The unique gameplay together with quality graphics and elaborate plot are sure to involve even the most demanding players. Get Rollin Spells game FREE on GOTD.

#8

This is a good website! Will youu update it often?

Will you care if I share this together with good friends in fb?

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#7

I can't say that I will love this game but its worth a try and I think my young son could get some play time with it. I love Big Fish Games or ones that have them as a "home page" site. You can trust all their games. I have been a member there for quite some time. Love getting this game free!!! Thank you GGOTD
Stephen, I don't know how you do all that needs to be done! Thank you for what you can do for us.

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Thanks for your feedback Cindi. It's probably because I took early retirement (well was forced into early retirement at 49) due to a serious road traffic accident that left me unable to work; so I have a lot of time on my hands (usually).

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#6

It was given away Feb 2013. Not a bad game, but I found it boring after awhile.

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#5

The game running fine on Windows 8.

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#4

Haven't tried one of these level switching games for a while and never this one. Worth a shot. And complainers, please leave alone GOTD. Geez who makes offers like this nowadays, and over long weekend!

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#3

I can agree with Joe in that the game has one simple premise.... tilt the platform and roll the ball to the target. Each level does not challenge the player to think "What am I supposed to do this time". But the same with many match 3 games.

(Installed last giveaway and still play)
Had no problem installing and activating. Graphics and game play were appealing enough to keep me returning yet the audio did need a boost. My daughter has enjoyed it a lot more than I have and continues to play it today.

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#2

Flick bees and rotate ramps to make the balls fall into the right jar. If they fall on a lock, you lose a life. On levels marked with a pink circle direct the falling objects onto a monster to kill it. Nothing particularly entertaining, interesting or challenging. You can probably complete the game without bothering to learn about various "spells" you can create. Got it during the last giveaway, didn't love it then and don't now. No surprise it's getting more negative votes, since there is no novelty factor. And, BTW, haven't there been a bit too many reruns recently?

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Hi Joe,

Re repeats. You've got to remember these developers are giving away thousands of copies of their games every week. They get regular income from places like MyPlayCity, Jenkat Games, Gametop etc, from the giveaway team they get a small thank you. There are only several developers giving games away at the moment. until the economic situation improves we aren't going to see new games every week. At least repeats give those new to the project a chance to get these games. also those who lose the games to a format or new computers get to reinstall.

We are still getting never before given away games; maybe not as many as a few years ago, but all the same, they're free, so why complain?

Since mid July we've had 10 new games compared to 5 repeats. If you look back over the last year, since the 1st Sept 2012 we've had 65 new games compared to 39 repeats. Not quite 2 to 1, but almost, so for every repeat we get two never before given away games, which in my opinion is extremely good considering the economic climate we find ourselves in.

There has never been a better time for increasing your games libraries. with sales on virtually all the time, Indie Game bundles that give you hundreds of dollars worth of games for less than a cup of coffee as well as the free game sites springing up regularly, the cost of game shas never been so low.

Flick bees and rotate ramps to make the balls fall into the right jar. If they fall on a lock, you lose a life. On levels marked with a pink circle direct the falling objects onto a monster to kill it. Nothing particularly entertaining, interesting or challenging. You can probably complete the game without bothering to learn about various "spells" you can create. Got it during the last giveaway, didn't love it then and don't now. No surprise it's getting more negative votes, since there is no novelty factor. And, BTW, haven't there been a bit too many reruns recently?

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Hi Joe,

Re  repeats.  You've got to remember   these developers are giving away thousands of copies of their games every week.  They get regular income from places like MyPlayCity, Jenkat Games, Gametop etc, from the giveaway team they get a small  thank you.  There are only several developers giving  games away  at the moment.  until the economic situation improves   we aren't going to see new games every week.  At least repeats give those new to the project a chance to get these games.  also  those who lose the games  to a format or  new computers get to  reinstall.

We are still getting never before given away games; maybe not as many as  a few years ago, but all the same, they're free, so why  complain?

Since mid July we've had 10 new games compared to 5 repeats.  If you look back over the last year, since the 1st Sept 2012 we've had 65  new games compared to 39 repeats.  Not quite 2 to 1, but  almost, so for every  repeat we get  two never before given away games, which in my opinion is extremely good considering the economic climate we find ourselves in.

