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The Land Of UM

Company / developer:
  Greygum Software

Too many maths games, even some so-called “educational” ones, are little more than mindless target practice.

The Land of Um provides a much more positive challenge with a range of difficulty to suit every age group.

What’s an Um?

Um is a woolly-headed little creature whose task is to find a way out of each of many worlds. The Um must find out what each object in the world actually does—and some do quite unexpected things!

Players need (and will develop) reasoning and clear thinking skills, rather than the exhaustive trial-and-error needed in many games.

Look out for the baby Ums!

One of the challenges is to protect the baby Ums that inhabit some worlds. These babies have the unfortunate habit of wandering off and getting into trouble unless the Um keeps a careful eye on them.

Build your own puzzles and learn

An additional feature of great educational value is the Um Editor, included in the package. It allows children (and adults) to design their own worlds.

Older students find it’s a very rewarding challenge to create problems, learning even more as they watch others try to solve problems they have created.

Resources for teachers

The Land of Um package includes a special teacher’s guide which details an easy approach to making problem-solving a high point of your students’ learning.

High praise from educators

The Land of UM receives consistently high praise from educators and reviewers for its wide range of educational features.

To solve Um worlds, children need to call on a wide range of problem-solving techniques and to synthesise these skills in a systematic way. The software gradually introduces each necessary skill during the first dozen or so rooms in each Um world without the child even being aware that they are learning powerful problem-solving skills.

Perhaps the most rewarding aspect for children is the ability to create their own puzzles using the Um Editor. Feedback from their peers is a great stimulus for Um world creators to achieve new heights of intrigue, cunning and humour.

Dragon UnPACKer

Company / developer:
  Alexandre Devilliers

Dragon UnPACKer is a game archive (Quake PAK, etc..) unpacking tool. It is plugin based making easier to add new archive file formats.

Dragon UnPACKer has a convert ability and raw search function for known material (audio, video and pictures).

Dragon UnPACKer gives you the possibility to see into the big files in games like Quake, Unreal ...etc and extract files to anywhere you want easily.

Dragon UnPACKer can also convert some formats to more common formats.

Baldur's Gate

Company / developer:
  BioWare

Baldur's Gate

The popular Baldur's Gate series take place on Faerûn.
Baldur's Gate features revolutionary graphics using an isometric view, dynamic lighting, 3D height maps, and real-time light-sourcing and sprites moving through a pre-rendered world of 16-bit color objects and terrain on five CDs full of over 10,000 scrolling game screens.
Combat is real-time, with the option for pseudo turn-based control. Tapping the space bar freezes time, and while the game is frozen, you can plan out the actions of your party members.
Baldur's Gate features over 100 hours of gameplay in an immense game world depicted with vibrance and fluidity, featuring visually impressive special effects like dynamic full-color lighting effects, dynamic changes in character appearance, realistic day to night changes, rain, snow, fog, lightning, all occuring in real-time.

System Shock 2

Company / developer:
  Electronic Arts Inc.

System Shock 2

System Shock 2 is a science-fiction horror-themed PC game, designed by Ken Levine, which incorporates elements commonly seen in first-person shooters and role-playing games. The title was developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios as a direct sequel to the seminal 1994 PC game System Shock, and was released on August 11, 1999 by Electronic Arts.

The game takes place on board an adrift starship in a cyberpunk vision of the year 2114. The player assumes the role of a lone soldier who tries to stem the outbreak of a genetic infection that has devastated the ship. Gameplay mainly consists of first person action and exploration, while a role-playing system allows the player to develop unique abilities and traits.

