Good day to you fellow gamers and welcome to our second instalment of Games of the Week; where we play your games and tell you how great you are for making them!
So to our first feature game this week, Desolation by Obsidian. I think this is the best user game created to date, and with only one life and no opportunity for gaining more, this is a real challenge. The game serves as a simple platform, seeing the character travelling through the desert to find civilisation, encountering mummies and death traps along the way! The game uses very effective placement of moving tiles, levers and spiked objects to create a game that not only offers the traditional, ‘oh no don’t land on that spiky thing’ challenge, but also the ‘how on earth will I get past this obstacle’ challenge, also known as…problem solving!! And boy oh boy, it’s hard. Take my heed – finishing this game may never happen for you, but enjoy it while you’re alive.
The next game for special mention this week is The Fall of Batman by Angus Mcquade, or as I like to call it, Long-jump Olympics. This game has a nice overall thematic look to it, and as suggested in my fake title, has some really long jumps in it. You will have to jump over spikes, water, flame, robots…you name it, all whilst dodging enemy fire and moving through the level towards the end where you have to ‘kill Cristian Bale’. It’s a fairly short game and definitely beatable, but it might take you a few tries, and you’ll have a jolly ‘ol time taking down the bat in black!
Lastly is a pretty awesome game called Redemption by jaminscript. Why is this game so impressive? Well just take a look! Your character, the son of Diable, decides he doesn’t want to live in Hell any more, so he sets off to the world above, collecting keys to open gates, rescuing some of his little red friends, jumping over moving cars and navigating clouds to reach the gates of heaven and partake in a giant cheesecake…yes really. This isn’t a challenging game, but its use of customized tiles is fantastic, it’s theme is well executed, and isn’t that little red fella cute? Nice work!
That’s it for this week. I’ll check in next week with the latest batch of awesome games. 😉 Keep up the good work gamers!
Rayne Leafe and the Gamefroot team.