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wolf.b

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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
« on: October 20, 2007, 01:04 PM »
Sorry, if this has been mentioned by someone else before, but my forum search didn't show it. Simon has been mentioned, portable apps have been mentioned, and I found lots of threads about tiny games. Don't miss out on those:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

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Introduction

This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X.

I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing. And I was also annoyed that every time I found a good game on (say) Unix, it wasn't available the next time I was sitting at a Windows machine, or vice versa; so I arranged that everything in my personal puzzle collection will happily run on both those platforms and more. When I find (or perhaps invent) further puzzle games that I like, they'll be added to this collection and will immediately be available on both platforms. And if anyone feels like writing any other front ends - Mac OS pre-10, PocketPC, or whatever it might be - then all the games in this framework will immediately become available on another platform as well.


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Re: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2007, 01:32 PM »
Fantastic site!!
Loads and loads of small games there.

Here's a screenshot:
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Re: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2007, 02:00 PM »
Nice!
I`m a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially since I rule.

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Re: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2007, 10:59 AM »
Ha! I have been playing solo for a very long time now. It's the best implementation of sudoku I could find for my linux desktop. There are other games, but I haven't tried them all. Untangle and Map are very cool and I play them when I've gotten tired of sudoku...

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Re: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2007, 07:58 AM »
oh thanks!  >:(

I have a serious weakness for puzzle games. Now I will never get anything done.

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Re: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2010, 02:10 AM »
NECROPOST WARNING: My brother recently pointed out this site to me, so I figured it might be a good idea to resurrect this thread from the dead.

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