With its stunning visuals and sound effects, gripping soundtrack and compelling level design, Ricochet Lost Worlds could quite possibly be the most addictive game ever made. This remarkable breakout action game will entertain your whole family for hours on end! Throw into the mix a slew of innovative power-ups, a new “Ring Game” and a level editor where you can make your own levels and you have an unbeatable combination. You just have to download this brick-busting game… it’s a blast!
Just wanted to show you what we have been doing. So far we have a moderately playable game. All that has been done on the game engine is spawn enemies correctly, add movement patterns to them (though some will be changed later), detect collisions accurately, set up a pause system, add some HUD icons, like an upgrade system, and more.
You can play the newest version here: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1269200184
Its just over 3 megs(luckily we included a preloader). Don’t worry. We haven’t started optimizing the assets yet. We even have a single sprite sheet that weights over a 1,000 kb alone.
Please do provide feedback on anything you want. I would love to know what you think about it!
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The meaning of the red squares is on the description page now. Basically each one gives one of the two endpoints of the path.
Perhaps not Sunday level if you use a bit of intuition to work this one out. A logical solution exists, but it is probably more difficult than a typical Sunday and requires a fair amount of if-then. Unlike any of my other Fillomino puzzles you will also need to do plenty of careful counting.
A new raptor has been found in fantastically preserved condition in China by two British students! An Iguanodon likes to keep abreast of these things and I feel it’s my duty to inform you.
It’s scientific name ‘exquisitus’ reminds me of a conceptual symmetry between the work of a paleontologist piecing a broken skeleton together with his knowledge of what has already been found and his imaginative guesses at this animal’s particular adaptations and characteristics with the classic Surrealist’s game of exquisite corpse.
The early pictoral representation of my own kind is the classic historical example. For example, Gideon Mantell first imagined that an Iguanodon looked like this:
Silly billy!
Of course we now know that an Iguanodon looks like this:
There’s little chance we wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to explore more of Ferelden, the fictional setting for BioWare’s ambitious role-playing game, Dragon Age: Origins. So the release of Return to Ostagar is welcome not only for the mere fact that it adds another chapter to the original game, but also because it ties up a few loose ends from the character’s initial battle at Ostagar.
The Return to Ostagar option opens up after players move past Lothering. A quick trip to Bann Loren’s Lands on the map will lead you to an encounter with one of Cailan’s guards, who is, if you remember, now out of a job. He tells the Warden that Cailan wanted the Wardens to claim some of his possessions in case he died. The problem is that Ostagar is now completely overrun with Darkspawn, so you’ll have to fight your way through every single step.
It’s particularly cool to see the changes that have taken place in the ruins. I mean, they were already ruins, but now these are some ruined ruins. Getting a look at the demolished dog kennels or Duncan’s old fire really gives players a chance to mark just how far their own story has progressed from those first days with the Wardens. On a purely practical level, it also gives us all a second chance at that intriguing Mage Chest.
Of course, it’s not all reminiscing. Loads of Hurlocks, including several Elites, will block your path through the ruins, and to repay the time it takes you to slaughter them, you’ll be rewarded with the amazing loot they’ve taken from the fallen soldiers of the battle, including some choice pieces from Duncan and the King himself. A Genlock Necromancer will frequently pop up to taunt you and then run off just as you’re swarmed with other enemies. He’ll lead you through the ruins and into some new tunnels beneath the Tower of Ishal.
We won’t spoil any of the details here, but the fights are fun, even if the enemies are the same ones you’ve encountered a hundred times already, and the loot is plentiful. Fans of Dragon Age Origins’ story will also be happy to close the book on he final fate of King Cailan in a very emotional scene. In all, it’s an enjoyable couple of hours that works well to add a bit more weight to the game’s story.
Perhaps the only thing not to like about the Return to Ostagar is the incredibly disturbing conversation between Wynne and Alistair towards the end of the sequence. You may have thought it was awkward delivering condolence letters to widows or convincing innkeepers to go out and get slaughtered by Darkspawn, but it’s nothing in comparison to the discussion these two have after you retrieve the last of Cailan’s armor. Unfortunately, there are some great conversation options when you bring Alastair and Wynne (and the other companion) to the site of the battle, so you won’t want to make the trip without them.
Closing Comments
Return to Ostagar doesn’t add anything revolutionary to the Dragon Age experience. You’ll know exactly what you’re in for from the moment you load it up. With that said, it’s every bit as good as the content that came with the original game, and it gives the Warden a chance to tie up one of the campaign’s loose ends. Throw in a fair bit of impressive loot, some of which will actually stay useful through the end of the main story, and there’s no reason to avoid returning to Ostagar.
Individuals in the seduction community like to use the analogy of the Jedi, and specifically the dark side as a metaphor for the different styles and approaches for Game. The dark side is used as a warning, a pronouncement that something is wrong.
So in the spirit of those that see the Star Wars saga as a good analogy for practitioners of Game, it is time to look a little closer to the metaphor that people seem to miss, but has very strong implications.
What are Jedi forbidden to do? What leads them to the dark side? What leads Anakin to the dark side?
The answer is a pretty simple one, and one that will make some practitioners and advocates of LTR uncomfortable, or it should.
A Jedi is schooled to control his anger and feelings, but the one thing the Jedi is absolutely forbidden to feel is LOVE.
In the movies, it is love, and specifically the love of his mother and more importantly the love of a woman, Padme, that leads Anakin to the dark side.
Lets start with Anakin’s mother. She is a single mother, she is a slave, she will not admit to any responsibility on her part for bearing a son into slavery, Anakin just happened. Anakin, when offered the chance to be free and be a Jedi hardly looks back on his mother, despite his young age. Nor does he have anything to do with her for years.
Yet, when she is threatened, when she dies, Anakin is filled with such anguish and rage, that he cannot understand or control it.
Unintentionally George Lucas scripts a terrible indictment on single motherhood.
Then there is Padme. Anakin, despite living in the galactic capital suffers from obvious pedestalization of the girl as well as a scarcity mentality. He doesn’t see her for six years, yet he yearns for her the first moment he sees her again. He is forbidden to love her, yet he does.
What is it that leads him to the dark side? The risk of losing that love, the risk that something will happen to her and ultimately his love of Padme, his pedestaling of her, his scarcity mentality leads to his undoing.
Love, and specifically love of a woman leads to the downfall of men. That is the message of the films.
Now lets complete the arch. What is it that enrages Luke against his father? What is it that gets him to the brink of going to the dark side?
The love of his sister. A different love, but still a woman.
It is still the protective feelings for women, the love of women that Star Wars shows is what leads men astray, what destroys them, what tempts them to act out of balance, what brings them to the dark side.
What redeems Anakin in the end is not a woman, not a daughter, but his son.
We even have a single sprite sheet that weights over a 1,000 kb alone.
