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openThis one game I used to play Videogame
It was a kids game and I think it started with some bird or something flying on top of this boys chimney and then the game went inside of the house where the boy was in his bed sleeping. I think the game was about this boy that was invited to a birthday party but he woke up sick and couldn’t go and I remember the beginning of the game was where you would wake up and go to the bathroom and try to find medicine for him because he was sick or something. There was also a closet that had like a doll that was Easter egg to another game. I also think that he had some sort of animal friend or something (I think it was the bird in the beginning of the game) I remember he really wanted to go to the birthday party so I think he decided to go anyway and I remember there was something to do with the boy hearing a wolf or something like that following him around and he was trying to catch the wolf or find out what was following him but i think the wolf ended up being good or something. And I remember that there was a part of the game where the boy went to the dentist or something. The characters were also animals sort of like tumble leaf from what I remember? I think the style of the game also kind of looks like the tumble leaf style. But I really don’t think it was specifically a tumble leaf game. That’s all I remember from this game
Edited by Some11111111111openVideo game about ALS? Videogame
Could have sworn this existed but searching hasn’t turned up any results. This was around the 2010s, I believe it was a short flash(?) game that was created to raise awareness for ALS- I can’t remember where I played it, but the protagonist was this yellow hamster / bear-like creature who was the father of a family. The gameplay was about doing various tasks, and as the game continued your ability to use the controls were reduced and eventually removed, so you weren’t able to use specific gimmicks and it made doing the tasks much harder. I think the player character was bedridden by the end. Help would be appreciated.
openKnight against dragons Videogame
It was an old 2D mobile game, that was remove a few years back from the Play Store.
The player was a knight, jumping and swinging a sword between two rock walls, from which dragons of different kind emerged. There were flying dragons and green ground dragons, all of which spit fireballs at you. Once you defeated a boss that arrived every fifth wave, you would get coins that you could spent at a shop to get stronger, like more health, more damage, or cool combos.
I remember it was created by people who did a club-penguin like game, which was also shut down. I'm not sure if it was french-only or not though. I do remember that the players had the same appearance as the game, which is a ball for the head, two feet, and that was it.
Edited by r4d6openMobile Game (J?)RPGs from the early 2010s Videogame
I'm thinking about this series of RP Gs, they may have been JRP Gs, that I used to play like 9 or 10ish years ago on iPad I remember there were like 4 entries, each one with a different story. It was a top-down OG Zelda-like traversal system with a western fantasy setting and somewhat Japanese sort of designs? I remember very little except that in one of the entries you play as a dark elf who eventually changes his ways. And in another entry you play as some sort of (probably) blonde ranger. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
Edited by syrus372openSidescrolling shmup... IN SPACE Videogame
It was a somewhat older game, where you could modify and upgrade your ship between levels. I remember very clearly it having a more industrial aesthetic and one of the levels had a heavy metal concert as the background.
Edited by Naspahopen18 Wheels of Steels gameplay video Videogame
Hey, i'm trying to find a certain two-part 18 Wheels of Steels (or probably other trucking simulator video game like it but I definitely doubt there were more) gamplay video. I think it might be deleted, but i'm not so sure. I can't remember much about those videos, but all I do know is that I first watch them somewhere around 2007 at least to 2010 at most, have no commentaries, and feature different songs with one of them (I think) being Eleven Fingers Paralyzer. Can someone help me with this?
openGame Design Software with Rocket: Robot on Wheels Videogame
In my high school programming class we were given access to a game creation tool, it wasn't part of the curriculum I think the company that made it was distributing it to classes like mine and there was some associated contest we were encouraged to submit games/levels to. I only ever played around with it for like one day so my only real memories are the sample levels all being 2.5d Mario-like platformers but believe it was capable of more, the stock assets were all generic rounded platforms floating in the skybox with a basic blue sky texture. Assuming it was new software at the time that puts it around 2011-2013.
But why it sticks out so much and I wanna find it again is, like the title says, the default character and a lot of the tutorials/help pop-up things were of Rocket: Robot on Wheels. There's an outside chance it was a similar red monowheel robot but I'm like 99.999% sure it was licensed because I remember my teacher and the software itself making a big deal about it, but no one in the class recognized the character so we were all confused.
