The new LDA Game Launcher is now available on our downloads page. The Game Launcher is a free utility. It's designed to help you download, install and play games from LDA and to stay up to date on all the latest LDA news.
We've been busy reworking our website as part of the LDA Games Arcade package. The new pages are up and a Games Organizer will soon be released.
Rival Ball 1.4 is now ready as a freeware upgrade. Click here to download and try it or upgrade your current version. Rival Ball 1.4 will install into the LDAgames folder and should read any DX-Ball 2 and Rival Ball boards installed on your system. If it doesn't, then just copy the contents of the DX-Ball 2 and Rival Ball Series 1 and Series 2 boards folders into the LDA Games\Rival Ball\Boards folder.
New Features:
* Boards are now sorted by board-pack
* Players can now post scores to our High-Scores page.
* Rival Ball 1.4 auto-saves when you quit and has a resume option when the game is restarted.
* At easy and medium settings, power-up changes remain in effect until the board is cleared (like they did in DX-Ball 2).
The biggest change is the addition of the lobby server, which should make it easier to find opponents. The lobby runs out of our LDA office in Toronto. After some testing, and feedback, we'll enable the creation of other lobby servers, which will help address any regional lag issues. When we add that feature, although anyone will be able to create a lobby server, they will work best if run off at least a DSL connection.
I took this screen shot of a group of tanks hanging around while waiting to kick off the 2nd annual "Seumas McNally Birthday Bash" hosted by Paranor. We had a good time and thank all those involved!
We have released the PC version of Stone Cutter, a meditative puzzle game. Match four or more triangular stone pieces of the same color to destroy them and score points. Relax with the puzzle mode or add time pressure with the action mode. The freeware version takes the ten levels from the Java version and adds the extra play modes and special effects made available for the PC version.
Download and try out the freeware version here. If you like the freeware version then you'll love the full registered version with 100 levels, save game checkpoints and network scoring.
System Requirements: Pentium II 233, 32-64 megs RAM, Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
The latest version of Triangle Trifle supports our Online High Scores page. Triangle Trifle players will now have the option to post their high scores and compare their scores to those posted by other players. Download and try it out or update here.
A recently published book, "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics" by: David Luebke, Martin Reddy, Jonathan D. Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Benjamin Watson & Robert Huebner and published by "Morgan Kaufmann" has references on pages 190-192 to the Tread Marks terrain engine and Seumas' work on Binary Triangle Trees.
We've added an Online High Scores page. Players will be able to post their high scores with a simple button click and compare their scores to those posted by other players. Vortiball is the first game to have this feature enabled. Download and try it out here. We'll be retrofitting the new system into our other arcade games too.
We were honored to be chosen as a participant company for Ontario Exports Inc.'s "Ontario Showcase" program. The main event for us was having a display set up as part of the Emma Awards Industry Reception that took place on Friday, October 18th at the Courtyard Marriott here in Toronto. We enjoyed ourselves and met many interesting people.
