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Phun with physics
Is it a drawing program? Animation? A game? Maybe it’s all three. Phun is described as a 2D physics sandbox, but it really must be seen for any sort of comprehension to sink in. Create your own weird and wacky world, and watch it follow the real-world laws of physics — which just makes it seem all the stranger. Watch the Phun movie, then download if you dare.
[ Posted May 7, 2008 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Sometimes, ya just wanna have fun:
Funny Photographer: If you’re tired of the effects in PhotoBooth, try these ones — 24 in all.
Scratch: Create stories, games and animation, then upload them for all to see.
TeraFractal: It’s hard to describe a fractal image, but they can be quite fascinating. Think of a blend of the organic and the digital.
[ Posted Apr 19, 2008 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Three freeware games have come across the thriftmac desk in recent days — and all three contribute to the renaissance of quality games for the Mac.
Glest is a 3D real time strategy game with beautiful graphics and sounds, which has been recently ported to the Mac. Much more information about this award-winning game can be found at the main site.
UFO: Alien Invasion places you in the far-future, where you defend Earth from a brutal alien enemy. “Build up your bases, prepare your team, and dive head-first into the fast and flowing turn-based combat.”
Tremulous has players building structures used for spawning and other functions. “Builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death.” A Mac download doesn’t seem to be possible from the main site, but you can grab it at MacUpdate
[ Posted Apr 11, 2008 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Big Bang Reaction free again
Big Bang Reaction free again
MacFun is again making Big Bang Reaction free, this time in celebration of the Big Bang group of games making Macworld magazine’s game hall of fame. The chief thriftmac game tester has been playing Reaction since the first time it was a free download, and has given it a solid thumbs-up.
[ Posted Jan 12, 2008 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Free stuff from Freeverse
Freeverse is giving away a free game every Friday at their new game portal called MacFun. This weekend it is a puzzle game called Reaction.
The only catch, if you can call it that, is that this is obviously a promotion to entice to buy their other stuff. But if you like games, this is definitely a site to keep an eye on. Freeverse has a reputation for good quallity software, so anything they offer free will be worth a download.
Update: Reaction has undergone thorough testing in the thriftmac game lab and gets a solid thumbs up!
[ Posted Dec 1, 2007 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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JewelToy addiction alert
We recently added JewelToy to the thriftmac games collection, but have had to remove it from the thriftmac iMac. Mrs. thriftmac says she finds it so addictive that she can’t stop and is neglecting other, more important, things. What could be more important than playing computer games? Well …
For the uninitiated, JewelToy is a five-year-old game that involves switching “jewels” around on a grid to line them up in groups of three and make them disappear. It’s an oldie, but a goodie.
[ Posted Oct 25, 2007 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Pumpkin fun for Halloween
From the cheesy-but-fun department comes Jack O’Lighter, a freeware arcade game that has you running around lighting ghost pumpkins to turn them into benign jack o’lanterns. And if you enjoy that, you’ll probably want to try other offerings from RAMDream Games such as The Gnome Herder and The Snowmen and the Crown. A high cheese factor with these ones, too.
[ Posted Oct 4, 2007 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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The other Tetris
Quinn is the thriftmac Mac Freeware Idol, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other Tetris clones to try out. The recently updated Sporktris features nice graphics and “as little annoyance as possible.” It’s now a Universal Binary, and has various other fixes and additions.
[ Posted Oct 1, 2007 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Fun with Koingo
It’s not all work at Koingo — they also like to play. In addition to some great software to help you with the task at hand, they also have a double helping of freeware fun — Christmas Super Frog and Christmas Crisis.
In both games, Santa Claus is having problems, and it’s up to you to help him out. In one case you’re finding missing presents, and in the other you’re helping deliver them. Of course, things are never quite that simple, so expect plenty of challenges.
In case you missed it, Koingo is offering thriftmac readers its Utility Package at half price until Sept. 27. You won’t find this offer anywhere else. That’s a whole lot of cool stuff for only US$39.95.
[ Posted Sep 20, 2007 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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Four more games you're sure to like
Maybe it should have been a Top 14. The thriftmac Top 10 games could easily have been expanded with three games mentioned in the comments and one I just found on my own.
First, for the record, are the three from the comments:
Nexuiz: 3D deathmatch
Oberin: Online fantasy role-playing game and virtual community
Marathon: First-person shooter
And then there is OpenTTD:
“You play the role of president of a start-up transport company in 1950, building railway, road, air and maritime transportation systems for commodities and people. The goal of the game is to outsmart your competition and become the game’s highest-ranking transport company by the year 2050.”
Expect to find all four in the collection soon.
[ Posted Sep 3, 2007 in News-and-views Playtime ]
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