13:25 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 88213@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve never had problems downloading via the game box???</p> <p>As for misleading, yes you are right. They should just change it to free games occasionally. Maybe i&#39;ll write to the few contacts I have left at Alawar and suggest they change it as it is a little misleading. :) </p> <p>p.s.</p> <p>i wasn&#39;t meaning to have a go at you Dragonlair; i just think that when something is free, no matter how occasional it turns up we should be thankful. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88208 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:12:48 +0000 Dragonlair 88208@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I wasn&#39;t griping about the free - just the statements of &quot;monthly&quot; that are no longer true. They want people to use Gamebox all the time and half the time you can&#39;t because their server is overloaded and it HAS to connect to the internet to load.</p> <p>Their games (like BFG) can be played totally offline but they have that wrapper that pops up every time you play them (before and ending) that you can&#39;t circumvent as you can with BFG. Big Fish&#39;s only came up at the end anyway.</p> <p>It&#39;s true that with the codes, you can re-install much easier and don&#39;t have to re-download to re-install plus you&#39;re not dependent upon their record keeping (what if they lose your games?).</p> <p>There are pluses and minuses for everybody. My only complaint is they claim one thing and they do not live up to their claim. That&#39;s unfair and misleading. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88205 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:39:45 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 88205@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Free is free, I don&#39;t see the problem myself. Personally I&#39;ve always had good service from Alawar and will continue to purchase from them in preference to Big Fish and Gamehouse. (Each to their own I suppose). I am biased as I&#39;ve received loads of free games from alawar after contributing to feedback for a frew years. They gave me a whole bunch of games a few years ago when I wrote to ask if they would reduce the proce because they were old games and that I could purchase them cheaper elsewhere. I only had to pay for one of the several I&#39;d listed and even got a generous percentage of that one. I ended up beta testing for them and got a decent amount off each game i tested (previously got all games free that I tested but I think some of the activation codes that they gave away started popping up on peer to peer sites so they stopped the 100% free thing. Still 30% off all games was great. </p> <p>Alawar is still one of the best developers to have contributed to the giveaway project. IMO, with loads of current games given away. they even gave away some new releases. :) </p> <p>Finally, I like their activation method as there&#39;s no need for an online connection or a game manager. (though I realize once you&#39;ve downloaded games from the likes of Big Fish you can play them outside of the manager now). Thing is if you need to reinstall from BFG you can&#39;t just transfer the installed games you have to go through BFG again. whereas the executable you get from Alawar can be used offline anytime. This also means you can always pass on your games when you&#39;ve had enough of them as I&#39;ve done here in these fporums. Again, this is all about personal preferences.</p> <p>p.s. I don&#39;t mean to rant. I just think when free stuff is being given away there shouldn&#39;t be any griping, even if they don&#39;t keep to their promisesof one every month. Afterall free is free. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88195 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:29:15 +0000 Dragonlair 88195@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Considering the last one lasted at least 4 months, saying a free game a month is a JOKE! It was still Delivery King here this morning. I actually checked this morning although I don&#39;t every day. Also, they&#39;re supposed to change in the middle of the month - they TOLD me that. Have they shifted that?????</p> <p>I think their behavior this past year or so has cost them a lot of credibility with their broken promises. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-88194 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:56:42 +0000 StevieD 88194@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>And they have finally changed..... it&#39;s now Crusaders Of Space 2, another oldie, but fun game that I first got from GAOTD. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-86933 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:03:17 +0000 Dragonlair 86933@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Suki,</p> <p>Alawar is had &quot;Delivery King&quot; for the third month now! So much for their &quot;game of the month&quot;. At least Sandlot does change it each week, even if it is to another repeat. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/5#post-86922 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:25:03 +0000 sukibabe 86922@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Happy Holiday&#39;s, Merry Xmas and Ho Ho Ho.....</strong></p> <p>Yes, what is up with them??? I have beta tested for them about a year now, don&#39;t get any discount notices!!!<br /> Box is still delivering &quot;Delivery King&quot;</p> <p>Another site that is just as bad is &quot;Sandlot&#39;s Free Game of the Week&quot;, they are all re-runs, what a bunch of do do, rofl</p> <p>Have a good one all, Suki </p>