My Six Favorite Mac OS X FREEWARE Games
In alphabetical order...
Battle for Wesnoth - hex-based strategy game, but units are individual characters and a story thread links the scenarios
Double - slightly quirky version of the patience tile game commercially known as Shanghai (not Mahjong dammit!)
Goban - the finest Go available without an actual wooden board; thank the hoshi that computers cannot play go as well as humans (I've only beat the machine a couple times as it is)
JewelToy - action puzzle game that even your SO will love
Lightning's Shadow - classic artillery game made very very fun (fantastic example of how to enhance the game play of a venerable crusty); I make with the whooping and hollering playing this more than any other
Primate Plunge - vertical platformer with a cute monkey, but the hurt monkey sounds make me feel bad
HONORABLE MENTIONS (that is, the rest of the top ten)
Aquatomic - Sokoban made more interesting by Ricochet Robot piece movement and (gasp!) some educational content
GridX - math is hard... let's go shopping
Kiki the Nanobot - cute puzzle game that is very 3D (think tesseract, or maybe an Escher illo)
Oolite - remake of Elite (nostalgic drool); Panther only, or it would have edged out Primate Plunge in the top 6
Please feel free to opine or proffer in the comments.
Battle for Wesnoth - hex-based strategy game, but units are individual characters and a story thread links the scenarios
Double - slightly quirky version of the patience tile game commercially known as Shanghai (not Mahjong dammit!)
Goban - the finest Go available without an actual wooden board; thank the hoshi that computers cannot play go as well as humans (I've only beat the machine a couple times as it is)
JewelToy - action puzzle game that even your SO will love
Lightning's Shadow - classic artillery game made very very fun (fantastic example of how to enhance the game play of a venerable crusty); I make with the whooping and hollering playing this more than any other
Primate Plunge - vertical platformer with a cute monkey, but the hurt monkey sounds make me feel bad
HONORABLE MENTIONS (that is, the rest of the top ten)
Aquatomic - Sokoban made more interesting by Ricochet Robot piece movement and (gasp!) some educational content
GridX - math is hard... let's go shopping
Kiki the Nanobot - cute puzzle game that is very 3D (think tesseract, or maybe an Escher illo)
Oolite - remake of Elite (nostalgic drool); Panther only, or it would have edged out Primate Plunge in the top 6
Please feel free to opine or proffer in the comments.
1 Comments:
I'm choked!
A top six for JewwelToy and an honourable mention for Oolite.
Thank you.
-- Giles Williams (giles@aegidian.org)
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