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The history of Microsoft BOA (Blog post)

Almost unknown, BOA is a nice little game for MS-DOS created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. It's an arcade game similar to Snake, besides the fact that you are playing a rat trying to avoid being eaten by the snake!   The oddest thing about this game lies in its distribution model: it was solely available through the driver disk of a mouse created by Microsoft, the "Contour Mouse", also known as "Dove Bar." Due to the technological limitations of the era, [...]

Keywords : microsoft boa, history, mouse, pix'n love

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Moreia featured on IndieGames and new highscore! (Blog post)

Our game Moreia just got featured on IndieGames! For his article, the journalist got in touch with the author of game Moreia is paying tribute to: MS Boa, created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. This game was originally created to promote a new mouse model released by Microsoft. Therefore, although being a freeware, MS Boa was solely distributed through the driver disks of this mouse! Here is a picture of this little know game:  By the way, as we speak about Moreia, the act [...]

Keywords : moreia, indiegames, record, ms boa

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DOS-era Microsoft Boa gets a fan tribute game, original creator reacts (Broacasting our studies)

An article from the website IndieGames.com about the game Moreia, created by Dr.Ludos.

Keywords : indie game, news

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New website section: games created by Ludoscience! (Blog post)

As the summer goes, a new section appears on this website: games made at the Ludoscience laboratory! This new section will let you play the various videogames created by the members of the laboratory during their research projects. Hence, this new section is different from our reseach projects section (that gathers research projects that are not games, or games that are not available to the general public) and from our students projects section (that solely gathers games created by the st [...]

Keywords : website updates, videogames

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Moreia (Videogame)

Moreia is a quick mouse-based dexterity game. You are being chased by a giant moray eel, and you must escape it for as long as possible, while avoiding to hit the walls around the screen. You can think of this game as a "Snake", except that this time you are not controlling the snake but a pill that really don't want to be eaten!Use the mouse to move the pill around the screen. Don't touch the moray eel or the walls. You'll earn 1 point for each "step" made by the moray eel, [...]

Keywords : mouse, dexterity, snake, tribute

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