There has never been a better time for  increasing your games libraries.  with  sales on virtually all the time, Indie Game bundles that give you hundreds of dollars worth of games for less than a cup of coffee as well as the free game sites springing up  regularly,  the cost of game shas never been so low.

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As yesterday, I'm extremely busy again today as we only have two weeks left before we move and there is still masses to do (emptying our old house, decorating and repairing loads of things in readiness for renting as well as ordering flooring etc for the new house (got a lot of shopping around to do for kitchen stuff etc). I'll moderate as often as I can, but it's more likely to be much later this afternoon or evening. Hopefully, once I've moved I'll be able to return to my old reviews and moderate more frequently. Please do leave feedback about the game, wheter it's positive or negative, it's always welcome. Please do remember that this is a family site so no swearing. :)

Rolling Spells:

In Brief:

Rolling spells has a vague connection to Pachinko games, so if you like Peggle Deluxe or Dachinko you’ll probably also like this game. It’s not really a pachinko game but the pins with movable platforms gives it a look of a Pachinko game; however, there the resemblance ends. Basically you have a steady stream of colored balls called spells falling from the top of the playing arena. You have to direct these into various colored containers that match the colour of the spells that are falling from the top of the board. Once you’ve created the Magic spell (which is made from a combination of spell ingredients) the level ends. Using the magic spells collected from the side areas of the gaming arena can significantly help your progress.

Installation:

Rolling Spells downloads to a 95.1 MB zip file that unpacks to a read me and a wrapped setup activation file (the orange colored file with the key symbol), plus there's a setup file with security (setup.gcd) that's protected from being hacked. This file may case some security software to alert the user to a possible malware attack, but it will be a false positive.

The game giveaway team check all game giveaways for malware using several well known anti -malware suites. There has never been a game giveaway infected with malware since the project started back in Dec 2006. The installed game is MB in size. and installs to:

C:\Games\Rolling_Spells_game\game.exe

by default but can be changed to suit whatever your wishes are. There is no uninstaller, but this game is free standing so to delete just remove the installed folder from your hard drive. No shortcuts are installed so you will have to create your own which as most of you know is easy an easy process (right click on the games executable then select ‘Send to’ then from the drop down menu select ‘Desktop (create shortcut) ’). If you want to create a start menu/programs folder you’ll need to find the appropriate folders via your account. Once the game is installed you can delete the giveaway setup files.

I've only tested the game on Win 7 this time around, Anyone running Win 8, Vista or XP, please confirm whether this game works Thanks.

If you miss today's game or have problems running it, try the free version which you can download 24/7 from GAMETOP HERE or from MyPlayCity HERE

Introduction:

Rolling spells was given away previously almost 2 years ago on the 16th April 2011. It received a positive 68% out of 270 votes with 44 comments which can be seen HERE . It was also given away back in February of this year where it received a positive 68% out of 204 votes with 20 comments which you can read HERE

Rolling Spells offers you the new and original game play, bright graphics and intriguing plot. The action takes place in the Fairyland that has been invaded by a strange creature, the mighty Elephly. And you’re the one, without whom the Good Fairy would never be able to defeat him. It’s only your skill and smartness that can help the Fairy to prepare magic potions and defeat the Elephly and his cunning companions. You’ll have to pass through 35 levels and fight with eight original monsters. A detailed adventure map and useful tips from the Fairy are always there to help you not to get lost. The map allows you not only to see the way you’ve already passed, but also check out how it has been passed. For each victory, you’ll get a prize – gold, silver or bronze. Although true heroes would content only with gold! Therefore, having taken a rest, you can repass the level and get the highest scores. Besides the map and Fairy’s tips, there’s also the indispensable “Book of Knowledge”. This short encyclopaedia will help you to remember how this or that spell works, how you can get a prize, what you should do and what you should fear.
Well, happy trails! Defeat all the monsters, set the Fairyland free and get all the golden prizes!

