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Paralect is a 2D platformer that uses gameplay, visuals, and narrative to tell a personal story of cultural unrooting. It explores the paradigm shifts caused by culture shock and adaptation and investigates how those transformations affect one's vision of people, their environment, the place you initially came from and, most importantly, the place you wish to call home.
The game is divided into a sequence of experiences. At first glance, the main world is a typical platformer, presenting the player with environmental obstacles and puzzles. However, the narrative delivery system allows the player to spatially explore the monologue of NPCs and discover clues about how these characters and their worlds work.
Path of Shadows is a stealth game made by 5 students, and inspired by the Tenchu saga, the Journey art style and the Okami world. You control an assassin capable of manipulating the shadows to achieve his objective.
You've woken up in a strange place with the eerie feeling that you've been here before. Conquer the treacherous traps by running, jumping and using your power of pausing to get ahead. Just remember: once you pause, there is nothing you can do to change your path. Let the chips fall where they may. Hopefully not directly onto a spike.
"Peat" is a puzzle platformer made for my Capstone project at Herzing University in Madison. The game involves getting to the end of each level by planting, burning, and regrowing flowers. Peat has a zinnia seed at his disposal to aid in this challenge, which he can grow and traverse with available patches of dirt. The problem is once the seed is planted, the door and means to leave closes. Thankfully, Peat can retrieve the seed by burning the zinnia flower with his flower breath.
Pendula is a platformer designed for PC. The planet of Pendula was once covered in lush plant life, but an evil green smog is starting to destroy all that.
You play as a magic seed that must avoid all the dangers that the smog has wrought and find your way to fertile land. Only then can you become something more and save Pendula!
Perception is a first person atmospheric horror experience where the player must navigate their way through a Non-Euclidean environment. Picture a combination of the atmospheric horror of amnesia and the level design of Anti-chamber.
Perfect Puzzle Parkour is a score-attack game about strategic planning and fast-paced action. The player is tasked with using limited resources to build a 3D obstacle course that she must then successfully navigate.
Will you build a beautifully complex level that bestows upon you heavy rewards when run perfectly? Will you waste money on an inefficient but safe path to victory? Will you forget your meticulously crafted plan and immediately take a wrong turn into oblivion? Will you master all of the skills at your disposal, climbing, jumping, and wall kicking your way through a beautiful escher-like tree of elegant possibilities?
You may be surprised by the answers to these questions when you play Perfect Puzzle Parkour.
Perfect Woman is structured into progressive levels, each one representing a different stage in a woman's life. Starting at the child stage, players must post in front of a Kinect to mimic various poses that appear on screen. The better a player is able to hold the pose, the more "perfect" their rating for that level.
Perfect Woman features a branching decision tree which serves to create a narrative of the character's life. Past choices may make future choices more difficult. Perfect Woman suggests that it isn't possible to be perfect at every stage in life, and that's perfectly fine.
Perfection. is a simple, soothing puzzle game about cutting shapes to fit into outlines. There is an infinite number of puzzles, each randomly generated to be unique and interesting.
Its gameplay is very minimalistic and very forgiving; there is no time limit, and you can cut as many times as you want and undo as many times as you want until you get each shape right. Or, you can challenge yourself to clear the shape in front of you in as few cuts as possible. Whether you get it perfect or not, once a shape is completed, it's gone forever. There's no commitment to go back and master what you've already seen; only what's new and in front of you.
During the Cold War this complex was the home of scientists who conducted secret tests and experiments in an attempt to create new weapons with which to fight the Soviets. Experiments in genetic modification carried out at the base showed great promise and the scientists went forward with modifying a large amount of test animals and human subjects. Something went wrong; the test subjects began mutating into horrible monstrosities. At first those in charge of the base thought the creatures could be contained; they were wrong. The creatures broke out and killed everyone in the complex. In the confusion of the Cold War the lab was lost and forgotten. Now nearly 30 years later the whole complex is falling apart, constant storms have worn the building down and the creatures inside are as dangerous as ever. The complex still shows signs of the horrible violence that occurred there as the scientists and base security tried to defend themselves from the monsters they created. The monsters have survived in the building, its isolation and the extreme weather protecting the rest of the world from the abominations within. The frozen complex has lain dormant and undisturbed all this time, until now...
Your home with the pets is the happiest place on earth. That's why you take care of all your animals. With the shop you can design your own house or buy new eggs for additional pet-friends.
