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Games Thursday : Beat Back the Zombie Hordes in Boxhead : The Zombie Wars

March 20th, 2008

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Sean Cooper’s Boxhead series of zombie shooting Flash games have received a graphical upgrade, a new Defence game mode as well as new foes for the latest game in the series - Boxhead : The Zombie Wars. The name Boxhead probably stems from the distinctive blocky minifig looks of the player character and the zombies that infest each level. More about this series in my previous Boxhead : More Rooms article .

The first thing you’ll notice if you played the earlier games, is that you no longer dodge between pearl-white monoliths in desolate deserts (above) while battling the zombie hordes as in Boxhead : More Rooms. Instead in Boxhead : The Zombie Wars, the zombies and their fiendish flame-spewing masters have overrun pleasingly lush (but soon to be despoiled) grasslands.

Boxhead : The Zombie Wars also sports new lovely transparency effects as you can witness above, especially in the floating text that appears when you collect weapon crates and upgrades.

The number of upgrades have actually dropped from 58 in Boxhead : More Rooms to 55 although the maximum multipler required to unlock all upgrades has increased from 125x to 500x(!). Upgrades range from the lowly 4x multipler required for a Pistol : Crack Shot upgrade to the 500x needed to unlock the final upgrade Airstrike : Nuke.

There’s three new enemies apart from the generic zombies and their devilish overlords. You’ll quickly encounter groups of pesky red zombies who pursue you relentessly, shambling mummies and vampires who teleport right next to you whenever you stop for a break from the fighting. The blood-red demons have also now acquired fearsome flamethrower attacks that incinerate any friends or foe in its path.

Boxhead : The Zombie Wars relies even more on laying devious traps using barrels, barricades and whatnot than the previous games in order to get multiplers of over 50x after which goodies like turret guns and miniguns are unlocked for you to stand a better chance against the zombie host.

For those who prefer a high bodycount, Defence is a new game mode (above) where you are given a few extra seconds of time after each level to emplace stationary stcutures such as turret guns, mortars and barricades to create killzones and fend off invasions by huge mobs of undead in numbers far greater than in the original Classic mode. You can easily reach multiplers of over 200x (and the associated goodies, of course) after completing just two or three levels but I find the action too frantic for me

Play Boxhead : The Zombie Wars.

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Art Friday : Spiky Babies Deluxe Series

March 07th, 2008

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A new series of the adorable Spiky Baby paper toys by Shin Tanaka is ready for download This set of Spiky Babies is the largest collection yet with a total of 38 designs illustrated by artists and graphic designers worldwide.

My top nine in ascending order.

Terry’s Factory - Reminds me of a Chinese zombie aka Jiang Shi

Bshit - Love the smiley face with the eyepatch

Hariken - A nice depature from the usual cute designs

Akira’s Factory - Love the colours and the multiple eyes

Akishi Nishida - Mmm… Watermelons

Kazuhiro Hino - Reminds me of the masks worn by Luchadores (more masks & luchadores over @ deadlicious)

Koraters

Mochiwo - I think my dear thoo2 will love this one and the one below

Nekonoko

The rest of the Deluxe series below.

© Shin Tanaka

Oh yeah, even the box template is also available for download

As the templates are “blindboxed” and randomly chosen when you click on the Open a Box! button at the download page on Shin Tanaka’s official site, be prepared to click for a long time to collect the entire series (or use a Flash disassembler like Flasm - read my earlier introductory article on Flasm)

Download the Spiky Baby Deluxe Series toys.

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Random Monday : Domo-kun Wallpapers & Clock Widgets

January 21st, 2008

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The lovable brown mascot for Japan’s NHK TV station, Domo-kun, has his (its?) own official website @ www.domomode.com - thanks to dear for reading about this in a local Chinese daily (the 19 Dec 2007 edition to be exact)

There’s three wallpapers for download as shown above as well as 10(!) different Javascript clock widgets for you to embed on your website. Time is set to the Japanese timezone which is GMT +09:00 (one hour ahead of SG time).

The ‘official’ names for the above widgets arranged from left to right, top to bottom:

Bird
Forest
Egg
Mushroom
Snake
Bear Ornament
Eating
Rock
Usaji
Secret

Download these Domo-kun wallpapers and clock widgets @ www.domomode.com.

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Wallpapers Wednesday : Drawn To Be Alive (UT2004 Mod)

January 09th, 2008

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The wallpapers for today feature the cute little paper figure Billy Bown from the UT2004 mod Drawn to Be Alive. This mod by a group of French developers is currently a work in progress and promises innovative gameplay through controlling a 2D player character in a 3D world powered by the UT2004 engine. Many thanks to Gnome’s post on the Introspect Mod for UT2004 for triggering fond memories of Drawn to Be Alive.

Billy Bown being the animated paper doodle that he is, can hide behind objects like cupboards to evade curious humans out to capture, collect or destroy paper toys like him, or even disguise himself within his surroundings by appearing to be part of a cubicle decoration, poster or graffiti. However, being only a thin piece of paper, he’s quite fragile and flammable as seen in the teaser video which showcases some of the unique gameplay mechanics in this mod - a 2006 Editors’ Choice for the Upcoming Mod category at Mod DB.

Billy can also flutter from ledge to ledge since he’s so light or fold himself to move around in tight spaces.

Download the wallpapers from the official site. Concept art (see example below) and the teaser video are also available there. Sure wish that this mod would be released in the near future

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Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2007

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To spread the festive cheer of Christmas, here’s a cute wallpaper of elves strung up a Xmas tree by one of my favourite local artists, Soh Ee Shaun (eeshaun), in his trademark happy doodling style.