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From the Underdogs page on Cyberbox:

The levels are very challenging, and high customizability makes the play value very high. And when Erik Hermansen, designer of classic puzzler Deadly Rooms of Death, gave a two thumbs up for the game, you know this is not another run-of-the-mill game. Highly recommended!

Erik, you (under)dog! You are quite famous, aren't you! Rivalling Bill Roper, you are! I'm surprised you neglected to mention this game earlier in this thread...

Game on,

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bandit1200 wrote:Underdogs has it, and Google will find the freeware version all over the place.

Actually, most of those links are broken, but here is one that works. Looks like they all went to his old website and when he changed the URL forgot to let all the linking sites know. This site also has 135 levels on it total, 120 more levels than the original...good deal!

Game on,

[Edited by Oneiromancer on 11-12-2003 at 10:54 PM GMT]

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The registered version has 135 levels, the freeware version only about 15 I think. If you play the unregistered one, you need the Doug Beeferman version for the first 15 levels... and no doubt you went round his website and read all that so I just wasted my fingers.
This is another game I registered years ago when it was first released and I still haven't completed all the levels.
If I remember rightly, Erik gets a mention at the end of the freeware version.

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Oh, have you seen the comments page?

"...I am a puzzle game enthusiast and have just started playing D.R.O.D.... I was searching for the author and your web site came up because he had made a very favorable comment about your game. Well, says I, if Erik Hermansen likes this game, I just gotta take a look!

I've also seen references to trying something out because Erik said so in ancient Sumerian texts.

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Heya folks, I thought I'd suggest a game.
Maw!Soft has just released a demo for their new
puzzle game, Boxen 2.

Boxen 2 is a 3d puzzle game with a unique puzzle system. The game features interactive tutorials and colorful graphics.

Why not check the demo out from
http://download.com.com/3000-2111-10248403.html?tag=lst-0-1

Happy Gaming
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What freaks me out is that he joined just to say that.

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Mattcrampy wrote:
What freaks me out is that he joined just to say that.

Matt

I thought that too when I first saw it. To me, it looked as if he were advertising the game on our forum, and I wanted to say it, but I just thought it may just be coincidence that he happened to like DROD, and saw the forum, and saw the "Other Good Puzzle Games" thread first and just happened to be associated with a game he just happened to want to promote, but after seeing your post, I think now that it's a little too unlikely to be coincidence.


What do you think, Schik?


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Well, it's his first post just after joining, and he named himself after his company. I'm putting 2 and 2 together and I hope I'm not making five.

Matt

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It's better than that guy who posted in the Architecture board advertising architectural modelling software. He had no idea where he had come, just probably did a Google search on "architecture" and came and posted. Schik deleted it, at least. Anyway...

Another good game I found recently is SnakeZ. Remember that old game where you move this snake around, eating apples, and you grow longer and have to avoid the rest of your body? Sure you do. There are lots of clones/remakes out there of this game, but this is one of the best. The homepage is in German, I found about it through Gamehippo. Here's the link to their review of it.

Game on,

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I saw a few posts about Sokoban here. FYI, I have written a Sokoban game that has all of the origional 50 levels. The game has a level creater and the graphics are ok. It still has some work, but it is a pretty fare game. It has high score lists and allows you to import and export holds and high scores. If you import someone else's high score file, then it will only import their scores that actually beat your own (on per level basis).

If anyone wants to see it, I can either post it or you can email me and I will email it to you. Email me at bradwallprograms@yahoo.com

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You know, I really don't like puzzle games that much (but DROD is a glaring exception). My games of choice are usually strategy games like Age of Empires, SimCity, or Zoo Tycoon.

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Anyone played Kye? Available at www.classicgaming.com/kye/ It's an old game from 1992 and the 15 levels that come with it are quite easy, but follow a few links and you can soon find plenty of homemade levels for it that can be pretty tricky.

There's also a freeware 32 bit version on Sourceforge, though it doesn't appear to have been updated for a couple of years. There's also a couple of level editors around so you can create your own. You can even create levels using a text editor if you are masochistic enough.

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I downloaded the version of Kye from Sourceforge.net and when I try to play it it says that the beta evaluation has expired. Have you run into this?

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bradwall wrote:
I downloaded the version of Kye from Sourceforge.net and when I try to play it it says that the beta evaluation has expired. Have you run into this?

On the download page is a zip file with a notimelimit executable. Just replace the original.

There are a couple of slight differences between the 32 bit version and the original 16 bit version. However, I also found what looks like a bug. On level 14 in the bottom right corner there are a series of one way doors to get through. In the 32 bit version I can't get through these doors.

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I'm too lazy to go hunting through the pages of this thread, but I've always been partial to Riven (when it wasn't complaining about my version of quicktime being too recent to play...). What do people think of this game series in general?

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DiMono wrote:
What do people think of this game series in general?

I enjoyed the puzzles in the first two. (Haven't played the third.)

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Laser game you need to direct the laser over the globes using mirrors splitters and prisms. I still haven't done all the levels.

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mrimer wrote:

DiMono wrote:
What do people think of this game series in general?

I enjoyed the puzzles in the first two. (Haven't played the third.)

I have played all of the Myst Series games... Riven is my favorite of the searies (although Myst III looks the coolest)... riven is by far the hardest of them all.