Reference accessed HERE 15th April 2011

Useful comments to read from the first time this was given away back in 2011:

Mike comment no 6, GMMan comment 21, Jibaro comment no 24, nanex comment 30 (if you have problems with audiere.dll). Also if you're using XP, then make sure your Direct X is up to date. (You can't use DX10 or 11, only DX9.0c which you can get from Microsoft if needed)

The Game:

There are two modes, Adventure and Survival. In adventure mode you use a map to follow a path through the kingdom, fighting various boss monsters on your way. Survival mode is basically a never-ending level that only ends when you’ve lost your lives. You lose a life when you miss placing a spell ingredient into the correct container. This has to be unlocked by finishing the first 10 levels from Adventure mode. You can replay any level in Adventure mode so long as it’s been unlocked first.

There are three levels of difficulty; easy, normal and hard, that can be selected via the buttons (left and right arrows) just below the players name. You can set up multiple profiles which makes this a great family game because you can allocate a profile to each family member and progress will be saved for that particular profile.

The settings menu is very basic with sliders to adjust the volume of music and sound effects plus toggles for changing the game from full screen to windowed mode (the game starts off in full screen by default). You can also toggle the game cursor back to a windows cursor if you wish.

There are 35 levels in the Adventure mode roughly divided up into 8 sections. Each area ends with a boss fight, which differs from the main game in that you have to direct a pink ball onto the monster associated with that level. To make the boss fight more difficult the boss moves along the bottom of the board and you have to work out where the boss will be when the ball gets to the bottom. you can hold balls on the platform by clicking on the platform until you wish it to drop; however, if another ball touches the ball you are holding, both balls are destroyed.

You can earn Bronze, Silver or Gold awards for each level which will show up on the map as a coin placed over the level marker. There are also several awards which can be accessed from the main menu or from the playing arena if required. These awards are separated in to Bronze, Silver and Gold categories, include not losing a life during a level, killing 10 bees or getting a specific number of the same ingredient into the correct container during a level as well as others.

At the start of the game you are given a short tutorial that talks you through all the new steps (which you can see via the slideshow that I’ve posted below).

The playing arena is made up of rows of movable platforms that pivot on a central pin. Clicking on a platform will turn the platform to the right or left enabling you to direct the falling spell ingredients to the correct container, or occasionally to direct a gold coin onto one of the golden pointers which unlocks a useful spell that helps you attain certain objectives. There are six golden pointers, each containing a magic spell. Once accessed a spell is stored at the bottom of the playing arena until needed, at which time you just have to click on it to use it.

You can see what each spell does by looking at the book of knowledge which is accessible via the book button above the life indicator (to the top left of the playing arena). You have three lives to start and you can store up to four spells at any one time. If you want to collect different spells you will have to use one of the spells filling the four containers. Some examples of spells include the mallet which can be used to remove ice from the platforms. Ice can be annoying because it freezes up the movement of the platform making it impossible to change the direction of the falling ingredients until the ice has been passed; there are different strengths of mallet, the weakest of which will only free one platform and the strongest which frees all the frozen platforms. . Another spell, called ‘Collect all Red spells’ will move all falling red spell ingredients immediately to the red container. apart from platforms freezing you will find other obstacles appearing such as bees who steal the ingredients as they fall, and which you get rid of by clicking on them a few times. As already mentioned, whenever something new appears you will be given instructions on how to cope with it.

System Requirements:

• OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
• CPU: 800 Mhz
• RAM: 256 MB
• DirectX: 7.0
• Hard Drive: 97 MB

Video & Images:

You can see a slide show of around 50 images, that include all the initial instructions on how to play the game HERE

You’ll find videos of game play HERE, HERE (survival mode), and HERE, (there are two videos accessible from this page, one of which is a boss fight)

Music:

You can change the music by swapping the music files via the following path. You will need to rename each file and convert them to the .ogg format. (I suggest backing up the original files).

C:\Games\Rolling Spells\Music

Conclusion:

This is an entertaining game that should keep the whole family happy for short periods. I don't think it's a game you could spend hours playing as there's not a lot of variability in the actual game mechanics and it does seem a little slow; that said if the falling spell ingredients fell any faster i think you'd be hard pressed to complete past the few levels following the 2 level tutorial. I thoroughly enjoyed what game play there was, but i rarely play arcade games for more that 10 to 15 minutes at a time a s I use them to give me a break from bigger titles like Dragonage II, Shogun II: Total War, or Crysis II. The overall look of the game is quite professional and fairy tale cartoon in style and more importantly, it plays well.

