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Hedgewars: multiplayer weaponized hedgehog action, now with a Mac port - Time Waster
by Jay Hathaway Jun 8th 2009 at 12:00PM
The game would be pretty fun to play against a computer, but it gets better with the addition of multiplayer online games, and even tournaments. Go tap into the community at Hedgewars.com to find teammates and opponents. Hedgewars is free and open source, and also has a recent Mac port, so friends on all operating systems can get in on the hedgehog-battling action.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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billcantfart said 12:08PM on 6-08-2009
The links don't work. Hedgewars.com goes to a parked page and the link underneath the picture has a comma in it.
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cente_ddr said 12:13PM on 6-08-2009
http://www.hedgewars.org NOT .com
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Alasdair said 1:04PM on 6-08-2009
"Hedgewars is similar to old-school games like Worms Armageddon"
SIMILAR?!?! It IS Worms Armageddon, down to the explosions, weapons, destructible terrain...in fact, the only differences are the title and absence of Worms in place of hedgehogs...
...since when did Armageddon go open-source? Surely Team17 have seen this?
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