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All Time Favorite MS DOS Games

Game Designing

This first-person shooter game is based on episodes, meaning you’ll need to move through the story, accomplishing goals in order to reach the next level. Controversy surrounded Panzer General as it was the first video game that allowed people to play as Nazis. This puzzle game provides grids of small shapes of different colors.

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Months Late Game Review. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Good Things.

The Bottom Feeder

Because, at their hearts, Zelda games are puzzle games with a bit of combat bolted on. Puzzle games are a niche genre. If your classes haven't yet brought up this system and had a vigorous debate about its good and bad points, that is educational malpractice. Remember, this is a puzzle game at heart. And this makes sense.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. I wanted to try to merge these design sensibilities with my first person gay sex aesthetic, paired with the old tradition of retro grid-based first person CRPGs like Wizardry / Ultima Underworld / Legend of Grimrock where you crawl through dungeons step by step.

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