By Quintin Smith on November 5th, 2010 at 2:15 pm.
That was odd. My plan for the afternoon was to download and play Marvel Brothel. Instead I put on the new Alan Partridge, entered a kind of autopilot and ended up downloading and playing historial turn-based strategy game Bronze, of which you can get the demo here.
Despite being the kind of game Alan Partridge might enjoy, Bronze is pretty interesting. The base concept is a kind of enhanced Go- you need to capture as much of the board as possible, and you do this by putting down different developments. Army camps capture all tiles around them except farms, forts protect tiles, ziggurats capture farms, towns capture all neutral tiles around them, etc. I kind of enjoyed myself, plus missions are interspersed with vague history lessons. Curious? Give it a shot.
05/11/2010 at 14:26 dalziel86 says:
Please, please, please tell us Wot You Think about Marvel Brothel.
05/11/2010 at 14:26 AndrewC says:
Marvel…Brothel? Send this Bronze game to Tim Stone and get busy with seeing how much it would cost to get Storm to snog Emma Frost.
05/11/2010 at 14:32 Rob says:
is Psylocke in Marvel Brothel?
Can she be humped to [temporary, oh, always temporary] death?
05/11/2010 at 14:35 Gap Gen says:
You played a what?
05/11/2010 at 14:35 Quintin Smith says:
Following this show of public demand I guess I will stop procrastinating and play Marvel Brothel right now.
05/11/2010 at 14:37 dalziel86 says:
Truly, you are the people’s game writer.
05/11/2010 at 15:09 Clovis says:
The People’s game writer? That will not be true until Onionbog is finished.
05/11/2010 at 15:14 Oozo says:
And Journey of Saga, naturally.
(Our collective memory does not forget, Quinns. It never does.)
06/11/2010 at 23:48 jt says:
dam right! bring back Onionbog!
05/11/2010 at 14:38 Om says:
New Alan Partridge? This is the most informative post/entry/whatever that I’ve read on this site. Well done Mr Smith
I’ll get round to that Bronze Brothel game some other time. Perhaps when I’ve thought up a suitable alloy joke
05/11/2010 at 15:04 Shadowcat says:
New Alan Partridge?! I must know more!, but your video link is blocked for me :(
05/11/2010 at 14:39 Alexander Norris says:
But how can Quinns play a game called Bronze if he has no metal?
It must be nega-Quinns again, attempting to trick us and make us forget that Quinns still hasn’t finished Journey of Saga.
05/11/2010 at 14:57 Quintin Smith says:
I’m half way through the last entry! Things keep getting in the way.
05/11/2010 at 15:17 Oozo says:
Oh, sorry. Didn’t see this one. Nevertheless, upon reading it: Bliss. And impatience. But mostly, bliss.
05/11/2010 at 15:35 Alexander Norris says:
Use your shovel-shaped schlong on them to get them out of the way, Quinns!
05/11/2010 at 15:02 The Hammer says:
Totally on a tangent, but that new Partridge episode is WELL GOOD.
05/11/2010 at 16:15 ChrisP says:
Doesn’t this look suspiciously like Tigris & Euphrates??
05/11/2010 at 18:23 jti says:
Alan Partridge? You mean I’m Alan Partridge, Partridge? If so I really need to see the new stuff. Unfortunately it can’t be viewed from Finland. :(
05/11/2010 at 19:12 Ed says:
Someone should really tell them that the game’s homepage doesn’t have a link to the demo. Go Go Righteous-But-Stern Indie Championing Journo-Rage!
Looks nice, though. Downloading. FROM THE LINK ON RPS.
05/11/2010 at 20:42 Clayton H says:
Is there a way to get this to not run in Full Screen?
08/11/2010 at 00:45 Cronstintein says:
No one’s really talking about Bronze. I thought it was pretty good. If it was $15 instead of $30 I would buy it :/
If you like strategy turn-based games the demo is definitely worth playing.
10/11/2010 at 22:21 idiotapocs says:
Whats the difference between the demo and the full? Where can you buy it? Though if it’s reeeally 30 bucks, then it’s definitely an instant forget, I won’t torture myself with a demo…
27/01/2011 at 11:14 Warth0g says:
Yes the full price is pretty steep but the demo is very generous. It’s a pretty great game and I can see myself wanting more and coughing up for the full game… In the full game you get more campaigns etc.. but in the demo you get a lengthy and enjoyable tutorial plus an early campaign or two… I’m still happily playing away after a good hour or so…