Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Dr. Brain nostalgia/revisited

These are (imo, though I may be biased) excellent games that balance metaphors, with (realistic) scientific concepts. They're visually fun, increase in difficulty, and are peppered with rewards for every new skill or goal you achieve.

The interface is mostly intuitive, each level is introduced with a nice lady talking about the background science, and the game story motivates players to (in this case) save the lost mind of Dr. Brain..

Dr. Brain games feature a 2D storyline of discrete/modulated game levels; these levels usually pose real time strategy or a variety of puzzle challenges.





ps - I still have copies of these games if anyone has a pc that can run them?

pps- the Time Warp of Dr. Brain game has a first level called: Primordial Soup, which is a real-time strategy game, simlar to Sean Wang's MRP and also starcraft, where you command legions of cells that must proliferate and mutate to conquer your opponent's amoebas.

Primordial Soup level screen capture:

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