It’s the tale of one sadistic, fickle and perhaps just very bored King… and all of his Queens.
Fiendish? No, it’s downright malicious. Queens is a simple platformer that gleefully seeks to end your Queen’s life at every turn. Imagine everything you found most punishing about an old-school platformer – the instant deaths, the sudden falling spikes – except delivered with perfect comic timing.
Queens is brutal yet deliberately and amusingly so. It’s only a few screens long, but let me know if you manage to finish it.
Bizarrely enough, it was created for entry in an indie design competition themed around domestic violence. It’ll make sense once you play it.
Queens [noonat]
Marlo Stanfield
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:27 PMman thats hard
ZIPO
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:46 PMWell that was a fun 5 minutes.
Alioth
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:08 PMDid I miss the sarcasm about it being ‘hard’?
It was pretty easy. Funny though.
Michael Pannunzio
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 2:50 PMLunchtime Waster, if Lunch is 5 minutes long.
Ahhh well, back to exam study….
GGP
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 5:37 PMYep that took about 5 minutes to finish, not very difficult at all.
browncoat
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 1:27 PMNot bad, got me determined to finish it haha, 5mins well spent.
stayfly
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 10:58 AMthat was fun – thanks!