Bone Builder

I tried out Bone Builder briefly today. It uses the T-Engine. I have seen its splash screen before. That must be one of the ones you get for free from T-Engine. I liked the look of Bone Builder. The dungeon was drawn with a very large font so it was easy to see what was going on.

I started hacking and slashing as soon as I found monsters. The special effects for the battle were nice. The amount of damage done flies up in the air and gets smaller. This feels like a better version of the battle system in Final Fantasy.

There was much treasure on the floor of the dungeon. I grabbed it all. Not sure if it will be any use other than making me rich. I got a lot more Bone Builder playing I need to do before I really get my bearings. Hats off to Goblinz, the author of this fine game.

Phage Rage

I downloaded Phage and played it today. It uses something called T-Engine. Or perhaps I should say T-Engine is running the Phage game. There were some annoying T-Engine messages to dismiss or ignore. The game has an impressive splash screen that comes up on start.

The instructions says you don't need to bump to attack. However I found that I was not doing any attacking. I was only being attacked. After a while I died. What kind of roguelike is this where you don't bump into something to attack?

I tried again but the same effect occurs. Monster attack me. If I don't run, I get beat up. That is no fun at all. Too bad because the graphics looked nice in the game.