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Flash game mentioned in Edge Magazine

Iestyn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:02:35 +0000

This is rather nice; a game I worked on earlier this year is favourably mentioned in Edge magazine (yes, Edge): “…while Littleloud Studios’ Minutemen, a Watchmen tie-in, was arguably far smarter and more elegant than the official videogame”

Toki Tori – iPhone game

Iestyn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:20:57 +0000

Toki Tori is a cutesy puzzle game where you touch the screen to move the the fluffy yellow protagonist around a graphically pleasing environment, avoiding Bad Things, and collecting a number of Good Things. When you have collected all of the Good Things, some kind of wierd yellow portal appears (for reasons I have not yet fathomed), and sucks away your character, ending the level.

It’s not a bad puzzle game actually. There’s several environments, each with several levels. You are given a number of special moves per level, such as teleportation, building bridges, moving blocks, freezing bad guys, and no doubt more I’ve yet to discover. In some ways it reminds me of Lemmings. Oh how I loved Lemmings..

It’s currently only £1.19, which seems a bargain for a game that’s polished this well. It’s a small sum considering this game has given me a good few hours of gameplay so far, and I’m only about half way through.

IGN gave this 8.5, and an editors’ choice award. I’d have to roughly agree with that; it’s definitely one of the better games I’ve played on the iPhone, but it’s just a little bit too cutesy for me.

Paper Moon – another great Unity game by Blurst

Iestyn — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:54:06 +0000

Blurst have released another great Unity game called ‘Paper Moon’. It’s a 2D platformer with a slight 3D twist to the gameplay: Pressing Space ‘pops’ bits of the scenery either in front or behind the plane of the character. If you or an enemy is in the way, then you die. It creates some interesting puzzles.

I haven’t tried it, but apparently you can plug in a (wired) 360 controller. Nice touch.