tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54707820892424029142009-06-30T22:09:59.594-07:00Jarednoreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-47289667393414177432009-02-04T20:17:00.001-08:002009-02-04T20:18:35.634-08:00

I moved Puppy Buckets over to Wordpress. Next week I'll buy a domain and all that cool stuff :)http://puppybuckets.wordpress.com

Jarednoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-41266470975250583062009-02-04T19:27:00.000-08:002009-02-04T19:36:38.290-08:00

Further apologies for the lack of updates, I've been pretty busy lately. I should probably do a post for each of the following awesome games: Gravity Bone, Spelunky, The Manipulator, Closure, and the list goes on and on I'm sure... But I can't tear my eyes away from this silly Letum game to do all that. Sure this same game has been done a thousand times before, but it's so damn addicting that I

Jarednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-89303313182686937832009-01-04T12:00:00.000-08:002009-01-04T16:51:02.719-08:00

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has set up a great little web site for their new exhibition on the Collosal Squid, complete with a "Build a Squid" section.Visitors can design and name their very own squid by selecting various shapes, sizes and colors of parts. These squids are then "released" into a collective ocean, and you can come back later to see what your squid has been up

Alehkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524586440060773307ATHavens@gmail.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-3717373577609797302008-12-10T23:49:00.000-08:002008-12-10T23:55:01.977-08:00

I love the art style in The Majesty of Colors, and getting to be a cool tentacled sea monster and choose between helping and harming humanity is a pretty great concept. If you're into a slower paced game with a compelling message (and who isn't into that?!), this short little gem is just what you need after a long day of work/school/sitting around at home looking at funny pictures.

Jarednoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-6766856117550198802008-12-07T12:40:00.000-08:002008-12-07T12:56:16.405-08:00

Kill mindless zombies, then use their bodies to create a ladder to the sky! Body Ladder would be perfect if it were more fleshed out (haha puns); once the grenades are used up and the last weapon upgrade (pictured above) is attained, the game's entertainment value is pretty much cashed. Still, for the fifteen or so minutes that it lasts, smacking zombies with axes and baseball bats is hugely

Jarednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-71603154857166193132008-12-07T11:33:00.000-08:002008-12-07T11:48:40.638-08:00

Here are the sites I go to when I want to listen to full songs before actually having to pay for them:Free.NapsterimeemThe Hype MachineYouTube (Surprisingly useful for audio)This sure beats the hell out of waiting forever to listen to one song by getting it off a torrent site or using crappy p2p programs like LimeWire or FrostWire, enjoy.Oh, I may as well give a plug for I Feel Like Dying by Lil

Jarednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-27367337198188430122008-12-04T23:27:00.001-08:002008-12-04T23:37:01.830-08:00

One rousing success of the freeware gaming community is the excellent selection of quality dinosaur games. The latest to join the ranks of such greats as Dino Run and Off-Road Velociraptor Safari is From Primordial Egg. Stomp around as a dinosaur and kill archaeologists, eating them to evolve and gain health. The pixel art is nice to look at, especially the dinosaur graphics; seeing the next

Jarednoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-26527238741428621042008-12-03T23:30:00.000-08:002008-12-03T23:46:33.431-08:00

The first chapter of 10800 Zombies, the latest slice of awesome from JW, is boring, repetitive, and has lame colorless graphics. From there on out, the game is all about doing epic things like torching zombies with flamethrowers in old-school platform style. The artsy blood splatter effect (pictured nicely in the screenshot above) is a cool extra touch, and the colored backgrounds are a much

Jarednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-41983309324929216872008-11-16T11:59:00.000-08:002008-11-16T12:28:14.821-08:00

Hey guys, sorry as usual for going so long between posts, I'm incredibly lazy but have still been playing indie games on a daily basis. One of the standout titles that I've been spending a lot of time with is Hunted Forever, a cool little flash game where you run from a killing machine while trying to collect machine parts to destroy it. Great gameplay mechanics, but once it's over there's no

Jarednoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-60833709250006039762008-09-16T15:10:00.000-07:002008-09-16T15:15:50.939-07:00

Smile Escape is an earlier effort from the guy who brought us the physics-based run-and-gun shooter Intrusion. Much like Intrusion, Smile Escape has great gameplay mechanics but is much too short; the three available levels, which are kinda like a free-roaming version of Sonic the Hedgehog, are over just when the fun starts building up. Still, Smile Escape is worth a look. Hopefully the creator

Jarednoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-1468447992459841582008-09-15T17:15:00.000-07:002008-09-15T17:32:47.764-07:00

Looking back at my previous music posts, most of the stuff I listen to is about as offensive as this hilarious ninja cat video:So everyone always acts all surprised when I mention Andre Nickatina, a completely awesome rapper who has a following that, as far as I know, doesn't really go beyond the Bay Area.Judging from the amount of coke this guy snorts, I'm pretty sure his days on Earth are

Jarednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-83348661460110569692008-09-15T16:36:00.000-07:002008-09-15T16:39:12.853-07:00

bob's game, a one man, five year effort to make a 2D adventure game for the Nintendo DS, looks amazing. Watch the trailer and cross your fingers that someday you'll be able to play this.

Jarednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-26783103685499653592008-09-06T09:06:00.001-07:002008-09-06T09:31:11.968-07:00

After a relatively quiet couple of weeks in the independent gaming world, two creations that are unique in their own ways have popped onto my radar that are both worthy of a posting on Puppy Buckets. Read on...Aether is the dreamlike tale of a boy and his monster friend as they travel through space restoring beauty to nearby planets. Sound trippy? You better believe it! If the game runs slowly

Jarednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-45596086542420277972008-08-12T10:57:00.000-07:002008-08-12T11:04:05.886-07:00

Big Building Boom Blues is a simple little game where you have to rappel down a building before you get blown to bits. The fun lasts about as long as it takes to beat the game, which most people should probably be able to do in three or four tries.

Jarednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-19566295966524036792008-07-29T00:00:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:35.619-08:00

Following in the footsteps of all Evil Scientists before him, Dr. Horrible desires to defeat his nemesis, be understood by the girl of his dreams, and to be......amazingly funny?For all of you who complained about the recent "Writer's Strike," let it never be said again that nothing good came of it. Writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) and actors Neil Patrick Harris,

Alehkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524586440060773307ATHavens@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-69850891155450222942008-06-25T16:28:00.000-07:002008-06-25T16:32:11.678-07:00

Buy his EP on iTunes!

Jarednoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-72205399486197453512008-06-23T00:00:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:36.267-08:00

Addicting.Yep, that's the word - "addicting."X-Out's Cubes is apparently a multilayer remake of "Counter Clockwise," which was a remake itself, of an old ZX Spectrum game called "Knot in 3D." Also notable is the fact that this game was made in under 2 weeks.But all that really matters is that Cubes is the most addictive game I've played in a while. Very, very addictive.Essentially, the game is

Alehkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524586440060773307ATHavens@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-26474860615680325482008-06-08T12:00:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:36.284-08:00

Dion Kurczek is devoted.As a project that first premiered in 1995 as a turn-based strategy game involving only three possible units controlled one at a time by the arrow keys, Kurczek's game Solar Vengeance (now on version 5) has come a long way. Nowadays, players of Solar Vengeance can select six units out of a possible 24 units to pit against opposing players in matches of real-time

Alehkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524586440060773307ATHavens@gmail.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-16593602346997662252008-05-21T19:46:00.000-07:002008-05-21T19:58:32.497-07:00

JW has once again proven that his best games are made under pressure; Psycho was created for a 3 hour competition, but it has a level of polish and fun that would take other developers weeks to achieve.To JW: How about updating your site to include links to all of your games? They're scattered across several websites at the moment!Also, sorry for failing to provide frequent updates again. This

Jarednoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-58136255812011629342008-05-17T10:45:00.000-07:002008-05-17T11:27:00.476-07:00

I've had the pleasure of seeing Throw Me The Statue twice in the past few months. Their debut album, Moonbeams, released to surprisingly tepid reviews, but this is one of those instances where I can't disagree more with what the critics have to say.Check out this epic music video and hear TMTS for yourself:If you want to hear more, the band's label has free MP3s for two of their best songs:MP3:

Jarednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-50428128662069822702008-05-17T08:23:00.000-07:002008-05-17T08:48:21.725-07:00

Destroyermech is another unusual game created by Oddwarg. It's basically an on-rails platform shooter that works like this: the mech slowly trudges forward and you're in charge of dispatching enemies that get in its way by blowing them to bits.Destroyermech never breaks from this simple gameplay formula until the final boss battle, which also felt like one of the lower and less-polished moments

Jarednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-37354776407665783612008-05-16T12:00:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:36.958-08:00

Take the weapons from the Quake and Unreal Series (the shotguns, the grenade-launchers, the laser-cannons), throw in swords, over-sized wooden mallets, and grapple-hooks for good measure and give the whole arsenal to a tiny, round, and colorful race of giggling cuteness that one might come across if say... Tribbles got into a large stash of food. Now force these creatures to fight each other in

Alehkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524586440060773307ATHavens@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-6988868431092500592008-05-13T21:19:00.000-07:002008-05-13T21:28:58.626-07:00

Execution is the first "art game" created by Jesse Venbrux, who has been releasing a steady slew of fantastic games lately. Hopefully this won't spoil much, but I think Execution is the first time I ever felt a twinge of regret in a video game.

Jarednoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-5833476111080190322008-05-12T12:00:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:37.738-08:00

Wanderlust: Rebirth was conceived on August 1st, 2006, the mutt offspring of a half-dozen radically different games ranging from fantasy games like Zelda: Four Swords and Diablo to more modern games like Rainbow Six: Vegas and Project Gotham Racing.Natural Selection would never have let something this mutated take a step past the womb...But now, nearly two years later, with the release of the

Alehkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524586440060773307ATHavens@gmail.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470782089242402914.post-51106479912157455942008-05-01T12:00:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:38.067-08:00

That's right, I'm posting about yet more submarine games: one oldie but goodie, and a newcomer, but no matter which you pick, you better be ready for a ride, 'cause these subs are damn near rocket-powered!Get That Sub!Get That Sub!, from creator JW, places the player in a hopeless situation. No, really - it's hopeless: it's not a matter of beating the game, but how long you can go before it

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