12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 6: Mac & Windows

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12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 6: Mac & Windows

by Jay Savage Dec 8th 2006

In the spirit of holiday peace, we have a combined post for midpoint of our 12 days of downloads. Today's features are two free cross platform games from Koingo Software. Pictured above is Super Frog, a holiday riff on and all-time favorite: Frogger. The object is to get the little green guy across the road without getting run down by cars. Once you get across, you have to make your way though the maze, dodging deadly stockings, candy canes, and trees, and get to the wrapped gift. There are three speeds of game play, and no directions (hint: hit shift to resurrect, at least on the Mac), so it's a fun little time-waster.

Below is Christmas Crisis, where you get to play Santa. You control Santa's sleigh as it flies over the city, trying to drop presents down chimneys. the goal is to hit 70% of the houses in each level, which sounds easier than it is.

Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5

Previous 12 Days of holiday downloads for Windows:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5

Tags: 12 days of holiday downloads, Christmas, Christmas Crisis, Koingo Software, KoingoSoftware, SuperForg

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Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

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