Games Revue

MIGHTY JILL OFF
DEFENDING THE QUEEN’S
TOWER IS NO EASY TASK,
BUT JILL IS A LOYAL
SERVANT, DEDICATED
AND CAPABLE.

THE QUEEN, HOWEVER,
IS RATHER FINICKY
AND DEMANDS SHOWS
OF LOYALTY.

WHEN THE QUEEN SAYS
“JUMP”, JILL SAYS
“HOW HIGH?”

JILL CAN JUMP QUITE
HIGH INDEED, AND
SHE’LL NEED TO IF
SHE WANTS TO PROVE
HERSELF TO HER QUEEN.

That’s the premise in a nutshell of “Mighty Jill Off” a  free platform jumping game where you guide a cute little lesbian sub to reach the heights where her demanding queen lives. The game features lovely artwork by James Harvey.

Click here to visit the creator’s site and download Mighty Jill Off

GLtron Homepage

Remember that movie Tron from the 80s? If you’re not old enough to have seen it when it came out, you might’ve seen it on TV sometime. The premise was that programs are alive inside the computers and when a programmer is disintegrated and scanned into the computer by an evil AI he finds himself fighting alongside a rebel program called Tron. The graphics were really spectacular for the time, but being computer generatd they have long since become obsolete, and yet since they were so stylized and trying to create a completely fictional world, they still have a lot of charm.

Obviously nowadays it doesn’t take millions of dollars in computer equipment to render a few primitives, so an enterprising programmer (Andreas Umbach) took it on himself to reproduce one of the more impressive set pieces from the movie, the light bike battles, in which the programs raced high speed motorbikes that turned at right angles, leaving behind solid walls of light against which they had to make their opponents crash.

The reproduction of the movie’s visuals and the feel of the gameplay is spot on, and since it’s freeware and doesn’t require massive processing power, you really have no excuse to try out GLtron

Apparently someone is making a portal style game with several new enhancements, such as movable portals that can be picked up as objects, and scale variant portals, where the size of objects changes as they go through the portals, as well as adjustable gravity. It looks pretty amazing!

The game will run on the ogre engine. It’s not known yet whether it will be freeware, but likely at least the betas will be free to play.

Faith Fighter, from Molle Industria  is a cool little funny fighting game where you can control your deity of choice: Jesus, God, Buddha, Ghanesh, Vishnu and even Mohammed, though you’re given an option to hide his face (Don’t think that’s going to save you guys if the fundies get a hold of this, but at least you tried).

And if you get to the end, your fighter gets to oppose the great lord Xenu in hand to hand combat!

A clever little parody flash game from atom films, Kung Fu Election

pits all the candidates of the upcoming (US) election in Mortal Kombat style deathmatch fighting.

Mortal Kombat Armageddon

Concept of WarsowWarsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2 GPL engine), and aimed on the competitive scene, or the e-sports community.Warsow is developped under the motto “by gamers for gamers” by a team coming from all kinds of gaming backgrounds. To attain the “by gamers for gamers” spirit, the community are our betatesters, both through internal testing sessions (with community members) and in the feedback on the public releases. We make decisions in close cooperation with the community. However, we do have our own general development direction, and therefor will carefully judge all suggestions and critique made by the community. This way we try to reach a balance between the general consensus on gameplay aspects in the community, and what we feel is best for Warsow’s gameplay and concept in the development process.

The base gameplay is focussed around the art of movement, meaning moving, speed and tricks play a big part in the gameplay. Besides this, mapcontrol, aim, teamplay and fragging skills play their role too. For the movement we’ve basicly looked at four games: Quakeworld (legendary for it’s speed), Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio and Speedball.

Another twist in gameplay is Warsow’s weapon system. Warsow has two firing modes for each weapon; by picking up a weapon, you will be equipped with the standard (weak) ammo for the weapon, but when you pick up an ammo pack, you will equip your weapon with special (strong) ammo. Weapons may have different damage or slightly different behaviour depending on what ammo you use: for instance: the weak electrobolt (Warsow’s rail) is a high speed projectile, whereas the electrobolt with strong ammo is instant hit. This way, not only control of health and armor plays a role, but getting strong ammo is a valid way to create a comeback.

Some sceenshots

Download and play warsow now

GotUsed - POOM!

This is a flash based browser game where you’re supposed to move the floor, made of changing tiles with various effects to catch a bouncing ball and stop it from falling through to the hole below. A clever twist on an old concept.

Travian - Browser Game - Romans, Gauls, & Teutons

Travian is a browser game with a world full of thousands of users who all begin as the leaders of small villages.

Here is how it plays out

Your village could look like this later

At the start, you have only a small village with a single building.

You will find out how you upgrade your village to become a powerful and flourishing city.

The game plays directly from the browser without any downloads, and is a live persistent world with thousands of active players . Give it a try!

Portal: The Flash Version

Kongregate provides us with a cool flash based web version of Valve’s new steam game Portals, this one is 2d only and flash based, but still plenty addictive and with the feel of the original

The original 3d portals is bundled with Half Life 2 episode 2 and team fortress 2 in the Organge box from Valve

The Orange Box

The Calamity game is a cool little browser based widget/game where you can set up a variety of scenarios for a ragdoll to fall and break his bones. The game is downloadable or playable online, and you can copy and place the widget in your website if you wish.