Pharaoh's Dance is an action-platformer-roguelike that takes place on a giant spinning carnival contraption. As you ascend, your air supply will deplete. Dive into the abyss and hope that fate brings you the good fortune of oxygen. Collect coins, sell crystals, slow time, and live the high life. Gamble your way to the top and enjoy riches--or fall forever into the abyss like so many others who have come before you.
Pharaoh's Dance started with one small wheel that has been under construction ever since. As technology improved and enabled the mining of more resources, the wheel's rate of growth increased exponentially. Now no one knows how high up it goes.
The government stole your pie so go get it back. The story isn't important here, we decided to have a simple silly story that would suit the simplistic nature of the game. The game is a 2D Puzzle Platformer where the main goal is to reach the exit using your vast supply of Molotov Cocktails, Liquid Nitrogen and Fans.
Between you and the exit are a variety of environmental objects and enemies that you must manipulate in order to progress. This might mean using Liquid Nitrogen to freeze an enemy so you can climb over them or using fire to burn an enemy so they fall onto a switch.
The game is a 3D isometric view sports game in which the player controls one of the 3 pirates on their ship to battle with pirate enemies from another ship with dodge ball. The player needs to control his pirates to throw dodge ball at the enemy to hurt and eventually defeat every one of the enemy pirates in order to win the game.
The player controls one of the crews on his side, and he throw the dodge ball towards enemies and hence hurt them. When attacking, he can do "run and shoot" or "jump and shoot" to throw and ball with faster speed and higher damage.
While the ball is flying towards one of player's pirates, the player can catch the ball by pressing the throw key when the ball is within a certain distance to the pirate but not close enough to hit him. In this way the player needs to react quickly and accurately in order to catch the ball.
Each pirate has his own HP, and will be killed (knock away into the sea) if HP goes to 0.
Player can also pass the ball among his crews, and whoever gets the ball become the one the player is controlling.
Pitch Jumper is a music platformer where the songs you choose from your personal library create a customized gaming experience. Each Level will adapt not only to your song's length, but to the beats, music density, & BPM. Challenge your friends for the high score and 'Play' your music!
Features:
- Play any song on your device
- Levels custom fit to your song
- Get Started with over 10 FREE indie tracks
- Compete with your friends on song based leaderboards
- Collect special notes to increase your multiplier
- Track your score on a global ranking system
- Missions and achievements to unlock for a higher score
- Dynamic controls fitted to your comfort
- Rock out with Coda to your own music!
Pitch Jumper is proud to be a student game from UCF's Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA).
Pixel Being is a prototype I made for my Master's Thesis. It explores the term additive color, literally letting the manipulation of pixel size and alpha, red, green and blue values be the mechanics of the game. I chose the form of a 2D puzzle platformer in order to build spatial puzzles that require the application of these tools, hopefully leaving insight on the subject matter. It is my hope to continue development at some point.
Plantcore is a tight 2D exploration platformer.
You play as a little, cuddly creature and explore an open world in which many different kinds of plants are growing. These plants grant you new abilities and by cleverly using them, you will be able to discover the holy stone tablets which provide you divine powers. But you have to be careful, becoming a god is dangerous and there are threats that you will never have seen before in a videogame..
I think that the average time for the first playthrough will be up to one hour. Additionally there are many hidden secrets and challenges. To solve those you will need to acquire a deep knowledge about the game-world.
What is the true nature of a program?
The player takes control of Sara, one of the few humans remaining after The End. When her Little Bro gets carried off by a predatory bird, Sara takes Gramps' revolver and sets out to find her younger sibling.
In her quest to find her lost brother, Sara unearths a threat in a global scope.
PlatFormer is an upcoming action adventure Metroidvania game from JIK Development.
Plight of the Penguins is an action-platformer featuring penguin warfare, destructible terrain, and plentiful explosions. In this game, you play as Garrett, a battle-scarred penguin out to save his homeland from the evil
Penguin Empire. Garrett is no ordinary penguin though, and carries an unlimited arsenal of grenades. Completely invulnerable to taking damage, Garrett uses his plentiful bombs to blast and boost his way through a variety of zany destructible environments. From cityscapes to underground jungles to giant watermelons, there are a plethora of unique settings to conquer. But Garrett's victory will not come easily. The environments in the game are riddled with perilous obstacles, bottomless chasms, and a colorful but diabolical cast of penguin enemies. Are you up to the challenge?
