#computer puzzle games

[cryptixotic]

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟑 : 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 !

if you're reading this i want you to tell me which Windows 98 Solitaire card deck is your favorite :-)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was on a boss level of a video game where the boss was a computer and various other electronics were moving around on a sort of trolley that was of human height. It wasn’t clear if the boss was inside the robot trolley or if it was being controlled remotely. The arena was a fairly small white room with a column of computer stuff in the middle.

When it became clear that the boss could not be defeated I realised that it was necessary to first complete an IRL puzzle that was kinda like a padlock but had loads of vertical and horizontal metal cylinders in it. You could only complete the padlock puzzle if you took a coin out of it and put the coin into various slots around this river in the middle of a town I’ve never been to.

Me and a few friends had to climb over walls and try not to fall into the river whilst putting the coin into the slots in the walls. The coin would always come back out because it somehow saved where it had been and could update the padlock puzzle.

Even when the coin had been everywhere it needed to go the puzzle still wasn’t unlocked, but one of my friends figured out how to open the back which gave you access to the cylinders and the ability to move them at will.

Although we cheated to open the padlock puzzle, I assumed that I could now defeat the computer trolley boss, but I never found out if I was right.

[arconinternet]

Marble Drop (Windows, Maxis South, 1997)

You can download it here (and its version 1.1 patch here), or download it pre-configured to run on modern systems here.

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

re: raised in amphibia marcy who is nothing but the cores host

beyond the psychological stuff im also thinking about the physical. the evil science possibilities. im just like. canonically its hinted that the core did stuff to marcys body just in the few months it had her to make its vessel more suitable. the plug ports that were apparently in her limbs bc otherwise she would be getting stabbed by those things. "this thing needs some calibration" about marcys body??? what did it mean by that??? and like u mention her being wired up to it in the original ask

anyways im up here thinking abt how much it mightve done to her if it had her for that long. if it had the same plug things installed in her limbs as she seemed to in canon shed probably need replacements if they happened when she was young enough and grew significantly since then.

also my mom used to work in the brain-computer interface industry and well. to get really any level of highly detailed or accurate data, let alone on the scale youd need to fully interface with the entire brain, you would absolutely need to have direct access to the brain rather than trying to go through the skull. theres no way this girl doesnt have a port of some kind implanted in her head for the core to directly connect to her brain.

hell maybe it doesnt wanna deal with biological organs and the problems that might arise from them. no big deal itll just have them replaced!

Aaaaagh dude i love your asks. Galaxy brain asks from my galaxy friend mutual.

Anyway. Yes i I have thought quite a bit about Marcy's whole deal. What Andrias cares about is her brainnnn that blob of grey matter that's somehow a biological supercomputer. He has no qualms in eventually getting rid of the body and keeping the brain in a jar, immortalized as an invaluable piece of hardware with the help of some shadowfish biotechnology (shhh lemme tell you a secret: he actually does care for her and love her and takes no joy in hurting her. He just doesn't love her enough to save her :3). Anyway, unfortunately, when he found this thing, her brain was surprisingly underseveloped. He had a vague awareness that the unfortunate coincidence of bipedism and viviparity so characteristic of homo sapiens resulted in them giving birth to useless, half-developed fetuses (as opposed to fully mature, egg-born pollywogs), but surely, by age three, a human would be more mature, right? He checked his archives on alien biology and, indeed, no. An average human's brain isn't fully developed until around age 25. Marcy may be smart, but she's still, by all accounts, a homo sapiens pollywog. He consults the Core. The Core wants a host. They want a body, and they want this brain. They will do with just the brain, is Andrias is too useless to secure them the body, but even if they're willing to wait for another body (stronger, bigger, more amphibian) to come around eventually, they know it won't work as well as with the original brain-body combination.

He decides to raise Marcy to be 25. He keeps her mind sharp and body healthy, or as healthy as possible. She undergoes many week-long sessions unconscious and connected to all sorts of wires as tubes. It's so normal for her, that by age 6 she knew how to get on top of the plataform or into the tank without falling, and how to put on her own oxygen mask. She always woke up feeling weak and hungry when it was over, and with one killer headache, but her dad always held the biggest fests for her with all her favorite food when it was over! She always looked forward to her sessions. Like a dog.

In these sessions, she would undergo several procedures. There's mossman, shadowfish and amphibian biotechnology involved. The point is to 1) make her brain Core-friendly - if it has many dimensions that would make things easier! And 2) translate the data from the Core into something that can be run in a biological machine. For which they need to understand and explore said machine. She only has one port, in the back of her neck, hidden by her long hair. It connects straight into her spine and her brain. In essence, these are fitting sessions. The Core is trying out their new house. Ever since she was little, they actually did use her brain to run tests and perform different functions. Most of the times it was mostly to study it, but as she grew older, they began using her whenever a function required too much energy, whenever something that would take forever to load with its own equipment, would render almost instantly with hers. They never left any data behind, erasing all evidence of their presence, and they never fully transported anything to this new extension, using only copies of data with the original files safe in the Core. The point is to leave the Core behind eventually and fully move on to this new computer, but not yet.

A few funny side effects!

Her blood is slowly growing more and more green as the years pass. This actually has less do to with brain stuff, and more as early preparation for eternal youth and immortality. It's mean to make her last longer. When she first meets Anne at age 10 - 11, her blood is a brown-ish color, but by the time things blow up when she's like 13-14, it's just a gross green. Her kidneys filter it out with time and her blood returns to its original red color, and Anne and Sasha see her real skin color for the first time, since before she always had this weird green tint, but they didn't know enough about humans to tell it wasn't normal. Seeing her blush red instead of green for the first time is kinda magical.

