Posts Tagged ‘defense’

Space Defender

July 20, 2008

Space Defenders
8/10
Pong meets space invaders? I saw it coming.
The game is simple: Deflect shots and hit the invaders. Colored shots have different properties. Gameplay is pretty dang fun, as rapid reflecting makes for rapid fun. Pew pew here, boom there. It does, at times, get TOO frantic, with [...]

Ninja Gardener

July 7, 2008

Ninja Gardener
8/10
Dang birds, they may look harmless, but all they want is to be a nuisance until they get at your newly planted seeds. The ninja goes through all that trouble to make a garden, and they want to take it away. Dang birds are evil (stupid creatures, those birds ).
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R.O.B.O.T. Relatively Obedient Being of Thought

June 28, 2008

R.O.B.O.T. Relatively Obedient Being of Thought
8/10
R.O.B.O.T. is another game from the JIG Games Design Competition 5. As mentioned before, the theme of this competition was “Upgrade” and there’s definitely plenty of that in R.O.B.O.T. Destroy enemies, earn cores, then use the cores to upgrade various things like your speed, energy, weapon, shields, and [...]

Zwingo

June 25, 2008

Zwingo
8/10
How would you like to smack some balls around? No? Oh well, this game probably isn’t for you, then. You have a ball…that’s attached to another ball…and you’re protecting a ball from other balls. Confused? Cool. This is an interesting defense-style game that has you defending a ball in [...]