Justin Millard - Producer, Physics, UI Programmer, Sound Programmer, Audio Director
Mark Lauzon - Tech Director, AI, Engine Architecture, Physics, Artist
Zhuhuii Yap - Lead Designer, Graphics Programmer, Tools, Particles, Animator, Artist
Jie Ee Quek - Lead Level Designer, Playtest Manager, System Balance, Data Tracking
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Pop to Save is mobile puzzle game based on particle physics, line drawing and erasing. With this compatible combination you will experience a different gameplay through our unique game. Physical interaction at games is an entertaining factor itself, adding puzzle solving challenges multiplies the fun. This game is also enriched with 3 different packages including different gameplays already.
Pop! is an infinite-runner mobile game for Android. Play as a host of different adorable characters floating into the sky in the safety of your bubble. Be careful! There are dangers in the sky, tilt the screen to avoid them!
Postale is an experimental puzzle platformer game in which the core mechanic consists in how the player's position can change the "figure-ground" perception only by manipulating dynamic environments. This Demo is full of challenging puzzles, intriguing scenarios, a beautiful story and harmonious melodies that creates a wonderful atmosphere.
Prisma is a 2.5D, trans-dimensional platformer developed by SCAD-Atlanta students for their senior studio project. Players take upon the role of Ray, who must travel through a mysterious, multi-dimensional world.
Players swap between color-coded dimensions, each of which grant her unique abilities. For example, in the blue world, the player can jump higher, in the yellow world, players can run faster, and in the red world, players can push and pull objects.
Project Full Throttle, a vehicular combat game is showcased in this pre-alpha build demonstrating the race game mode along with 4 of our ship attachments. Game modes such as death match, capture the flag, and racing. Personalized objective based game modes are currently in development, as well as our attachment system which lets you customize the types of weapons and gadgets you can use for your vehicle. Weapons and gadgets range from advanced high tech devices to primitive combat weapons. Futuristic settings allow the freedom to design dynamic and exciting gameplay including a variety of attachments and exciting environments.
Project Heera is P v P heist game.
It takes place in top down perspective with diamonds placed at specific loations on the map. The Objective is simple: One team tries to steal the diamonds while the other has to defend them. As the game is played in a round system, both the teams get equal chances to play as cops and thieves. The team in end to steal the most number of diamonds wins !
To achieve this, players have various skills and gadgets to try and outplay each other. The thieves have skills to help them hide, escape and create confusion whereas the cops have gadgets to chase, track and takedown the thieves.
To secure the diamonds, the thieves have to escape the map alive. Since it's not necessary to steal all the diamonds in every round, it's up to the player to risk and steal every diamond or to play safe and escape.
After taking the role of Miles Weston, a citizen initially unaware of the trouble brewing in New Haven, and joining with Elvira Causton, a long-time friend, in an impromptu escape from the ECDC, an oppressive energy corporation, you get caught up in a secret society which begins to turn you into an instrument of destruction. Systematically taking down the organization which turned New Haven into a socially unstable, broken down metropolis, you soon learn the conspiracy of Project Islandia, a movement which, if completed, will change and rip apart the world of millions.
Using an instrument designed by Elvira, Miles learns to manipulate physics quickly, launch guards from cliffs, and solve puzzles that would be impossible to most. The exciting first-person perspective lets you learn with Miles, as both he and Elvira realize that the conflict between the powerful and the powerless might be more complex than they think.
Neumann is a revolutionary HTML5 serious game project that evaluates a player's cognitive skills and tailors itself to their ability so as to stimulate maximum brain performance. The various action-based RPG stylized mini-games making up the project are targeted at children and adolescents with various learning and neuro-developmental disorders (such as ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Disorders, and Autism). In-built recording and analysis tools are also included for assessing the training behaviour exhibited by a player. For future growth, the project will also be scalable to adults of all ages.
Projections is a game of collection and timing designed with an 8bit graphical and audio feel. Consisting only of the Player, Enemy AIs, Projection Points, and Power ups. Evasion and premeditation of you and your enemies' path is crucial for survival.
Help me get sued by VALVe! PROTAL: CUBED is a mobile / web puzzle game based in the Portal universe. Amateur Science Weighted Compadre Cubes must go through a rigorous testing process before they can be used for human testing. That's where you come in.