Instructions on how to play the game are clear and concise. I reckon there’s also quite a lot of re-playability in this game due to the different difficulty levels and the various awards that can be attained plus the ability to go back and replay unlocked levels so as to improve on your score and perhaps attain a silver instead of bronze or better still a gold award. There are also incentives to carry on if only to win the various awards that are available. It’s quite a simple game with some variability (via the boss levels) and it has some original ideas (as far as I can remember from the many thousands of games I've played over the last 30 plus years.....I've been buying games since 1980), so I think this game is worth a reasonable 6.6 out of 10. (The audio lets it down somewhat, but if you are really bothered by the music, you can change it). :)

Scoring

Gameplay – 7
Graphics – 6
Audio – 5
Re-playability – 7
Originality – 8

Total = 6.6

Problems:

If you have any problems installing or getting today's game to work please go HERE for help, there's a list of FAQ's with answers.

If you are posting late in the day I would also suggest posting in the main giveaway forums in the game discussion section. If you’ve installed the game but it won’t work for some reason, it should still be registered, so someone may be able to help at another time.

Unfortunately if your problem is actually installing it then once the giveaway period is over there’s nothing that can be done until the game is given away again (though that isn’t guaranteed). Though, so long as you have the download, sometimes its still possible to activate an hour or so later.

If you do miss the giveaway, or find it won't work, it’s always worth checking out the free games sites as sometimes the games we get here are also available for free from them. MyPlayCity has the most with over 600 games to choose from. Today's game IS available from GAMETOP HERE or from MyPlayCity HERE .

Please do remember that these free sites have the potential to install toolbars and change your provider. MPC is quite aggressive at the moment. Every time you start a game up, you will need to uncheck the checkboxes if you install the MyPlayCity version.

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Games, Games, and yet more Games:

If you're looking for something other than today's game check the Didimatic site via THIS link for some brilliant deals. Also, Kotaku post the best deals from all of the major distributors HERE

e.g. Steam, Origin, Green Man Gaming, Gamersgate, GameFly, and NewEgg with console games included on Amazon, Best Buy, Groupon and Rakuten

If todays game doesn't appeal to you there are loads of places where you'll find bargains such as Gamersgate, Desura, Steam, Gamefly and Greenman gaming. Plus there are some excellent bundles available at the moment. check the game discussion forums for details of all of the bundles available at this time. You'll only pay around $5 for several games, all of which are excellent, for example The Groupees Capsule computers bundle that includes Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman, Super Sanctum TD, Three Dead Zed, Transcripted, Lost Marbles, Pressure, SpaceChem, Swords & Soldiers HD or the Indie Royale bundle that includes Block Story, ASA: A Space Adventure, "Beware Planet Earth!", Diadra Empty, Bollywood Wannabe, Undead Legions. The Indie Royale Bundle is a debut bundle and comes with greenlit games on Steam so you may get Steam keys later, plus you get a desura key to unlock them on the Desura client as well as DRM free copies. The Groupees bundle comes with a mixture of Steam and Desura keys. The Humble bundles latest weekly bundle includes a great line up of games for only $1 you'll get Europa Universalis III Complete, War of the Roses: Kingmaker, Warlock: Master of the Arcane, Leviathan: Warships, Dungeonland, The Showdown Effect, and soundtracks for all these games! Plus, if you pay over the average (about $5) you'll also get Crusader Kings II and Magicka and their soundtracks. AND for the price of around 2 premium AAA games ($125)you can get 80 great games (won't list them here, but there's hundreds of dollars worth). Finally the Indie Gala bundle includes all of the Theatre of war games plus the Men of War Assault Squad plus 5 dlc's were added to the bundle this morning. all come with Steam keys.

Steam games on sale this weekend include free play for Natural Selection with 75% off if you decide to buy (the free play ends Sunday 1pm PST), Also Prison Architect id 40% off, there's another 94 games on sale on Steam, with deals ranging from 10% to 75%. Just click on the specials tab on the main Steam page. Todays 24hr deal is Grid 2 (including dlc) with 50% off

The latest IndieGameStand deal is Elliot's Quest an open world adventure platformer. The game comes with a DRM free download link, a Desura key and is on Steams Greenlight project, so you may get a Steam key later. If you pay above the average which stands at $1.31 at the moment (08.29 GMT) you also get the sound track. The deal ends Thursday morning 5am GMT when a new IGS game will be available. :)

You'll find IGS HERE

Finally, check out the didimatic site for loads of deals on some of the sites I've mentioned HERE.

