Plasma PongPong on LSD | Submitted by Richi Hurtado on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 16:19. |
The popular first-generation arcade game meets the next generation of fluid physics in this awesome abstract game. The basic rules of Pong still apply (move the paddle to reflect the bouncing ball), but in addition, you can project (by pressing the left mouse button) or absorb (with the right) a jet of a color-changing, plasma-like fluid from your paddle, which fills your screen, making it look trippy, and in which the ball will move according to the fluid dynamics.
GibbageTwo-Player Cartoon Deathmatch | Submitted by costik on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 23:36. |
That's Gibbage as in "gibs," from "giblets"--the body parts strewn across the screen in FPS games like Doom and Quake.
Gibbage is a truly odd and heart-warmingly gory game that combines the mechanics of retro platformers with the aesthetic of the modern first-person shooter. The graphics are cartoony, and would not look amiss on a NES or pre-CD-ROM PC; the gameplay is deathmatch shooting madness. Your avatar runs and leaps about, gathering powerups and dispatching your foe with massive firepower, a 3D game's gibs replaced with pixellated blood.
Petri Purho is the master of the fast-developed little indie game with just a little bit new to say, and Planet of the Jellies is a good example. The gameplay is basically a cross between a "falling blocks" game (of which Tetris is the canonical but by no means the only example) and the "match three" game.
Little aliens dance back and forth across the screen top, Space Invaders style (but in a Dean Martin-cool sort of way, with brightly colored two-stage animations and a lounge music score), but they don't drop bombs. Instead, you can click on one to have it drop to the ground, Tetris style, and if you get three adjoining, they disappear and score you points. It's non-trivial to plan your drops, what with the shifting alien ranks, and the game is lost when an alien reaches the ground--or more likely, intersects with the top of one of the piles you've built on the ground and haven't managed to get rid of yet.
