Jardinains 2!Breakout the Gnomes | Submitted by costik on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 00:04. |
My usual reaction to Breakout/Arkanoid style games is "meh." It's one of the easiest types of games to code, and so there are scads of them out there, most of them very dull. I fired up Jardinains with the expectation that I'd be uninstalling it quickly. An hour later, I was still playing, with a toddler on my lap following the game avidly.
What makes Jardinains different can be summed up in one word: gnomes.
Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper, another excellent quick little game from Petri Purho, is a puzzle platformer with a novel gameplay idea: the goal isn't so much traversing the level (or avoiding enemies) as rolling up your toilet paper. That is, you begin at left, the exit is at right somewhere, and between the two is draped a string of toilet paper. The puzzle solving is in figuring out how to get your toilet paper rolled up, untangling it as necessary, and looping up, over, and around obstacles as may be.
