Freeware/Indie Game of the Year

Posted by Tim Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:27:00 GMT

“But Tim, It’s only February! How can you say that, you’re nuts!”

To be honest, this might as well be my last post. There’s no other game I can write about that’s more addictive than Blocksum anyway. Pack my bags and head off into the sunset…

Err… translated instructions?

Join a number of tiles together by using the Z key, and their corresponding number increases. Gather a large group of blocks with the same number to make them disappear. Grey orbs can be used to remove all blocks with the same number on the field simply by connecting it to a tile. Hold the X key to move the tiles upward. Press the C key to access a pause menu. Requires the latest DirectX version to run.

As pointed out by Tomas, this game must be slapped a Health Warning.

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  1. Sergio said about 6 hours later:

    How can a game that involves maths be fun? Huh? It defies logic.

  2. Twisted Rabbit said about 7 hours later:

    I like it a lot. but the year?! i don’t know… We shall see

  3. DanogNellows said about 13 hours later:

    Looks awesome but I keep getting errors when I try to run it.

  4. Rz. said about 16 hours later:

    this has destroyed my life

  5. haowan said about 21 hours later:

    This game could kill the world. It’s powerful.

  6. Shinji16 said about 22 hours later:

    One install, 3 rank ins, and 4 hours later I finally quit the program.

    Good god this game is good.

  7. pragma said 1 day later:

    Wow. Even watching the trailer is a rush.

  8. Faunis said 1 day later:

    Oh crap, where did those five hours just go!?

  9. Shinji16 said 1 day later:

    “Faunis said 1 day later: Oh crap, where did those five hours just go!?”

    Um… I lost about 8 today. Has anyone watched the NUL highscore replay yet? It’s fucking scary. They would have kept going but run out of time…

  10. Sephiroth said 1 day later:

    Lumines rip off?

  11. Sephiroth said 1 day later:

    subtract the lumines part and ad the original part…

  12. Mario said 1 day later:

    FF7 rip off?

  13. OMG said 1 day later:

    This is just like Doom except its a puzzle game!

  14. haowan said 1 day later:

    Heh. Yeah, if you play it you’ll see it’s got absolutely nothing in common with Lumines.

  15. DOOP said 1 day later:

    Come on. It’s not that fun. I got bored after an hour or so playing it.

  16. Shinji16 said 1 day later:

    DOOP, I’m sorry, but I have no witty reply aside from you’re either fucking retarded or wouldn’t know fun if it raped your family. And made you watch.

  17. Alan Gordon said 1 day later:

    There goes my chances of getting anything productive done this quarter.

  18. whatever said 1 day later:

    DOOP, surely you haven’t learned to count to ten!

    HAHAHA

  19. Xander said 1 day later:

    That’s it. My university studies are offically screwed thanks to this (Though apparently my math skills are terrible, so actually I may never have gotten through it anyway).I think my PC will actually have to top itself to free me from this games diabolical clutches!

  20. Shinji16 said 1 day later:

    Xander, you may eat your words. I almost fucked up a quiz and I did miss a homework assignment thanks to it.

  21. Tim said 1 day later:

    I DID warn you guys. At least your maths improved! :D

  22. Faunis said 1 day later:

    Every time I saw a number in calculus, I was pressing the buttons in my mind and trying to combine them. This game is a government conspiracy.

  23. Echo said 3 days later:

    Hmm. How long, I wonder, will it be before we’re playing Blocksum clones with Aztec themes?

  24. Don Filbert said 3 days later:

    If by “playing” you mean “paying for”, then soon.

  25. Iv4n said 3 days later:

    What DX really needs to be installed? I’ve got an error message and I’m unable to run the shit.

  26. Shinji16 said 3 days later:

    Echo and Don bring up excellent points…

  27. Rezwhore said 3 days later:

    I get some crazy message about not having d3dx9_21.dll. Anyone else have this problem?

  28. Echo said 3 days later:

    Yeah, you need the up to date version of DirectX that was released a couple of days ago. Here’s the link!

  29. BMcC said 3 days later:

    Very cool! I like it.

    But I guess there’s no point in making any more games this year. ::shrugs::

  30. Bill Gates said 3 days later:

    Why haven’t people learned to install DirectX yet?

  31. moi said 8 days later:

    I think “Stack attack” the Anti-casual game is already better than this one :)

    http://www.merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/2007/02/09/anti-casual/

  32. zaph said about 1 month later:

    You have to be some kid of shill. That “Stack attack” game is nothing compared to Blocksum. In both quality and gameplay.

  33. ptoing said about 1 month later:

    Lol, I would not even consider Stack Attack a game. It’s devoid of… everything making games fun.

  34. Carlosfocker said 4 months later:

    This game needs to ported to a handheld system(PSP, DS) so bad. Lumines is great but this game is crazy.

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