Double Wires: Stick person manipulation
Posted on February 6, 2007
Double Wires is one of those strange physics-based games that require you to manipulate a stick person to do something odd and useless. There’s really no point to the game besides getting your stick person from point A to point B.
Of course, as with many other games of this kind, Wires is extremely addictive. Since you’re basically just trying to beat yourself, there’s no limit to how many times you play. You won’t get bored, especially if your one of those people who just know you can do better next time. Which, of course, seems to be the personality type that defines gamers.
There’s also something oddly disturbing about the level enjoyment we get out of making this poor, hapless figure jump around with his wires at the mercy of our mouse clicks. Enjoy!
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Help hapless Hewitt find a date
Posted on February 4, 2007
Hewitt is not having a good day. He can’t find a date for the Homecoming dance, and he’s just had a really, really weird dream. This is fashioned after point-and-click adventure games a la Maniac Mansion and Sam and Max. You do use your arrow keys to get around, but the puzzles are essentially solved in the same way. Be warned, though. This game gets very odd very fast. And it involves dead animals.
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It’s like tree ice cream
Posted on January 30, 2007
Vanilla comes from a flash game programmer who brings us such game gems as Grow, a strangely surreal game that has you trying to cultivate a creature from a single seed. Vanilla isn’t quite the same game, but it does involve you growing a shrub that looks somewhat like a multi-scoop ice cream cone. The only thing is, each shrub seems to have devil ears.
This flash game features, quite possibly, the cutest pieces of botany that the Internet will have seen in its history. That’s one plus for this simple game.
When you first open the window to play Vanilla, you are greeted with a Flash screen that doesn’t sit in your browser. Actually, it extends beyond your browser, unless you happen to have a rather long resolution. And while most times, a flash screen that extends beyond your browser is a sign of poor planning on the programmer’s part, that’s not the case here. In fact, it’s quite deliberately longer than your screen.
Why does it stretch so long? Because the whole point of the game is to make the shrubs grow as high as you can by clicking on the blinking square generally placed on the forehead of the shrubs. As the shrubs get stacked higher, you need to click on the foreheads of each shrub in sequence in order to make it grow higher.
The trick is not only to make the shrub grow in height, but to also keep it from touching the outside of the flash screen. Since the flash screen is quite skinny, this actually takes a bit of conscious effort on your part. If you press a little to the left or a little to the right of the flashing square, your whole shrubbery will threaten to tip over.
This game is a simple diversion that will have you wanting to beat your last highest shrubbery score. Bet you can’t just play it once.
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