I promised some puzzle games, so you’ll find two below, called Brick Over Island and E-It Again.., both of which were created by the same development house as Puzzle Islands, a game wizzard posted several months ago (week 24), plus I’ve added another strategy game called The Lost Castle. (Yes another castle game, lol) Hopefully these will make up for the lack of a game giveaway this weekend. :)
Brick Over Island:
As promised, here’s a decent 3D puzzle game that won first place in a Finnish game development competition called Ohjelmoi palikkapeli
The main objective is to push crates together so they form the pattern which is shown in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. On some levels the crates are scattered amongst different islands and you must still push them from one island to another. Also, there is no jumping from island to island and you cannot swim either or you will drown. You are only allowed 3 restarts for the level and then the game ends. And to make it more interesting you must complete each level in a certain amount of time, depending upon which puzzle you are solving. Hopefully this will keep you entertained for several hours. There are 30 levels :)
Controls:
Arrow keys = Move your character
ESC = Restart level
PageUp/PageDown = Camera zoom
TAB = Camera angle
F12 = Back to main menu
P = Pause
Requirements
- Windows 98/XP/Vista
- 500 MHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- DirectX 7.0 or higher
Download:
http://www.puzzlehousefin.com/boi.php
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X-It Again;
Viewed from above, the task in each level of X-It is to create a path to walk through to the exit, by moving blocks around a walled arena.
The movement physics are fairly true to real life - blocks can only be pushed if there is a block's worth of space behind them, and nothing immediately ahead of them.
The levels are full of gaps, through which blocks can be pushed - this has the double effect of freeing up extra room in the level, and allowing you to walk over those spaces.
Other hazards include ice which prevents blocks from stopping until they go past it.
Reference: http://www.puzzlehousefin.com/xit.php accessed Aug 09
Requirements:
- Windows 98/XP/Vista
- 450 MHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- DirectX 7.0 or higher
download Link:
http://www.puzzlehousefin.com/xit.php
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The Lost Castle: (5Mb)
This is a decent little RTS game with 20 levels plus 1 boss level. Enough to keep you going for an hour or so (depending upon how good you are at tactics and playing this sort of game)
The lost Castle is a turn based mini strategy game. The goal is to defeat as many enemies as possible and to earn as much gold as possible. This can be accomplished by placing the war towers in strategic positions so as to defeat the invading enemies. This isn’t just a plain old tower defense game as you also have to build houses to earn gold
If the invading army reaches the castle damage occurs. One the castle has been destroyed, the game is over. :)
• Your units needs food, so build farms and windmills (one windmill per 2 farms)
• Your units needs housing (2 farms for one house, or 2 farms+1 windmill for 2 houses)
• The more houses, the more units, the more towers you can build.
• You also can build some power buildings:
- Pubs (makes your units stronger)
- Churches (faster shooting intervals)
- Triumph arcs (increase the range of shooting)
Controls: mouse
download Link:
