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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by Jason Clarke Aug 1st 2007
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niclet said 10:27AM on 8-01-2007
Sorry for my ignorance but how do you run this thing on a OS X? Do I have to compile it?
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lars said 10:47AM on 8-01-2007
It's filed under windows, so run it on that ;P
Or use parallels or vmware.
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Schmappel said 11:12AM on 8-01-2007
Wow, well done. Would be nice to convert this into a screensaver...
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Mikael said 1:09PM on 8-01-2007
No offence, but that's nothing (alright, it is pretty damn slick but still..) compared to theprodukkt. Check out this for example: http://www.theprodukkt.com/debris/
A full 3D World, sound + music and dynamically generated textures making a grand total of 7 mins of animation in a 180 kb package. _That_ is coming a long way from the old DOS scene-demos.
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Scrutinizer said 1:10PM on 8-01-2007
@ #2:
It' also filed under Linux and OS X.
Take a look and enjoy!
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niclet said 1:22PM on 8-01-2007
Well, I tried with Terminal but Ante Dominum crashed ->
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: libfmodex.dylib
Referenced from: ~/Desktop/ante_dominum_by_traction_os_x/ante_dominum
Reason: image not found
Any ideas?
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geoff said 2:28AM on 8-23-2007
Ran slow in windowed mode on my geforce 6800GS and AMD +3200.
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RP said 1:38PM on 8-30-2007
Ran great on WinXP on my P4-2GHz + NVidia 6200. Ran even faster with right-arrow key pressed, and ctrl-shift-rightarrow.
But it stops suddenly at about 3-5 minutes in -- is that the end? I didn't see any official-looking ending... strange.
How long is the full demo?
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Rowan said 5:13AM on 9-09-2007
niclet, did you really try with Terminal on OSX? If you double click the executable, from within Finder, it won't work. Fire up Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) and type the cd command, followed by a space, then drag the folder containing the demo onto the termial window. It will auto type the whole path to that folder. Hit return. You'll then be in that folder. If you type ante_dominum it won't find it, and unix type OSes don't know to search the current folder for executables unlike DOS that does this by default, it's actually a security thing. Anyway, just type ./ante_dominum to run it, should work fine.
:)
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