Minimalist Bubble Blower | Submitted by costik on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 01:06. |
A simple, clean little game, Floating Light is a level-based Flash title in which you must blow a bubble to each level's exit, avoiding the walls (which pop the bubble). You blow by moving your mouse pointer (an arrow), clicking the button to exhale, as it were.
Very simple structure, but curiously engaging, and a nice minimalist/ambient musical score. Scads of levels, and should you run out, there's always Floaty Light 2.
Ian Bogost was on the Colbert Report, if you didn't see it, you can tell because his Facebook portrait says so. Bogost has long been using gameplay for dry satire, the variety best tasted with a spot of mustard on a cool day, but his latest work takes it to another level of meta-referentiality. It's a social game criticizing social games. To that effect, I'm going to meta-referentially explain my choice for a title for this review of this meta-referential social game about social games: it's a play on a typical phrase that adolescents use to summarize their eager capitulation with human sexuality which at once juxtaposes a very complex, nuanced and deeply social interaction with the most basic, one-dimension interaction of clicking; this summarizes how complex decisions have been reduced to context-senstive clicks, the whole becomes a mere unit, or perhaps, a unit operation. There's also this bestiality thing in there if you have enough neighbors to unlock it.
Reminds me of..
Reminds me of a game I played on the gameboy back in the day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Ghost
Nice little game
Only problem is when the bubble is close to the edge of the screen and there's not much room for the mouse pointer. A few times I accidentally clicked outside of the flash box, leading to frustrated popping! I do like the simple style though.
Very nice game
It's really cool and thanks god it doesn't end like the "scary maze game" if you know what I mean ;)