Monthly Archives: March 2012 - Page 4

In keeping with my apparent theme of offending every demographic I seem to be a part of, this game is about coming to Japan to teach English… And finding it not quite what you were expecting. It is in no small part based on my experience of coming to Japan a few years ago, with many things inspired by real-life occurrences, and a couple that are identical. – [Author's blog post]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect-like creature. – [Author's Description]

Five short arcade games by Pedro Paiva: (all HTML5 games, playable online)

Deharmonized is a bizarre game that puts you inside a unique environment. Press space to rotate your ball. – [Author's description]

Yeah! Yeah that’s the stuff! Bring me the heart! – [in game text]

You are a space miner and your singleship has burnt out the monopoles that power its engine (also the resource you mine for). You land on a large asteroid to look for more monopoles, finding a likely looking crater you start your decent. You need to find 5 monopoles to refuel your ship. – [Author's description on Roguebasin]

This is perhaps inspired by The Haunted Mouse, and to an equal extent by WarioWare: Smooth Moves and WarioWare: Twisted!. Keep the rodent player-character from being zapped, even as your mouse controls are periodically rotated 90 degrees, requiring you to rotate your in-real-life mouse to compensate.

The Windows version works a bit better than the HTML5 version, insofar as the latter can’t register the mouse’s movement if the pointer drifts out of the screen region. – [Author's post on Glorious Trainwrecks]