TA Forums Game of the Week! (Aug 15th)

[Pony]

Horn has my vote!

[slamraman]

Shame that SuperCock never made the list. I'll have to go for Bad Hotel then.

[GeekyDad]

Originally Posted by slamraman

Shame that SuperCock never made the list. ...

To be fair, the thread is game of the week, not name of the week.

[Janni]

burglary! thats my joke!

[awp69]

Originally Posted by Echoseven

Saying Puzzle Craft has resource management akin to Kairosoft is wrong. There's no simulation part, at all.

You play the match 3, which gives you stuff. You then use that stuff to make buildings that make it easier to get stuff. It's a lot more like 10 mil than a town builder, and I didn't hear anyone complain about the base building there.

Basically, you go to farm - the match 3 - during which you collect grain, wood and chickens. After that is finished, you get the resources you collected and can use them as currency. For example - you can hire a worker that will reduce the amount of wood tiles you need to make a wood pile from 9 to 8, and so on.

If the game looks even remotely interesting to you, you're doing yourself a great disservice by not playing it.
Hell, I've spent the last three days playing it non-stop.

Got the game and am I glad I bit. It is pretty enjoyable, but I think it definately does have a fairly substantial management side to it. No, it's not on the level of Kairosoft games. But it's enough to pull you out of the match three experience and have to focus on what you do and don't need (basically, resource management).

I guess I like 10000000 because I think there's more of a critical element to having to battle things and open chests, etc., that makes the match-3 itself more challenging. I have Puppy Sanctuary and while it has a pet-sim part of it, I don't do much with that and focus on the match-3 because it's fun with quite a few powerups and challenges with locked blocks, etc.

That all said, Puzzle Craft is a great game and I'll continue to play it. Just not as sure if I'll be as hooked as I have been to others in the match-3 genre. Can definately see the appeal to it, though, and why it's getting a lot of votes.

[Echoseven]

See, for me, I didn't see anything as resource management. For me there's the match-3 and the "overworld" where you can do things to immediately influence the match-3 game so you can get right back into it.

Sorry, I didn't mean to give you the wrong idea.

[awp69]

Originally Posted by Echoseven

See, for me, I didn't see anything as resource management. For me there's the match-3 and the "overworld" where you can do things to immediately influence the match-3 game so you can get right back into it.

Sorry, I didn't mean to give you the wrong idea.

No problem, it will probably grow on me. I guess having to plan out what resources you need to get before you even get into the match-3, it just takes you out of the puzzle element a bit and more into thinking about what things I need to build this or get that.

I'm sure I'm in the minority (well, I know I am based on the votes its getting). Definately plan on spending more time with it!

[Sanuku]

Congratulation to Puzzle Craft for winning the Contest this Week.

[syntheticvoid]

Originally Posted by Sanuku

Congratulation to Puzzle Craft for winning the Contest this Week.

They didn't win... Horn did.

There's a post about it in another thread...

Echoseven posted this...

Originally Posted by Echoseven

Hey guys, seems there's some confusion around with last week's poll, so I'd like to clear some things up.

There's a reason the poll is set up to show the voters - it's because every week, I check through the winners manually (yes, the whole lot) to see whether the winners are actually the winners. Sometimes, it happens that people try to cheat the "system" of keeping the votes to TA members and bring in outsiders to vote. I have my criteria for defining legitimate voters, but I won't disclose those.

After each week, the vote count may be adjusted and the final winners are "announced" in the first paragraph of the first post of the thread. These are always correct, based on individual tallies. So, even though last week's winner appears to be Puzzle Craft, some votes have been pruned (not needlessly, mind you), leaving Horn to take the winning prize.

In hindsight, I might start announcing winners at the end of the polls, too.

[GeekyDad]

Originally Posted by syntheticvoid

Echoseven posted this...

Well, I won't bother participating in the future. He has a "criteria," but won't disclose it? Ha, ha. So, basically, whoever he wants to win, regardless of what the community has to say, wins. Yeah, that sounds like fun. Ridiculous.