Cocoa's Egg Screenshot

Cocoa's Egg: This was the first game produced by Crop Circle, at this time known as Monarch Software. The plot was that "the best egg ever" (whatever that means) was missing, and the chickens wanted you to find it. You traveled through the backyard and given extremely revealing clues. You didn't need to look for clues, they were simply given to you. All in all, this game made of Microsoft Word files linked together was not extremely popular, and not much fun to play. Various song were written for Cocoa's Egg, none of which were used. The one remaining song can be heard here .
Screenshots: Cocoa's Egg Title Screen - Cocoa's Egg Running in MS Word - You see Cocoa in the treehouse

Cocoa's Egg Halloween: The second Cocoa's Egg game, just one of many more to come... visit the chickens' different nooks and crannies that you saw during Cocoa's Egg while trick-or-treating. Not much to it, really, but it was more fun than Cocoa's Egg.
Screenshots: Halloween Screenshot - How Halloween Worked

Cocoa's Egg Christmas: Take II: The Christmas game of a continuing series of Cocoa's Egg holidays was the first game Crop Circle made outside of the .doc format. Unfortunately, since it was only in the .html format, it was not a huge improvement, although it did allow animated GIFs to be used. This game had a large amount of animation and was the first game to take place in Chicken Land. The title, CE Christmas: Take II , has a double meaning. This was a game about making a movie, but it was also version 2. Version 1 was destroyed in a computer crash, just days before it would have been completed.
Screenshots: Snowy's Snow Gallery - Your headquarters

Scarlet Helps the Town: The first game not about the characters from Cocoa's Egg! Scarlet the dragon goes all over town and helps out other dragons in trouble. He can collect various objects such as boards and magnets and use them in appropriate places to solve problems, so various problem-solving skills must be used, making this the first real game made by Crop Circle. It should also be noted that this game had sound.
Screenshots: Scarlet approaches Ollie, who wanted to mail a letter but the post office is closed. - Scarlet in the tunnel leading to the mill

Glyph Screenshot: Forest Island

Cocoa's Egg Easter Activity Center: This Cocoa's Egg game stands out from the rest because it was based mainly in the real world. It had tools for designing eggs, as well as egg dyeing tips and printable egg holders. It also had a small game involving an egg hunt in Chicken Land.
Screenshots: A screen from the egg hunt. - "Wow! You sure found a lot of eggs!"

Cocoa's Egg II: Return to Chicken Land on another egg-huntin' adventure. Here, also, clues are "supplied" rather than found, but the clues are not quite as revealing. (They're still pretty revealing, though). Here, you are not searching for an actual egg, but rather an egg-shaped "anti-asteroid" thingy to protect Chicken Land from an oncoming space rock.
Screenshots: An encounter with Tiger - Coal's Basement

Glyph: This was originally planned to be a Myst-like game, full of all sorts of exciting places, mystery, and adventure. It finally ended up a game lacking anything of interest, and our Stupidity Consultant has suggested that it may be the Worst Game Ever Made. The only good thing about the entire game was the music, much of which was quite beautiful.
Screenshots: Forest Island - Manor Island
Music Clips (MIDI): Theme from Forest Island - Theme from Manor Island

Lizard Tales Fireworks: This was the last game created under the name "Monarch Software". By clicking various colored buttons, you could send up a nonmoving firework, complete with sound effect (eeeeeeeeee-BOOM! oooooooooooh!). It was from the Lizard Tales series, of which only one game was completed.
Screenshots: Green firework - Patriotic display

Monarch Software becomes Ancient Treasures





The Island trademark picture

Ancient Treasures becomes Crop Circle Interactive
Ancient Treasures was an extremely short-lived name, replaced by Crop Circle only months after its first appearance. Not a single game was published under its name.

Star Line: This is the game which started Crop Circle moving in a new direction. This was the first real-time 3D game we produced, and that's all we've been making ever since. Star Line lacked sound, visibility, and stars, but you could zoom from planet to planet.
Screenshots: Flying past the Rainbow Moon - Circling Station 2

The Island: Another influential game in the history of Crop Circle. Though it was mostly an experiment to include sound in a real-time game, this first-person exploration game quickly inspired a larger game which would become Circumspectrae.
Screenshots: Trademark Image - The strange, ugly trees of the Island

Christmas Special 2001: This was planned to end up as a set of three real-time games, but in the end there was only one: Mr. Nutcracker. This is, for some reason, one of the most enjoyable games from Crop Circle. It's fun to send an angry nutcracker flying around the room and wrecking things!
Screenshots: Mr. Nutcracker glaring - Near the Land of Presents, and a bell that rings when Mr. Nutcracker hits it.




A baloon floats by: from Circumspectrae

Junkyard Rally: Zoom around like you're crazy and smash teapots to smithereens.
Screenshots: From the driver's seat, looking towards the Burger Barn billboard and downed plane.

NK Garage: The first game in the NK series. Collect good thingamajigs and blow up bad thingamajigs in four different zones while driving wacky cars.
Screenshots: Mr. Flytrap in his red go-kart - Toby drives a dune buggy through Junk Meadow

NK Patrol: This is the second NK game. You're in charge of keeping NK Island on track by chasing vandals and UFOs, collecting macaroons, and cleaning up Icky Island. Ten different levels!
Screenshots: Porky is about step on Sluggy: bad news!

Circumspectrae: This is the adventure in Mar 'Uta that was inspired by The Island. Find out more here .
Screenshots: Tamiro's Island, not used in the final version of the game - A baloon floats by

Christmas Special 4!: A set of four real-time games: "Christmas From Another Planet", in which you fly a tiny UFO and abduct presents, candy canes, and cards, "Train Ride", where you're the engineer, "Penguin Sports", which was planned for Christmas Special 2001 but not completed in time, and, of course, the original "Mr. Nutcracker" is included as well.
Screenshots: The flying saucer approaches a line of Christmas cards - the train passes the station


Screenshot from Lego Glider Pilot

Lego Glider Pilot: Fly a Lego glider all over a large world and have fun with your smoke trails.
Screenshots: The glider takes off - View from the cockpit, approaching Big Rocks

What is in the future for Crop Circle? Various games have been planned, but will they ever be made, or will they be forgotten like "Cocoa's Egg Trains", "Charlie the Ptarmigan", "Farmer Fred in Space", and so many others? Only time will tell...  
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