Identical Games News

Coloring Fantasy Covers

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:17:17 +0000

While drawing my 100 images based on Dragon magazine covers, I really enjoyed coloring the images. I wondered about making a coloring book out of the images.

There are numerous videos on how to make and sell coloring books on KDP. Often they suggested that passive income with coloring books was easy. They talked about finding a niche and how to market the coloring book. Many suggested using clipart or AI to create images. Needless to say that wasn't my goal.

Tiny Supers: Primal Slime

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:13:06 +0000

I loved the TinyD6 system and have bought many of the books. In general I purchased digital RPG products. For TinyD6 I have a few physical copies, Tiny Frontiers Revised, Tiny Thunderscape, and Tiny Supers. I ran Tiny Frontiers Revised a few times but no other TinyD6 game. A game started up on rpg.net and I joined after another player had to drop.

Thousands of superheroes populated the pages of comics so unique concepts are hard to find. The heroes in the game were supposed to be second string heroes called up when the big superhero team goes missing. There aren't a lot of powers in the book but often powers are different kinds of blasts anyway. Looking through the powers I settled on Summoning and Shapeshifting (Stretching). I considered Damage Field from the GallentVerse Capaign Guide but wasn't sure the if the gamemaster would allow that book.

Open Game Source: Fracturoid

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:17:11 +0000

Breakout/Arkanoid games are not a genre I particularly like. I was asked about putting one on an arcade machine. There are numerous clones of those games. A great resource for open source clones is osgameclones.com. The Arkanoid clones included a javascript version and a python game designed with a circular playing field. Breakout clones include LBreakoutHD which is more of an Arkanoid clone but I didn't look at those clones.

Brick Exoframe

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:50:22 +0000

Build suits of power armor with Lego bricks! Shoot limbs off opponents! Replace your limbs to get new feature! Defend humanity against the alien threat!

Brick Exoframe is a game about power armor. It is designed to be played with popular brick building toys. You can shoot off components from enemies and attach them to yourself. In addition to the rules for the game, there is simple power armor design instructions so you can build your own characters. Artwork throughout the book show customized versions of this basic design.

Brick Exoframe was designed during the PocketQuest 2023 game jam.

Open Game Source: Fight or Perish

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:27:53 +0000

Fight or Perish was a Gauntlet clone I found on osgameclones.com. I downloaded it almost two years ago but never got around to checking it out. It was created by Bill Kendrick at New Breed Software. He had a bunch of game project that I'd love to play with. His game Bobobot was the subject of the first Open Game Source article. Fight or Perish was more of a prototype than a finished game.

Brick Monsters: Phantom Fungus

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:22:35 +0000

The latest Brick Monsters release is available from drivethrurpg.com. The phantom fungus is a fungus creature. They were created as a low level invisible creature in 3rd edition. Two builds are included as usual. The builds are very different. Even if you don't have all the pieces, the instructions might inspire you to create something with the bricks you own. The mpd file is included to allow you to conveniently order the parts using bricklink.com.

Open Game Source: Lady Beetle

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:39:11 +0000

Lady Bug released to arcades in 1981. It was a maze chase game like Pac-Man but with movable turnstiles to allow you to alter the maze. I was never much of an arcade player. I didn't see the reason to keep paying to play a game when you could get a game on a console and play forever. So I never experienced it but a remake for the Love engine caught my attention.

Bernhard Mueller used some work from Cosimo's earlier attempt to recreate the game in Love. The code was very clean and successfully recreated the arcade. I found it odd that the player gets blocked if they are slightly off when taking a turn. That was apparently in the original as well but based on videos I found either it didn't happen as often or the player was better at the game than me.

Postmortem: Goblins: Rise of Gurg

Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:16:01 +0000

After my successful entry to the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, I found out about the Dungeon Crawlers Jam. The original Bard's Tale series was a favorite of mine. I even set about recreating the Bard's Tale Construction Set in open source. The construction set wasn't very good and I slowly added features to make it more Bard's Tale like. The Bt Builder engine still lacked a complete example game so perhaps this would provide the push to create one.

Postmortem: Shallow Stone Solar

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 01:46:53 +0000

For several years now I've wanted to try the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge. Often when it occurred to me, I already missed it. This year I committed to completing it. I even took a week off which got changed to half-days due to important meetings. Still many people complete it without taking time off I imagined.

