It's Because of Quantum | Submitted by costik on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 16:37. |
Fraid is a quick parodic riff on Jonathan Blow's brilliant Braid. It features completely impenetrable "puzzles" that you essentially "solve" by doing random things until something happens, along with vaporous story text with the illusory feeling of literary depth but that ultimately means nothing.
It's short -- five, ten minutes at most -- and far from deep, but a cute little goof from our own Patrick Dugan.
The Republia Times is a cute, graphically crude and snarkily cynical game about press censorship.
You are the editor of the eponymous newspaper; the war is over and the rebellion has been crushed. The authorities are holding your wife and children to ensure your compliance.
The game tracks only two stats; loyalty to the regime, and readership. Each "day," you are presented with several news items, and must choose which to run in the paper, and how much prominence to give them. Your wife and children will suffer if you do not increase loyalty to the regime.
It's a simple scheme, and this bald description will perhaps make it seem banal; but there is a twist, which it were a spoiler to discuss, and the result grimly entertaining.
I don't really feel
I don't really feel motivated to comment on whether or not the Prince is a metaphor for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider.
Needs a killer soundtrack..
Like random oboe sounds. Or maybe a compressed air can shooting in an harmonica..
With music? Game of the year, I tell you.
Send me one
Send me one (666to777@gmail.com) and I´ll make another build. This is an open call.
But really, this game ain´t got no point.
No other game has helped me
No other game has helped me understand women this much since Final Fantasy VIII.
Still, I want my money back!