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Nandrew
13-06-2009, 11:31 PM
Right: no exclamation marks, no shocking premises, here's a real game for you guys to test.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss55/NandrewZA/screen1-1.jpg

Gears of War: The Minesweeper

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

The Gears of War Minesweeper has been labelled as a copyright infringement by my file host (more details here (http://forums.tidemedia.co.za/nag/showpost.php?p=234277&postcount=48)) and isn't available for download anymore.

I suggest that any interested parties look at Onslaught of the Electric Zombies (http://forums.tidemedia.co.za/nag/showthread.php?t=11460) instead. It's GOW Minesweeper's spiritual successor, and is basically better in every way *anyway*.


This was going to start out as a Gears of War dungeon crawl or Roguelike, but then I decided that I wanted to keep dev time low and searched for something simpler. Then halfway through gamecrafting, I played some Weird Worlds and it took another strange twist from there. So now Gears of War is a Minesweeper clone with some interesting perks.

The rules for discovering enemies are the same as a standard minesweeper. But this is a score-based game rather than a time-based one: you get points for "stepping on mines" (or fighting locust) and you have a health bar that steadily regenerates over time. On top of that, you can pick up numerous items along the way which will somehow help or hinder you, and are all rooted firmly in Gears canon.

So you have to kill as many locust as possible in a given session: you won't necessarily complete the grid, and you won't necessarily kill all of your enemies, but your goal is to maximise those two values as much as is practically possible.

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My personal high score is 388 (I think I have it recorded on the high-score table because I forgot to wipe it after my last few plays. Oops.). Let me know how y'all do.

dammit
15-06-2009, 01:31 PM
Finally, a reason for all those long hours spent perfecting my minesweeper skills.

Chippit
15-06-2009, 02:43 PM
490. Because I'm awesome and stuff. Yup. :P

I like this game, though. It's funz.

dislekcia
15-06-2009, 06:46 PM
535. That's how I roll baby.

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You found a Maria! ... Bwahahahaha!

Chippit
15-06-2009, 07:07 PM
535. That's how I roll baby.

Motherfu-

Nandrew
15-06-2009, 08:52 PM
535. That's how I roll baby.

Motherfu-

Darth
16-06-2009, 09:36 AM
535. That's how I roll baby.

Motherfu-

Evolution
17-06-2009, 04:58 PM
Awsome game

zakeroph
23-06-2009, 08:24 AM
gonna give it a try

dammit
25-06-2009, 09:28 PM
Interesting thing, seems I got tagged with a grenade and happened to hit an alternative item on the same move I blew up. First got the message to say I blew up, then got the message to say I found something. Just letting you know :)

dislekcia
25-06-2009, 10:55 PM
Interesting thing, seems I got tagged with a grenade and happened to hit an alternative item on the same move I blew up. First got the message to say I blew up, then got the message to say I found something. Just letting you know :)

Hax! I always die when I get tagged :(

dammit
26-06-2009, 11:41 AM
Hax! I always die when I get tagged :(

Oh, that wasn't great phrasing on my part. I got both messages, in that order, and then got the high scores screen. :<

zakeroph
26-06-2009, 11:50 AM
Oh this morning i managed to survive a tagging only to get bolted by that **** chippit, seriously, immortality for 10 turns but no way to save yourself...really...really?!

dammit
26-06-2009, 11:53 AM
Oh this morning i managed to survive a tagging only to get bolted by that **** chippit, seriously, immortality for 10 turns but no way to save yourself...really...really?!

Chippit's a **** like that.

Chippit
26-06-2009, 11:59 AM
:<

Nandrew
12-09-2009, 08:26 PM
Yo!

Important message in first post for anybody who stumbles across this game now.