Migraines! Especially after a session. Especially when she does something the Core wouldn't like, because despite how hard they try to erase their traces, Marcy's most primal survival instincts remember.

More indirect effect but going several weeks a year without eating can't be good for her. It makes her feel very tired, dizzy and weak, even if she's eating normally, because three days ago she was starving.

The port in the back of her neck itches a lot. After becoming queen, she asked the royal physician that put it her to remove it, but he was scared of leaving her paralyzed, since it was so deeply fused with her nervous system. Sasha still thinks she should've had the guy publicly excecuted or something.

Idk if it counts but ?? Andrias wouldn't touch her if she was sick, so Olivia often found ways to give her a fever in secret or something to spare her. She did it to protect her, but it does mean Marcy spent a big deal of her childhood in bed, recovering from a session or a light illness.

The Core communicates with her nervous system through electric signals, and even thought they don't want to harm it, they still make her muscles contract a lot so she feels super sobre afterwards lots of muscle pain all the time.

There is no helmet in this one. No indirect connection. When Andrias puts the Core in Marcy, he goes all the way. Straight into her brain! They got a new PC :3

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Roblox Psychological Horror Puzzle Game

I got this idea from a blinking light I saw during dinner and I thought about Morse code since I was quite fixated on it so I thought about creating a game and adding blinking lights that signal a code in Morse for the puzzle part. The story takes place in a convenience store which I got inspiration from Get a Snack at 4 am and Write a Letter's run-down store. I also thought about adding psychological horror to make it more interesting which I also got inspiration from Jim's Computer.

I haven't made a project in Roblox since 2021 so I'm hoping to learn scripting again. I'm currently working on the model of the store and adding a sliding door script.

It's going to take quite some time to develop the model since the picture I have in mind is a kind of a complicated design and I have school projects to finish. I'll try to update every day or every other day.

[thresholdbb]

11:59 had me talking to the youths about the 90s/early 2000s

[theygender]

I've got too many games I want to play and not enough free time 😭 I still need to finish my BG3 playthrough but since Endless Ocean: Luminous came out I've been playing a lot of that instead. Also just got back into Wizard101 last night. Started playing House Flipper again last weekend. Still need to finish BOTW so I can start a TOTK playthrough and finish Pokemon Shield so I can start on Pokemon Violet. I've been fighting off the urge to start up a new Skyrim playthrough for weeks. My brother just told me that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is getting ported to the Switch. And now I'm suddenly feeling inspired to replay DAI... And throughout all of this I'm also playing the hell out of DragonVale on my phone. Someone just pay me to play video games all day please

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[greatclassic989]

PERFECT LOVERBOY STIMBOARD

X X X - X X X - X X X

Fictives are free to tag as themselves!

Song : 'Power of Two' by The Indigo Girls

[technoplanet]

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

steam playlist is bumpin

[everybodysfavoritescumbag]

Gawd, this game was fucking confusing. Played it as a kid, and am equally confused as an adult 🤣

[b33tlejules]

🍕 and 🎹 for Rhan?

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

Rhan's a big fan of spicy food. Their first time having chicken tikka masala was genuinely life changing, they never wanted to go back to bland ass Farm food ever again (bad news). Basically anything that bites back, their tolerance isn't exactly High high.

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

At first they got really into disassembling and reassembling electronics, which then evolved into getting interested in DIYing their own electronic instrument set up. So there's a solid corner in their apartment with a lone keyboard (fished out of a dumpster and a ship of Theseus at this point) plugged into a million wires connecting to different amps and pedals all snaking to their computer. Its not the neatest set up but they're having fun.

[arconinternet]

Asylum (Windows 3.1, New Zone Productions, ~1990)

You can play this puzzle collection in your browser here.

The only other game in the series I could find (using the incredible Discmaster) is Asylum 3, which you can download here (WINGAMES/ASYLUM3.ZIP) and run on modern versions of Windows by dragging it onto otvdm.exe, which you can download here.

[dimalink]

Koloratura – game about colored little squares

Koloratura. It is about different colors. You are playing as a small square, which has its own color. And you are making a moves along the game field. And after you make a move, you fill a cell into your color. And you need to paint all the screen with your color.

There is computer opponent, which according to his logic, from time to time, repainting field in his colors. And this way game goes. There are three levels in game. And three game modes. And game use 16 colors. Game is written with QB64. It is modern version of Qbasic.

Basic Pascal pack - whole pack of games and programes, written with basic and pascal. It is retro. With each game and program there is a page at author`s website. There are aditional information, descriptions, pictures, arts.

Basic Pascal: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/packs/basicpascal/index_eng.html

Itchio: https://dimalink.itch.io/basic-pascal GameJolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/BasicPascal/773385 Website: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html

[394091238483]

Roblox Psychological Horror Game Idea Day 6

I worked on the model of the cashier, meet Ch3z! (I might change the name in the future) His model will be improved since this is a draft fit. I also worked on 2 scripts today, 'walkspeed' and 'hold e to equip'. It's still in progress so I'll update you when I find an error in the script =)

Hi! If you don’t know me, I'm a beginner working on a game that's puzzle based, inspired by psychological horror from Jim’s computer, Inspiration of the stores from Get a Snack at 4 am, and Write a Letter! I update almost every day and if you want updates, consider checking my blog/following me on my journey!