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A Request for help:

Developers rely on good feedback to improve their games. If you download this game please take some time once you’ve played it a while to leave some constructive feedback either positive or negative. The more constructive feedback we get, the more likely developers are going to give more games away. The giveaway site already has a very good standing with the search engines. Developers want their products out there on the WWW, this site has the potential to do that. The game giveaway project gives away on average between 9 to 17 thousand downloads for each game depending upon what genre and how obscure the game is. That’s a lot of homes these games are being downloaded into and a lot of 'potential' cash that’s being lost by the developers. If we get better games because of better feedback, the community are likely to continue to benefit from the generosity of the developers. Satisfied community members are then more likely to visit the home sites of those developers and purchase games that they may not have bothered with before they discovered the developer via the game giveaway site, thus giving the developers more incentives to give away even more decent games.

Please leave some feedback once you’ve checked the game out. It can be positive or negative, but please explain what your reasons were for the feedback you post. You could also leave suggestions for improving the game, for example, this game could do with more block types for the levels editor, add more power-ups, describing the ones you think would be suitable, add some mini games (which seem all the rage in some arcade games now) or enable the user to be able to change the in game music easily.

Thank you in advance to all those who take the time to post a constructive comment.

Regards

Whiterabbit aka Stephen

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As yesterday, I'm extremely busy again today as we only have   two weeks left before we move and there is still masses to do (emptying our old house, decorating  and  repairing  loads of things in readiness for renting as well as  ordering flooring etc for the new house (got a lot of shopping around to do for  kitchen  stuff etc).  I'll moderate as often as I can, but it's more likely to be  much later this afternoon or evening.  Hopefully, once I've moved I'll be able to return to my old  reviews  and moderate more frequently.  Please do leave feedback about the game, wheter it's positive or negative, it's always welcome.  Please do remember that this is a family site so no swearing.  :)

Rolling Spells:

In Brief:

Rolling spells has a vague connection to Pachinko games, so if you like  Peggle Deluxe or Dachinko  you’ll probably also like this game.  It’s not really a pachinko game but the  pins with movable platforms  gives it a look  of a Pachinko game; however, there the resemblance  ends.  Basically you have a steady stream of colored balls called spells  falling from the top of the playing arena.  You have to direct these into various colored containers that match the colour of the  spells that are falling from the top of the board.  Once you’ve created the  Magic spell (which is made from a combination of spell ingredients) the level ends. Using the  magic spells collected from the side areas of the gaming arena can  significantly help your progress.

Installation:

Rolling Spells downloads to a  95.1 MB zip file  that unpacks to a read me and a wrapped setup activation  file (the orange colored  file with the key symbol), plus there's a setup file  with security (setup.gcd) that's protected from being hacked. This file may case some security software to  alert the user  to a possible malware attack, but   it will be a false positive.

The game giveaway team  check all game giveaways for  malware using several well known  anti -malware suites.  There has never been a game giveaway infected with malware since the project started  back in Dec 2006.  The installed game is MB in size. and  installs to:

C:\Games\Rolling_Spells_game\game.exe

by default but can be changed to suit whatever your wishes are. There is no uninstaller, but this game is free standing so to delete just remove the installed folder from your hard drive. No shortcuts are installed so you will have to create your own which as most of you know is easy an easy process (right click on the games executable then select ‘Send to’ then from the drop down menu select ‘Desktop (create shortcut) ’). If you want to create a start menu/programs folder you’ll need to find the appropriate folders via your account. Once the game is installed you can delete the giveaway setup files.

I've only tested the game on Win 7 this time around,   Anyone running Win 8, Vista or XP, please confirm whether this game works  Thanks.

