Alik: Gry i zabawy (2003)

Russian box cover

## The Game

Alik: Gry i zabawy (Russian: Алик. Летние каникулы) is the 4th and final game in the series of Alik games for PC. It’s targeted at children from preschool to preteen age. The game is a compilation of puzzles and other activities, making it the only non-educational entry. The game's Polish title means "Alik: Games and Activities", while the Russian one means “Alik: Summer Holidays".

### Gameplay

The game can be split into two parts: 5 puzzle minigames, where the player reassembles pictures in different ways, and 4 other activities, making a total of 9 minigames.

The minigames’ entries are displayed as balloons with pictures over them. All the puzzle minigames and the pair matching minigame have three difficulty levels (easy by default; selected by clicking on the cake) and high score tables. For the puzzle minigames and the coloring activity the player selects one of the many pictures.

Main MenuPicture Select MenuPicture Select Menu (Coloring Pages)
*The minigames are not named, the following names are given only for convenience. Images taken with low difficulty only.*

##### Puzzles

###### Coloring Puzzle

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with a part colored, part greyscale picture.

The player must place the colored puzzle pieces onto the greyscale picture until the whole picture is in color. Wrong clicks change the held piece to another one.

###### Swapping Puzzle

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with a partly scattered puzzle.

The player must swap the puzzle pieces with each other by dragging and dropping them until the whole picture is fixed. The puzzle pieces don’t have to be adjacent to be swappable.

###### Sliding Puzzle

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with a puzzle missing a piece.

The classic type of puzzle where one piece is missing, and all the other pieces must be moved using the gap until they’re back to their correct positions.

###### Tetris Puzzle

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with falling picture pieces.

One puzzle piece falls from above. The player must use the Left and Right keys to move it, and optionally use Down to make it fall faster. If the piece lands on the right place it will stay, but if it doesn’t it will disappear and the player will get another piece. When the row is complete, the pieces for the next row follow, and so on until the picture is complete.

###### Cube Puzzle

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with cubes.

The playfield is filled with cubes. Their correct sides show parts of the picture selected by the player, while the wrong sides have fragments of other pictures. To rotate a cube, the player hovers the cursor near one of its edges so that the cursor changes, and clicks. They must make it so that all the cubes show the picture they chose before playing.

##### Activities

###### Dressing Up Alik

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with clothes.

Here the player can dress up Alik by clicking on his head, upper body, lower body and feet to choose between clothing items.

###### Pairs

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with "Pexeso" cards.

The memory minigame where the player flips over cards and must match pairs. Before playing they need to choose one of the four themes for the cards.

###### Musical Studio

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with musical instruments.

Here the player can play and record music. They can choose between different musical instruments and play them by pressing the keyboard keys, and toggle one of the drum tracks.

###### Coloring Pages

Accessed by clicking on the balloon with a picture being colored by a paintbrush.

Here the player can color in pictures or make their own drawings, and save them. The paw prints button cancels the last action (but not 2 or more in a row), the cleaning brush button makes a blank canvas.

### Pictures

**Part 1**

**Part 2**

**Part 3**

**Part 4**

**Part 5**

**Part 6**

## Trivia

* The outlines in coloring pages can also be colored, and if an outline and a white part are filled in with the same color they become one, so the player should be careful.

### This is the only game in the series:

* Where Alik doesn’t explain what to do as soon as the player enters a minigame.
* Where the Russian voice actor is credited (Dmitriy Filimonov).
* Which uses the resolution 800x600, while the previous games use 640x480.
	+ When launching the game, the desktop resolution mightn't change, leaving the small game window in the middle of a big screen. You may have to manually change your desktop resolution to 800x600 so that the game's window fits in.