Freeware Game Pick: Ziczac (0rel)
Ziczac is a simple scoring-based puzzler where players acquire points by making small squares with four tiles of the same colour, or attempt to create large loops for a special multiplier bonus. There are only two keys to use at any time to change the direction of the falling blocks. Additional points can also be scored by placing cells of another colour inside a loop.
The game window may require a resolution of higher than 1024 by 768 to display correctly, and can be moved around by dragging the uppermost area where a title bar should be located at.
[This game is one of the entries into TIGSource's Procedural Generation contest.]
Name: Ziczac
Developer: 0rel
Category: Puzzle
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
Direct download link: Click here
Comments
Simple but really hard at times. Most original tetris I've seen in years...
Posted by: Gr.Viper | June 3, 2008 8:24 PM
timw is a big fat cheater! ;p
Posted by: raigan | June 3, 2008 10:43 PM
oh wait.. i didn't realize you could make loops.. i thought it was squares only.. heh ;)
Posted by: raigan | June 3, 2008 11:07 PM
damn you, tim! i finally cracked 20k and your score had already shot up to 28k.. noooooooooooooo!
Posted by: raigan | June 4, 2008 2:02 PM
actually, i don't like most of the regular ones.. they're just so tedious. I've been spoiled by DoomRL's super-polished interface..
Actually, i think DiabloRL is probably my fave, but it's incomplete.
Zomband is awesome, but the interface is sadly nowhere close to as good as DoomRL (maybe this is an Angband "thing", picking up items one-by-one when there's a stack of 20 is really annoying).
Posted by: raigan | June 4, 2008 7:49 PM