Good luck everyone. This is the sort of game I like but I downloaded from MyPlayCity no problems.

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:)

nice game

With all the Total Entries, prefer buy it cause any chance to win. But I'm disappointed because the game stop in the video presentation or on the first screen. So can't play it, so sorry! probably the Intel Graphics 3000 not enough!

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Sorry to hear you are having problems playing the game Luc. It may be that you just need to update the drivers for your on-board graphic chip. You can get the appropriate drivers for te Intel Graphics 3000 chip via the following link:

Click HERE.

You could also try turning off unneeded background programs. A great and free application called Game booster free's up around 30% of your System RAM and can improve your game performance massively. It has a small footprint, so is very useful if you feel your system is under powered. You can get the program free from the Razer site HERE.

The Intel Graphics 3000 chip is just over 5 years old, but will still be okay for most arcade games except perhaps the latest releases. It's less likely to be good enough for most AAA games, but I would think the game I posted brief details of (i.e. Men of Honor: Pacific Assault), being 10 years old would play okay. You may have to dial down the graphic modes such as resolution and turn of anti-aliasing, but the chip isn't that old to be totally defunct. My old i7 2600K is based on the same architecture though using the full 12 cores, whereas the Intel graphic 300 chip only uses a tiny proportion of the available cores. Still, I am still able to play the latest games at full resolution with my 5 year old Intel chip. (I will be upgrading soon). It will also depend on how much sysRAM you have.

p.s. Game Booster temporarily turns off system applications that are not needed to play the game and you can also configure it to turn off non system programs, for example programs you may have installed via the giveaway project that run in the background and therefore use valuable system resources. Once Game Booster has been configured to accept the games you play (a simple click of a button sets the program up), whenever you start a game via Game Booster it will automatically turn off unnecessary programs and when you have finished playing the game, the resources will be automatically turned back on, so it's a painless process, but can add renewed vigor to your aging processor. :)

Dieses Spiel ist gut und man kann viel lernen

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Danke für Ihren Kommentar Jens , erfreut, dass Sie das Spiel gefällt .

Evidently not free. Turned into a big hassle & not worth it I'd rather put out 2.99

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Hi Linda, it's only free for a limited number of community members. All you have to do is link to your Facebook account, post on twitter, join a Steam group etc. All free. Though as I've already mentioned, not a very inspiring game and as it cost less than $3 I wouldn't have bothered. That said, i already purchased the game on Steam when it was released.

Is this Game Giveawayoftheday, or Game Contestoftheday ?
Have fun Jumping through hoops.
A lot will not bother.
If it is Giveawayoftheday, then it should stay Giveawayoftheday.
I pass on this one.

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The game is an extra to the game giveaway, which today is Star Sky 2. We will still be getting our usual game giveaways every weekend, but on some days the team have managed to secure keys for versions of games that can be installed at any time, not just on the day of the giveaway. They are EXTRA to the game giveaway, not a replacement.

Haven't decided to enter yet, so looked over Whiterabbit's 3 youtube video walkthrough links. The 3rd link is just a very short, low quality montage from BigFish, if you just want to get a very basic look. Neither of the other 2 illustrate the logjam effect the GameZebo reviewer mentions. The 1st link is by a proficient player, at least proficient enough to breeze through the 1st 6 levels. The 2nd link is from from a player struggling some on level 2, only earning a bronze. It appears this player is thinking a little too linearly, not really multi-tasking, which is a necessity in a game of this type. For instance, that player left 2 workers mining ore, when probably 1 would have done for some or all of the level.
The 1st video also includes the music, the 2nd only the sound effects, so there must be separate volume controls under options. You can use that 2nd video to assess better whether the sound effects will wear on you too much. As to the reviewers complaint about the music, it is and isn't true. There's more than 10 or 15 seconds of music, but it's composed by a minimalist, so the main theme is only about 8 bars and repeats over and over, ad infinitum, while the harmonic accompaniment changes slightly. That said, the whole thing doesn't last that long, maybe 32 bars, couldn't really tell. So, though simple games generally don't feature lots of music variety, the reviewers right in saying the effect here can become annoying too quickly for many.
Overall, since the 1st video available covered only the 1st 6 levels, though that's a more than adequate walkthrough usually, it's difficult to tell whether the game is challenging, tedious, or only enjoyable challenging for those who like very similar repetitive action. The video of that adept player breezing through the 1st 6 levels just doesn't give any hints of whether there really are potential logjams later on do to bad game design, or whether the reviewer just didn't grasp the gist of the strategy.
As I have said before, TM games walk a very thin tightrope between mentally stimulating and repetitive rat race. The latter of which many of us can already get at work. ;) I might give it a shot and enter. Thanks GGOTD and Alawar. And Whiterabbit, of course.

