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Figured it would be good to ring in Saint Patricks Day with

Figured it would be good to ring in Saint Patricks Day with a free phone & tablet game for Android and iOS called Lep's World. Yeah, the name ain't great but the game is pretty fun.

The game is a serious clone of Super Mario Brothers. Its cool because as I play Lep's World I am reminded how much I love Super Mario Brothers and how much I want to play it on my iPhone.

Lep's World is a side scroller where you are a Leprechaun trying to collect your lost coins from your pot of gold. Instead of the Leprechaun getting a fire flower, he can collect acorns he can throw at enemies. In the typical Mario fashion, Lep can hit bad guys on the head. Some enemies have spikes so... Read All Figured it would be good to ring in Saint Patricks Day with a free phone & tablet game for Android and iOS called Lep's World. Yeah, the name ain't great but the game is pretty fun.

The game is a serious clone of Super Mario Brothers. Its cool because as I play Lep's World I am reminded how much I love Super Mario Brothers and how much I want to play it on my iPhone.

Lep's World is a side scroller where you are a Leprechaun trying to collect your lost coins from your pot of gold. Instead of the Leprechaun getting a fire flower, he can collect acorns he can throw at enemies. In the typical Mario fashion, Lep can hit bad guys on the head. Some enemies have spikes so the only way to dispatch them is to shoot them with an acorn.

100 coins nets you an extra life and points can get gained by hitting blocks and killing enemies. One difference in Lep's World is that you have a life meter of three shamrocks you can refill by finding other shamrocks that move very similarly to mushrooms. Another difference is when you stomp on the grubs that operate a bit like a Goomba they leave behind a coin, acorn or shamrock. Nice.

At the end of each main stage is a castle level and I expected a boss fight a the end themed appropriately. Unfortunately there was no Leprechaun Bowser.

Level 2.1 starts off strangely by you being chased by a hornet and becomes a runner game. So far, it was just level 2.1 and the level wasn't hard it was just out of place. Kind of adds to the games charm, if not a totally random addition.

Many of the sound effects seem to be lifted straight out of Zelda. When you pick up a pot of gold it sounds eerilly like when you pickup an item in Zelda. Many of the other sound effects seem like other Zelda effects as well. Fun to hear them, they really brought me back to the old days.

Overall this game is a huge Mario clone but that didn't bother me as it was so much fun and most of all its totally free. Have a great Saint Patricks Day this weekend and if you want to increase your mood for green, snag Lep's World.

Blizzard just dropped the launch date for Diablo 3 of May

Blizzard just dropped the launch date for Diablo 3 of May 15th. Pre-order already made and I am marking my calendar.

Is this a game on your radar?

News:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2012/03/diablo-iii-launching-may-15/1

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d3/

Tungsten wrote on 03/15/2012 at 03:38pm

Oh boy. I may hold off on launch day, but it will happen someone. I just have to watch out because our is totally a game that could take over my life, and the family wouldn't appreciate that.

Chowda wrote on 03/15/2012 at 06:35pm

So glad we finally have a date for launch! Now where's the fast-forward button on the real life remote?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/15/2012 at 07:03pm

I know right? TAKE MY MONEY TAKE it!

Ben_Dodson wrote on 03/20/2012 at 02:33am

Got it ordered from the WoW Annual pass. Looking forward to playing it

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/20/2012 at 02:41am

I am too. I plan on scheduling some meet ups on battle.net with other people here when it ships.

Gonna be sweet.

Chowda wrote on 03/20/2012 at 05:18pm

If I wasn't burned out for life on WoW I would have done the annual pass. That was a really good idea on their part.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/21/2012 at 01:38am

The annual pass is a great idea. Rewards your most loyal customers with awesome stuff.

Considered the WoW pass because of the D3 option but passed in favor of the collectors D3.

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BioShock is one of those games that builds a world you feel

BioShock is one of those games that builds a world you feel immersed in from the start. Playing the game I really got into the character and mood of the game and it was very creepy. As far as the start to a game goes, BioShock does it better than most ive experienced. I started with the PS3 demo and then was given the full meal deal from a friend on my cake day.

100% full disclosure, ive never completed it. I haven't completed it because I can only play it in 10-20 minute increments. The game looks fantastic, has a interesting plot device and the game mechanics are good its just that ... I don't want to exist in that world doing that stuff very long. I find it... Read All

Sure, this game was impossible without the Konami Code,

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6664943/best-of-dorkly-nes-ninja-turtles-theme-song

Sure, this game was impossible without the Konami Code, but still, this song brings back fond memories...

The State of the Ghost 1.0

The State of the Ghost 1.0

If people like these kinds of posts, ill keep them semi-regular and to the point about Cheerful Ghost and what direction the site is headed.

