I’ve reviewed some star wars games in the past and today is the day we celebrate star war and funny Star war meme.

Humble Bundle has  its own May the 4th sale and it’s full of classics a low price, up to 66 percent off.

Here’s a list of PC titles that you can get right now. The sale is going on all weekend now so you’ve got time to binge A New Hope up to The Last Jedi and then get to shopping.

• Star Wars: Battlefront II (Classic)- $3.39
• Star Wars: Empire At War Gold Pack- $6.79
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II — The Sith Lords- $3.39
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic- $3.39
• Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga- $7.99
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight — Jedi Academy- $3.39
• Star Wars: Republic Commando- $3.39
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed — Ultimate Sith Edition- $6.79
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II- $6.79
• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga- $2.03
• Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars- $7.99
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight II — Jedi Outcast- $3.39
• Star Wars: Rebellion- $2.03
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D- $3.99
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight — Dark Forces II- $2.03
• Star Wars: Dark Forces- $2.03
• Star Wars: Tie Fighter Special Edition- $3.99
• Star wars: X-Wing Alliance- $3.99
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Republic Heroes- $6.79
• Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter — Balance of Power- $3.99
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight — Mysteries of the Sith- $1.01
• Star Wars: Rebel Assault II- $3.99
• Star Wars: Starfighter — $2.39
• Star Wars: X-Wing Bundle- $11.99
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight Collection- $8.99
• Star Wars Classics Collection- $21.19
• Star Wars Collection- $39.99

If you don’t know what to buy, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is pretty good (and old) it has a twist in it too and you got a bang for your bucks at only 3,39$.

Two really good game were released on mobile from these franchise, one for each franchise actually. Here a quick review of each game

Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic

You may remember that awesome game on console & pc or you never played it but keep hearing about it from your friend. Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) was a massive success and received many praises by the critics for it’s innovative game play and immersive story.

“The story takes place approximately 4,000 years before the rise of the Galactic Empire. Former Jedi Darth Malak, a Dark Lord of the Sith and Darth Revan‘s former apprentice, has unleashed a Sith armada against the Republic. Malak’s aggression has left the Jedi scattered and vulnerable; many Jedi Knights have fallen in battle and others have sworn allegiance to Malak and Revan.”

If you liked the original and want a second try or you never played it but would love to hear from it here your chance to play it on iOs.

Related article : Star Wars RPG: Knights of the Old Republic (pocketgamer)

Star Trek Trexels

If you liked building your death star in Star wars: Tiny Death Star but Star Trek is more your cup of Tea, you are in luck! A mobile game base on the original Star trek series have recently be released on the app store.

You explore planets and complete a series of tasks. These involve laser gun fights, destroying alien machinery, and negotiating with the native species. Some tasks are somewhat repetitive but it’s easily forgotten by the conversations between crew members during these peril-filled story and with the authentic 1960s Star Trek music.

Related article : Star Trek Trexels (Pocket Gamer)

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Hopefully more game from these franchise will be released soon.  Meanwhile, let us know in the comment what is you favorite Star Wars / Star Trek game.

For those late in the news Star Wars Tiny Death Star was released, you can check out the trailer below.

The Emperor asked you, Vader, to build shop and restaurant in the death star to entertain your troop and make money to pay for the main purpose of the death star, bring terror and death through all the galaxy.

You play has Vader the mastermind building the new death star and you must find the delicate balance of building commerce to finance your little project and spending your money of imperial floor to investigate the rebel secret and build your ultimate weapon.

Star wars Tiny Death might seem like a clone of tiny tower set in the star wars universe. Sure there is similarities specially the gameplay that haven’t changed much between the two games but I’ve found some difference and I’ve decided to put a list of them.

Top 10 majors difference between Tiny death star and Tiny tower that wills make you want to play both

1. Imperial floor, Mission from Vader with imperial floors (this remove the creative floor from tiny tower)
2. Emperor mission instead of the mission on tiny tower
3. Special character can visit you and you can collect them
4. Special scene: When a special character visit you it may trigger a scene if he visit the right floor
5. Elevator upgrades multiply your tips, which make it worthwhile to upgrade them compare to the one in the original tiny tower game.
6. Some characters like to keep secret where they are going
7. You have to search for rebel and special character in your star instead of searching for bitzen
8. Its way harder to get extra free bux than in Tiny Tower
9. You play has freaking Vader
10. You have hundreds even thousands of Star Wars reference

Honorable mention

• Some char won’t tell you where they are going only until you move them
• New VIPs

Yesterday, I’ve wrote a piece on how I’ve tried to automate my TKO account with various extension, tools and even code. Today, I’ll explain how I went from the basic foundation laid out by the sushi go round bot tutorial to build my TKO bot. Everything here can be use to build your own bot for your game.

“Sushi go round” bot basic

From the tutorial I’ve referenced in my last post, I explained how the author used python to make is bot and what inspired me from his post to make mine.

Note what will follow requires a basic understanding of programming. If you want more info on that let me know or check out the free python beginner book: Dive Into Python

The basic principle of the bot in the tutorial is to get the image on the screen and analyze them, from there the bot react from what he analyzed.

