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Depot Games: Gem Connectors

Current Version: 20021206

Project Status: Abandoned

Links: Web Site

Category: Puzzle

Developers: madpenguin

Ports: Windows

Source Code: Not Available

Author's Description: A color-matching puzzle/arcade game with a unique gameplay structure. In final form, it will feature seven playable characters, 12 single-player levels, plus two-player combat.

Have picked this back up again

Downloads

Name Comments Size Date
20021206.zip Windows Binary 380,234 05/30/2007 3:50 PM

What's New:

20021206
Lots of broken stuff fixed; this may actually get finished now; see web page for details.

preA 16
A complete rewrite. Better modularity, player input is now properly abstracted such that it could be gotten over a network with ease, (somewhat feeble) background animation, and now seven gemtypes, plus metal blocks that cannot be directly destroyed.

prealpha 8
Keyboard input, some minor rules tuning, some source modularity improvements (more to come in this area =). There is code to support score-keeping here, but no calls to it yet. Maybe sometime this weekend (beginning 14 June). Maybe.

prealpha 6
Some gameplay tuning - 'gimme' matches no longer occur without user intervention when new lines are spawned, and there are now seven possible gemtypes instead of four, which makes it more difficult to win by just button-mashing.

Screenshots
A shot from an internal build a few versions ahead
A shot from an internal build a few versions ahead
Public Opinion
Overall Rating: 8.0
  • 8PreAlpha8 >> Now with Keyboard support. It's a very nice game. Looks great and the sounds are nice too! The keyboard up/down keys move a little too fast, and, its easy to just hold up and down and keep hitting the piece moving button to demolish the puzzle. :)
  • 8pre_alpha_8 looks and sounds very nice. The gameplay is really not simply a Tetris Attack or Collums clone, but something new. Unfortunately the keyboard reacts to sensitive. Once finished, this game will kick ass!
The Developer
madpenguin
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