TripleM
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1377
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

I agree about Motas (mystery of time and space), that was a brilliant game..
Bricks is a pretty cool puzzle game. Push blocks around to try and get one block to its final position - not really like Sokoban though. You can see at the site. Best thing about it, once you get a good enough score (least number of moves over the whole game), you can get Bricks 2. And then do the same there. I think they're up to around Bricks 4 now..

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

http://www.neopets.com, among other things, has a some rather interesting puzzle games. There are also a lot of silly and annoying ones, so it can take a bit of effort to find them - but my favourite is Hannah and the Pirate Caves, which is a puzzle platformer that's heavy on the reflexes but later levels require some good solving skills.


[Edited by eytanz on 02-01-2004 at 06:11 PM GMT]

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

DiMono
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1181
Registered: 09-13-2003
IP: Logged

Inspired, I guess, by bibelot's hold, I pulled out the Cliff Johnson game The Fool's Errand and gave it a play-through yesterday and today. I forgot how good the puzzles at the end are, I went through two pieces of paper figuring them out. Ah well, on to Exile!

____________________________
Deploy the... I think it's a yellow button... it's usually flashing... it makes the engines go... WHOOSH!

rachelk
Level: Roachling
Rank Points: 10
Registered: 03-08-2004
IP: Logged

I have The Incredible Machine 3.0 and have solved all the Easy and Medium puzzles, but am stuck on some of the Hard puzzles. Sierra doesn't seem to offer any help - at least, I didn't find any. Does anyone know how to find solutions? Thanks, all.

mrimer wrote:
There is a walkthrough on the web. ...at least there WAS a solutions page... Ok, here's one for "Even More Contraptions" (the add-on) at:

http://www1.freewebs.com/pjhussey/

There was one for "Contraptions" (the first one) at:

www.theincrediblemachine.net/solutions/index.php

...but it seems that Sierra took it down recently... (Do a Google search on "the incredible machine contraptions solutions expert" and click on the "Cached" link to see what it was like.)

But I've been through all the "easy" boards, so they ARE all solvable.

zzyzx
Level: Delver
Rank Points: 75
Registered: 02-02-2004
IP: Logged

Aargon Deluxe is excellent. I have screenshots of all but 2 of the solutions. Also very good: RoX: http://www.autofish.net/shrines/rox/

Nillo
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 548
Registered: 01-04-2004
IP: Logged

Triple Triad Gold is awesome.
For those who don't know, Triple Triad is the card game from Final Fantasy VIII. Triple Triad Gold is the best remake of it available.
It does'nt support internet play, but you can play two on the same computer, or against AI.

____________________________
“Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the 'Ellie May,' a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.”

b0rsuk
Level: Smiter

Rank Points: 489
Registered: 11-23-2003
IP: Logged

Well... not really a puzzle game, but it's free (GPL), and turn-based.

Ufo:Alien Invasion .

http://ufo.myexp.de

In early development, but amazingly playable for a tech demo. Just look what wonders can you do with quake2 engine ! Linux and windows versions available.

____________________________

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051128/adams_01.shtml

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

DiMono wrote:
Inspired, I guess, by bibelot's hold, I pulled out the Cliff Johnson game The Fool's Errand and gave it a play-through yesterday and today. I forgot how good the puzzles at the end are, I went through two pieces of paper figuring them out. Ah well, on to Exile!

The Mac-only follow-ups, At The Carnival and 3 In Three, are nice stuff as well. At The Carnival is the weakest of the three with no plot and fairly predictable answers, but 3 In Three is like The Fool's Errand, but take out the Sun Map and throw in cinemas, which advance the story along nicely (with character development and everything, although being a non-linear story it's a bit hard to tell.)

Matt

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

swann_88
Level: Delver

Rank Points: 87
Registered: 06-29-2003
IP: Logged

I loved the incredible machine
I have completed it
if you have specific ones you are stuck on
I may be able to help you out

DiMono
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1181
Registered: 09-13-2003
IP: Logged

Mattcrampy wrote:

DiMono wrote:
Inspired, I guess, by bibelot's hold, I pulled out the Cliff Johnson game The Fool's Errand and gave it a play-through yesterday and today. I forgot how good the puzzles at the end are, I went through two pieces of paper figuring them out. Ah well, on to Exile!

