Laser BunnyWith Fricking Laser Beams Attached To Their Heads! | Submitted by the99th on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 00:02. |
I knew when I saw the name "Dugan" attached to this thing that I had to play it. Made for a recent TIG Source competition, Laser Bunny is a simple game with charming cel-art and pretty decent gameplay. Arrow keys and the space bar do the usual Zelda/projectile number, the goal is to race through a maze of hedges, blasting enemies and getting to the end before the rising water consumes your hairy hare.
Adventure games may struggle with many aspects of static fiction -- plot, characterization, pacing -- but they nail setting. The place is, after all, right there for the player to explore, with all its atmosphere and complexity, and a half-decent designer can set in layer on layer of subtle clues about how this strange world works. Not every player will be equally interested in all of it, but the mechanisms of exploration serve to dole out exposition in tolerably-sized pieces, and let players discover the aspects of the game world that they're most interested in.
