I recently played two games linked from http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?FreeGames which I really liked.
"AN UNTITLED STORY" platform adventure from Matt Makes Games
An Untitled Story is the sort of platformer I really like. You start off just exploring and it slowly gets harder and harder and you collect extra life and extra abilities (but in a deterministic fashion, unlike computer-roleplaying-games). You start off as a formless egg, able to jump slightly and that's it, and end up with more than 500 life and 50 unique abilities.
The graphics are really simple, but elegant: like a small child would draw, if it were then made really really good.
Toward the end it gets really hard. And there are specific save points, so you have to get used to going away and coming back calm to do the difficult bits, especially when there's no save point DIRECTLY BEFORE A BOSS.
Links:
Review and description: http://www.gamemakergames.com/?a=view&id=6278
Home page: http://mattmakesgames.com/games.php
Walkthrough: http://helixc.dabomstew.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=4727.0
Alas, I got nearly to the end and found a bit sufficiently difficult I didn't continue. Now I just want to get it out of my head.
Eversion
See Alex's review of this (and some others) here: http://alextfish.livejournal.com/8791.html
It's quite short, but fun while it lasts. It starts off as a happy shiny grass-trees-sun cutesy platformer, and then gets lovecraftian, and the hell-like levels are really, really, really creepy. The interface is interesting: you flip between different modes during the level, which affects where you can get to.
"AN UNTITLED STORY" platform adventure from Matt Makes Games
An Untitled Story is the sort of platformer I really like. You start off just exploring and it slowly gets harder and harder and you collect extra life and extra abilities (but in a deterministic fashion, unlike computer-roleplaying-games). You start off as a formless egg, able to jump slightly and that's it, and end up with more than 500 life and 50 unique abilities.
The graphics are really simple, but elegant: like a small child would draw, if it were then made really really good.
Toward the end it gets really hard. And there are specific save points, so you have to get used to going away and coming back calm to do the difficult bits, especially when there's no save point DIRECTLY BEFORE A BOSS.
Links:
Review and description: http://www.gamemakergames.com/?a=view&id=6278
Home page: http://mattmakesgames.com/games.php
Walkthrough: http://helixc.dabomstew.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=4727.0
Alas, I got nearly to the end and found a bit sufficiently difficult I didn't continue. Now I just want to get it out of my head.
Eversion
See Alex's review of this (and some others) here: http://alextfish.livejournal.com/8791.html
It's quite short, but fun while it lasts. It starts off as a happy shiny grass-trees-sun cutesy platformer, and then gets lovecraftian, and the hell-like levels are really, really, really creepy. The interface is interesting: you flip between different modes during the level, which affects where you can get to.