Small WorldsAn Exploration of Beauty | Submitted by TheDustin on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 23:14. |
Minimalism. This game embodies the idea. From impressionistic graphics to a streamlined verbset of move and jump, this game does away with all unnecessary aspects of design and lets its superb ambiance and atmosphere shine through. I want to say La Monte Young would be proud, but the lush orchestral pieces probably wouldn't be to his liking. I dig them though. I dig this game, and you should play it.
BraidThe Princess Is In Another Castle | Submitted by the99th on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 00:07. |
I was sad when she left me, but that's in the future now. My regrets are water flowing backwards under the bridge. I have been moved and removed, I have chased something and found it. Braid is tripped, and it's one of the most amazing games ever made. It belongs to the "new canon" of process-intensive titles that utilize interactivity to the reinforcement of their aesthetic souls.
Fatherhood is a Rogue-like, at least to the degree of being a turn-based ASCII game, with a command-set that will be familiar to players of this type of game. However, it's certainly not a dungeon-crawler -- indeed, there's no combat whatsoever.
The basic set-up is this: on a randomly generated map (some pre-generated maps are also included), some number of rivers are about to flood their banks, and some number of forest fires are burning. You're a Dad, and your three kids are running about the game as well -- they start near you, but have a tendency to wander off. You can halt fires and floods by picking up boulders and moving them to choke points -- and you win by making sure that neither you nor any of your kids drowns or is burned to death.