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Scott wrote:
Laser game you need to direct the laser over the globes using mirrors splitters and prisms. I still haven't done all the levels.

Just started playing it... pretty fun so far.

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Scott wrote:
Laser game you need to direct the laser over the globes using mirrors splitters and prisms. I still haven't done all the levels.

This is a cool game. If you want to play a more-polished version of the same game, I definitely recommend Aargon Deluxe, of which I am a proud registered owner.

http://www.twilightgames.com/aargondeluxe/aargondeluxe.htm

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Strange...when I load up Aargon Deluxe all of the level select screens are blank. All I wanted to do was tell you the level that I was stumped on. I wonder if this is a problem I am having or just some kind of shareware protection. I will probably reinstall just to be sure.

And in a couple places on this board (once in this post!) trick and I have mentioned a similar game called Mirror Magic, which has a very large number of user-made levels, and it's all free and Sourceforgey. I'm stuck on level 27 of the first 60 puzzles...there's 200 more that come with it and I believe lots more can be downloaded.

Game on,

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DiMono wrote:
I'm too lazy to go hunting through the pages of this thread, but I've always been partial to Riven (when it wasn't complaining about my version of quicktime being too recent to play...). What do people think of this game series in general?

I only played Myst... I got it very cheap in a budget release a few years back and finished it in a couple of weeks (using a walkthrough occasionally - I was too impatient to try to solve it alone). Tried to find myself a copy of Riven but none of the shops seemed to have it. But yeah, I enjoyed Myst. It's probably long enough for me to try playing it again having forgotten some of the stuff...

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Oneiromancer wrote:
Strange...when I load up Aargon Deluxe all of the level select screens are blank. All I wanted to do was tell you the level that I was stumped on. I wonder if this is a problem I am having or just some kind of shareware protection. I will probably reinstall just to be sure.

It's behaving OK here.

And in a couple places on this board (once in this post!) trick and I have mentioned a similar game called Mirror Magic, which has a very large number of user-made levels, and it's all free and Sourceforgey. I'm stuck on level 27 of the first 60 puzzles...there's 200 more that come with it and I believe lots more can be downloaded.

Game on,

That's the one by the author of Rocks'n Diamonds isn't it? He originally wrote it for the Amiga. I'll have to be taking another look at that one. I keep Rocks'n Diamonds installed as it contains a clone of an old DOS game I was addicted to, called Supaplex.

I reached level 11 of the Laser game that Scott mentioned and didn't write down any passwords. Oops! I'd tried without success to grab the game with a plugin for my browser called Flash Save, but it was unsuccessful.

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Yeah, it's the same company as Rocks and Diamonds, a Boulderdash clone. At least, that's how I see it, you probably see it as a Supaplex clone.

As for Mirror Magic, I just took another look and it appears that 100 of the levels, the ones listed as "Anonymous", are actually not there...no, this isn't the same problem I had with Aargon, just probably the levels aren't really included. Of the levels that are included, it seems like 60 are based off of a game called Deflektor while the other 100 are based off of a game called Mindbender.

Game on,

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Yeah, it's the same company as Rocks and Diamonds, a Boulderdash clone. At least, that's how I see it, you probably see it as a Supaplex clone.

I originally picked it up as a Boulderdash clone, but was chuffed to see there was a Supaplex clone and a Sokoban clone in there.

I just downloaded Mirror Magic and I do remember it, for the reason that I never got beyond level two. I could never light all the bulbs down the left hand side.

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Looking through my computer game library, I've come upon Netwalk. It's available through the Underdogs, and the basic premise is connecting all the computers to the server in as few moves as possible. It's a neat little game that put gameplay above graphics, like Webfoot DROD did.

I also found Grim Fandango, bu Lucasarts, but I think I've already talked about that in this thread so I'll let it go.

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bandit1200 wrote:
I just downloaded Mirror Magic and I do remember it, for the reason that I never got beyond level two. I could never light all the bulbs down the left hand side.

Try the other one, Deflektor. That's the one I can get to level 27 on. Mindbender I actually didn't even bother playing until today, and I actually also stopped at level 2 but only because I was just browsing...I didn't know how hard it was.

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In the puzzle tag thread I mentioned a web-based puzzle game called Planetarium, which I played a few years ago and it was really neat.

Basically it's a story presented in hyperlink format, with a picture as a hub. Clicking on the picture's elements takes you to various parts of the story, and buried somewhere in each week's story are three puzzles, some of which are quite difficult.

It takes twelve weeks to finish the game, as it will only unlock one chapter at a time each week. In that time you also have to find the solution to the major puzzle (as well as the major puzzle itself) and use the answers to the other puzzles to solve it.

It's free, and it doesn't have ads, and that's always nice. They decided to go with registration because they wanted you to be able to take it on holidays or something, I don't know, but registration's basically pick a name, pick a password, what's your e-mail, off you go.

I reckon some of the puzzle sadists on this forum will love it. I couldn't get all the puzzles, but I did get the major one after working out what it was going to be.

It's here: www.beholder.co.uk/planetarium. Those British. What would we do without them?

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Pharaoh's Ascent is a game that just got added to The Underdogs that is very favorably compared to DROD. I just downloaded it and I will try it out...21 MB is hefty for those on dial-up though. The game is also compared to Lode Runner, which I have always loved, so that's another bonus.

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I can't get it to run. When I try it tells me I need a CD.