Good game... almost like my xD

This game has been the only offer I get for over two weeks, is it me or thee?

I was just wondering... is there going to be any more new game giveaways anytime soon? This game was given away almost a month ago, and there hasn't been any new ones since then.

They are on vacation as per their post to the site blog.

http://blog.giveawayoftheday.com/game-giveaway-of-the-day-vacations-season/

Can anyone tell me why there haven't been any new games for the past couple of weekends?

I was hoping for a new game today. It is been over a week since the last one?

Hmm, installed it as non-administrator on Vista 32bit yesterday, and it doesn't run properly. First time I started it, it killed the video output to my 22-inch widescreen.

I restarted, and this time the game started OK, except that the mouse started scrolling from bottom left to top right of the window. Clicked on Options as the pointer scrolled by, switched out of full-screen mode, and verified that my mouse works fine outside the game window. Looks like it's a problem with the game itself.

I'll try switching to OpenGL rendering, see if that helps.

This is NOT a repeat.

Hi Sherwood, try installing the game from the We group’s web site. The link is near the top of the page. Don't uninstall today's game; just install the ‘We group’ version to a different place. Hopefully that will work. If it does, delete the one you got from the giveaway project. If not, try updating your graphics drivers. It sounds like a graphics glitch. Though if you haven't done a defrag’ in ages that could be a contributing factor. Sorry for the delay in replying; I decided to have an early night.

Hi midori, if it was illegal, there would be many more arkanoid games that have been released over the years that would also be considered illegal. I've never seen any legislature to confirm W.D’s statement, so don’t worry about it (I’ve done a little research and can’t find anything to confirm or negate the statement).

Hi JJ2, Sorry, I can't explain why it's not working. I no longer keep a copy of Win 98 on any of my computer, though I have considered reinstalling it just to test games on, but haven't got around to it.

No problems justchuck69, glad you like the game. To be honest it's a little tame for me, but I've got over 200 arkanoid games, so am spoiled for choice. Check out the arkanoid thread over in the games discussion forums. There's loads more available, including some commercial games that are being given away free via Gametop. Arkanoid: Space Ball does contain most of the elements that I consider make a good arkanoid. I just wish the ball was a little faster and it would be brilliant. :lol:

To Mad Ollie, Wow, that's great. Have you tried the editor yet?

Regards

Whiterabbit

great game
thanks white rabbit for the great review or i might not have downloaded this one

thanks gamegiveawayoftheday

This works(plays)fine, but won't activate in Windows 98SE. It says it can't put in the key, for which I had to click Ignore. Now it's telling me I have just 20 minutes left. (Putting it in compatibility mode for 98 on XP (where it otherwise shows as registered, of course), it does the same thing.)

Lather, Rinse, REPEAT...

Please something new...

PLEASE...

Installed and played fine this afternoon, but when I went back to play it again later in the day, the graphics are all out of whack, I'm getting a bar of pixelly stuff across the top, which shoves the game down the screen so the game isn't centered properly to play it. When I tried to change the graphics mode to try and fix it, it killed the game and booted me back out to Windows. It WAS a great game, while it worked.

The best arkanoid/breakout game I have ever played.

I don't get what W.D. #13 means. And I'm not being argumentative, just curious! Wish they would post why this game is illegal to be here. Because the word "arkanoid" is copyrighted by them? And the "try for free, buy if you like it," is a direct copy of the description of the game from the home site. What's important here is GGAOTD's agreement with the site: "The program is available for $19.95, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer." That's what's important here... and it' won't be "free" tomorrow. That's how this well-trusted site works. Just don't understand what W.D. meant. But I'll go ahead and enjoy this free giveawayoftheday.

