Posted by Derek Yu
Thu, 29 May 2008 18:15:00 GMT
In case you missed it, Ikiki has released two new games this year, and they’re both pretty nifty! The first is Tobioriya, an archery game where you have to shoot people jumping out of a building (naked, obviously). Hold down the mouse button and release to shoot. Try to aim the cursor on the jumpers as the arrow travels nearly instantaneously.
In the second game, Curryki, you have to put curry on rice. The rice appears on the left side, and you have to squirt the curry on the right. Then the machine will flip the right side onto the left (like a page in a book). So the goal is to place the curry so that it ends up in the right place! It’s quite tricky!
Really like both of these, especially Curryki, which I think is pretty novel. You can download them both from Ikiki’s games page. Curryki is at the top, and Tobioriya is the next one down.
(Source: LaughingCrow, via Lithium Leaf. Sweet blog, dude!)
Posted in Highly Recommended, Windows, Action / Arcade, Freeware, Doujin | Tags Ikiki | 15 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Tue, 27 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT
Or: “A man and his phallic symbol embark on a fantasy adventure.”
GINORMO SWORD (full title: “Long and Thick My Ginormo”) is a new Flash game from Barbarageo, creators of the fairly mediocre but similarly awesome-sounding UCHUFORCE 2 (Gesundheit!). It’s a simple hack n’ slash fantasy game – your character follows the mouse cursor and you can attack by clicking the left mouse button. The aim of each area is to uncover the various hidden battle zones, defeat the monsters within, and eventually defeat the boss of the area, allowing you to move on.
Along the way you’ll encounter helpful townspeople and mages who will let you upgrade your sword and learn magicks. One such character is the blacksmith, who, along with leveling your weapon, will let you increase the “length” and “thickness” of your sword. As far as I can tell, these size increases are mostly cosmetic, but then again, isn’t just having a longer and thicker “sword” enough?
It’s actually a pretty entertaining game, though. Fun graphics, too. Just be prepared to slam your left-mouse button a few thousand times to get through.
(Source: Jean Snow, via Game|Life)
Posted in Highly Recommended, Browser Games, Action / Arcade, Doujin | Tags Babarageo | 148 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Mon, 05 May 2008 14:43:00 GMT
In Missile Matador you have to trick homing missiles into hitting each other… without hitting you. If you fall off the bottom of the screen, you also lose! It’s a fun concept, and it’s unnerving to see all those missiles trained at you in the brief breathing period before each level starts!
Missile Matador II extends the concept by adding timed missiles and a way to make your own levels (by editing text files). The rules of the game have also changed slightly – in order to win, you must reach a goal somewhere on the screen.
As an aside, “Missile Matador” is an awesome name. It sounds like something the VGNG would have come up with.
(Source: Auntie Pixelante)
Posted in Platformers, Windows, Doujin | Tags AkimasaShimobayashi | 8 comments
Posted by ithamore
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:03:00 GMT
These are two acid techno music games by Hideki Kubo, which can be found on his Download page. In the first, vs Music, the main mode is Shooting[Play]. It pits the player against a single boss ship that has 3 lives, and the boss’s fire patterns are sequenced to the music. Movement of the ship is slower than I normally like, but the slowness also makes dodging that much more precise. Use C for continuous fire, X to clear the screen of shots with a bomb, and SPACE to get past the intro screen and to start a play mode.
Action Jockey, the second game, is a 2D, fixed screen jump-and-shmp. The available enemies and bosses are changed by adjusting mixer settings during the Acid Machine Phase. Of the 3 bosses, I’ve only been able to beat the Pong Paddle bosses so far, and it seems the game simply loops until you run out of hearts. You can fire with C and X can be used to jump, double jump, or slide (when your crouched).
More info on the other modes of vs Music and Action Jockey’s variations can be found below in the extended.
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Posted in Music, Shoot-em-ups, Action / Arcade, Doujin | Tags HidekiKubo | 4 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:48:00 GMT
In Yume Nikki (or “Dream Diary”), you play a young girl who can delve into a bizarre, and sometimes extremely frightening, dreamworld in order to collect “effects” that can alter her appearance in the dream. Some of the effects also have abilities that can be used there. At (almost) any time, our heroine can wake herself up and return to her small, spartan apartment, where she can write in her diary (save), or play a simple minigame on the television.
I really like this game. The lack of dialogue or any “action” fills me with this strange sense of dread. I also like the contrast between the tiny apartment and the enormous dreamworld. And visually, the game really reminds me very much of Earthbound (especially Moonside!) and cactus, which is a pretty awesome and terrifying mix.
Download the English version of the game here (42 Mb), via Rapidshare. The download includes the RPGMaker runtime, as well as instructions on how to configure your computer’s language support to play the game. It’s a fairly painless process.
Thanks, Anarkex!
UPDATE: Tim to the rescue!
Mirror, via
WHFF.