The Mac-only follow-ups, At The Carnival and 3 In Three, are nice stuff as well.

Do you know if there are ports to PC for these? Or an emulator? I'd look, but I'm really rushed right now what with not having started an assignment that's due in 25 hours. Word to the wise: don't procrastinate unless you're VERY good at what you do.

____________________________
Deploy the... I think it's a yellow button... it's usually flashing... it makes the engines go... WHOOSH!

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

I played 3 in Three on an emulator. I don't remember which one, but it's definitely possible.


____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

masonjason
Level: Smiter

Rank Points: 349
Registered: 12-29-2003
IP: Logged

And I think At the Carnival is for PC as well. The Mac emulator I used for 3 in Three is called Basilisk.
And another nice Mac-only game in a similar vein is called System's Twilight. Try it.

[Edited by masonjason on 03-19-2004 at 08:29 PM GMT]

____________________________
Eighty people came to the bazaar.

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

Yeah, I'm not sure about System's Twilight. I hope it gets better, but I didn't like it as much as 3 In Three.

Basilisk is good. The Underdogs has a good page on non-PC games with step-by-step instructions to set you up.

Matt

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

Somehow, I don't know how, I found this game:

Aura

It's basicaly a maze game in the dark. There's no display code - the menus are done entirely by speech. You work out where the walls are by bumping into them or feeling them out, there's drips, there are tiles that set off little rings. It's extremely disorientating (you know, because you're blind) but an interesting challenge.

Of course, then they have to introduce monsters. I'm not a huge fan of maze games with monsters, unless they're turn-based, like DROD. But still, the idea is unique enough that it's worth passing on, and it's illuminating how much we rely on our eyes.

Matt

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Ok, a few more games:

- First, one of the masterpieces of internet puzzles has not been mentioned yet - Planeterium. If you haven't played it yet, you should - though be warned that because of the fact that it only send you one puzzle a week for 13 weeks it requires some commitment. But solving it was one of the most rewarding feelings I ever got from a game.

- Second, as for System's Twilight, I found it became more fun as I went along and understand more of what's going on, but it's not as good as the Cliff Johnson games - it's difficulty level is too high and I needed a lot of hints, and the overall polish is lacking a bit.

- Third, as for Cliff Johnson games: I went to his website and discovered that all three games mentioned above are now available for free download, with windows versions (or, more accurately, a bundled emulator) - so no need to worry about emulators. Following this link: Fool's Errand site.

- Fourth, there's a game called "Are we there yet?" which I originally thought was a Cliff Johnson game but it seems was just a game released by the same developers using the Fool's Errand engine - it's not quite as brilliant, but it's still very good. Here's a link to the underdog's entry (their search engine doesn't seem to find it): Underdogs link

[Edited by eytanz on 03-21-2004 at 03:46 PM GMT: Wow, this message went through a lot of revisions]

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

Zmann
Level: Master Delver

Rank Points: 241
Registered: 04-21-2003
IP: Logged

Mattcrampy wrote:
Somehow, I don't know how, I found this game:

Aura
Matt

Wow... that game is really cool. You can literally turn off your monitor and play this game without any disadvantage of your monitor being off. Wow. After the first few levels I could actually start visualizing the mazes... great stuff. This download is definatley recommended!

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

eytanz wrote:
Ok, a few more games:

- First, one of the masterpieces of internet puzzles has not been mentioned yet - Planeterium. If you haven't played it yet, you should - though be warned that because of the fact that it only send you one puzzle a week for 13 weeks it requires some commitment. But solving it was one of the most rewarding feelings I ever got from a game.

Highly, highly recommended. I've mentioned this one before, though, Eytan. I played it a few years ago, and it is worth the commitment.

Matt


____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

You did? I searched for both the name and the URL and came up with nothing...

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

Try page 5.

Matt

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Um, ah, yeah - apparently searches don't work so well when one misspells the thing they're searching for...



____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

trick
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Rank Points: 2580
Registered: 04-12-2003
IP: Logged

GROW 3 is an interesting puzzle/toy-like thing. You have to figure out in what order you have to place the materials on GROW. Took me a while to figure out.

