Crates and Barrels

I have an unusual game project that I've been working on for several months and is now available for download as a playable Beta. It is a mod for the game Half-Life 2, but does not use the Source game engine. Rather, it uses a game engine I wrote entirely in Visual Basic 2008 Express and renders the graphics using Managed DirectX 1.1.

It is a collection of six very simple classic games like Snake, Breakout etc. Here is a screen shot:

http://www.peppyfool.com/images/CandB/candb_montage.jpg

You need to have the game Half-Life 2 installed on your computer in order to play it, as the mod gets all of the graphics assets from the game when you run it. You also need to have .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 and the Managed DirectX runtimes installed (instructions are in the readme which comes with the install)

You can download the ~13MB installer from either of these locations:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nvdduyjjy1t
http://www.moddb.com/mods/crates-and...arrels-beta-01

I relied heavily on advice from the active experts here to solve many coding difficulties I ran into, and I owe a huge amount of gratitude to this site for helping me make this project a reality.

Please let me know what you think!