In case you're not aware, Zoom Platform was founded before Zoom video chat and took the name before the latter came onto the scene. So, the clash is not the result of a 'very bad decision' on the part of Zoom Platform, but just a very unfortunate coincidence.

Personally, aside from the unfortunate name clash, I don't think 'Zoom Platform' is inherently a bad choice of brand at all. I wouldn't exactly call 'GOG' a good one. ;-)

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Gaga Over Galaxy. Seems pretty accurate to me.

+1

Just found out this site existed. Can't say there's anything that requires purchase at the moment, but, like Linux and OpenOffice, I'm glad to know it's there.

REPLY ATTEMPT TWO .... the one I did yesterday completely disappeared who knows where. Let's see if I can recall what I wrote.

Before I became aware of the ZOOM Platform store, I got a good number of the games I later found there, free via IndieGala. So lots of them have been available elsewhere, which has resulted in ZP selling less to me.

That's quite ironic in a way, because IndieGala don't really do DRM-Free, except with their regular freebies. I even emailed them once about whether they listed any DRM-Free games, and I never heard back from them.

Quite why those games aren't available at GOG, and were going free briefly at IndieGala, but can now be found at the ZOOM Platform, boggles the mind. It's not like IndieGala ever promoted the ZOOM Platform during their giveaways.

P.S. Alas, writing from recollection never turns out as good as the original. I'm sure I said more and said it better.

Thanks for the heads up. I joined their Discord channel a few weeks back, but ended up nuking the constant emails.

Hopefully it will be the game I am waiting for or another I might want, and the price is a fair one.

Just letting you know that there is no way to send you a message because of your privacy settings.

Fixed, thanks for the heads up

It seems my ZOOM Checker program had me fooled, as it wasn't actually retrieving the latest list of games, not for a month or so probably. No doubt due to the quick slap it together nature of the program. Clearly the ZOOM Platform changed things, and I did not have enough checks in place to detect that, but I do now ... oops.

And somehow I did not get wise to the fact, even though I always manually check the NEWS page about once a week.

Anyway, I have updated the program to ZOOM Checker v1.5.

DOWNLOAD - https://github.com/Twombs/ZOOM-Checker/releases/tag/v1.5

INFO - https://github.com/Twombs/ZOOM-Checker

The upshot, is I now have a good number of (new to me) games to check out, the latest two of those being Shiny: Deluxe Edition and Through The Woods: Collector's Edition.

Enjoy!

P.S. For those who don't want to use my program or can't, you can still take advantage of the latest lists I post, found at the INFO link above. Chiefly that would be the alphabetized 'Games.txt' file. The 'Games.ini' file has entries in the order they were added, so latest additions at the end of the file, but being an INI file, maybe a bit tricky for some.

Nice. I will give it a try. Thanks for sharing Timboli!

No worries.

Give us a shout if you find anything a bit tricky.

Yo, heads up! A new exclusive has just dropped on Zoom Platform today:

hardwar

This is a true lost classic that is generally considered to be one of the better Elite-type games. I haven't played it yet myself, but I understand the premise is similar to Elite, but set in a futuristic city that spans a series of craters on the surface of Titan. There should be a press release and video review coming as well and I will link to those when they drop.

Afaik, it's not currently available anywhere else digitally.

Zoom Platform have also simultaneously revamped the front page of their store, which is definitely worth checking out. There are some very cool new features on there, including a game 'randomizer' and a counter that shows how many games are currently available. They also make it clear they are 'always DRM-free'.

Nice, another small change for the website, but it looks much better with it.

Hardwar is not the title I'm personally interested, but the same fact that Zoom is catching some single older games not available elsewhere is definitely a good thing.

https://youtu.be/E3E0MOhse74

hardwar trailer

Hardwar? WHOAMG! Let me just Zoom on over there and check it out.