Ill try to keep this as brief as I am able :)

A month++ ago I launched Cheerful Ghost to my friends. People seemed to think it had potential and as I listened to your feedback I made improvements to make the site awesome. Based on our small but absolutely dedicated following I can now say that this is the most fun Ive had in gaming in years. Seeing what you guys play and having meaningful dialogs on those games is magical. I wasn't sure it was possible to be part of a community that can rise above the... Read All

Unsure if you have seen this. If not, check it out.

I found a free to play MMO off Steam called Realm of the Mad

I found a free to play MMO off Steam called Realm of the Mad God. It has just about the simplest sign-up process ever as after you load the game you don't need to sign-up for an account, they just start you in a zone to teach you the game and you play it.

http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/ (you can play it in your browser right now)

Immediately I felt at home because of the retro graphics and simple controls. Seriously, this game is pretty simple and its a refreshing experience. You start out as the Wizard class and its a fun class to play. You can unlock other classes by playing the game. Yesterday I unlocked the Priest class.

One thing you need to know is that death is... Read All

Play this now. Itll take you about 20 min. to beat, and oh

http://www.whatisnous.com/thumbnails/tn_Nous2.png

Play this now. It'll take you about 20 min. to beat, and oh boy is it worth it:

http://www.whatisnous.com/

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/11/2012 at 09:04pm

And hurry up because I want to talk about it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/12/2012 at 12:50am

Gonna download it now. Let you know when I finish with it either way :)

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/12/2012 at 01:20am

Ok so I just stopped playing it. I stopped at the part where I am trying to hit the box and it keeps counting down cores.

Interesting game. Seems like its going for something Portalish. I am not sure I got how to play the game totally. I liked that the game pulled screenshots from my desktop and tried to crash and then come back.

I didn't like the dialog between me and the computer very much, it seemed.... For lack of a better word, annoying. My reactions to the text were way different than the options presented. It was like "Choose A" or "Choose B" and I didn't think either were what I was thinking. I also didn't like the test, like I don't know, just didn't like it.

In the end the game was fun even though I didn't know much of what I was doing most of the time. I liked collecting points but then I said something about wanting a lot of points and it gave me unlimited points and I was no happy with that and then they gave me negative full points. I didn't like that either. I think when a game is so whimsical with its score I don't know, that really lost me.

I get it, score doesn't matter or something? But I wasn't sure what the point was and the game didn't really go anywhere so I wasn't really sure why I should keep playing the "I need to catch you level" when its not clear me doing that meant anything cool would happen.

The game is unique, and if you want surprises and not to know what to expect next, check it out. I guess I would say it frustrated me but then again, thats most likely part of the design.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/12/2012 at 02:08am

SPOILERS*******************************

That was the end, and really the pay off. It's fine though if you didn't really buy into it, and I could see how it would be frustrating.

My own personal take was that it was a bit of an anti game: the points don't matter, there are no real levels, and in the end (after you beat that box) it basically just admits that it was a game.

It resonated with me, maybe because I'm kind of sick of games being what they have traditionally been. The game kind of mocks the idea of a score, the "crazy" AI, bosses, stories, even good guys vs. bad guys. I love a good God of War or COD as much as the next guy, but here and there the old formula just feels stale, and its nice to see another game that pokes at that.

And you have to admit that the whole Crash to Desktop thing was clever.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/12/2012 at 03:06am

It had a ton of unique moments that made me really think about what a game really is. It built up something and then tore it back down. Which I find interesting generally.

Cool project though and these sorts of experiments are cool.

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Do you like puzzle games? They you might like this. Dont

http://www.spacechemthegame.com/screenshots/ss3.png

Do you like puzzle games? They you might like this. Don't be fooled though, this isn't really a puzzle game. It is much more than that.

This game tricks you into being an engineer. It starts out all cute with these simple little puzzles, and 10 0hours in you're managing multiple plants, multiple processes, matching inflow with outflow, all while shooting lasers at giant floating pyramid.

I've never really been able to pick up coding, but I have a feeling that this game kind of feels like that. You are given a task and you begin to put together different little tricks that you have learned in order to complete that task. When you find out that your old methods won't work... Read All

I pre-ordered the Diablo 3 collectors edition last week. I

http://us.media5.battle.net/cms/gallery/079B7R65J42K1319135104614.jpg

I pre-ordered the Diablo 3 collectors edition last week. I got the Starcraft 2 collectors edition and loved it, decided since its not that much more than the box copy of D3, ill get the collectors as well.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/services/collectors-edition/

Comes with: Diablo 3 PC/Mac game, Diablo skull and 4G usb soul stone, Behind the scenes DVD/Bluray, art of Diablo 3 book & the Diablo 3 soundtrack. It also comes with some digital stuff like SC2 avatars and some exclusive D3 items.

Kind of with pre-ordering the game got you into the beta. Id love to give it a go.