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[Michael_Almeida]

This has actually been bothering me for a while. Long ago, I had this CD with a demo for a game. You played as this sort of astronaut, and you had to build robots that you could program or control directly, and one of the enemy types were giant, fireball-spewing ants.

Anyone even hear of this game?

[Virtz]

This has actually been bothering me for a while. Long ago, I had this CD with a demo for a game. You played as this sort of astronaut, and you had to build robots that you could program or control directly, and one of the enemy types were giant, fireball-spewing ants.

Anyone even hear of this game?

Sounds like Colobot.

[Sean Mirrsen]

This has actually been bothering me for a while. Long ago, I had this CD with a demo for a game. You played as this sort of astronaut, and you had to build robots that you could program or control directly, and one of the enemy types were giant, fireball-spewing ants.

Anyone even hear of this game?

Sounds like Colobot.

Or CeeBot. I don't know which of those came first, but they're related.

[Michael_Almeida]

This has actually been bothering me for a while. Long ago, I had this CD with a demo for a game. You played as this sort of astronaut, and you had to build robots that you could program or control directly, and one of the enemy types were giant, fireball-spewing ants.

Anyone even hear of this game?

Sounds like Colobot.

Yeah, that's it. Thank you!

[Niveras]

Looking for an old DOS game. It's kind of like Marble Madness.

You're a ball rolling around a map, but there was much more to them than just navigating the maze to the goal. There were definitely other hazards than falling off, like maybe lasers and breakable tiles. There might even have been pickup/powers of some kind. The version I played was definitely greyscale only but I don't know if there were other releases using VGA or such at the time.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Looking for an old DOS game. It's kind of like Marble Madness.

You're a ball rolling around a map, but there was much more to them than just navigating the maze to the goal. There were definitely other hazards than falling off, like maybe lasers and breakable tiles. There might even have been pickup/powers of some kind. The version I played was definitely greyscale only but I don't know if there were other releases using VGA or such at the time.

The one that immediately comes to mind is Oxyd, but I'm sure there were various derivatives. Especially because the Oxyd I played was on an Apple Macintosh II. But it did have monochrome/color versions, it had various powerups, hazards, etc.

[Ametsala]

Looking for an old DOS game. It's kind of like Marble Madness.

You're a ball rolling around a map, but there was much more to them than just navigating the maze to the goal. There were definitely other hazards than falling off, like maybe lasers and breakable tiles. There might even have been pickup/powers of some kind. The version I played was definitely greyscale only but I don't know if there were other releases using VGA or such at the time.

The one that immediately comes to mind is Oxyd, but I'm sure there were various derivatives. Especially because the Oxyd I played was on an Apple Macintosh II. But it did have monochrome/color versions, it had various powerups, hazards, etc.

I too immediately thought of Oxyd (I played it on DOS though ).
Moby games has a handy list of rolling ball games: http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/genre-rolling-ball/offset,0/so,1a/

[Niveras]

It was definitely Oxyd, I recognize some of the levels in the mobygames screenshots.

Thanks!

[QuakeIV]

Does anyone remember that Codename: Kids Next Door game where they were releasing another part of it for every corresponding episode?  It was this cool 3d thing, where at one point Number 1 is fighting an evil copy of himself.  It isn't operation VIDEOGAME, that's something different.

It was some really strange distribution method they used, so I couldn't easily find a file for it.  Also they had this hamster throwing minigame for people to play while it was downloading.

[Haspen]

A star-empire/exploration/trading game from late 90's.

It involved exploring star systems in a constellation, then settling down on various planets, from volcanic ones to desert ones to glacial planets. There planets had various resources; for example desert planets had abundance of silicon for electronics crafting, volcanic lots of coal-related minerals and metals.

You also had different factions, I remember 2 kinds of 'Knights' and there were Navigators, too. Each faction had different bonus.

Then you build buildings, from shipyards to planetary defenses, while slowly expanding your technologies and fleets, which at first get shuttles and fightercraft, later on carriers and death stars. Once you explore a constellation, you can use a Warp Drive to jump through a jumpgate into another constellation, often to fight pirates or engage other empires.

There was also neutral trading hegemony of sorts that carried your stuff from planets that produce things to planets that demand it for a small fee.

It also had 'build ship & fight in arena with it' mode.

[IHateOutside]

It was a 2d tile based survival game where you had to eat and drink to survive. I believe there was light/LoS systems and temperature systems so you had to light a fire to stay warm at night. The game had seasons and weathers and you could start in different seasons and a few different scenarios. The game had a simple combat system but very detailed injury systems and first aid. Character creation let you put points in a large amount of skills like swimming/treeclimbing/firelighting/woodworking.

I believe it had a limited free version and a paid full version.
I believe I saw it here so it might still have a thread, but it was >4 years ago! I hope it hasn't gone dark off the internet.

[Graknorke]

Unreal World fits those descriptions (apart from tree climbing).

[IHateOutside]

Unreal World fits those descriptions (apart from tree climbing).

Got it in one! Thanks a lot. Must have rembered some stuff I wish was happening as actual gameplay

[ChairmanPoo]

UnrealWorld is now Free to play as well, AFAIK

[Vattic]

Unreal World fits those descriptions (apart from tree climbing).

I thought you could climb trees in the travel/map mode to get a better view. At least I remember falling out of them when I tried.