A kilowatt's better than nothing! LOL. Oh, and belated condolences for the loss of your little friend, WR. Sailorbear, I've been meaning to say thanks for all your conscientious reviews. Like Whiterabbit, you've gone "above and beyond the call of duty". Thanks again.

Posted to pass on something minor, and ruminate a little. Tried 3 of Ashoot's games and they are not compatible with my XP. Get the "not a valid Win32 application" notice. Could be, too, that they are only 64 bit compatible, which is, of course, the current norm. Will probably refrain from testing further of his offerings unless it looks like a real winner, making it worth the potential (short term, "nudge, nudge, wink, wink") disappointment if it won't run. This is different from the previous problem, where it was all of the Itch game installers which weren't compatible, thus no installs at all. All of the recent Itch's I've tried install properly, thanks GGOTD or Itch for that.

Btw, to wax philosphical, something I'm observing. Some of these Unity engine designed games seem rather large for such relatively simple games, compared to the older standard. We've received scores of games here that are more complex than some of these whose sizes were in the 10-20 meg range. In fact, the only weekend games that eclipse these Unity games in size - usually Hidden Object - are full of detailed graphics and often relatively complex animations. The old standard for home software development was, of course, pre .net framework Visual Basic, which required more "hand coding" ,if you will, than the modern game engines, like Unity. It fell out of vogue, partly because it was the old principal source of "Blue Screen of Death" errors, mainly when developers tried to address commands to the graphic chips directly, rather than going through Windows. Windows long ago successfully implemented a virtual "layer" of instruction handling to mitigate this - and released a .net framework based version of VB - though the occasional developer using old VB violates this and manages to cause the occasional crash. However this, and old Visual Basic, are mostly a thing of the past. Of course, to be fair, VB often uses code already built in to Windows - mainly Dynamic Link Libraries - though, on the other hand, these are usually quite small.

Apparently, all of these games from Ashoot are actually small, but are built around a 112.3 MB code text file which, I assume, contains all of the necessary Unity code. This is also present in the recently given away Memory Game from another developer on Itch.

I don't know if any of that is particularly important, other than, perhaps, a realization that no game we get that's been built with Unity may be less than 100 MB, but, in this age of terabyte storage... And I only have 4 examples from 2 developers to compare, so this may be only 1 way to develop a game in Unity.

I smashed a finger on my right hand in the patio door on Monday evening so I am trying my best to type out this review. I did email my doctor with pictures and hoping that it does not get worse as I was bleeding quite a bit which since it happened to have stopped.

Today's game seems to be inspired by older classic Atari Games. There is one in particular called Kaboom where you have to catch projectiles (bombs) in a basket. Let one drop and you lose a life. You can see the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTi4wjcxG0o

It's a 41 second video which will get you right to the point on how this game compares to todays giveaway.

Gameplay is super simple you just move your paddle left and right to catch the eggs. This game lacks analog control particularly the ability to precisely move your paddle left and right using the mouse which would significantly make playing the game easier. Speaking of easier, I started out with the easy level and the game was throwing surprises at me as its a different pattern it throws out eggs every time.

I guess I kind of giggled when that happened but then I realized that its the nature of the game.

Its not a fancy game by any means but it may take you back memory wise to those games on Atari 2600 where you had to use the paddle to play the games.

Not sure if I'll be able to post a full review today. We have guys coming early tomorrow morning before this game goes live. We are having solar panels fitted (finally).

We went ahead several years ago; paid a deposit then sent the remainder of the cash (around £5000; luckily as a cheque). They were supposed to start on a particular day; no one turned up, after phoning without success for almost a week, I finally got through to a secretary who told me they had gone into liquidation. She also said she hadn't put our cheque in the bank because she had been forewarned of it. We phoned our bank to cancel the cheque just in case it still got cashed. We lost our deposit of around £400. That put us off going ahead with other companies until recently when a neighbour had the work done, so we got the same guys.

Anyway; I think they will be disconnecting the electrics on and off throughout the day, so it's doubtful I'll be able to post anything. I'll check back in the evening to see if I need to moderate anything.

I managed to grab literally a few moments only before retiring last night.

Electronics:

In Brief:
Catch the falling eggs in the basket using the left and right arrow keys or the A & D keys to move the basket left and right. There are three difficulty levels. Every egg you drop, you lose a life. The level appear endless until you've lost all of your lives. The easy mode gives you four lives, the medium and hard modes three lives.

Graphics are very basic. There appears to be only one level.

It's an okay time waster during short coffee/tea breaks, but not a game I'd be playing for more than 10 minutes at a time, and once I got to a point where I couldn't improve on my catches, I'd give up on it totally. It would be much improved with additional levels
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You can see a video of game play HERE