Also, Enigma (this is another Enigma, not the Oxyd-clone) is a great text-based puzzle game for Unix (no Windows version, but cygwin or a cross-compile might work). It's kinda like boulderdash, except here things fall in three directions. There's different kinds of dirt, one blocks falling objects while another doesn't. Later on you get explosives that break through walls in different ways and instant death squares. Only 12 levels, but they're pretty difficult.

- Gerry

butsam
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 114
Registered: 05-20-2003
IP: Logged

MegaZeux (and its predecessor, ZZT) are classics, though a bit old. They are ingenious uses of ASCII, and not only come with games (usually puzzle, but there are also monsters), but also with game creation for puzzles, monsters, and other types of games.

Sam

masonjason
Level: Smiter

Rank Points: 349
Registered: 12-29-2003
IP: Logged

Heaven And Earth (click here for its entry at Underdogs) is a great puzzle game. It contains twelve separate puzzle types, each with about 60 puzzles, and they're all pretty unique.

____________________________
Eighty people came to the bazaar.

Drizzo
Level: Master Delver

Rank Points: 179
Registered: 03-03-2004
IP: Logged

butsam wrote:
MegaZeux (and its predecessor, ZZT) are classics, though a bit old. They are ingenious uses of ASCII, and not only come with games (usually puzzle, but there are also monsters), but also with game creation for puzzles, monsters, and other types of games.

Sam

ZZT was awesome, and hard. MegaZeux too.I recommend these, the graphics are better than you would expect from ASCII, and they're quite well designed and fun. I don't remember which of them I beat, but I definitely conquered one or two of them. If I recall properly there were quite a lot of them, it's been a long time.


____________________________
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government
and business." - Tom Robbins

Nillo
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 548
Registered: 01-04-2004
IP: Logged

Bump.

I found this cool tetris-like game a while ago called Squarez Deluxe (download,screenshot).
Your goal is to form 3x3 squarez on the play area, while blasting bad pieces with bombs and missiles etc.

____________________________
“Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the 'Ellie May,' a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.”

joker5
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 607
Registered: 11-25-2003
IP: Logged

I loved MegaZeux... I still have it. I can't believe they discontinued it... and now the best we've got is 2.69c or 3.1s, depending on what you use... I'm all sadlike. At least the gaming community is still surviving. www.zeuxworld.net or somesuch is a wonderful site for games. I used to make a few good ones...

~joker5

____________________________
Criminals, like other people, dislike being shot. ~FBI study on guns

www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

"Two words: Beam Waffle!" -me

Krishh
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 282
Registered: 06-05-2004
IP: Logged

While not really a puzzle http://www.sodaplay.com/ is very puzzling and I highly reccomend it. Plus no downloads required. You can create all kinds of wierd 2D things from springs and masses and can add muscles to make them move. It also has a beta version of terrain. which while not working perfectly adds a lot of fun to the game. It also has a great community (check out the forums). People make truly incredible things with it, but it is quite hard.

SKWERLL
Level: Delver

Rank Points: 77
Registered: 02-22-2004
IP: Logged

masonjason wrote:
Heaven And Earth (click here for its entry at Underdogs) is a great puzzle game. It contains twelve separate puzzle types, each with about 60 puzzles, and they're all pretty unique.

Ive had this game for a LOOOONG time that isn't all that long if you're an adult and not an 11 year-old, well anyway i had this since i was like 3 or 4 and yeah, its really good. I like the one where you go on those round color thingies with your mouse without your cursor bouncing all over everything, but for some reason I cant beat the labyrinth one.

____________________________
SKWERLL? MORE LIKE THE DORK CHEESE!

The best hold in the world!

Krishh
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 282
Registered: 06-05-2004
IP: Logged

trick wrote:
GROW 3 is an interesting puzzle/toy-like thing. You have to figure out in what order you have to place the materials on GROW. Took me a while to figure out.

Could you spoil this game for me? I have only found two good combinations which while do make some cool, things, don't help me figure out the rest? It is driving me mad.

RoboBob3000
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1980
Registered: 10-23-2003
IP: Logged

I actually just finished this now, and it's much more satisfying to figure out the solution on your own, I would suppose. Start by figuring out the last six items, that is, the six items that reach their max level the fastest.

____________________________
http://beepsandbloops.wordpress.com/