This is the most important thing I’ve got from that tutorial. Using the python imaging library & numpy to get the image and use what he (the bot) captured on the screen to make a decisions.

Other point to get started is to use paint.net (or another image program with ruler) to get positioning in the image of the item that needed to be analysed. PyWin is another important librairy to take care of the reaction of the bot by providing him some way to interact with the screen with the mouse pointer and some keyboard input.

The first step to create your bot

Your first step to create your bot is getting a screen grab of the game to know what is the boundary of your game are. Once you got the screen grab with the game on it, you open the image in an editor like Paint.net and check the position of where the game start on the screen (in pixel from the upper left corner of the screen ) to where the section of the screen you game end (the lower right corner). With these coordinate, you will be able to concentrate only on the section of your game and if it move you just have to get them again it’s shouldn’t impact your coordinate in game since they will be relative.

Second step: entering the game and/or decide your starting state.

Once you got where your game is in the screen, you need to have a starting state for your bot. It can be the start screen of the game and have a little routine to get in it like sushi go round or start from a state you are often in like in the resource screen of your main city. You’ll probably need to have a routine to go back there so you can easily make your bot shift between task. That kind of backtracking is useful in complex game like Tko but unnecessary for game simple has sushi go round.

Third step: Creating the first task for your bot.

In sushi go round the tutorial show how to find what sushi are being ordered by the customer and prepare them from the ingredient. For Tko there is more option, there so much that can be done, you can make your bot build your city, maybe just collect your daily reward, perhaps upgrade armor or just find those damn 15 farm field on the map. I’ve started by making a task to upgrade weapon, armor and speed (valor camp). These three task have a similar layout and since the same image is used for each upgrade everything needed to be coded only once. The three building can be found at the same place too,  through the menu next to your ruler portraits even if you don’t put them in the same place in every city.

From here you should be able to do almost anything you want. If you’re having a hard time, go revisit the basic that can be found in the sushi go round example and check out some good python free course or book. The next part will be more in deep of the problem I’ve encountered. I’ll show you I went a little further in the bot, by including keyboard input, by using a configuration in a file depending on the user I’m running the bot with or how to save the value you found like where are the 15f.

If you want to files let me know in the comment, l’ll send them to you.

Developer ektomarch started a Kickstarter campaign for Metroidvania style game called Aerannis.

In Aerannis, the protagonist a female assassin that lives in the last city on earth. The game will be set in an open ended world that you can explore freely, you advance by doing mission. Also the game has a stealth element where you hide to either take hostage, run behind a guard etc.

They managed to hit the initial goal but there still are some stretch goals that are left and there is currently only 13 days left to the campaign.

If you want to support this game and get some of the rewards go to the kickstarter page.

Related:

Kickstarter pick metroidvania Aerannis (Indiesgames)

The Ruins of Old Earth

If you liked the initial Metroid you will like this dark, moody pixelated atmosphere that will makes you remember the first Metroid game. The ruins of old earth take place well we don’t know yet, it seems that you are in an undiscovered region of Earth and you have to explore that harsh & wild region of the underground of Earth. Our hero can have a jetpack (not sure if he actually start with it), and three type of gun (beam, pulse, lazer) .

The ruin of old earth is a ongoing project, you can check where there at in theirs forum:

Progress : Forum Thread

Related :

The ruin of old earth (Indie games)

I’m a big fan of FTL and basically have the game since release.  I’ve got all the ship except the Cristal one and over 100 hr played on it. So I was quite happy when then announced the release of FTL on the IPad awhile ago. With the recent release on the IPad they updated the game with new content (ship, alien, mod, ship layout).

The game started has a Kickstarter campaign on February 27th, 2012 andthe campaign was a massive success.

Ok! We get it, you like this game but What the game about ?

FTL is roguelike space games, where you control a spaceship that needs to save the Federation from the Rebellion. Has you flee from the rebel force to the federation headquarter to be deliver critical information about the rebel force, you encounter alien race, hostile ship, event, store. You can unlock ship by going through certain event or be beating the rebel Flag ship with certain type of ship. What most notable and very common in the roguelike game is that each time you lose your ship, either no more crew or the whole ship is destroyed, you need to restart the game.

With made me look forward for more game in the space genre here 3 games that caught my attention recently. Please note that because of my love for FTL I’ll probably start a weekly or bi-weekly post on how to unlock ship and various achievement. If you can’t wait you can always check there wiki, its awesome source of FTL information.

P.S: I hope they will make it available on android too.

Cosmonautica

Cosmonautica look quite promising, it’s can be describe has The Sim in space meet FTL of some sort. . The player’s ship is the size of a large townhouse and various rooms can be bolted onto its empty compartments. Living quarters, vending machines, cargo bays, weapons, engines and, wait for it, toilets… At present, there’s not much to do beyond trading basic commodities, but ground missions and enhanced combat are due before release. Take a look.