Protocol 47 is a 2D endless runner for the iPad that takes the genre in a new direction. The team at 8-Bit Breakfast really enjoy the addictive, fast paced game-play that the popular genre of 2D runners provide. However, they tend to end quickly and with no time for the player to enjoy how well they are doing. Protocol 47 explores the gameplay possibilities of a 2D runner where the player can afford to make multiple mistakes and has time to "breath" with round-based gameplay. Additionally, players can upgrade their abilities during each game session to drastically improve their survivability. All of this is aimed at having players feel more attached to each run they play when compared to more traditional endless runners.
Protocol 47 is a mere 7 weeks into development. Because of this, some features that you may see may have yet to be fully implemented (leaderboards, player login, "meta" store, in addition to more enemy types and platforms). That being said, it is already a blast to play, and we look forward to sharing the experience with everyone.
Q.Bit is a reflex platformer that aims to conjure up the same sweaty palms as Super Meat Boy by Team Meat. You control the Body of a robot living in a somewhat dystopian world, ruled by Heads. In Q.Bit, an unruly and oppressed Body is paired with a Head and they must both work together, albeit begrudgingly, in order to survive.
The Player utilizes a combination of movement mechanics and two way teleportation in combination with a new take on what it means to 'die' in a videogame.
Quartermaster Quandary is a strategy puzzle game that pairs the split second decision making endemic to many time-based puzzle games with logistics-based strategy. The game places significant focus on the strategic elements in the game, requiring the player to think about long-term goals in addition to immediate decisions in a fast paced environment with steadily ramping difficulty. The year is 2098, and the world is once again embroiled in globe-spanning conflict over the Earth's remaining natural resources. Players will assume the role of a junior officer in the Western Coalition military, and be charged with helping to direct supply trains to make sure that troops, munitions, and explosives reach the battlefronts at which they are needed.
R-Chain is a combination of many types of game mechanics, involving audio analysis to procedurally generate patterns that the player can proceed to detonate and cause chain reactions with. The goal of the game to maximize score by creating massive chain reactions and making full use of every multiplier bonus and rewards occur. Every level is generated in real-time in accordance to the frequency spectrum and length the chosen to play. Play using your own music to discover interesting surprises and behaviors!
Charlie Ngo - Programmer, Designer, Artist, Composer
RABBITVILLE IS IN DANGER!
...from overpopulation.
Capture houses, spread to new regions, and upgrade your rabbit army in a never-ending top-down scroller.
Follow us down the rabbit-hole...but where the rabbit-hole goes, nobody knows...
Rabbit-Rush is a modern deconstruction of the Arcade-Shooter genre - with a twist.
What that twist is is a secret - but we promise you won't leave disappointed.
The original idea behind the game was the theme "Dystopias are internal realities." We really wanted to make a narrative-based game that wasn't simply a game with a story tacked-on; but a game that was irrevocably tied at some core level with the narrative: a story that can only be told through the game, and a game that can only exist with this story.
The world of a ninja can be a perilous one, but the life of a paper ninja moreso! Take on the life of a crayon and paper ninja on a mission to save the princess from dastardly evil. Travel through real world landscapes like class rooms, platforming on erasers and cutting through cardboard walls to get through each level.
The enemies ahead might be cute, but they won't think twice about stopping our hero in his tracks. It's a colorful world, but it's no less dangerous!
RedplusBlue is a 1-player co-op puzzle-platformer where the player controls 2 characters simultaneously.
The goal is to get the characters together. In order to do so the player must solve puzzles and master platforming skills.
Lead your party of heroes in a unique 3 squad combo to avoid traps and eliminate dark minions as you climb the endless Tower of Evil in this fast-paced action runner. Arrange your heroes in different combinations to gain tactical advantages against your enemies and with the loot from your conquests, hire even more powerful heroes and use your boosts to see how far you can go.
Reign of Heroes: Lightbringers is a new vision of a series of games for smartphones based on the original Reign of Heroes by Daylight Studios.
Rekkage is a multiplayer top-down shooter in which the player characters are modular player-created vehicles. As combat progresses, players will typically lose several of their modular pieces, changing the dynamic of play in an exciting fight to the death.
Andrew Alvarez - Physics Programmer
Adam Balk - Gameplay Programmer
David McKenzie - Designer
Garrett Cavanaugh - Modeler
John Dusseau - Lead Producer
Kevin Kaufman - Animator
Kevin Sheehan - Lead Designer
M.J. Quigley - Audio
Michael Fletcher - Graphics Programmer
Roy Scott - Lead Programmer
Shawn Pearce - Art Pipeline, Networking Programmer
Valdis Matas - Lead Artist
You are an space agent who finds out new dimensions. This time you are going to a new mission in which you will go to the different dimensions which may look same.