Open Game Source: Anagramarama

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 01:21:46 +0000

Anagramarama was a polished jumbled letters game. While not my preference in gaming, I appreciated the quality. Unfortunately it's web site was gone. No updates had been made since 2013. There were a few forks on github but those also had little activity. The game could stand as it was but was in danger of being forgotten.

Open Game Source: Inertia Blast

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:16:49 +0000

On the Commodore 64, players enjoyed the game Thrust by Jeremy Smith. I never owned the system nor played the game. When I first installed Linux I stumbled on a remake of Thrust. It was brutally difficult but I enjoyed the game. At the time I ran it under svgalib, an old console graphic system which required root access. Recently I decided to track down this old game.

OBS Studio

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:21:19 +0000

Pinewood Derby was generally a highlight of Cub Scouts. Unfortunately the pandemic had changed everything. This year we had to do a virtual Pinewood Derby. Thankfully OBS Studio allowed us to pull it off.

Pixel Critters

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:15:30 +0000

My youngest's birthday was coming up so I asked what he wanted for a mini build and he didn't know. He wasn't as interested in Lego as my oldest. He had recently purchased some Pokemon cards so I suggested making our own cards instead of a build. He loved the idea.

My plan was to use DriveThruCards. I had never used the site but have extensively used DriveThruRpg.

Open Game Source: Pinball Disc Room

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:43:39 +0000

As part of the Disc Room Game Jam, JW released a tutorial on creating a simple Disc Room. To learn more about Godot, I recreated the game. The movement of the player was a little different but otherwise the game was about the same.

During the tutorial, JW explained that the safest area in the room were the corners. To prevent the player from hiding out in the corner, a disc rotated around the walls of the room. I pondered other ways to prevent the players from being in the corners. A tentacle creature which would push you back into the room was considered but I settled on a pinball theme with flippers.

Open Game Source: Smalltrek

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 23:45:33 +0000

To promote adoption of Gamerzilla, I've been spending more time on IRC. Someone on freenode's #gamedev channel mentioned Nim. The discussion wasn't about a game but I wondered if there might be something interesting to look at for Open Game Source.

Several games were suggested to me. The web version of Smalltrek impressed me.

Brick Monsters: Treant

Sat, 23 May 2020 21:24:15 +0000

The latest Brick Monsters release is available from drivethrurpg.com. The treant is an animated tree. They have been included in nearly every edition. Two builds are included as usual. The builds are very different. Even if you don't have all the pieces, the instructions might inspire you to create something with the bricks you own. The mpd file is included to allow you to conveniently order the parts using bricklink.com.

Open Game Source: Seahorse Adventures 1.1

Tue, 05 May 2020 14:25:47 +0000

The python community had been converting from python 2 to python 3 for over ten years. Starting with Fedora 32, much of the python 2 infrastructure was removed. This included an unmaintained game called Seahorse Adventures. The original developer had moved onto other projects. Without someone stepping up to update the code, it had to be removed.

Open Game Source: Marvellous Inc.

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:27:35 +0000

The Open-Source Community group on Steam had a list of open source games on steam. That was how I stumbled on Marvelous Inc. The game was described as "a zachlike coding puzzle open-source game." A coding game sounded interesting but I had never heard of zachlike.

Open Game Source: Alchemy Quest / Open Alchemist

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:30:17 +0000

I had never heard of Open Alchemist when I was approached to join a project to make modifications to it. The game itself wasn't something I would normally play. The closest game I had played for any significant time was Puzzle Quest. Self imposed deadlines for other project would be negatively impacted. However a good two player puzzle game would be a great addition to the arcade machine.

Open Game Source: Arcade Machine

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:30:07 +0000

My son's cub scout den built an arcade machine. The internals were an old computer. The television for graphics and sound were donated. The machine was shown off at the Blue and Gold dinner and we intended to use it for recruiting.

Given that we wanted two player simultaneous games. That way we can have more people actively playing than a solo game. Ideally the game should allow someone else to jump in when someone dies so we don't have to wait for the other player to die. As a community service organization, we wanted cooperative games if possible and open source. Everything needed to be controlled by keyboard keys as that is what the X-Arcade controls pretended to be.