Posted in RPG, Unique / Bizarre, Highly Recommended, Doujin | Tags Kikiyama | 32 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:20:00 GMT
Our dear and prolific friend Ikiki has finally carved out a home for himself on the interwebs. On his website you can find downloads for all his games, as well as some bewildering animated gifs featuring the signature naked men we’ve come to know and love (see left).
Even better, there are two new games to enjoy (at the top of the list). Truly amazing.
(Source: Tim, via IndieGames.com, natch!)
Posted in Community, Doujin | Tags Ikiki | 27 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:11:00 GMT
Nigoro / GR3 Project’s latest Flash game, Mekuri Master, puts you in the role of a panty-lovin’ pervert. Swing the mouse to lift up girls’ skirts as you run down the hall, raising your “Mekuri Meter” with every successful lift. When the meter gets full, transform into the “Mekuri Master,” who’s skills are so l33t that he can even upskirt female gangsters and wrinkled old teachers! It’s pervy fun (and not recommended to try in real life).
According to friend Shih Tzu, there’s some history behind this game:
See, according to Japanese Wikipedia, flipping up girls’ skirts, or skirt-mekuri, was a fad in Japanese schools among boys (and girls), particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s. This was supposedly Marilyn Monroe’s fault, or something. The level of societal concern over this varied depending on the age on the perpetrators and the exact nature of the incidents.
But honestly, the first person I thought of when I saw this game: Prometheus, aka Arne. Any chance of a remake that features super low-cut white cotton panties?
(Source: IndieGames.com)
Posted in Unique / Bizarre, Browser Games, Casual, Doujin | Tags NIGORO | 21 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:09:00 GMT
Basho Kioku is a fun memory game from the developers of Cursor*10 and xananeko. A grid of 36 tiles confronts you, and in each level you are shown a subset of those tiles which you can click. The goal of the game is to click every tile once, and just once, without running out the timer. Six markers can be used to help jog your memory.
A simple idea that is implemented well. I actually managed to beat it with a score of 11100. I credit Brain Age for my amazing victory!
(Source: Jay is Games)
Posted in Browser Games, Casual, Doujin | Tags Nekogames | 15 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:36:00 GMT
Cursor*10 is an amazing little doujin flash game that asks “Cooperate by oneself?!” You have 10 little cursors and you have to make it up to the 16th floor. I’ve made it to the top and my high score is 183. I think that’s pretty good (i.e. I know you can beat me)!
By the creators of the Xananeko games.
(Thanks, arrowhen! Via Sensible Erection [NSFW].)
Posted in Unique / Bizarre, Highly Recommended, Browser Games, Casual, Abstract, Doujin | Tags Nekogames | 16 comments
Posted by Xander
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:37:00 GMT
Happy New Year! Hopefully you all celebrated these holidays in grandiose style, because that’s just how I like to think Tigers roll.
News out of the way first, Mirror Moon and Revolve Translations have decided to simply merge together into the singular Mirror Moon which has had a slight thematical upgrade to reflect the move. Nothing major, but it looks cool and I applaud the move, since both were responsible for Tsukihime and their alliance ought to ensure more quality releases. On that note, translation progress is going very smoothly indeed. Unlimited Blade Works, the second route to ‘Fate Stay/Night’ is incredibly close to release, with mostly just the installer and beta testing to be done. Strategy RPG ‘Utawarerumono’ is getting a very confident thumbs up (Thumbs can be confident. I asked a scientist) at the moment, with the blog going so far as to say that they may just ignore beta testing and release it when the installer is finished.
And since I’m on a roll with the news here, more Type-Moon related news is that ‘Melty Blood: Actress Again’ has been announced for 2008, as a new installment to the Doujin Fighting Game Series. New features include three different fighting styles for each character (how different they are remains to be seen) and new characters including Riesbyfe Stridberg and Michael Roa Valdamjong. The Policenauts translation has apparently reached a few technical hurdles, but thanks to some joint work between that team and an earlier Tales of Phantasia team the situation seems to be slowly rectifying itself. Go fan-game communities!
That’s about it for news I guess. One thing I should mention is that Rz, is calling you out for a battle. That’s right, you. Take your hand out that biscuit packet, you’re not Megaman. You’re an Ur-Quan Master! Saturday 12th (this month) is going to be game night again, although this time will be a little different. Call it unofficial, or elite, or underground or whatever you want. I’ll instead be referring to it as simply; TIG TOURNAMENT! Registration will take place in the forums so I’ll put a link up when that’s available, just so that we can work out brackets and such. The game will be Star Control 2 which can either be a very large download or a very small one depending on what add-ons you’d like to have. Apparently ‘sound’ is considered an add-on here.
Feel free to comment, critique and all sorts, as most of this isn’t set in stone. What is definite though is that it will take place on the 12th and involve SC2, so if you don’t feel like getting your ass handed to you by Rz then I’d get practicing!
(Ghost Organisation by rz, because I sucks at that sort of thing. And, bonus TIGWear for Tr00jg in the extended!)
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Posted in Adventure, Windows, Doujin | 12 comments
