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<title><![CDATA[By: pwl]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-44217</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rather boring version of pacman, uninteresting characters and simple level designs. Needs more refinement before it'd be worth paying for.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:11:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: kalmanizer]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43921</link>
<description><![CDATA[@ Face

Your welcome and thank you for your compliment! 

People were commenting that they couldn't figure out what #6 Cinzia was saying so i wanted to be nice and translate it for everyone. :)]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:20:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Face]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43842</link>
<description><![CDATA[All of you(complainers and complainers about complainers)should read:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2206?replies=1

In the forums.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Face]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43840</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thank you, #22 kalmanizer, for taking the time to translate #6 Cinzia's question (with the help of Babel Fish - a great tool to have available in such cases). It was most kind of you to go to the trouble and to offer her an answer in her own language. 

The problem is - I doubt she could read through the comments in English to find your post. I know this site offers its forums in other languages, but looking through the first page and the download page, I don't see any mention of their availability or how to get to them. Maybe a link should be posted on the first page to explain where help can be found in different languages and/or encouraging them to scan down through the comments to look for an answer to their post. Another possibility - refer them to Babel Fish to translate their question before posting. Very new people may not be aware that such help exists.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:47:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Lockett]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43800</link>
<description><![CDATA[&gt;BrianZachary

"To all those complaining:
Stop complaining already. If you don’t like the games offered here, wait until the next day’s offer or go somewhere else."

How many days have "all those complaining" had to wait for something besides, as vilulf put it, "lame brick busters, match three’s, and 25 year old game concepts"?  Well over a month and a half.

"So what if these games are not the type you like, they are given away for FREE. You didn’t pay for anything. You don’t really expect to get any major, name-brand, hard-core games here do you?"

No, but we'd like to see some shooters for a change.  "Complainers" don't care that they're not paying for what they get - they don't like that there hasn't been anything but "games [that] are not the type [that they] like".

"What was meant by “true gamers” anyway? Someone who truly plays games? Well that would describe anyone who ever played a game, now wouldn’t it?"

That phrase refers to "true gamers" as opposed to "casual gamers".  A "true gamer" judges games based on gameplay and innovation, and dislikes clones.  A "casual gamer" only cares about a game's feel and atmosphere, and doesn't think twice about paying money for two clones of the same game.  The two groups have completely different value systems, and the majority of independant games are intended for the latter(because the company can "skin" a game and sell both versions as seperate games).

"I’ve seen a lot of games here that have been offered at other multi-game sites with a demo to download or option to purchase, but here you get them free. So what’s the point in complaining?"

The point is to get the site to offer a more diverse selection.  How would you like it if a restaurant only seved corn?

"These nice people spend the money on this site to be able to give you something for free and all you can do is put them down and step all over their generosity."

Nobody has attacked the site for hosting free games.  The games themselves are the objects of complaint.

"Some of us actually appreciate this site and everything that’s given away, even if it’s something we don’t want. I, like others, do not comment on every game. When I do comment, it’s not to complain about what is being offered. So maybe this site isn’t for you, but some of us like it here.

That’s all I have to say about that."

You don't have to like something because it's free for a day.  Also, many visitors make the decision to download a game based on the comments.  Why do you think that there's a thumb rating and a comments section at all?  They'd be pretty pointless if people could only vote thumbs up and praise the games, regardless of their worth.

That's all I have to say about that.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:15:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: BrianZachary]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43788</link>
<description><![CDATA[To all those complaining:
Stop complaining already.  If you don't like the games offered here, wait until the next day's offer or go somewhere else.  So what if these games arenot the type you like, they are given away for FREE.  You didn't pay for anything.  You don't really expect to get any major, name-brand, hard-core games here do you?  What was meant by "true gamers" anyway?  Someone who truly plays games?  Well that would describe anyone who ever played a game, now wouldn't it?

I've seen a lot of games here that have been offered at other multi-game sites with a demo to download or option to purchase, but here you get them free.  So what's the point in complaining?  These nice people spend the money on this site to be able to give you something for free and all you can do is put them down and step all over their generosity.

