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<title><![CDATA[By: karolb]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190523</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another interesting game. Personally, I ignored the whole global warming/pollution aspect and just looked at it like a puzzle game - one can imagine the clouds to be anything (insect awarms, toxic gases, etc.) and avoid the political aspect of it entirely.

I also found both the radar effect and the green background to be distracting and did much better once I was able to change the background from green to a whitish color. Still, I found the game to be quite challenging especially since I kept having to look down to make sure I was pressing the correct fast/slow button.

I would like to add "control remapping" to the suggestions list so I could change the keys to something that works better for me.

Thanks to GOTD and Vertigo for the game and Whiterabbit for the thorough review.




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Thank you for your feedback karolb.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:07:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: HerTechSupport]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190512</link>
<description><![CDATA[@14 : Duncan Fisher: "I’m on a mac..."
 Crossover Games from Http://www.codeweavers.com is easy, fast, low impact and fairly cheap. It runs Windows games on a Mac running OSX. I don't know about IOS/Lion, I've given up updating the wife's box. 

18 : McSpocky : "I LOVE that the premise of this game is to fight global warming."
  To each his own, Sir, but I would love a world without Winter. A world where I didn't need heating in my home, ever. A world where the air is dense, warm and wet enough for dragons to fly. Fifty-foot flying pterosaurs darkening the skies like passenger pigeons. 
  Earth has been many Celsius hotter than it is now. We are in fact in the middle of a massive Ice Age and just barely coming out of it, to return to more "normal" weather. 
  If AGW is happening - doubtful - it is a *GOOD* *THING*. Through another log on the fire, run your five-ton SUV a few more miles,  chuck another prawn n the barbie... but make snow and ice obsolete terms, save for their use to decribe things like Mimas.
 Global Warming is *necessary*. This planet is too damned cold and has been for the last couple of millions of years. It's well past time we made it tropical from pole to pole. As it usually is. 
  The game? She doesn't like tricksy 3d effects. It wears on her. Most especially after her strokes. She doesn't have the processing capability to cope with it anymore. 
  And, as you can guess, I am not happy with envirowhiner, greenie, treehuggeer propaganda. It looks like a well-done game but if I want pro-Ice-Age tax-loving dogma, I'll just watch the BBC News. 
  I'll pass, thank you.  
                          HTS




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Thank you for your interesting  feedback  :lol:]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:23:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: DavetteB]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190504</link>
<description><![CDATA[I tried to download this twice and it keeps giving messages that it didn't download correctly - file corrupt.

any clues?

don't really need another game, but I thought my son would like it.  Sorry I didn't catch this  post in time for you to try



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Try using another  archiver such as 7-Zip or J-Zip.  I've had problems  using winrar on some giveaways.  It threw up the same message, yet when I used  one of the free  archivers it worked. 

When such things happen it's worth deleting the giveaway cookie from the Temp internet file  or  rebooting your modem and/or router]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:16:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Anidem]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190503</link>
<description><![CDATA[This game would have been cool as hell.  If it were still 1978 and it was for my Atari 2600. All cheap shots aside though....

I will say one thing for those who may think it is the Eco stuff that may be driving a lack of positive response.  While that is probably true for some, I find that the one thing that make players go yuck quickly is what they consider jenky controls. This lasted less than 2 minutes with me as I found it uncontrollable.

Players do not mind learning how to play a new game, but controls are an instinctual thing to most.  Game styles that players favor are predicated more by how they naturally handle the controls than most people will admit to. For example, you will not find many heavy handed, slow reactors mastering driving games.  Nor will you find those who prefer Mouse over Keyboard on the Starcraft 2 rankings.

While learning a new game and thinking strategy over is something that can be easily swapped out with a change of games.  One natural tendencies with controls are not.  

The problem I see here is that the game appeals to one kind of player by description (strategy minded).  However, its controls seem geared to players who would be good at modern driving games.  This is just one of those parings that really do not mesh on any level.


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Thank you for your feedback Anidem]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:07:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: McSpocky]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190478</link>
<description><![CDATA[Edited... I should have read my comment more carefully before posting the first time.

I LOVE that the premise of this game is to fight global warming. There are very few things happening in our world today that are as important as global warming, and too many people just pooh poohing the idea of global warming away. To those people, your grand children and their grand children are going to be wondering why people today weren’t intelligent enough to care about global warming and do something about it. People need to wake up.

For this reason alone, I am downloading and installing the game!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:34:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Dean Allen]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190474</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pretty good. I like the music, so maybe I'm retro(??). 3D is a great idea. My suggestion to the developer is change the global warming to global cooling. Seeing as we'd just had our two worse winters ever it's obvious that the pollution is causing cooling due to the pollutants blocking the sunshine.

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Hi Dean, the air quality is  better than it has been for  many years since the advent of   smokeless fuels.  I can still remember the  sulperous smells from  all the coal fires that used to burn in my home town back in the 1960's.  since the clean air act was  brough in in  the UK air quality has improved vastly, that  said.....   better not  go any further, lol]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:13:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dean Allen]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Melissa]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190470</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seeing as it is a 'green' game this is probably not going to change any time soon but perhaps you need to add #14 to your list of suggestions.  It is a pretty fun little however my son, who seems quite interested in the premise, is colorblind.  This poses an issue. Not one that can be fixed I think although I have noted several games lately that have had a colorblind mode.




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Good point Melissa, my son is also  color blind (red/green)]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:22:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: LukeWarm]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190468</link>
<description><![CDATA[This game isn't made because of some political agenda. Greentech was originally a submission to the Yoyogames competition 4 which had "Save the planet" -theme. It won the first prize $1000. 

http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=501

I have played the free version before the commercial version appeared and didn't like it that much. Gameplay is easy to get hang of and graphics are quite unique indeed. I didn't find many long-lasting appealing elements though (besides unlockables), but that's entirely subjective opinion.

I'm looking forward to seeing more quality Game Maker creations here on gaotd.


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Thank you for your feedback   :)]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:21:07 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Duncan Fisher]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190467</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm on a mac, I'm guessing there's no mac alternative for it out there?  Would love to give this a go, would install it on my Windows computer but it's at home and I won't be there any time soon.

Looks interesting.

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We seem to get  games from Vertigo around this time each year, so there's always next year.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:18:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Terri]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/greentechplus/#comment-190458</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just want to second the comment about the whole green political issue. For me, I was ready to give managing pollution a shot until I saw the goal was to prevent global warming. You cannot print my reaction to that. I play games as an escape from that kind of thing.

I'm a programmer but have no idea how games are written. Seeing so many different games where the basic concept stays the same, I have to assume it must be easier to change the presentation than start something completely new. If that's the case, perhaps this game could be morphed into a different one that didn't involve such a sensitive issue as its goal.

Also, I watched some gameplay video and agree with the suggestion to toggle off the radar effect.


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I think the  developer must have  some interest in  environmental issues judging  from   previous tiles (Sandbox of God) and  his most recent title OilBlue).  Thanks for your feedback.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:20:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Terri]]></dc:creator>
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