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There’s crazy golf, then there’s crazy golf. Wonderputt is crazy golf. A game that takes an old fashioned mechanic and reinvents it through clever, seamless level design.
Flow is paramount in platforming – and in any genre for that matter – but when I imagine the slickest, most rewarding moments of gaming in platformers, I think of blasting through tricky levels in Super Mario World at speed, I think of precise wall jumps in Super Meat Boy. Incredibly, Exit Path 2 has moments that compare to those behemoths.
This game is called Experimental Shooter, and it does exactly what it says on the tin – it experiments. Like a top down shooting Mario Galaxy, each level introduces the player to a brand new mechanics. This is a game overflowing with ideas and I love it.
Not to Scale is the kind of video game that actually challenges my own limited definition of gaming – it’s essentially an attempt to reinvent the jigsaw, and combine it with those weird number shuffling games you played as a kid. It’s a mindbender of a game, and I completely love the simplicity of it all.
Sash MacKinnon is a previous winner of Game Jam, and a pretty clever guy to boot. When he sent me an email over the weekend, letting me know that his latest game — Mr Runner 2 — was available to play on his website, I knew that finding a LunchTimeWaster for Tuesday would be a piece of cake.
I have a soft spot for one button jump running type games ala Canabalt. Remember Edmus? That was the last productivity killer for me. Now I’ve stumbled across Go Go Agent Zero, which isn’t really as good as the afore-mentioned titles, but really does have a cool sensation of speed. And explosions. Lots of explosions.
So you’re a robot guy. You want to shoot other robot things. The context is flimsy. You have no idea why you’re shooting, but it doesn’t matter because shooting is fun. This is the basic concept of Effing Machines.
As a pale pasty Scottish man living in Australia, I understand the core concept of Run from the Sun better than most – you must, in short, move as far away from the sun as possible. The sun is chasing you, so you must hop from planet to planet in search of safety. This game is super simple. And awesome.