In the world you have to find a dimensional portal window and have to go there having adventurous trip.
You have two type of rides there in these worlds
1. Elastic ride
2. Sticky ride
3. Don't use any ride
But you have to select one of them before you start travelling.
Go and explore the parallels....
Return to the Sky is a side-scrolling platformer that has players attempting to escape the maw of an ever hungry beast. You play as Polaris, the north star, who has witnessed all of her fellow stars be ripped from their place in the sky by the civilization below to be used as a new source of power. Eventually the society below is forced to abandon their beloved city after it succumbs to pollution. Unable to stay in the sky Polaris is torn from her home by the monster and now must escape it before it can consume her. Polaris must navigate the cities rooftops collecting the other fallen stars so they, too, can Return to the Sky.
Samir Patel - Producer
Devin Jensen - Engine Architect
Andrew Street - Physics and Sound
Garrin de Nobrega - Tools
Joseph Kichline - Scripting Integration
Pearce Bergh - Graphics
Brendan Rebbetoy - Art Director
Kiem Lam - Enviornment Artist
Nall Coursey - Character Artist
Devin Brom - Designer
Kori Loomis - Sound Designer
Rhesus is a infinite runner where you play as an asteroid avoiding planets as you fly around the space. However, there is a twist: the very things you are trying to avoid are also your points!
Collect smaller yellow moons around the world to build up protection, bash through planets and collect their shards as reward! Destroy several in a row to add multipliers to your points, but be careful: you lose a moon every time you destroy a planet!
How long can you keep this planetary destruction?
The hardest one-button rhythm game you will ever play.
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"The base mechanic and premise of Rhythm Doctor are gold for me. (...) Rhythm is in everything, and I'm glad the developers found it in medicine." - John Polson, IndieGames.com
"a rad Rhythm Paradise-esque browser game." - Jeffrey Matulef, Eurogamer
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Many, many hours have been spent making the engine accurate enough to support a margin of error of a few hundredths of a second. This extremely small margin, compared to most traditional rhythm games, means most people will not realise their rhythm is off until they play Rhythm Doctor!
We made this game over the summer and winter vacations of the past three years. It is still being continually worked on, and we hope the fun we've had making this translates into your experience. You might even develop your sense of rhythm a little. ;)
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"I used to terrible at beats, but now I have really improved thanks to THIS game!" - Newgrounds user review
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(For the public, if you'd like to play the IGF build, you can do so at tinyurl.com/rdigf. Enjoy!)
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages combines all the deep customization and rich storytelling of an RPG with the fast-paced action of a space shooter.
STORY
You awake from unelective brain surgery to find key memory centers of your brain missing. They've been replaced by Nero, your peanut-butter-craving neuro-Hud, who'll guide you through the universal super-highways known as The Rings. If you survive fiery trench runs, flail-swinging gladiators in intergalactic arenas, and feuding trash moguls, you'll discover that you're a Sage, capable of rewriting the physical laws with your thoughts.
Exploring the quantum space beneath atoms has made most Sages rather eccentric, but relatively harmless. Yet The Consortium of the Inner Rings deemed that anyone capable of destroying a world with a thought will never be bound by its laws. In the interest of peace and order, they've slated the Sages for extermination. So began The Extinguishing, a universal war with casualties measured in galaxies. You'll play a pivotal role in this terrible battle... if you can find out who you are.
FEATURES
- Over 400 Unique Abilities/Gear - no abilities are redundant or made obsolete by better versions; many inspired by fantasy games
- Procedural level layouts, backgrounds, and AI lead to unlimited challenges!
- 60 Fully Customizable Ships - five archetypes, with many hybrids to choose from
- Story-Driven Campaign - a 30+ hour long journey through a universe based on a companion Sci Fi novel
- Reliable Online Multiplayer - drop-in and drop-out of games with seamless host migration; no waiting in lobbies! Play alone, coop, or competitively.
