Comments on: Twinxoid

By: sherwood01

sherwood01 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:24:47 +0000

Looks pretty, but hated the fact that at least in the levels I tried, you have to whack every single brick 4 times before it disappears. I don’t mind that on SOME bricks in these breakout games, but having that on ALL of them is a drag. Deleted this one already. I much preferred the breakout game from the other day, Barkanoid was it? Much better gameplay.

By: rosy14rb

rosy14rb — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:01:48 +0000

Hey to whom this might concern,
I can’t seem to get this activated.
I’m using vista home
i’ve installed twice and nothing.
Can you help me before the time runs out?
ty
rosy14rb

By: Skye-hook

Skye-hook — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:06:08 +0000

Thank you!

By: SGray

SGray — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:10:42 +0000

I downloaded and played this game before many times. It starts out slow but speeds up pretty quickly. I enjoyed it and still occasionally play it. The only criticism I have for the designers is that some of the boards are very hard on the eyes. They have light balls on light backgrounds. Please designers, if you read this, can you improve that?

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:13:17 +0000

Fun game! Thanks!

But I couldn’t help but notice a misspelled word. It’s “lose the ball” not “loose the ball”.

By: Batman

Batman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:30:56 +0000

First time I ran the game it froze up on my Windows XP system. The second time I won a game and then it crashed.
Also, the Twinxoid weblink installed during setup takes you to a car insurance site.

By: WhiteRabbit - aka Stephen

WhiteRabbit - aka Stephen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:42:18 +0000

Mark comment #28, thanks for the heads up on Takamaru, although it is technically shareware not freeware. The author is relying on the goodwill of consumers to pay the £5 for registration, although you do get the full game….the only restriction being the inability to use cheat codes and to upload your scores onto the world wide high score table as well as being unable to save your games. It wont work on XP Pro + SP2, as you require a 16 bit core system, but oddly it does play via Vista. Unfortunately the link you have provided is dead. I found an alternative link below, but I did get a few pop ups.

http://www.taka-entertainment.com/TM.html

I checked the game out and realized I’d seen other work by this guy. I’ve even corresponded to him about the other game, which is a very strange game that partly an arkanoid style game, with a BIG difference. It almost has a quest style aspect to it, with much of the arena being hidden until you’ve cleared a path to it. Also it includes an editor…. later on that one though …… At this time I haven’t access to the HDD that has the game on it, (the computer is still in bits behind me, waiting for me to re-assemble it after cleaning and upgrading it). Unfortunately I can’t remember it’s name. His work is done in C++ and the graphics are several years behind the times, however the game above and the one I’ll post about once I can find it are both worthy efforts although IMO not to the standard and gameplay as todays giveaway. Anyway, thanks again for the link.

Also one of the links I posted from my (according to the Biggest_Baddest_Wolf my Novel, lol) comment #5 needs to be copied and pasted as I didn’t activate it. Here’s a different link as the one I posted above seems to be dead also.

Ploing (Freeware):

http://membres.lycos.fr/plong/

The freeware version is only 17 levels in size, downloadablw from two links via the above link. I’ve included a link for the demo of Ploing 2 which is much more polished. To buy the full version will cost you nearly $20 but I’m sure there are some fanatical arkanoid freaks out there

Ploing 2 (Shareware):

http://www.ploing2.de/English/

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Avoid the following link: GGAotD team, if it’s possible to edit out the link below from my comment #5 as it has links to other more unsavory sites. Thanks.

http://freewaregaming.com/aa/ploing.html

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By: Gessika

Gessika — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:54:33 +0000

Oh, I like this game so much. Lots of fun. Thank you.

By: Diane K

Diane K — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:36:05 +0000

Is this game controlled only with the arrow keys or can you use a mouse?
Thank you.

By: Andrea R

Andrea R — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:02:15 +0000

Thank You as always for GAOTD’s generous and fun programs.
I get excited every day when I go to see the fine gifts You lay
at my digital feet. Your gifts add up to more than my so-called expendable income each month. I’m an Ex-Lockheed/Martin Technical
Analyst with a 3-1/2 to 4 inch brain tumor.
Thank You sincerely!