Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Symbian, Open Source, Time-Wasters
Frozen Bubble - Today's Time Waster
by Chris Brentano Jan 13th 2007
Frozen Bubble is a free/open source Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move style game for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The game play concept is very simple: Match colored balls in the playing area with the piece in play to remove them from the board. Once the board has been cleared you advance to the next level, where a different arrangement of playing pieces increases the challenge. If you don't move fast enough, the playing field starts to shrink and push pieces towards the end of the board.For Linux users, you have a leg up on your Windows and Mac counterparts - version 2.0 features multiplayer LAN/Internet matches. But until v2.0 has been ported, v1.0 is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Series 60 and there's even Java applet and Flash versions available.
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, ...
