Glyph
Glyph is a new puzzle game from Sandlot Games, who’ve had recent hits with titles such as Cake Mania, Granny In Paradise, and Tradewinds Legends.
This is an epic puzzle adventure, in which your objective is to save a dying world by assembling ancient glyphs. You must restore the world of Kuros to its once-beautiful state by harnessing the powers of Wood, Fire, Water, Metal and Aether over 255 dazzling levels in 5 different worlds.
Glyph features outstanding graphics and sound, including some quite credible voice work, atmospheric music, and smooth animation. The game is nominally a match-three game in the Collapse! vein, in which you attempt to remove groups of three or more matching stones to reveal the elemental glyphs hidden beneath the many layers of rock.
As you remove the stones, spaces are filled from above, and new stones appear to take the place of those displaced. The more stones you can remove at once, the more artifacts you earn, and the greater the power of each one. Artifacts (power-ups) include flash bombs, row and column breakers, color-changers, stone sorters, chroma bombs, and many more. Each of these artifacts affect the stones in different ways that will help you to reveal the hidden glyph. Each of the artifacts has three power levels, small, medium, and maximum, which determine how much of the game board the power-up will affect. All told, the game offers 14 interactive objects, and allows you to play in either Quest or Action mode.
In Quest mode, your objective is to save Kuros by puzzling your way through 125 levels over 5 worlds. The fast-paced Action Mode will challenge your skills and reflexes with 130 additional levels of game play.
In its preview of the game, Gamezebo’s Chuck Miller reports that “Glyph is one of those games you can play in brief sittings…if you have the willpower. That’s the problem, though. Its addictive, match-happy, rock-splitting play will keep you glued to your seat for hours. You can etch that claim into stone.”
More information about Glyph
Download Glyph (16.61MB)
I can’t play Glyph or Davinci’s Secret. I don’t have any trouble playing any other games. I have all the latest drivers on a fairly new Dell with Windows XP and GeForce card.
When I download and start to play Glyph, I just get a black screen with background music, nothing else. I wait and nothing ever clears up. I’m stuck in the black startup screen.
When I download and play DaVinci’s Secret, I just get a colored jumble of lines that flicker and won’t do anything else. I can’t get past that.
I’m stymied. I have asked the question over and over, why can’t I play these and does anyone else have this problem. I have seen other posts where some can’t play Glyph.
Why?? I would love to play both games and possibly purchase them but not without knowing they’ll work…
Comment by Linda — July 6, 2006 @ 4:28 am