Balloon ManDreaming of Flight | Submitted by costik on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 03:35. |
A Global Game Jam entry from students at Carnegie Mellon, Balloon Man is a pleasant, dream-like little game in which a man holding three balloons rises upward (an "upscroller" rather than a sidescroller, if you will) past a somewhat surreal skyscape. Various obstacles float in space, and if a balloon intercepts one, it pops -- lose all three balloons, and you lose, of course.
Pit is as much fun as you can have with your clothes on in a group of 3-8 people, and it has been since 1904, when the box proclaimed that it was "The greatest of all party games." They were right.
Pit is a card game, with different suits representing different commodities: wheat, oats, barley, coffee, oranges, corn, sugar and soybeans, in most versions, each with a different point value. Originally flax was represented and some modern versions have oil and cattle. You have to corner the market by getting all nine cards of a single commodity. Quickly. While yelling. Sound simple? Basically, it is.