If you miss today's game or have problems running it, try the free version which you can download 24/7 from GAMETOP <a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/rolling-spells/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> or from MyPlayCity <a href="http://www.myplaycity.com/rolling_spells/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>

Introduction:

Rolling spells was given away previously almost 2 years ago on the 16th April 2011. It received a positive 68% out of 270 votes with 44 comments which can be seen <a href="http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/rolling-spells/#comment-173520" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> . It was also given away back in February of this year where it received a positive 68% out of 204 votes with 20 comments which you can read <a href="http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/rolling-spells-2013/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>

<blockquote>Rolling Spells offers you the new and original game play, bright graphics and intriguing plot. The action takes place in the Fairyland that has been invaded by a strange creature, the mighty Elephly. And you’re the one, without whom the Good Fairy would never be able to defeat him. It’s only your skill and smartness that can help the Fairy to prepare magic potions and defeat the Elephly and his cunning companions. You’ll have to pass through 35 levels and fight with eight original monsters. A detailed adventure map and useful tips from the Fairy are always there to help you not to get lost. The map allows you not only to see the way you’ve already passed, but also check out how it has been passed. For each victory, you’ll get a prize – gold, silver or bronze. Although true heroes would content only with gold! Therefore, having taken a rest, you can repass the level and get the highest scores. Besides the map and Fairy’s tips, there’s also the indispensable “Book of Knowledge”. This short encyclopaedia will help you to remember how this or that spell works, how you can get a prize, what you should do and what you should fear.
Well, happy trails! Defeat all the monsters, set the Fairyland free and get all the golden prizes!</blockquote>

Reference accessed <a href="http://www.rollingspells.com/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> 15th April 2011

Useful comments to read    from  the first time this was given away back in 2011:

Mike comment no 6, GMMan comment  21, Jibaro comment no 24, nanex comment 30 (if you  have problems with audiere.dll).  Also  if you're using XP, then make sure  your Direct X is  up to date. (You can't use DX10 or 11, only DX9.0c which you can get from Microsoft if needed)

The Game:

There are two modes, Adventure and  Survival.  In adventure mode you use a map to  follow a path through the kingdom, fighting various boss monsters on your way.   Survival mode is basically a never-ending level that only ends when you’ve lost your lives.  You lose a life when you miss  placing a spell ingredient into the correct  container.   This has to be unlocked by finishing the first 10 levels from  Adventure mode. You can replay any  level in Adventure mode  so long as it’s been unlocked first.

There are three levels of difficulty; easy, normal and hard,   that can  be selected via the  buttons  (left and right arrows)  just below the players name.    You can set up  multiple profiles  which makes this a  great family game because you can allocate a profile to each family member and progress will be saved for that particular profile.

The settings menu is very basic with sliders to adjust the volume of music and sound effects plus toggles for changing the game from full screen to windowed mode (the game starts off in full screen by default). You can also toggle the game cursor back to a windows cursor if you wish.

There are 35 levels in the Adventure mode roughly divided up  into 8  sections.  Each area ends with a boss fight, which differs from the main game in that  you have to direct  a pink ball onto    the  monster associated with that level.  To make    the boss fight more difficult the  boss  moves along the bottom of the board and you  have to  work out where the boss will be  when the  ball gets to the bottom.  you can hold balls on the platform by clicking  on the platform until you  wish it to drop; however, if another ball touches the  ball you are  holding, both balls are destroyed.

You can earn Bronze, Silver or Gold awards for each  level which  will show up on the map  as  a coin placed over the level marker.  There are also several awards   which can be accessed from the main menu or from the playing arena if required.  These awards are separated in to Bronze, Silver and Gold categories, include  not losing a life  during a level, killing 10 bees or  getting a specific number of the same  ingredient into the correct  container during a level as well as others.

At the start of the game you are given a short tutorial that talks you through all the new steps (which you can see via the slideshow that I’ve posted below).

The playing arena is made up of rows of movable platforms that pivot on a central pin.  Clicking on a platform will turn the platform to the right or left enabling you to direct the falling  spell ingredients  to the correct container, or occasionally  to  direct a gold coin onto one of the  golden pointers which unlocks  a   useful spell  that    helps you attain certain objectives.  There are six golden pointers, each containing a magic spell.  Once accessed a spell is stored at the bottom of the playing arena until needed, at which time you just have to click on it to use it.

