When Games Simulate Life - Indie Sim Games Overview.

Like simulators? There are hundreds of independent game developers who developer excellent and very unique games you should really know about. Here are some of the picks.

Coffee Tycoon (Jamopolis)

Coffee Tycoon gives sim games a jolt of caffeine. It’s packed with awesome graphics, tons of features, and lots of fun. Start fresh with one store, customize your coffee business by giving it a name and choosing a logo and store design. From there, choose a city start your coffee empire, maybe New York or L.A., or if you are really daring, the coffee capital of the world: Seattle!

Coffee Tycoon is filled with dozens of charming characters who will offer up their opinions, good or bad, on the quality of your store. Choose from dozens of store upgrades and coffee recipes to customize your business. First, you’ll need to choose a name for your coffee company. It can be anything you like. Some examples of names are: “Sally’s Coffee”, “Cup of Joe” or “Cream and Sugar.” Adjust the percentage of each type of Employees to meet your daily need. If you need more Money, make more Employees Baristas. If you need more Customers, make more Employees Managers and so on.

Betty’s Beer Bar

Betty’s Beer Bar is a fast paced and addictive arcade game. Your task is to serve the customers as quickly as possible - keep them happy and they will give you huge tips. Serve them coffee when they’re about to get drunk, to keep them awake - drunk customers rarely pay. This nurse had one beer too many. With good reflexes and a sharp mind, Betty will earn enough money to leave her original work place and start progressing towards her own bar in the caribbean! Betty’s Beer Bar features four unique scenarios and over fifty original and fun animated characters in a beautiful hand-drawn, cartoonish style.

It also includes different soundtracks to keep you fully immersed in its world. Even bears come to Betty’s Beer Bar. You can choose your own difficulty level to keep the game challenging at any time. It also includes an in-game tutorial so you will be playing in no time. You can also play in several different modes - including Free Play, Time Challenge and Story Mode, complete with inter-level cutscenes. And ifyou feel like competing, post your score in our online scoreboard.

Smugglers 3

In the case of Smugglers 3, you are a pilot in a interstellar conflict. However, instead of spending your time in non-stop battle action sequences, Smugglers 3 is based more on text.
Smugglers 3 places you in one of four factions. Each of the factions has different objectives and weapons. Playing through the game, one of your main goals is to trade goods with the various planets that you visit. This will help you to build up your funds so that you can buy better weapons and a better ship. In addition you will undertake missions that will help to increase your standing within your faction and win you medals of honor.

You do in fact have action battles in the game. However, the battles consist of you and an enemy in a turn based conflict that shows you both ships, a proximity meter and the special weapons that you each have available. These battles work very well to put you in control of all the important factors of the battle without making you get too tied up with minute details.

Game Download Links:

Coffee Tycoon http://www.deprice.com/coffeetycoon.htm

Betty’s Beer Bar http://www.deprice.com/bettysbeerbar.htm

Smugglers 3 http://www.deprice.com/smugglers.htm

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Games That Provoke Thought

Some games are designed as a way to do away with some extra free time, while others are created to make you think. The niche for brainy games is growing constantly, and here are some fresh additions for this year.

MoonTycoon (PartyTop)

In MoonTycoon you have to rocket to the moon and beyond to build and manage your personal 3D lunar colony. The game lets you control all aspects of colony life - from building colonies and creating industries, to trading with Earth and alien races - everything is in your hands. In MoonTycoon, your role as the colony’s leader is multifaceted. For example, you must build structures, maintain balance among use of water, energy, and power; keep your citizens happy; and ensure sufficient cash flow. No easy task. But if you master MoonTycoon, you’ll take mankind to the final frontier by colonizing the Moon, solving the Earth’s energy crisis, and boldly going beyond the stars to befriend or conquer aliens, while unlocking the mysteries of the universe.

AntWar (Anarchy Ent.)

