The button affair

ggn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:50:39 GMT

Take a dose of Another world (rotoscoping, cutscenes, animation when you get fried), Prince of Persia (rotoscoping, steel traps), Canabalt (non-stop running, at least in most parts) and add scripted levels and checkpoints, Flashback (rotoscoping, cutscenes) and finally add James Bond-'60s-like aesthetics and plot. And, you get this:

It's more than the sum of its parts though, the game isn't Canabalt-hard, it's hard but not impossible and of course you have a clear goal. Visuals and audio are top notch (although I'd liked some more frames in the cutscenes, but it's not a game coming from a multi-million-dollar studio so it's quite fine). Aw, go on, give it a try already, it's good I tell you! It's from the same creative team that made The cat that got the milk if that tells you anything :).

The cat that got the milk

ggn — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:42:31 GMT

To be honest, I could just have you watch the youtube video that is embedded at the end of this post and let you draw your own conclusions. But I suppose I can spare a sentence or two!

This game is built around a really simple idea: the cat moves to the right constantly except when the user tells it to go up or down. It doesn't slow down either, so you need to be quick with your reflexes or you might either crash or get trapped (and the crash again). The game plays really fine.

But the team that wrote it took the extra mile and polished it and made it really special. Some times you think you're painting a modern painting, or walk though it. As far as I remember there's no repetition in palettes (although it's only 18 levels) and to spice up things, different little patches of graphics are pasted on each level. The music accompanying the visuals is really pleasant and really adds to the atmosphere.

Lots of love has been poured on this project and it shows! Download it for Windows, Macintosh or simply play it online. And now, the video!

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The button affair

The cat that got the milk