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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:35:28 +0000

[...] Minds. No details yet, but I’m expecting great things from the bloke who created some of my favourite indie projects of the last year. I’ll see if I can catch up with him at GDC. Oh yes, [...]

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - PC Gaming » Blog Archive » Protoganda — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:27:54 +0000

[...] a new game out. It’s a scrolling shooter, and a little less imaginative than some of their previous games, but it nevertheless errs on the side of excellent esoterica. The visuals mix retro-polygonal [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:23:14 +0000

It’s not a puzzler, but talking of early 3D games, something reminded me of Micronaut One on the Spectrum the other day:

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/43/mnaut.htm

Very impressive race/shoot em up. Gotta love this quote from the review:

“The loading screen is a letdown – but the rest is fantastic”

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:07:11 +0000

It’s interesting, as some of the first filled-3D games were COMPLETELY puzzle games. The Freespace games – Driller, Castle Master, etc – were pure puzzlers.

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:54:38 +0000

> Why don’t more games have spatial puzzles. And why aren’t there more
> pure-puzzle FPS games? Eternal questions.

It’s on my huge list of “games to write before I die”. :)

One of the problems with writing a first-person puzzle game is that you get a very “closed” view of the world. Third-person gives you a better sense of the world around you.

On the other hand, first-person means not having to model and animate the main character, which is incentive enough for indie/hobbyist game developers like myself. :)

By: Bob Arctor

Bob Arctor — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:09:50 +0000

How do you do the push against walls level. There is the two arrows room, that seems the key…

By: Pesh

Pesh — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:38:11 +0000

Finally completed Mondo. The ending was, well, I couldn’t say I don’t know what was coming.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:23:07 +0000

Oops, that was me being a sleepy spaz. Fixed.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:25:45 +0000

Wow – Mondo is very very strange – I like the counter intuitive puzzles.

btw the MSOIDS link goes to Mondo – prolly because it does that on the developers site too.

http://www.willhostforfood.com/users/dorkman/msoids.zip

By: Jonathan Burroughs

Jonathan Burroughs — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:19:11 +0000

Apparently Amazon aren’t unlocking my copy of the Orange Box before October 25th.

By: dwm

dwm — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:08:17 +0000

Must.. have.. Portal..

(Apparently it’ll be unlocked at Midnight PST on Oct 10th, though it’s not clear precisely /which/ midnight they’re referring to…)

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:47:44 +0000

Psst, the clue is in my post.

“Backtracking and going against intuition is key to defeating these spatial puzzles.”