You can see what each spell does by looking at the book of knowledge which is accessible via the book button above the life indicator (to the top left of the playing arena). You have three lives to start and you can store up to four spells at any one time. If you want to collect different spells you will have to use one of the spells filling the four containers. Some examples of spells include the mallet which can be used to remove ice from the platforms. Ice can be annoying because it freezes up the movement of the platform making it impossible to change the direction of the falling ingredients until the ice has been passed; there are different strengths of mallet, the weakest of which will only free one platform and the strongest which frees all the frozen platforms. . Another spell, called ‘Collect all Red spells’ will move all falling red spell ingredients immediately to the red container. apart from platforms freezing you will find other obstacles appearing such as bees who steal the ingredients as they fall, and which you get rid of by clicking on them a few times. As already mentioned, whenever something new appears you will be given instructions on how to cope with it.

System Requirements:

•	OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8 
•	CPU: 800 Mhz 
•	RAM: 256 MB 
•	DirectX: 7.0 
•	Hard Drive: 97 MB

Video & Images:

You can see a slide show of around 50 images, that include all the initial instructions on how to play the game <a href="http://s571.photobucket.com/albums/ss160/Whiterabbit04/Rolling%20Spells/?albumview=slideshow" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>

You’ll find videos of game play <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gepw42fQ0Bo" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipPyVSDmlZI" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> (survival mode), and <a href="http://vimeo.com/19090401" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>, (there are two videos accessible from this page, one of which is a boss fight)

Music:

You can change the music by swapping the music files via the following path. You will need to rename each file and convert them to the .ogg format. (I suggest backing up the original files).

C:\Games\Rolling Spells\Music

Conclusion:

This is an entertaining  game that should  keep the whole family happy for short periods. I don't think it's a game you could spend hours playing as there's not a lot of variability in the actual game  mechanics and it does seem a little slow; that said if  the  falling  spell ingredients fell any faster i think you'd be hard pressed to complete  past the few  levels following the  2 level  tutorial.   I thoroughly enjoyed  what game play there was, but i rarely play arcade games for more that   10 to 15 minutes at a time a s I use them to  give me a break from  bigger  titles like Dragonage II, Shogun II: Total War,  or Crysis II.  The  overall look of the game is  quite professional and fairy tale cartoon in style and  more importantly, it plays well.

Instructions on how to play the game are clear and concise. I reckon there’s also quite a lot of re-playability in this game due to the different difficulty levels and the various awards that can be attained plus the ability to go back and replay unlocked levels so as to improve on your score and perhaps attain a silver instead of bronze or better still a gold award. There are also incentives to carry on if only to win the various awards that are available. It’s quite a simple game with some variability (via the boss levels) and it has some original ideas (as far as I can remember from the many thousands of games I've played over the last 30 plus years.....I've been buying games since 1980), so I think this game is worth a reasonable 6.6 out of 10. (The audio lets it down somewhat, but if you are really bothered by the music, you can change it). :)

Scoring

Gameplay –  7
Graphics – 6
Audio – 5
Re-playability – 7
Originality – 8

Total = 6.6

Problems:

If you have any problems installing or getting today's game to work please go <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11647#post-101133" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> for help, there's a list of FAQ's with answers.

If you are posting late in the day I would also  suggest posting   in the main giveaway forums  in the game discussion section.  If you’ve installed the game  but it won’t work for some reason, it should still be registered, so  someone may be able to help  at another time.

Unfortunately if your problem is actually installing it  then once the giveaway period is over there’s  nothing  that can be done  until the game is given away again (though that isn’t guaranteed).  Though, so long as you have the download,  sometimes its still possible to activate   an hour or so later.

If you do miss the giveaway, or find it won't work, it’s always worth checking out the free games sites as sometimes the games we get here are also available for free from them. MyPlayCity has the most with over 600 games to choose from. Today's game IS available from GAMETOP <a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/rolling-spells/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> or from MyPlayCity <a href="http://www.myplaycity.com/rolling_spells/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> .
 
Please do remember that these free sites have the potential to install toolbars and change your provider. MPC is quite aggressive at the moment. Every time you start a game up, you will need to uncheck the checkboxes if you install the MyPlayCity version.

