Transmover

8-Bit Portal

Submitted by costik on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 00:06.

Type:

Flash

Developer:

Polygon Gmen

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Transmover is a 2D platformer game in Flash out of Japan that has some of the feel of Portal. You move with the arrow keys but have a "zapper" you can shoot with WASD, and "green blocks," when zapped, swap position with you -- no matter how far away.

Transparent platforms can be zapped through, while brown ones cannot; as is typical for a puzzle platformer, there's a key and a doorway on each level. Get to the key, then get to the door.

Elegant in its simplicity, and yet the presence of zappable blocks that can be zapped from any distance lends itself to the construction of difficult and non-obvious puzzles. And then things get more complicated, with blocks that can only be zapped through certain sides...

This is really a nice piece of minimalist game design.

Awesome

Submitted by JoeHonkie on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 19:47.

Pretty sweet and basic. I like it.

Jacob's Matrix

Jacob's Matrix

Jacob's Matrix is a seven-day Rogue-like developed by Jeff Lait (of Fatherhood). It's also -- very un-Rogue-like, really.

Oh, it's a Rogue-like, all right; you're tooling around an algorithmically generated ASCII dungeon, moving in eight directions and fighting by running into things. But you're under time pressure: A song is playing, and if you don't finish the level by the time it ends, you lose. Maybe it's a "Musical Chairs-like."

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