http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4171 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Week 8 - Free game for the weekdays - Brix - A puzzle game en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:53:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4171#post-44869 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:41:49 +0000 badboybrody 44869@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Welcome back kind Sir. I know all about the lack of energy. lol Thanks for the post. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4171#post-44829 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:18:00 +0000 g@rgoyle 44829@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Phew Mr Whiterabbit, I was starting to get worried.</p> <p>It's good to read that you've not pushed yourself to get things done (though I did miss your posts). Chapeau to you for an excellent comeback with two challenging puzzle games in a row.</p> <p>Thank you very much! and Welcome back online! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4171#post-44796 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:13:30 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 44796@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It took me over 11 days to get my wireless connection sorted. I apologize for it taking so long. It wasn’t that it was a great problem to crack; I just didn’t have the energy to spend much time trying to fix it each day. </p> <p> I’ll start this week off slowly by just posting a brief explanation of the games I’ll be posting plus the download links. The first one for week eight is an excellent puzzle game called Brix that I used to play on the Commodore 64. The graphics as you’d expect are a little dated now, but the game play is still as good now as it was back then:</p> <p>Brix:</p> <p>The following can be found in the games read me file. It’s a typical sales blurb, but I can honestly say that when this was first released I played it non stop for months. As you’d expect the puzzle start off relatively easy, and become harder as you progress. The controls are keyboard only, but are very simple; the arrow keys are used to move a cursor that in turn moves the bricks up down left and right. The space bar is used to lock/unlock a brick to the cursor. There are a couple of F keys you’ll need to remember as well:</p> <p>F1………………1 player<br /> F2………………2 player<br /> F3………………High scores<br /> F4………………Re-enter game<br /> F5………………toggle sound on/off<br /> F6………………Exit game<br /> F7………………Credits</p> <p>The aim of the game is to clear away all the bricks from each level, by matching bricks together. It’s not as easy as it sounds.</p> <blockquote><p>Brix is an arcade and puzzle! Don’t let the ultra smooth 256 color VGA graphics and animation fool you into thinking Brix is just an arcade game, because your brain will be taunted, teased and twisted as much as your reflexes.</p> <p>Your task in Brix seems simple. Eliminate all the colored bricks by uniting them. But the 112 levels in Brix 1 are also habited by lasers, elevators, boiling acid, anti-gravity, teleporters and more! There are enough hand-crafted puzzles in this Epic action-puzzler duo to keep you busy for eons </p></blockquote> <p>There’s no installer, so you will have to unpack the downloaded zip file to where ever you usually place your games. The default location for games is usually in the program files on the C drive i.e.</p> <p>C:\Program Files\, </p> <p>though if you have more than one hard drive it’s always a good idea to keep the root drive as clear as possible of programs (when the root directory (C:) fills up, the paging files that are used to transfer data (as well as other functions) are compromised. The computer will slow down drastically, so it’s advisable (though not necessary) to install games and other non essential programs to a different drive to the C: drive. If you only have the one hard drive you can create a logical drive that emulates a separate hard drive. Just Google creating a logical drive for instructions on how to do it. The second link is packaged a little better and you don't need to createa folder to instal the files into as you do with the file from the first link. The only down side to getting the game from the second link is that you have to register with the site first; though it's free to do so. The second version includes instructions in the main menu, and for some reason I though it looked slightly better graphically, (but I may be wrong, lol)</p> <p><strong>Download Link</strong>:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/brix.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/brix.php</a></p> <p><a href="http://dosgamer.com/brix/" rel="nofollow">http://dosgamer.com/brix/</a> </p>