- Classic Arcade Inspired Mini-games - earn Sage abilities by conquering challenges in The Subrostrum
- Local Coop - Duo ships allow a friend to act as a copilot, usable in multiplayer modes, second half of campaign, and some challenges
- Original Soundtrack - 20 tracks of music and hundreds of sound effects
- Hundreds of Hours of Game Play - with 400+ abilities and 60 customizable hulls, the options are endless
MULTIPLAYER SCENARIOS
- Space Defense League: a MOBA-like base versus base battle in a space arena, complete with defensive towers, cruisers, swarms of drones, bosses, and waves of power up crates
- Zombie Horde Survival: Endure an endless onslaught of crawling ships. Destroy bosses to unlock Super Sage abilities!
- Gladiator Mode: Run a gauntlet of procedurally equipped bosses.
- Wave Mode: Survive a mix of swarmers, bosses, and standard ships, all procedurally equipped.
- Deathmatch: No teams; it's every Sage for his or herself!
- Spire Battle: Fast-paced base versus base battles
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses. With over 100 items at your disposal, you will find the tools you need to find the teleporter back home. Discover a myriad of randomly chosen stages, from the desolate forest to the frozen tundra.
Games with roguelike elements have recently had a large jump in popularity. However, most players find roguelikes hard to jump into: it is usually exceedingly complex in UI and game rules. Risk of Rain aims to revitalize the genre with stylized graphics and an intuitive gameplay scheme that teaches itself, rather than having to be taught.
Rocagia is turn-based PvP card game with a dynamic field.
With your strategic decision, the field itself will become a mightiest weapon that works alongside your units and spells.
Build you own deck, dominate the battlefield, and win victory!
Rogue Tank is a Role Playing Game that uses a battle mode to defeat enemies. The player must gather objects on the map while dodging the enemy tanks. Once a player has hit an enemy tank the game goes from an overhead map screen to a side view battle mode. The player must defeat the enemies to continue on the map screen. Rachet is a soldier who is forced to take actions into his own hands and must recover a missile taken by terrorists and stop them before its too late.
Grab a friend, family member, acquaintance, associate or lover and play Ropejacks! Fell every tree in the woods using a length of rope and the absurd weight of your body.
Ropejacks is a two player cooperative game which puts you in control of two loving lumberjacks tied together with rope. Using your ability to jump, swing, and smoosh your body onto surfaces like a sticky hand, it's your duty as Ropejacks to work hard to bring down every tree any way you see fit!
Ropejacks is in development by a team of 3- Josh Tatangelo, Thomas Ingram and Alexander Perrin.
Royal Rampage is a third-person action game in which you control a deposed King's short-sighted attempt at vengeance. Having escaped the castle dungeon, you must rush around the streets, smashing things up and collecting as much of your lost treasure as you can (the villagers stole it all when they locked you up. You weren't even *that* tyrannical). But watch that you don't get too angry or your head is in danger of exploding! Smash things in order to calm yourself down and watch out for those infuriatingly violent guards! The screen will change and the rad music will evolve into power metal as cues to how angry you are.
The goal of the game is to accrue as high a score as possible. To that end, you must reclaim your pilfered treasure. But rage will quickly overcome you if you also don't see to venting it, so to reach a truly high score you must be adept at balancing your effort between smashing and collecting. The randomly-generated play area is extremely long and your rage will only get harder to soothe and so every game will *always* eventually end... sometimes sooner rather than later... but that only provides incentive to do better next time!
In Run Kiwi Run! the player must keep the kiwi alive by killing predators. The player is able to interact with everything but the kiwi.
This game is heavily New Zealand themed as the Kiwi is New Zealand's national icon, it also features other native New Zealand birds, such as Keas and Tuis.
Ruratae is a musical instrument-crafting game that uses a custom physics-based audio engine to generate the sounds of vibrating objects. This engine is a result of Drew's PhD dissertation research (in computer music). It's important to emphasize that the sounds you hear are created directly from the physics of the system; there are no pre-recorded samples; no synthesizer "tricks", you are directly listening to the vibrations of whatever instrument you can dream up. Later versions of the engine will also allow for more ways to vibrate the instruments, such as using flamethrowers and electromagnets.
We like to think that Ruratae offers something to the genre of "music" games that very few other titles offer. Most music games play a song and have you tap to it, or if they go slightly further than that, they might offer the user an elementary instrument alla "Simon Says". What we're offering you is an entire musical world of your own design and imagination. The sonic puzzles related to these instruments will require a depth of listening compression and attention to sonic detail that has yet to be appreciated by the majority of games. I hope it will be enriching and thought-provoking; even for people without any formal musical training whatsoever.
