Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

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POWDER is a roguelike originaly developed specifically for the Gameboy Advance (GBA). It is not a port of an existing roguelike as the controls of the GBA are very different from the traditional keyboard, and the screen imposes some additional limitations. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. It uses actual graphic tiles (16x16) rather than the traditional characters.

QupZilla is modern web browser based on WebKit core and Qt Framework. WebKit guarantees fast browsing and Qt availability on all major platforms. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

POWDER is a roguelike originaly developed specifically for the Gameboy Advance (GBA). It is not a port of an existing roguelike as the controls of the GBA are very different from the traditional keyboard, and the screen imposes some additional limitations. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. It uses actual graphic tiles (16x16) rather than the traditional characters.

Link Bomb by Sinister Monkey Games is an addicting casual game. The goal is to rotate and drop the fuses to connect and blow up as many bombs as possible.

Jr. Pac-Man comes to the Mattel Intellivision in 2017. This version includes all the arcade mazes and intermissions plus bonus mazes (including snow).

Random Space Adventures is yet another dodge the Asteroids game, this one here by Not So Professional Studios.

Not So Professional Studios present their game Psy Run for Android. Avoid the obstacles for as long as you can whilst enjoying a "psy trip".

Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It is meant to be used for editing maps of any tile-based game, be it an RPG, a platformer or a Breakout clone. The program is very flexible, for example there are no restrictions on map size, tile size or the number of layers or tiles. Also, it allows arbitrary properties to be set on the map, its layers, the tiles or on the objects. The homepage of the program itself is located here. Its map format (TMX) is relatively easy to understand and allows a map to use multiple tilesets while also allowing each tileset to grow or shrink as necessary later. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

bayleef updated Lemmings 3DS for the Nintendo 3DS, which is a clone of Lemmings for DOS. Fill the subfolders of /lemmings folder with data from DOS Lemmings (see README.txt files in these subfolders). These files are not included in the archive since they are protected by copyright law. In order to run the software, at least one subfolder must be filled. You may fill any combination of subfolders, depending on the Lemmings games you own.