Arch Fenster on 3/9/2025 at 23:28

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Shameless self-promotion dept. Well, not as such.
RC here from (http://www.digital-eel.com/) Digital Eel (2001-2021, may she RIP), and yepsk, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_Studios) Looking Glass with an important announce about free stuff!
Here's the press thingie I sent out.

Digital Eel's "Big Box of Blox" and "Soup du Jour" are back!

(https://rich.itch.io/blox) Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox (2003)

Quirky, colorful, cute and strange.
- James 'Prophet' Fudge, GameShark

Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox is a column stacking game taken to outrageous extremes! The rules are simple. With easy keystrokes carefully arrange the three-blox-high columns as they fall. Match blox in each column to eliminate rows. The gameplay is very easygoing at first glance --but there's more!

Why just simply stack blox? What if you could smash them, blast them, squish them and even mutate them? Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox introduces jokers, bombs, hidden blox, frogs, fireballs, slot machines, wild blox, boulders and lots of surprises to keep your eyes, ears, noggin and fingers happy and challenged.

Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox also offers five different games (Flaming Peelout, Blok Atak, Groink, Mushroom King and Asylum Cubez), a custom game mode, eye-watering psychedelic graphics by Phosphorous (Bill Sears), groovy sounds and music by the award-winning Digital Eel Orkestra, multiple difficulty levels and even a cameo by our old friend, Plasmaworm! (Hooray!)

Get Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox free and DRM free exclusively from itch!
(https://rich.itch.io/blox)

The full version of Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox features:
1 Standard game
4 Unique game variants
6 Special blox
Custom game mode
Use custom skins!
10 Graduating difficulty levels
8 Groovy music tracks
Eye-popping game art by Phosphorous!

Choose from six different game variants:
Flaming Peelout (standard game)
Blok Atak (boulders and bombs)
Groink (slot machines)
Mushroom King (squishy frogs)
Asylum Cubez (jokers and cell doors)
Custom Game (make your own game from B3's parts)

Minimum System Requirements:
PC Only
Pentium II 350MHz (600MHz or better recommended)
64M RAM
Windows 95+
(Note: Big Box of Blox has not been tested in Windows 11)

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(https://rich.itch.io/soup) Soup du Jour (2003)

Soup du Jour, released in 2003 by Cheapass Games and Digital Eel (Bill Sears, Iikka Keranen and yours truly), is a matching game like no other, with rubbery physics, stretchy sound effects and rule-breaking gameplay.Tug and toss colorful candies. Bring them together and watch them burst. Making candy soup is easy --until Le Chef swaps pans or the Kitchen Gremlin arrives! Noooo!

Get (https://rich.itch.io/soup) Soup du Jour free and DRM free exclusively from itch!

Features
Great for kids!!
Easy to learn click 'n' drag interface
The world's most flexible mouse cursor (it stretches!)
10 levels of increasing difficulty
Bombs and rockets!
Stereo sound and music
A diploma when you complete the course!

Engine: Custom

System Requirements
Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7+
(Note that Soup du Jour has not been tested in Windows 11)

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We hope you enjoy these near-vintage (https://rich.itch.io/) Digital Eel gems.

Take good care,

Rich, Iikka, Hen3ry* and Chris

(http://www.digital-eel.com/) Digital Eel
Games to make you squeal!
Indie Before Indie was Indie

* The "3" is silent