Tag: Games

  • Weekly Game Music: To The Ends (Small Worlds)

    New week, new music.  A while back, I mentioned a flash game called Small Worlds in Strange Free Games.  It’s music, it turns out, are from Kevin MacLeod‘s collection of Creative Commons compositions.  The one below is called To the Ends, a mysterious music that slowly draws you in. Small Worlds can be played in your browser here. “There is…

  • Strange Free Games: Dear Esther

    New week, new game.  Since indie game Dear Esther is all the rage these days, it’ll be great to look back at what started it all, Dear Esther prototype version.  So, without further ado, lets get started with the intro Dear Esther is a first-person narrative that adds vocal interjections as you travel and observe the island.  Each narration is…

  • Weekly Game Music: Around the World (The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift)

    New week, new music.  This week: a music track from a game based off of a movie. Around the World, composed by Atlus Plug, provides a speed-inducing experience using Asian instrumentals.  A fitting composition for the frankly titled game, The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift. As expected from the title, The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift…

  • Strange Free Games: Katawa Shoujo

    Warning!  I am about to introduce a Japanese-style erotic visual novel, better known as eroge.  While this game does offer an option to turn off the adult portions, be well aware that this is made for a far more mature audience. And by “mature,” I mean emotionally. New week, new game.  This week is about Katawa Shoujo,…

  • Strange Free Games: Souvenir

    New week, new game. Here’s an incomplete student game that still feels polished and playable. Souvenir is a meta-physical recount of a girl’s experience at college. It’s M.C. Escher-isque visuals best conveys the confusion one experiences when living away from familiar, and traveling into the new. The game begins on a stage, portraying an unnamed girl starting…

  • Strange Free Games: Tower of Heaven

    New week, new game. Remember Tower of Heaven? Probably not. It was one of the earlier Weekly Game Music I’ve introduced. In any case, it’s a fun and extremely challenging platformer with Gameboy-like graphics. It’s Book of Laws adds a unique, challenging twist to the classical platformer genre. The game starts with Eid, a big-headed silhouette, entering the Tower of Heaven.…