Adam Bolte <[email protected]> writes: > I really liked finding out about the games other people were playing. > Chromium B.S.U, Kiki the Nano Bot, etc.
Kiki the Nano Bot <URL:http://kiki.sourceforge.net/> is a fun 3-D puzzle game on a scale so small that the electromagnetic bonding forces are stronger than gravity. In other words, there's no up or down, you can crawl any surface to solve the puzzles. > I was also surprised to see BlockOut there - a game I had long since > forgotten about. I've been playing that a bit tonight. BlockOut <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockout> was a proprietary game in the 1980s; Adam and I (and many other kids) used to play it as a Japanese arcade game. It needed a joystick and seven buttons, six of which were used for rotating the blocks through three axes. It was a surprise to me when I found a free-software game of the same name that is an almost perfect imitation. I would think this is a clear trademark violation, if the trademark holder hasn't given special permission; maybe they have! But it seems there are a zillion clones of this great game <URL:http://www.blockout.net/> and this free-software version is considered the best. The only thing it's missing is the end-of-level disembodied grey head shouting important-sounding things unintelligibly :-) -- \ “Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the | `\ strict truth.” —Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