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Games, Games, and yet more Games:

If you're looking for something other than today's game check the Didimatic site via <a href="http://didimatic.com/dd/en/onsale/steam/" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> link for some brilliant deals. Also, Kotaku post the best deals from all of the major distributors <a href="http://kotaku.com/5984737/the-moneysaver-only-two-more-hours-ofpayne" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>

e.g. Steam, Origin, Green Man Gaming, Gamersgate, GameFly, and NewEgg with console games included on Amazon, Best Buy, Groupon and Rakuten

If todays game doesn't appeal to you there are loads of  places where you'll find  bargains such as Gamersgate, Desura, Steam, Gamefly and Greenman gaming.  Plus there are some excellent  bundles available at the moment.  check the game discussion forums for details of all of the bundles available at this time.  You'll only pay around $5 for several games, all of which are  excellent, for example The Groupees Capsule computers bundle that includes Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman, Super Sanctum TD, Three Dead Zed, Transcripted, Lost Marbles, Pressure, SpaceChem, Swords & Soldiers HD or the Indie Royale bundle that includes Block Story, ASA: A Space Adventure,  "Beware Planet Earth!", Diadra Empty, Bollywood Wannabe, Undead Legions.  The Indie Royale Bundle is a debut bundle and comes with greenlit games on Steam so you may get Steam keys later, plus you get  a desura key to unlock them on the Desura client as well as DRM free copies.  The Groupees  bundle comes with a mixture of Steam and Desura keys.   The Humble bundles latest weekly bundle includes  a great line up of games  for only $1 you'll get Europa Universalis III Complete, War of the Roses: Kingmaker, Warlock: Master of the Arcane, Leviathan: Warships, Dungeonland, The Showdown Effect, and soundtracks for all these games! Plus, if you pay over the average (about $5) you'll also get  Crusader Kings II and Magicka and their soundtracks.  AND for the price of around 2 premium AAA games ($125)you can get  80 great games (won't list them here, but there's hundreds of dollars worth).  Finally the Indie Gala bundle includes  all of the Theatre of war games plus the Men of War Assault Squad plus 5 dlc's  were added to the bundle this morning.  all come with Steam keys.

Steam games on sale this weekend include  free play for Natural Selection with 75% off if you decide to buy (the free play ends  Sunday 1pm PST), Also Prison Architect id 40% off, there's another 94 games on sale on Steam, with deals ranging from 10% to 75%.  Just click on the specials tab on the main Steam page. Todays 24hr deal is Grid 2 (including dlc) with 50% off

The latest IndieGameStand deal is Elliot's Quest an open world adventure platformer.  The game  comes with a DRM free download link, a Desura key and is on Steams Greenlight project, so you may get a Steam key later.  If you pay above the average which stands at $1.31 at the moment (08.29 GMT) you also get  the sound track. The deal ends Thursday morning 5am GMT when a new IGS game will be available. :)

You'll find IGS <a href="https://indiegamestand.com/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>

Finally, check out the didimatic site for loads of deals on some of the sites I've mentioned <a href="http://didimatic.com/dd/en/about/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>.

A Request for help:

<blockquote>Developers rely on good feedback to improve their games. If you download this game please take some time once you’ve played it a while to leave some constructive feedback either positive or negative. The more constructive feedback we get, the more likely developers are going to give more games away. The giveaway site already has a very good standing with the search engines. Developers want their products out there on the WWW, this site has the potential to do that. The game giveaway project gives away on average between 9 to 17 thousand downloads for each game depending upon what genre and how obscure the game is. That’s a lot of homes these games are being downloaded into and a lot of 'potential' cash that’s being lost by the developers. If we get better games because of better feedback, the community are likely to continue to benefit from the generosity of the developers. Satisfied community members are then more likely to visit the home sites of those developers and purchase games that they may not have bothered with before they discovered the developer via the game giveaway site, thus giving the developers more incentives to give away even more decent games.

Please leave some feedback once you’ve checked the game out. It can be positive or negative, but please explain what your reasons were for the feedback you post. You could also leave suggestions for improving the game, for example, this game could do with more block types for the levels editor, add more power-ups, describing the ones you think would be suitable, add some mini games (which seem all the rage in some arcade games now) or enable the user to be able to change the in game music easily.

Thank you in advance to all those who take the time to post a constructive comment.</blockquote>

Regards

Whiterabbit aka Stephen

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