The times have changed. Community Games is now Indie Games, several more countries are submitting games, and new releases each week are double what used to be the monthly output of the community.
While we try to keep the site uniform for your convenience, we are not slaves to a specific format. We remain flexible enough to flow with the changing times.
We also sometimes get a bit wordy with a short intro. A pile of games we haven’t even mentioned has inspired these one-sentence looks at the games released in the past week:
Avatar Drop
Avatars + physics + randomly placed objects = mild ausement. 80 Points.
Avatar Golf
Barkers Crest’s excellent Easy Golf with upgrades and avatars. 400 Points.
Colotristar
Puzzly game with a voice at first I thought was saying, “Please stop,” to which I happily complied. 240 Points.
Crystal Spear remake
Zoom and dodge essentially for free. 80 Points.
Dark Skies: Constellations
Find constellations in distorted space. 240 Points.
Fireworks Spectacular
A title screen is NOT a demo. 80 Points.
Flash Cards for Kids
Finally, a way to drone basic information into kids’ heads by rote without driving yourself mental. 240 Points.
Halfbrick Rocket Racing
More like Halfbrick Spinning Wildly Out Of Control until you spend hours learning it. 240 Points.
a J-pop idol game
Utterly impenetrable to non-Japanese-readers – make her dance. 240 Points.
Mini Golf 360
The simple kind I played on an Apple ][. 80 Points.
Ninja Guardian
A goal-based Machiavelli’s Ascent with more ninja and less screen. 240 Points.
Shining Blood
3D arena combat marries Ghost in the Shell, Gundam and TRON. 400 Points.
Sky_Arena
Combat of Game Training Vol.2 done WAY better, but HARD! 80 Points.
Stereo3D Gallery
If you can’t find your 80′s 3D glasses you’ll go crosseyed. 80 Points.
The Answer To Life
The question: how do I gimmick people into buying two ridiculously simple games? 80 Points.
Wizard’s Tower Screen Saver
Look, pretty graphics. 80 Points.
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Avatar Golf and Halfbrick’s game are worth playing. Ninja Guardian looks good but I find the use of only 1/3 of the screen to be annoying.
“Avatar Golf and Halfbrick’s game are worth playing.”
I probably agree, but TBH I didn’t like either. I’m a golf game addict (sadly) and I really want to love Avatar Golf. It looks great, it’s superbly polished and the course editor is great, however I still don’t like the way it plays. The ball physics just feels all wrong and over simplified even for an arcade version of golf. Maybe it’s aimed at the ultra-casual market and I’m just missing the point?
And Halfbrick Rocket Racing just feels like one of those games where the team played it so much during development that they completely lost sight of how difficult it was. If they stuck a couple of people in front of that game who had never played it before you would realise within seconds how impenetrable and off-putting the control methods are. And yes I tried all three.
It really needed different classes of vehicles so new users could play in slower accelerating and turning ships.
Mind, I haven’t found any of the Halfbrick games that accessible so I’m probably the one with the problem and not them
Now what was that xnPlay was saying about being “a bit wordy”?