I’m Tim Knauf. Upper Orbit is my personal project site.

But I gotta tell ya, the action’s all at Launching Pad Games these days. I’m co-founder along with the talented Tristan Clark.

There’s iPhone adventure Scarlett and the Spark of Life, Flash puzzler The Pretender (Part One & Part Two), the drawtastic Zoo Lasso and more.

Still here? Good for you. Go ahead and grab yourself one of these fine freeware games:

Nathan’s Second Chance

What do you expect when you die? Shining light? Booming voice? Rotting slowly in the ground? You probably don't expect to be greeted by a grouchy old crone in a flying yellow bus, but then, neither does Nathan.

Possibly 2005’s most heartfelt point-and-click adventure in the ‘badly-drawn freeware’ genre, Nathan’s Second Chance is now available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows.

Windows (10.3mb)
Macintosh (10.1mb, Intel only)
Linux (you’ll need to build the OpenSLUDGE engine and point it at that file)
Title music as an mp3

Huge thanks go to both Rikard Peterson for doing the conversion work in OpenSLUDGE and to Tim Furnish for the original SLUDGE adventure toolkit.

Chicken Chicken

Before Nathan’s Second Chance, there was Chicken Chicken. Unlike Nathan’s Second Chance (a carefully designed, one-player adventure that was developed part-time over the course of three years) Chicken Chicken is a two-player action game that was thrown together in under a week. You’ll probably be able to tell.

But play it anyway, because it’s heaps of fun. Grab a friend and each take a ‘shift’ key. Build up enough force to get near the edge without actually driving over it.

Windows (2.2mb)
Source code (194kb)

Chicken Chicken is licensed under the GPL. It uses an old version of the Soya3D engine.

Seriously though…

Head on over to Launching Pad Games. I’ll make it worth your while. ☺