Some of us actually appreciate this site and everything that's given away, even if it's something we don't want.  I, like others, do not comment on every game.  When I do comment, it's not to complain about what is being offered.  So maybe this site isn't for you, but some of us like it here.

That's all I have to say about that.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:08:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Carolyn]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43783</link>
<description><![CDATA[This game is FUN!  Seriously.  My husband has lost hours of his life playing AirXonix, and this is a blend of AirXonix and Pacman.  So, if you enjoy either of those games, this would be a good one for you to download.  Many thanks to AxySoft and GGOTD.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:59:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: KB999999]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43782</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks - downloaded very quickly and works fine in Windows XP. This game is pac-man-like in the way you have to eat dots, bonuses and not getting touched. I have a hard time playing arrow-key games, but your movements are pretty quick. Overall, I'll keep playing for a while and see of it's a keeper. Thank you!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:58:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Lockett]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43768</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been very busy lately, so I was unable to review a few recent games.  My hiatus is now over.  Here is my review of Alonix:

The first thing that I noticed about this game was how strange the style was.  There are forest backgrounds(for some reason, saved as GIFs), but the actual levels, player, and enemies are abstract.  I could not tell if the player "character"(I don't know what else to call it) was supposed to be a flower, a helicopter, or some weird amalgam of the two.

The gameplay, though, was nice.  For once, this site has gotten a Pac-Man clone that isn't completely horrible.  The controls are responsive at both high and low speeds, the levels are designed well(while the view is limited, much more is visible than in the Packs games), the enemies have interesting patterns, and there are no extraneous powerups.  The only fault(more of an idiosyncratic quirk, actually) is that the levels are slightly tilted, although that's hardly a problem.

The graphics, as said before, are odd.  The play area and its contents are pastel-colored pre-rendered 3D, and are quite appealing, but the backgrounds are, as mentioned before, GIFs of forests.  For those illiterati who don't know what GIFs are, GIF is an image format that restricts colors to 256 distinct colors.  While this is no problem for low-res images like forum avatars(where animated GIFs are frequently used), on a background the dithering and pixellation are quite noticeable.

The sound is cold, like the colors.  Powerups have a breaking-glass effect when destroyed, the music is composed mostly of chimes, and even the bizzare "Ai-yai-yai..." death sound is remote and crystalline.  It's quite strange.

The theme is undiscernible.  From the weird, polished, abstract in-play graphics, to the low-res menu and forest backgrounds, to the wintry sounds, it never ceased to confuse me.  The name is strange, too.

Overall, I give Alonix a score of seven out of ten(nine for gameplay, six for graphics, eight for sound, and five for theme).  If you liked Pac-Man, you will almost certainly like Alonix.

Small side note:  Alonix will occasionally run in grayscale for short periods of time on Vista.  It also has no less than five gameplay modes.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:17:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: sherwood01]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/alonix-2/#comment-43761</link>
<description><![CDATA[I LIKE this one. I wouldn't say that it's like Pac-Man (no power pills, no Inky, Blinky, Pinky, or Clyde ;-) ), more like the old school Crystal Castles, where the bear runs around eating all the buttons and avoiding the enemies. Fortunately I liked Crystal Castles (still have it around here someplace), and this one is actually much BETTER than that, due to all the varieties in the versions. in one you eat the buttons, another you eat the buttons and can jump over monsters, another you actually put buttons down, another you lay out grids instead of buttons, and another you change the colors of the rocks that you're running around on. And the impossible level I couldn't tell you, I've not stayed alive long enough to remember which one that is. :-O I like the music, and the backgrounds are varied and not hard to look at. Like Xonix before this one, this one is a keeper!

(Oh, and a note for the person who said "Dang. It wouldn’t let me choose where to download the program other than to my main Programs folder so I had to pass on this one. Sorry guys." *scratches head* That's odd. These things always seem to want to try to install into c:\Program Files, but I'm always able to install them where I want to, which is d:\freedownloads\. This program being no exception, it installed there with no problems.)]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:32 -0500</pubDate>
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