One interesting side note about this game is... I found one of the funniest error in in a game in a long time. If you can get a stealing hand to take your ball to the oppisite end of the playing flield and slowly return with there is a multi-ball going, then on a raire occattion it with release the ball it has and go after the other ball. What made this fustraighting and humorous is that I had a second hand come on screen and try to take the frist one but I think I shot it because one crash into the paddle going after a dieing ball and the other goes poof near the frist ball, and this is the big punchline it drops it perfectly stopped BOTH in and out of play. In play because it is on screen and keeps the game going. And out of play due to it not interacting with any thing else, I know because I had spaceships,rocketships,astroids,and supernovas pass right over it about just right of center screen. And on top of that the helicopers and new hands that came on screen afterward sat in their pop in postions watching the ball sit here. So, I had about 8 helicopters, 3 hands, 3 supernovas, 4 astroids, 2 rocketships and a handful of up and down bricks on screen all at once before I accidently quit trying to show my family. Lucky for me it shows your game in the background when you do that. That type of error ranks up there with the epic pinball error where if you hit the ball just right you can get it stuck up in the left most of the 3 entry bumpers, and you could leave the game for days and come back to you still racking up the points.

Level 202 and 23 lives left. I'm giving up now... :D

Have been in the hospital for 4 months and it seems I've missed some good games. Glad to see admins. taking a active role, defending our English as a second language brothers and sisters! Most of us would be lost if GOATD decided to change to another language. Not all games are made in America and if #26 really wants to help out, there are a number of volunteer programs that are looking for help.
Hey Stephen missed reading your comments every weekend, just like I missed my fav. Times writers!
Game style not my cup of tea usually, but having fun with this!

Today's game is portble. I transferred it to another computer and it worked as the full version. all poerups wer unlocked and I played it for over an hour without any messges popping up to say it as a demo. When I tested the demo yesterday it was limited to 60 minur=tes and I got warnings when there was only 20 minutes and then 10 minutes left.

There are supposed t be 100 levels, but there's also a levels editor and I think a random generator (though not sure wether our version has this latter facility.

With the tutorial off and auto bonuses turned on, the game is a little more difficult, but on the whole, if you're a regular arkanoid player, this game will seem rather easy. Though I still find it a fun game to play. :)

Oh my, how many levels are there? I'm in level 102 and there's no end in sight. :D
(I had thought maybe level 100 could be the last one. Now I've lost my goal...)

fun game, but a bad day for me to get it, I have 2 papers I have to write for school that are due tonight.
I will add this to my collection of breakout games that include the egyptoids, break out and others, about 7 all together. I play these games when I don't want to use my brain. Thanx GGOTD

Nice game but maybe a little too easy and too little challenging.
Some bad spelling in the game, too.

@25: Yes, I did. It still didn't appeal to me. It seems a bit outdated, the graphics.

BTW, this game is not portable. Unlike most of the other GGAOTD that has unwrapped original game executables, this one reads from a key file in one of the less portable places.

Trademark Infringement?

Public commons: the word has been adopted to describe more than a single good/program, and so, in some countries, cannot be under trademark (i.e tm is null and void)

I like the game, except for two things; there seems to be a small bug whereby the ball can wind up with zero speed. So while the game keeps going, the ball is setting on the screen out of reach of everything and no way to restart it. This happened to me twice today. Eventually one of the monsters got the paddle so I died and it restarted, but it would be annoying on a hard level.

Two, in the install process it tells me "error opening file for writing: \.arkanoidsb\key" which I imagine explains why it is still the "unregistered version". So I'm downloading Furiod, hope that's as good... although I wonder why it has to be 500 megs :)

says file corrupted. would not load or activiate. looking forward to trying out this game.

Game is interesting, but not well balanced. Too many of powerful bonuses, after some training you are going through the game without serious troubles. But the bonus levels are extremely difficult.

quote from the description blurb:

" “Arkanoid: Space Ball” is free to try, which means you buy the game only if you like it."

Is this game a total giveaway today or will you have to buy it after you try it? Maybe an over-excited c&p from the creator's homepage?Thanks in advance for the clarification and as always thank you GAOTD for all the opportunities to try new software.

