Jardinains!

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Jardinains!

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Well this is another Arkanoid clone, and it comes highly recommended as THE BEST arkonoid clone. It has some innovation and that really takes a lot from Arkanoid clones. There are little annoying gnomes trying to wreck your game, and as much as they annoy you, the word on the street is that they are really cute, and bounce well on a paddle! :twisted:

Download: http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=225

Developers site: http://www.jardinains.com/index2.html

License: I think it is freeware. It however donates money to Childsplay for every cd bought, so they might want people to look by their site. It says we need to ask permission.
Year: 2002 (1,500,000 million downloads ago...)

A sequel here too.

And it just dawned on me while typing that Jardin means garden in French and Nain is a sort of elf or gnomes... Connect the dots... You get to smash garden gnomes.
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If any arkanoid clone will beat Poing!'s playability hell will freeze over. :popcorn:
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Bouncing gardengnomes is more fun than it sounds (and it does sound fun). This game is run in a rather low and comfortable pace, which lets you play for a long time. Of course there are speed-up powerups, but they dont go to insane speed until you collect a few.

This is plenty of fun, and I really hope we get to have it on our site.
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Game is quite fun and the garden gnomes add something new to a well known game concept.

Levels are well designed, there are nice powerups (as well as powerdowns) and four different difficulty modes that keep the game playable for all sorts of gamers.
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Post by Pater Alf »

The game has been added to CWF's database. You can download Jardinains! from our game info page:

http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=225