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Sunday Comics: Dead Island In game designer Eitan Glinert’s mind peanut butter must be tower defence and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He’s just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to — I don’t know — PB&J tacos.
Our Swedish friends weren’t just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP.
Reader Rob H. pointed out this nice little mid-Sunday diversion: Dino Run. After you get the hang of it you realise nothing in the environment will kill you, just slow you down on your panicked quest to outrun extinction. But most importantly, it’s a flash game with multiplayer across three servers, although I waited forever for a game to start up.
Still, to the designers, hat-tip for rendering it like an old 4-bit PC game. I dunno, the tone just seems to deserve that kind of treatment. And also note how your dino farts after you chow down on less fortunate sauropods. Hat-tip for that, too.
Dino Run [Pixeljam, thanks Rob]