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Thanks for your detailed feedback. I rushed through the write up for this game, partly because i wanted to concentrate on the main game giveaway, so didn't research it fully. I've actually played the game when it was first released, but I play so many games I'd totally forgotten the whole game play. As I've said before I'm not a great lover of most TM games, but this type and those of a Farm management style are ones I can tolerate. The game has actually got a lot of good reviews over on Steam. You can see those via the following link:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/397770/#app_reviews_hash

You'll need to copy and paste into your browser as I've got so many comments to moderate and all I want to do is start tomorrows review and go to bed, otherwise I'd have placed the correct code for it to be clickable link.

If get this message from gleam.io, when you want to join the alawar games group on steamSorry, we cannot check private or limited profiles. Read this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3330-IAGK-7663 Here stand the reasons and how You could change it.

A game I would Play and I do not play games that often, looks like a lot of fun

I hate trying to win something we used to get for free! I also don't want to give steam my email so they can spam me forever, and it's just not worth setting up a throwaway email for a CHANCE to get a game that I never own and can't download.

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Hi Joe, you have no need to give anyone your email. nor have a Face Book account. Just go through the motions and you'll find you can still download the games. You still do get games for free, every weekend. Sometimes we miss a day and very occasionally the whole weekend, but that's down to being able to get games free every weekend. The game that has limited supplies is nothing to do with the regular game giveaway, it's an extra, that gives some community members the chance to own a full version game that can be installed at any time, not just on the day of the giveaway. If you don't want to apply for one of the free codes, don't, but don't knock it either. It's better to have this extra, with a 100 community members being able to get an extra game than none at all. i really don't know why community members are so negative about it.

There is no link to download 'Meridian: Age of Invention' that I can see. The only thing that I can find is the "Join and Win" button, and it just moves me down the page to a link to join Alawar Games on Steam, which I have no desire to do.

The moderator has stated, in response to an earlier comment about the contest: "This game is extra to the usual game giveaway. Everyone who visits today can still get a game totally free, plus they can win a license to another game." However, there is no other game being shown as a giveaway today, so in effect there is no free game today.

Win Meridian: Age of Invention

Sadly, farewell. Site changes killed it for me.

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Seems a little extreme considering everything given away here is free. Things may have become a little more difficult at this time, but the end result is still the same, i.e. a free game. We can only depend on the kindness of the developers who donate to this site. I know that changes for example the recent site overhaul, can often cause consternation among the community. I too hate the new design,, it's made my moderating more difficult, but I still see the potential to get new games totally for free.

That said, it's your choice if you no longer wish to get free games from here. There are of course the other free game sites, but they also come with more hidden problems. at least the games we get from the game giveaway site are clear of malware and hidden extra's such as tool bars, browser changes, home page changes, in game adverts and your browser is never opened up to the contributors home page whenever you close down a game you got from them.

I hate this new business you've got going on. It really sucks! Why can't we have the old hidden object and other games?

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Hi Fran, we can only get games that the developers give to us. At least we are getting free games and the opportunity to try different genres. Okay, not every game is going to be likes=d by each community member who visits here, but we do get games for free virtually every weekend. If a game doesn't appeal, then maybe the next one will. Sadly, we don't get to choose what games are being given away.

Personally I have a lot to thank the game giveaway team, because before this project went live, I was blinkered with respect to arcade games. I played mainly breakouts and space shooters before the game giveaway project started. I never considered buying other arcade games (partly due to my love of AAA games such as RPG's and First Person Shooters) such as Match Three's, Sudoku, Time Management, Hidden Object and Tower Defense games etc. At the time those genres just didn't appeal to me; however, once the game giveaway project started, we were getting a different game for free every day for almost a year before we received any repeats, which gave me the opportunity to try out many of those games I wouldn't have bothered with prior to the inception of the GameGiveawayoftheday. This project opened up the world of arcade games to me and for that I've always felt indebted to them. It's one of the reasons I've spent the last nine years volunteering to moderating these comments, writing reviews and administering and posting in the giveaway forums for thousands of hours totally for free.

:(

I love these games and would love to win a license.

Happy Easter!

WHAT A FUNNY STUPID JOKE !

100 license keys for more than millions of users..

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Hi Animator

This game is extra to the usual game giveaway. Everyone who visits today can still get a game totally free, plus they can win a license to another game. It's giving a hundred community members the chance to get a free license that's different to your usual game giveaways. With these 100 you get a full license that enables you to install the game on any computer at any time after the game giveaway has finished. The team are trying some different tactics to bring in more community members. The more who visit this site, the more chance we have to get more and better games.

All that aside, thank you for your feedback; do you have any suggestions as to how the developer could improve the game?