Monday's free games have been posted over in the games forums. There's a racing pursuit game called Highway Pursuit, plus two bonus games due to having had a racing game last week. They are SpiderZ an FPS interactive comic game and a short platformer game called BotZ: Problems in Bot city:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5222#post-55655

What you waiting for??????
Go downloaded.

have tried downloading this game several times & it won't. says launch error

#13 Get a life - do you work for Taito or something?

The only thing wrong with the game is the appalling English - probably not programmed by an English speaker - think I'll take notes and let them know the mistakes!

GMMan - I turned off the tutorial, like you I do not care for all the writing everywhere. It was fine after that. Have you tried playing it with the tutorial turned off?

started playing and it definitely seems to be a keeper! turned off the tips after the first round and by the third round was getting the hang of what the bonuses were. takes a bit of getting used to but that is what makes it so much fun. thanks for another great game!

@13:
What are you talking about? "copyright infringment"? Com'on! Have you not looked around this site? Other than almost everyone does copyright infringement, this site doesn't at all. Go through the site, read the "About" and pages like it, this is fully legal, by permission of the owner of the game (I think thats who).

and you spelled it rong:
"copyright infringment" should be
copyright infringement

=samous
-PS:Hopefully sometime you can get some REALLY good games, although some of these may be fun, they seam too much like flash games then ones you can get from companies like "EA Games", "Activision", ect. Try asking for permission to host games by Chris Sawyer (Tycoon Games) here.
Website:
http://www.chrissawyer.com/

I find that the interface detracts from the game. The tutorial is quite obstructive, and random items flying across the board makes the game cluttered. I say it rates below most arkanoids given away here previously.

@W.D.: Aw, come on. Don't be a party pooper. It seems to me that "Arkanoid" is an entire category of games, not just a trademark of some company.

Downloaded it, played it, hey its a neat game. I am not a fan of breakout style games, but this has a lot of different quirks. Very neat, thanks giveaway team. :-)

Excellent game, installed and runs flawlessly on Vista Home Premium 32 bit. Be sure to install it as an administrator, either by right-clicking the setup file then left-clicking "run as administrator", or by typing "run" in the "start search" field directly above the start button, then browsing to the setup executable, which will do the same thing.

Thanks again, GGOTD and White Rabbit!

It's nice to see Arkainoid game offered here. Some arkanoids can be addicting. I have just downloaded and installed this, can't say if it's one of those.
Thanks GAOTD.

What a shame and to think I was going to mow the yard... for those of you who like break-out style games.. this one is just as good as any I've played... thanks GAOTD.

I wasn't going to download this, am not a big fan of breakout games, but when i saw the with the 'trademark' blah blah, I changed my mind. Way to backfire buster.

Good game - it runs also on Vista 64bit

A good and somewhat unusual version of an old classic genre.

hello is this just a guy game ?

This game is illegal, it is a trademark and copyright infringment on the Arkanoid trademark from Taito, and so should not be published here at all

Jak to arkanoid ktoś lubi to proszę ja należe do zwolenników tego typu gier.....polecam!

Edit by moderator:

part translation using Google:

I belong to the supporters of this type of games ... .. I recommend!

Not really a fan of breakout games but this one is fine for what it is. Not the greatest weekend at GGOTD...more games like Jets N Guns Gold ect.YAY thx

lovin it!

One of our community members ozzyzzo has just converted his shareware version of an arkanoid game he developed called Furoid to freeware.

You can find details in the arkanoid thread over in the forums. To those that have previously downloaded the original shareware version, the bug that was present previously has been fixed. The game is one of the better freeware versions of this genre and if you like todays game you'll probably like Furoid. It is a very large download at 540Mb, but there has been a lot packed into the game. (p.s the download speed may be rather slow due to large numbers of community members downloading it) Thank you ozzyzzo, I'm loking forwards to checking out the full version. :lol:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2607/page/3

Thank you, GGAOTD... this certainly does put a different perspective on arkanoids! I'm not really a big fan of them, but I'll certainly be keeping this one for awhile. And thanks for your review and insight, Sir Wrabbit!

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