Rocket was of course developed by Sucker Punch, published by Ubisoft, and a lot of that class was sponsored by Microsoft, I have no idea who actually holds the IP so I've been trying to research down those rabbit holes but no luck. Considering it's history I'll also bet a selling point of the software was a physics engine.
openPuzzle game in video Videogame
So, I was watching a youtube video of a tournament where they competitors play random games. The last game for this particular video has a puzzle game with colored mice that the commentators didn't seem to know. (Beginning at 1:06:42) Does anyone know what it's called?
openFear of Water? Videogame
Third-person action-adventure or RPG. One of the characters (a side character I believe, but possibly the protagonist) refuses to go through a waterfall because they’re afraid of water, other characters you are with are frustrated by this, and you have to climb the large cave and shoot/cast magic at parts of a large tree or tree-like structure in order to block the water. I feel like I played this somewhat recently (sometime in the last four years) and I can’t for the life of me remember what game it was.
openGame that accidentally skips a number for levels Videogame
I swear I remember this old game (around 1999-2000) that for some reason skips a level when numbering the levels i.e it would go straight from level seven to level nine or something like this. I remember the strategy guide even said something like "This isn't a mistake, there is no level eight in the game" (or whatever number was missing, I honestly can't remember.) Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Edited by BootlebatopenInteresting concept Videogame
I just came up with an interesting concept for a game, and I'd like to know if something like that already exists:
The gist is a multiplayer game similar to "asymmetric" games like Natural Selection 2 or Nuclear Dawn, except that instead of placing and relocating assets like an RTS, the "leader" is a god who plays the game in a manner similar to Asgard's Wrath; interacting with the world by physically touching it with VR.
Edited by GofastmikeopenGame were you play as a rogue AI Videogame
It was an older game where you controlled an AI that invaded computer systems around the world, but you had to manage suspicion levels and avoid detection. The world map was the main screen. I remember the page for Uplink leading me to it.
open90's edutainment computer game? Videogame
I seem to recall an Edutainment game I played in the 90's or early 2000's. I don't remember many details, but I seem to remember that one section of it involved having to try to make a cake for someone (though I think there were several on the screen. The environment may have had clouds around that point but I'm not sure about that. I can't for the life of me remember what the game was, and I know I played something like that...
resolved Like Frostpunk but at sea. Videogame
I saw a trailer for the game on youtube, all i remember is that its a postapocalyptic game where a new ice age wiped out mankind and the last survivors sail an iceberg filled ocean on ships.
openAmiga 500 RPG - SOLVED! Videogame
I remember very little about the game apart from being able to collect and combine various types of runes(? - I think, maybe gems??) and battles taking place on a grid, so you could eg combine fire with area effect to set fire to everything within the 8 spaces surrounding you.
There seemed to be a random element to which runes you encounter each game, maybe even the levels themselves. The way I remember it each run was procedurally generated, but I doubt that would have been possible back then.
Not much to go on there but if anyone can remember it I will be forever in your debt.
Edited by Ped78resolved secret agent adventure game for kids Videogame
As the name says I'm looking for a secret agent adventure game for kids, that I'm pretty sure was from the 90's. It involved Guy Fawkes Night and I'm pretty sure the secret agent was some kind of anthropomorphic animal
openVideo game where you play as a lynx Videogame
So basically you play as a lynx and you have to take care of your baby lynxes. I remember there was this thing were you could jump really high if you charge your jump and you had to get up a small cliff using that during the tutorial.
And there was something about stars and constellations too but I don't remember exactly what.
And by the end, all the baby lynxes leave and you're just wandering around and I remember activating something like the Yandere Vision from Yandere Simulator and seeing a whole bunch of animals marked in the color used for hostiles and so I ran away and I came to this big tree stump and I used my super jump thing and then all of the hostiles got to me and I think they were like wolves or something but they couldn't get up to me and then the screen faded to black. I think that was the end of the game??
And I know this sounds a lot like Shelter 2 (and it could be) but I played this a while ago when I was a kid and I remember playing it on mobile and as far as I know Shelter 2 doesn't have a mobile port. If it is actually Shelter 2 and I'm just remembering something wrong, please let me know!
Edited by DragonRoar87openExpedition (?) Game Videogame
There was an online game (I think it was something on National Geographic's website, but I'm not sure) about some adventurers exploring Africa, moving east to west and going to a village. Each turn some dice with images on them are rolled, and the images determine what happens; e.g. more porters join your group, a crocodile kills some porters, etc.I believe the game was called "Expedition" or something like it. Does it even still exist?
open A Point and Click horror game Videogame
The game is similar to The House franchise by Sinthai Studio, a point and click with lots of jump scares, though I can only (vaguely) remember the first and last level.
The first level begin in a forest where you find a newspaper concerning about a murder victim, not long after that the victim's ghost appeared to scare you.
The last level presents you with two choices; going left or right. Choosing the left will make you ended up apparently crucified in hell, while the right will make return to the first level, now at daylight and the good ending.
When I was younger, back in 2016 or 17, I remember watching a zero-commentary Youtube video on a hunting game with a story mode. It had pretty decent graphics even for today and the cutscenes resembled pages from a novel. The main story is that a boss contracts the Main Character to hunt some wild African animals for him. In the end, the Main Character becomes The Starscream and kills their boss with a gun. He then settles down with their One True Love and they lived Happily Ever After somewhere in Africa. I remember that one of the missions had the player battle with wild buffalo to retrieve an Ancient Artifact.
Edited by PiotrHeat