Neverwinter Nights

Company / developer:
  BioWare

Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a computer game set in a huge medieval fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons. This role-playing game (RPG) puts you at the center of an epic tale of faith, war, and betrayal.
As a player, you are able to choose what skills and abilities you will develop as you voyage though the complex and dangerous fantasy world of Forgotten Realms. Be a deadly and dangerous Rogue moving through the shadows using stealth and secrecy, be a scholarly Wizard and wield powerful magic against your enemies, be a hulking Barbarian whose lust for battle is matched only by his terrible rage, be an armor-clad Paladin who protects the innocent and vanquishes his foes, be a crusading Cleric who heals the sick and defends the helpless… be all this and more.

Neverwinter Nights allows you to create your own worlds. This revolutionary game will come with all the tools needed to construct your own unique lands of adventure. The Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset allows even novice users to construct everything from a quiet, misty forest or a dripping cavern of foul evil, to a king’s court. All the monsters, items, set pieces and settings are there for world builders to use. But do not stop there; construct traps, encounters, custom monsters and magic items to make your adventure unique.

But the Neverwinter experience is not just for one person- adventure with all your friends. Neverwinter Nights can be played online with up to 64 friends, all sharing in the adventure. You can organize and run your own adventures through the role of the Dungeon Master and control all the monsters, creatures and characters your friends meet as they journey on their quest. A powerful piece of software that is included with Neverwinter Nights, the DM Client, allows nearly unlimited control for running your own adventures for your friends.

Neverwinter Nights…endless adventure!

RPG Toolkit

Company / developer:
  Christopher Matthews

One of the most powerful Role Playing Game editors on the Internet today. Create games from the ground up and distribute and play them. The Toolkit features a wide array of multimedia capabilities. Come see what has made RPG Toolkit one of the most popular RPG Engines on the Internet today!

Rise of Nations

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Rise of Nations

Rise of Nations is a new historical real time strategy game from Big Huge Games’ Brian Reynolds, designer of PC game classics such as Civilization 2 and Alpha Centauri.
In Rise of Nations, you'll create new cities, improve city infrastructures and expand national borders. Conquer foes through military might using everything from sling-shots to cannons to stealth bombers to nuclear weapons; corner the market on key commodities and consolidate power under your rule; wheel and deal across time with history's eminent cultures.

Features:

• Cross genre gameplay.
• Zooming scale.
• Streamlined Fast Paced Multiplayer.
• Research more than 50 different technologies.
• Lead one of 18 Historical Nations.
• Conquer the World Campaign.
• 32 Rare Resources.
• Never depleting resources.
• Smart Citizens.
• Learn to play.
• In-depth game features.
• Multiple victory conditions.

CyberBoard

Company / developer:
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Games Factory

Company / developer:
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Get ready to amaze your friends and family! Be ready to hear, "How did you do that?" Nothing beats the feeling you get when you complete your first game and other people play it. Nothing is more inspiring than having people anticipate your next creation. Make your computer into a games factory today!

The Games factory 2 is the follow up to the hugely successful Games Factory. The Games Factory's simpler interface and controls can be a great way for adults and children to get started in the fun, educational, and rewarding, world of Click creation!

The Games Factory provides everything you need to manufacture Arcade games, Platform games, Adventures, Screen Savers, and much, much, more. You simply click on an object, drag it to the play field, and click on the action it should perform. We supply all the heroes, monsters, powerups, and other objects you need, plus the sound and music for your games. Of course, you can easily add your own, custom items if you choose.

Not only that, The Games Factory is so powerful, it gives you fast screen scrolling, fade effects, and can display FLI animations, Video for Windows, and QuickTime movies. You can also play your favorite music tracks directly from your CD.

Choose The Games Factory now as an affordable entry into easy and enjoyable software creation, or as the perfect present for someone you know who would be thrilled by the ability to create games without programming. Or you can start out with our most powerful Click creation tools, Multimedia Fusion 2 or Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer. Its your choice!

Either way, you have never experienced so much ease of use and power in one software package before! Discover how enjoyable and exciting it is to inject your imagination into your computer, without programming, and see the results instantly! There is nothing else like it.

TADS 3

Company / developer:
  Michael J. Roberts

TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.