Cranky Bit » Games http://blog.crankybit.com Take a byte out of tech! Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:23:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 FloboPuyo http://blog.crankybit.com/flobopuyo/ http://blog.crankybit.com/flobopuyo/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:50:00 +0000 Josh http://blog.crankybit.com/flobopuyo/ Tetris and Bejeweled fans should love this. Back in the day, there was an incredibly addicting game I found for the Mac OS called Puyo Puyo. It played in a small window, and I’m not sure if it even had music playing with the game, but the concept was so addicting, I fell in love with it. Well, Puyo is back–and in more style than before!

Actually, if you do your research (such as referencing Wikipedia’s Puyo Puyo entry), you’ll see there’s a lot of history behind the game. I loved Puyo so much that I actually wrote a very rough Puyo engine in my high school programming class (that should date my Puyo Puyo find to 1996-1997). The engine was only text-oriented at that point, but naturally it could have driven a graphically-oriented game as well. Testifying to how addicting the game is, my friends would even sit and mindlessly play this little text-oriented Puyo clone that I made. I should try to recompile it and make it available for download, because I still have the source code. :-D

Anyway, back on track. A group of developers called iOS wrote a Puyo clone they call FloboPuyo, and it is a great clone. The graphics, music, and attitude of the game are all very well up to par. Please check it out! After all, it’s available for OS X, Windows, and Linux, so what possible excuse could you have to not check it out?

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