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Shallow Space

From the look of it Shallow space is a Space 3D RTS game inspired from homeworld. Players will need to mine for resources, advance capital ships and engage in battle to improve your officers skills. You can even design your own weapon configurations and ship modules, and believe me there are plenty of ships to play with!

Related: Dominate the Shallow Space (Indieretronews)

SPAZ 2

I loved the first game even though I haven’t finished it yet. It doesn’t have the same vibe FTL does but I really liked how you upgrade your spaceships and how you can customize them. The game has a bit of grinding to it that can sometime be cumbersome.

SPAZ 1

SPAZ 2 come back with all these mechanic, new ones and with enhanced 3d graphics.

Official Site : http://minmax-games.com/SpacePiratesAndZombies/

There have been a lot of flappy bird game, video, meme going on lately. I’ve decided to do a little round up of the last few weeks.

You can check our previous post on Flappy bird:

The Flappy bird that went away

More “flappy”ing bird

Flappy bird 3D

How to make Flappy bird more hip, 3D of course after piranha 3d here come Flappy bird 3D

 Play

Flappy bird FPS

In the same line of Flappy bird 3D why not make it from a first person point of view. The result is actually really interesting. Have a look if you want to try it out.

Download First person Flappy bird

Maverick Bird

This is a hard one that you can play right away since it’s browser base. You can either flap (up) or dive (down) making the game even harder. You move toward the obstacles really fast so be prepare and drink some coffee.

Play it !

Flappy Bird for Commodore 64

Flappy bird is pretty basic when you think about it, someone made a clone on the commodore 64. Check out the youtube video, link to the actual game is in the video description on youtube.

Chuck Norris vs Flappy Bird

Tired of hearing about Flappy bird, Chuck Norris too and he has a nice way to “Finish the game” and it involves a lot of bird a** kicking… Check it out.

More Flappy bird

Indies retro news Flappy bird Compilation

Indie Games Flappy Bird Brower Pick

Appsgoer top Iphone Flappy Bird Clone

Let us know in the comment your favorite one and if you know other notable Flappy bird clone let us know.

I your a fan of NimbleBit Tiny Tower and other we talked about this week or / and a fan of star war you’ll be happy to hear that NimbleBit have teamed up with Disney for a brand new game called Tiny Death Star.

We don’t have much info right now but I can’t wait to see what the game will look like.

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Ancient Summoner Opens New Server: Death Knight-A Bloody Showdown

The unprecedented yet highly praised card game Ancient Summoner, after 3 popular servers launch, is going to start its 4th server-Death Knight, as a timely reaction to the warmly expectation of millions of players worldwide.

Death Knight: Origin of Werewolf

The name of S4 is derived from the earliest legend of werewolf which  must trace back to 1216 when John Lakeland, King of England, was poisoned to death. It was said that the poison contained aconite, a plant that converted people into werewolf. Soon after, people heard howling from the king’s grave, and some even claimed they had seen the king turned into Death Knight in normal night, but Werewolf under full moon, wondering around in the forest.

General War: Memories Launched a New Server– S8 Maryland Goes Online

It’s been a while since Gambox’s General War: Memories went online and now it has gathered thousands of players. Now a new server S8-Maryland has been launched!
In this game, players may use various strategies with a wide range of formations, combination of units (infantry, tanks & artillery), equips and skills to fight alongside their alliance mates, you can do whatever you want to command your troops to success. All the elements in the game, including the maps and storyline are based on history, thus it gives players an exciting experience of commanding troops in WWII.
From S1 to S8, GW players have witnessed the growth of this game. As the first batch of heroes,players in earlier servers have been battle-hardened and veteran. They have conquered  the world with unique strategies and powerful units. Now the first max level player has appeared in S1. He is the first max level players of all servers, using his unique tactics and most powerful units in bloody battles.
During the past few months, thanks to the support and love of the players, Gamebox has been updating the game on a weekly basis. Now players of all ages, professions, regions can have fun in the game through coping the internal affairs of the city, training troops, fighting against the NPC, fighting with allies, fighting with players in the arena, attacking cities and defending your city, forming groups and fighting in group. Yes, it will never let you down!

For more info about this game, please visit
General War official website
General War on facebook

Note to my reader, this a press release from gamebox for the game General War. I didn’t wrote it so might notice that they don’t do the same spelling mistakes I do. I didn’t receive any money from them or anything else except a mail. Enjoy !

General War: Memories, a browser game developed by Gamebox is going to release its closed beta server on April 16PDT. In this game players are taken back to the frontline of WWⅡ classic battles, using various strategies with a wide range of formations, combination of units (infantry, tanks & artillery), equips and skills, to fight alongside their alliance mates.

All the elements in the game, including the maps and storyline are based on history, thus it gives players an exciting experience of the fighting in WWII. To meet the high expectation of players, General War: Memories closed beta test is to start for bug and suggestion collecting purposes.

The closed beta test lasts from April 16 to 22, 7 days in total. After the test, all gaming data of the test server will be deleted.

Play General War: Memories before everyone else and have fun!

For more info about this game, please visit General War official website: http://gw.gamebox.com/

General War on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pages/General-War-Memories-Community/157435281088360