Dear puzzle fans, brace yourself...
Forget playing Candy Crush on your phone because something better is available on your Atari STe. It's called BeGEMeD and is a twist on the Bejewelled theme by Alexander de Vries. Best of all, it's a new game for the Atari STe with 16 beautiful colours and DMA sound effects. Those familiar with the genre will love this version because it plays brilliantly and is challenging - without irritation or frustrating mechanics. You'll be playing for hours!
The graphics were designed by Carnivac and it's difficult to believe that he only used 16 colours. The quality of the design is superb so it actually appears there are far more on-screen. This talented use of a few colours in such a way is impressive. Accompanying the lush visuals is music by Dma-Sc, one of my favourite musicians and is mesmerisingly awesome. We also have familiar sound effects as we play. This includes samples letting us know how awesome we are!
Okay, games like this don't look exciting in screenshots, but let's look at the first anyhow...
ReadMe.TXT
Nice of you to visit this text, it will give you all the basic information you need to know to get started. Don’t worry it's easy so you will get the hang of it very soon!!We are visiting Jack Bright, the castle lord of a medieval castle. He has already lived there for a lot of years and the castle needs some work. But his cash flow is a little bit on the downside so to earn some cash he has to swap gems for it.He has lots of them hidden in his castle but it is a real mess. They are just piled on top of each other in no order at all. To swap them for cash he has to sort them out! But he can only do so if he has 3 or more of the same collection.How does he do that? Well simple, just align 3 or more gems horizontal or vertical. For every successful swap, he earns those coins. Click the gem you van to swap with one of its neighbours and then choose the one you want to swap. Or even better just drag it over the other one by holding the mouse button, it both works...As the coin meter reaches the top you have earned enough cash to go to the next level. The aim of the game is to reach the biggest high score of course.
The CryptO'pinion?
I contacted Alexander to thank him for developing a great game and... we got chatting... it was only a short time before I was beta-testing a new version. Which was ace and I'm thrilled to report numerous bug fixes and extra features.
This has been a blast because Alexander is a cool chap and I'm honoured to have played a (tiny) part in producing what is a fantastic and addictive puzzler. I'm confident with the following statement: BeGEMeD is one of the best Bejeweled games I have ever played. A fantastic game that looks and sounds as good as it plays. I love it and so will you!
AtariMania has the latest version to download