Name: [Speer] Developer: Ohsat Games Year: 2017 Genre: Puzzle Platformer Platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux Engine or Framework: HaxeFlixel Links: Developer’s Project Page, Itch Project Page This is a neat puzzle platformer built around the gimmick…
(UPDATE: In 2020, ZZT’s source code was reverse-engineered and released as free software under the MIT License. ZZT is now potentially as malleable as Bitsy, depending on what people do with the codebase. This post…
Rogue V5, as played on rlgallery.org. Following are some scattered thoughts about the Roguelike genre, and a to-play list for myself as I explore the catalog. Roguelikes are basically games that are like the 1980…
Konami’s 1991 Cave Noire is a bite-sized dungeon crawler for the original Game Boy. Released in Japan only, it seems to have come and gone without much notice, outside of a small following on the…
ZZT is a sort of action-puzzle-adventure mashup for MS-DOS, the debut title from Tim Sweeney’s Epic MegaGames in 1991. Technically obsolete before it was even released, it uses Code Page 437 for graphics, the PC speaker for…
Here are some quick notes on getting Odallus: The Dark Call working with Wine in Linux. I played about half of the game on Windows, and the rest under Wine. The only major annoying issue was occasional frame-drop…