AntWar is not your serious tycoon game. It takes on a humorous look at how fast ants always seem to multiple and feel like they are taking over. There is no tutorial, but AntWar is easily learned, which makes it a great choice for younger trategy/tycoon fans. This of course doesn’t mean that adults won’t enjoy it! I sure did. An addictive game that will have you striving for just 10,000 more ants to get to the next level. Before you know it, it’ll be midnight and your ants will only just be starting to take over the world. In AntWar you’re the leader of a tiny colony of ants, with a very simple victory condition: Grow your colony from humble origins to a grand total of one billion ants. AntWar won’t be easy, as your colony will be beset by rival ants, other insects, and a variety of enemies who will either kill your ants, destroy parts of your colony, or destroy your food stocks.

Enigmo (MumboJumbo)

Enigmo is a 3D puzzle game where you move various streams of flowing liquid so that the droplets get to their destination. Liquids (water, oil, and lava) fall from “droppers” and will bounce around the walls of a mechanism. You move and rotate into position various types of bumpers, sliders, accelerators, and sponges in order to divert the flow of the falling droplets. The faster you complete each level, the more bonus you will receive.

Be forewarned: Enigmo gets hard, and it gets hard fast. Admittedly, my masochism streak is fairly low, as is my pain tolerance, but I was desperately gasping for help after about level 9 or 10 - out of 50. If you’re not one who enjoys a strong mental workout, you might want to let Enigmo go.

Download Links

MoonTycoon http://www.deprice.com/moontycoon.htm

AntWar http://www.deprice.com/antwar.htm

Enigmo http://www.deprice.com/enigmo.htm

John Deprice is a big fan of brainy games. His collection is available to public for free download at http://www.deprice.com/games.htm

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Weird Games, Part I

Tired of playing same old boring games? There are dozens of wacky, offbeat or just plain weird games out there and I’ve got the scoop on the latest releases. Check ‘em out.

Varmintz (Skunk Studios)

This humorous game places the safety of a wacky crew of raccoons in your hands. In Varmintz Deluxe, you guide five furry creatures through an obstacle-packed maze.

Varmintz Deluxe brings back classic hop-and-dodge style gameplay in a fast-paced, character-rich environment. The game includes a range of characters and stars. Varmintz is a scrappy raccoon posse in search of golden eggs. Each of the more than 50 levels contains a variety of challenging obstacles and in-game enemies, including rabid dogs, lumberjacks, cowboys, joggers, and skateboarders.

Oh yeah, it’s the only game of this kind, where you have no weapons whatsoever. Good luck!

Free Download: http://www.deprice.com/varmintz.htm

Enigmo (MumboJumbo)

Enigmo is a 3D puzzle game where you move various streams of flowing liquid so that the droplets get to their destination. Liquids (water, oil, and lava) fall from “droppers” and will bounce around the walls of a mechanism. You move and rotate into position various types of bumpers, sliders, accelerators, and sponges in order to divert the flow of the falling droplets. The faster you complete each level, the more bonus you will receive.

The puzzles in Enigmo are mainly about studying the environment and knowing the devices at your disposal. How does water react with the sponge? How does oil react with the bumper? What will happen with the lava if you rotate the slider just a little bit? The game is made more complex by having to accomplish elements in a certain order. You not only have to divert 50 drops of liquid into the receptacle, you also have to first gain access to the receptacle. There’s a lot about which to think, here, and it’s rare that I ever solved a puzzle correctly on the first try. Trial and error is the way to get through this game

Free Download: http://www.deprice.com/enigmo.htm

Pax Galaxia (Dio Games)

Pax Galaxia is a uniquely addictive real time strategy game of stellar conquest. The difficulty ranges from extremely easy to nearly impossibly difficult. While the easy modes are suitable for a fun couple of minutes trying to beat your time records, the more difficult ones will require all your concentration and the mastery of all the tricks of the game to overcome the computer players.

There are more than thirty maps to choose from, and you can quickly make many more using the random map generator and the easy to use in-game editor. You can choose between four levels of difficulty and each map can be played multiple times with each of the opposing forces. You’ll be entertained for months.

Free Download: http://www.deprice.com/paxgalaxia.htm

John Deprice loves weird games. His collection is publically available for free download at http://www.deprice.com/games.htm

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