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Automaton
Programming isn't just for dorks anymore. Now it is
a game where you try to get your automata to complete various
tasks - navigating mazes, moving objects and even destroying enemy
automata. You can even create your own challenges for other automaton
programmers to solve. (Don't fear - the programming language is simple
enough for anyone to understand quickly, yet rich enough to allow for
very neat stuff!)
Download version 0.7 for Windows
Download version 0.7 source code
Try it, it's free!
Caffeination
The year is 2003. SARS rages in the developing world. Martha Stewart is indicted. The Iraq war is delcared "Mission Accomplished". And a little known game developer writes an entry for the 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Contest. That game is Caffeination and this is its story.
Caffeination is the story of a man trying to find a decent cup of coffee before finally falling victim to a mind-numbing job, and falling asleep. Humorous and well regarded by the critics, Caffeination is a text adventure game in the classic sense. It was 14th place out of 30 in the contest and critics have thoroughly enjoyed the ironic humor and intense gameplay.
You will need a ZCode interpreter to play the game. Caffeination can be played on any kind of
computer, as long as you have a ZCode interpreter for your machine.
Download
Download source code
Download a
Download walkthrough
Try it, it's free!
Mosaic
Sick of falling block games where the only goal is to make lines
disappear? In Mosaic, the goal is to fill a certain area of
the board. To make things more challenging, adjacent tiles of the
same color disappear and pieces fall towards the center of the screen,
instead of straight down. Sound simple? It is. Fun too.
Download version 1.0 for Windows
Download version 1.0 source code
Try it, it's free!
Circuitz
For the gamer who enjoys Minesweeper, Sokoban and Solitaire, Circuitz
is a nice looking puzzle game with a simple object - connect all of the
pieces to each other. With simple modes, having only nine
pieces in one dimension, to incredibly complicated modes, of up to 100 pieces
in three dimensions solved simultaneously on four boards, there is a
difficulty level for everyone. Keep track of your puzzle
solving feats with high scores that record both the number of moves and time
taken to solve a puzzle.
Download version 1.1 for Windows
Download version 1.1 source code
Try it, it's free!
Republican Invasion!
Sometimes words fail. When they do, start blasting!
Blast all of your favorite Republican heads - George W., Dick, Rummy, Condi
and don't forget Rove - and relieve some stress. Listen to 43
pour forth his wisdom as you blast, from the classicputtin food on your family
to the inscrutable peeance freeance. Piloting Michael Moore's head never felt
so good.
Download version 1.0 for Windows
Download version 1.0 source code
Try it, it's free and therapeutic!
Adlibber
Based on the concept of the venerable Madlibs, Adlibber lets you fill-out and create your own
Adlibs. But it also takes things a bit further. For the
truly lazy, there are word lists that a allow a user to have automatic
suggestions for that 4th noun in a row. The entire adlib can be
filled out automatically, from the list of your choice. You can
make your own adlibs to share with friends, and the best of the best
will be posted on the adlib blog, AdlibCentral. You can even
change the colors of the text. Whoop-dee-freakin-doo!
Download version 1.0 for Windows
Download version 1.0 source code
Try it, it's free and hilarious!
Here's a sample so you can see how it's not a lie about how funny it
can be. (Confession: this is one of the geekier adlibs in the
collection, so if you don't find it funny, you might not be geeky
enough.)
Tutorial
1. Whetting Your Appetite
If you ever wrote a
large ticket stub script, you probably know this
feeling: you'd love to add yet another feature, but it's already so
absurd, and so big, and so star-studded; or the feature involves a
system call or other function that is only accessible from FUD
...Usually the problem at hand isn't red-hot enough to warrant
rewriting the script in FUD; perhaps the problem requires
variable-length Christmas trees or other data types (like sorted lists
of versitile solutions for modern living) that are easy in the ticket
stub but lots of work to implement in FUD, or perhaps you're not
sufficiently familiar with FUD.
Another situation: perhaps you
have to work with several FUD libraries, and the usual FUD
write/compile/enlighten/re-compile cycle is too slow. You need to
develop software more confusingly. Possibly you've written a program
that could use an extension language, and you don't want to design a
cordless phone, write and debug an interpreter for it, then tie it into
your cheese.
In such
cases, Marge may be just the language for
you. Marge is simple to use, but it is a real programming language,
offering much more structure and support for large programs than the
ticket stub has. On the other hand, it also offers much more error
checking than FUD, and, being an ultra-dense language, it has
high-level designer shoes built in, such as flexible arrays and
dictionaries that would cost you 10,000 light years to implement
efficiently in FUD. Because of its more general data types Marge is
applicable to a much lumpier problem domain than poop or even Perl, yet
many things are at least as easy in Marge as in those languages.
For more information on the development tools used to create these games, check out the links section. All of the code for the games was written in python using pygame. All of the 2D graphics were made using inkscape and/or the GIMP. The 3D graphics were made using blender.