Unsatisfactory Software Misc
Crap Game Finder
List: [ 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 ]

Crap Game Finder


Match as keywords Only show titles
Winning Entries
Download CSSCGC archives

Search Results

Phrase search: CrapBot.tap

Year search: 2008
Judge: Digital Prawn [Official Site]

CrapBot
AuthorWoody
FilenameCrapBot.tap
Year2008
Position64
FormatZX Spectrum 48K
Download Archive
Visit this game's wiki page for player comments, docs, discussion etc
DescriptionOn seeing the name of this title in Woody's submission email, but before I saw the game itself, I had some momentary fear that it may be a simulation of what happens when you have just gone to the toilet only to realise too late that there is no toilet paper remaining.

However, my fears were quickly allayed as I fired the title up. This being the first of two impressive titles to be found in the CGC in-tray today.

Welcome to the Walled City of Crap-Escher, which has rested for a thousand, thousand years in the midst of the Great Desert inhabited by only the deadly Bots who have made it their home.

I started playing this one for a while and erm.. started to actually enjoy it. Woody tells me that this game is based on his boombot 2 engine and also mentions that he hopes that he can lose the compo with this one. Alas, too much effort has gone into it, probably some incredibly lazy title will lose instead. Although, I haven't quite made my mind up which one yet and therefore who it will be joining myself and a select few others in the eternally grim Club of outright CGC compo losers.

Very welcome it is though to get an isometric title in this year's CGC.

CommentsIronic that this is the title that Woody went all out on to try and lose the compo. I know this depends on the judge, but for CSSCGC2008 (as it was also last year), the games that lose the compo are five minute affairs. I should know, I wrote one of them 2007 which is why I am sitting here writing this now. This one of course is actually quite good with a real-time user-rotatable isometric display. Flawless animated graphics and a real sense of purpose. Of course you are going to think Ant Attack when you see it, but the sprites are completely re-drawn and the game effectively a completely different one. This means I'll just have to give it a reasonable score (not too high, not too low). I know that Woody wanted to either win the compo or lose it I just hope that by ranking this game almost in the middle of the ordering does not maximise his disappointment!


Matched 1 records out of 1017 currently indexed.