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Acting Like Sheep: Flock

Written by John Walker on January 8, 2009.

Capcom are so predictable! If it’s not a game about a young lawyer solving murder mysteries with the power of his glowing necklace and dead boss possessing the body of a 15 year old girl, it’s a game about herding sheep with a UFO. Just typical. The latter is Flock, a completely barking mad-looking puzzle game that… well, I couldn’t have summed it up better: it’s herding sheep with a UFO.

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Puzzlegeddon Outta Here… Oh, That Doesn’t Work

Written by John Walker on November 29, 2008.

Here’s something we missed from last week. We would have posted it, but we were distracted by a bee. In a top hat! It’s the demo for Puzzlegeddon, which is a bit spiffy.

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Zahada Than You Think

Written by John Walker on November 24, 2008.

I know what you need. Some puzzles. Thanks to the marvellous Goz, here are some toughies in Zahada. I seriously like a puzzle game where it’s tough to get past the page of rules.

It’s a combination of different puzzle types, some straight riddles, some lateral, some cryptic, others requiring research. And it’s tough. Very tough. So clearly no answers below, but excellent, subtle clues for the inevitable pleading.

I See Every Puzzle As An Open Door

Written by John Walker on July 8, 2008.

I’m off to America on my holidays!

But I’ll leave you with Open Doors. All the best of luck there. You’ll not be getting any more work done today.

Mucho thanks to Sam for usual excellent tippage.

BonusLevel.org

Written by John Walker on April 18, 2008.

BonusLevel.org comes up with an intriguing idea. Flash-based puzzle games that once you’re finished playing, you can create some of your own levels to add to the gestalt. Community created gaming is a great idea, and with a simple enough level designer, and of course the differentiation process of having registered users vote for which they like, it offers near-endless amounts to play.

BonusLevel is still reasonably young, and only has two games on offer. But it’s going to need some serious improvements if it’s going to catch on. Not least the music, which as I type is forcing me to chose between two career paths: serial killer or kitten stomper. And… muted. The two games are CoBaCoLi, involving a sort of pool on ice game of knocking coloured balls around until they bump their colour-coded wall, while protecting the cue ball fro touching the edges; and BLockoban, a Sokoban-inspired puzzle game sliding blocks to reach their targets.

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Hoshi Saga - Puzzle Loveliness

Written by John Walker on April 7, 2008.

Don’t thank me, thank friend-of-RPS Sam C, for today’s wonderful puzzle game. And you will thank her, because this is joyful.

Hoshi Saga is by Japanese developers Nekogames, it’s a series of completely charming puzzles based around finding the star. Little more needs to be said - just go play. And then come back here to thank Sam, and then yell at her because you’re stuck and really frustrated.

Cursor * 10

Written by John Walker on January 4, 2008.

Here’s your Friday challenge, internet children:

It’s Cursor * 10.

It’s a simple enough affair - you click on the stairs to climb a level, hold down switches to reveal new stairways, or click on the boxes/pyramids to reveal other secrets. Thing is, you need more than one cursor to make it through. In fact, you need ten. Play through once, reach as far as you can, and then the game resets with your previous cursor as a ‘ghost’. It’s one-player co-op! The best possible form of co-op. (Thanks to the lovely Simon for the link).

So go on - complete it.

Mr Heart Loves You Very Much

Written by John Walker on October 29, 2007.

Here’s a quickie for a quickie.

Mr Heart Loves You Very Much is a short, tiny puzzle game, that involves pushing the room you’re stood in, in order to reach Mr Heart. He loves you see. It’s ten levels, it’ll take ten minutes, and it’s rather fun. That link just then is a direct link to the whole game, which at 509kb is 0.036 Peggles.

It looks like this:

Indygamer: thanksattack.