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Alex Gordon is a platformer game you play with the mouse
Finally! A platformer game that I can play solely with my mouse instead of being forced to use the keyboard!! It’s been a while since I could enjoy this kind of game, and that’s exactly what I did! You play as Alex, a cat who was searching for treasure with his sister. Before game play begins, you find an amulet that breaks as soon as you touch it, which wakes up the sleeping natives. They steal your sister away and hold her for ransom until you return all the pieces of the amulet to them.
On your journey to find the missing pieces to the amulet, you meet many enemies that will try to stop you from exploring the many different levels around the island. Lucky for you, it only takes a well executed jump on an enemy’s head to kill them. Collecting coins as you run along, you’ll also find secret areas that hide bonus points and amulet pieces. Each level is timed, but there is plenty of help along the way. Friendly penguins alert you of dangers ahead, and give you hints on how to defeat them. Lava will hurt you, but you may be lucky enough to find special boots that will protect you for a short time.
Alex can swim in the water, and has a special attack for defeating underwater enemies, but there are underwater mines as well, so you’ll just have to swim around those. Extra life is easily found within your travels, so any life you lose while falling in lava, or fighting an enemy can be regained. Longer underwater levels come with an “air bar” to let you know when you’re running out of oxygen. When you need more air, simply stop inside a bubble stream to fill up again.
I only played this one for the free trial period (one hour), but quickly saw how it could become very addicting. Finding the secret areas is something that you could spend a lot of time on, and I’m assuming that most of the amulet pieces you need to finish the game are hidden in these secret areas.
A side project that is offered to you is upgrading your retirement island. You can spend the coins you collect throughout your adventure on building up a deserted island that you plan to retire on. If nothing else, this gives you a reason to collect all those coins along the way. Alex Gordon is definitely worth the download. Enjoy!
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Jewelleria is Cake Mania for Gem Lovers
The newest free trial download is “Jewelleria“, a time management game that challenges you to make the finest jewelery as fast as you can, while keeping your customers happy. If you’ve ever played the Cake Mania series, you’ll be very familiar with the game mechanics in this jewelery shop challenge.
As a fan of the Cake Mania games, I was able to easily apply the same methods of catering to the customers in order to achieve the “Master Goal” in each of the 13 levels I was able to play in the one hour trial period. Choosing your upgrades wisely between each level makes it easier to deal with demanding customers, and so do the candy treats that are available do help calm down impatient patrons by refilling their “happiness meters”, which are shown as hearts beside their heads. Very familiar game set up… not that familiar is a bad thing.
Unique to Jewelleria, the customers will eventually order a “mystery” item. Instead of a specific jewel in the piece they order, the picture is blank. I learned that this means you can make them any combination of jewels, as long as it’s in the correct “piece” of jewelery (ring, earing, or necklace)… and that customer will buy it. This gives you the opportunity to make an expensive piece with more than one type of jewel in it to earn a bit of extra cash.
Another one of the more unique aspects of this game are the “Awards” handed out for certain achievements such as completing 8 rounds without having to discard any jewelery. There are around 8 awards to receive, one of which is for earning $40k.
I enjoyed playing this game, and found the graphics very clean and clear. As a gem lover myself, I really enjoyed making the jewelry, and seeing the various results. I didn’t find this game difficult due to my familiarity with other games of it’s type, but still found it fun to play. This one is being added to my list of games to buy with my next Game Club credit! 
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New casual pc game: Turtix 2: Rescue Adventures
Turtix 2: Rescue Adventures is today’s new download game. This is a platformer game, which means that the screen scrolls to the right in the classic arcade style, while you travel up and down different levels (aka platforms) to obtain your goals. In this particular game, you are playing a cute little turtle that has to save all the baby turtles from the bad guys!
I’ve downloaded the game, and I was happy to find that it’s not like a lot of the other “platformer” casual pc games I’ve tried. See, I don’t like having to use my keyboard at all when I’m playing a game! This is the first platformer game I can remember playing that allows you to move around using your mouse. You can even jump by left clicking. While this does afford you some mobility without using the keyboard arrow keys, you do still need the keyboard to take actions (control key), and “view” the playing board around you (space key with arrows).
Despite my distaste for using the keyboard, I did play this one for the free hour. It reminded me a lot of my Sega Genisis days (yes, I’m old! LOL)… and playing Sonic the Hedgehog. You have to protect the baby turtles from dangerous monsters by jumping on them (eliminating them), or crushing them with boxes that you push or pull around the board. The boxes are also used to cover dangerous “pits of death”, allowing the baby turtles (and yourself) to walk over them.
It’s important to remember that the boxes you move around are also used to allow you access to otherwise restricted areas… by jumping on them, it will give you the height you need to jump to levels you couldn’t otherwise reach, making the order in which you do things very important at some points. If, for example, you use a box to cover a death pit too early, you may not be able to use that box to reach a portion of the screen that you need to get to… I learned this the hard way!
One other beginner’s tip that I can offer is this… the baby turtles need to find their way to the exit door in order for you to get credit for saving them. Make sure you don’t exit yourself until all your rescued baby turtles have reached that door, or you won’t get credit for them! Overall, I can see where platformer fans would become quickly addicted to this game, and find themselves needing to save ALL the baby turtles. Turtix 2: Rescue Adventures is sure to please casual pc game fans of all ages!
For those of you that find Turtix absolutely adorable, as I do… you may want to check out the original game featuring this cute lil guy. Turtix is the original side scrolling adventure that captivated so many with it’s charm and ease of play, that it wasn’t long before the developers had to create Turtix 2: Rescue Adventures! Enjoy them, and if you play them, comment here to let me know what you think, or join a community of casual pc gamers for more sharing of tips and tricks over at PCgamesJunkie.com!
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Found a great new game today!
If you’re a “Farm Frenzy” addict, then I strongly recommend downloading this game! I’m pretty sure (I will go check) that it’s made by the same designers… the graphics are very similar, and the products & buildings are almost identical. [Read my official review of Farm Frenzy here]
Where Farm Frenzy was about utilizing the products of animals, this one’s about using the products harvested, and processed from your farm. There’s a ton of rewards to earn, and this game includes an interesting twist to the production method you must choose. I haven’t received all the awards yet, but I have “developed” everything in my farm. While I find it a little frustrating that ALL of the production buildings are not available at the same time, I do appreciate the challenge that this presents. I’d call this a “spin off” of Farm Frenzy, as opposed to a sequel.
FREE trial version
24.2 MB
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Edit to add: For those of you that may not know… if you become a member of the “game club”, you can get these games for only $6.99 each… most sites sell them for $19.95, so check out the savings here!
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Free fantasy art wallpapers!
I haven’t been posting here because I’ve been elbow deep in my graphics programs! I finally managed to put together a piece of fantasy art that inspired me to create a package of wallpapers for us to use as our computer desktops! The first piece below is the original art, which I used Poser 7 and PhotoShop CS3 to create. The second piece is the Wallpaper pack, so click through on that one to download the free goodies! The third piece is just a little portrait I did while playing around in Poser. Enjoy them, and tell all your friends about them! LOL
Note: To view these pieces in their original sizes, click on them. You will be taken to my online gallery at DeviantArt.com… from there, you just click the preview picture to see the “zoomed” version. Constructive criticism is always welcome! *saying “she’s kind of ugly” is NOT constructive… and I probably meant for it to be ugly if that’s your first thought… remember that I specialize in dark and/or fantasy art. Ex: A vampire that’s about to feed probably isn’t going to be the most attractive being. 
There’s a spell brewing by *webwenchginger on deviantART
