Play Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire". Not.
Almantas Šukelis is a not so young computer games artist from Lithuania. (You know, where Dr. Doom was born…) He’s a fine illustrator and his 3D designs look promising too. (His website).
But the bitter truth is: Not everybody is a game designer. Or should be. In “Ring of Fire” you play Johnny Cash who is beamed down on something that looks like a graveyard in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly flaming comets drop from every direction onto poor Johnny and you got to defend him. How? Simply jump. That’s it.
Alien comets 101, lesson 16: Alien comets simply cannot stand Johnny Cash jumping up and down while playing his guitar, didn’t you know? Sadly for the gameplay jumping is limited to once per two seconds, which renders that game completely unintuitive and unplayable.
But I did like two things: The soundtrack is simply Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” and the instructions are in Lithuanian. This gives the game a little push into the extreme absurd. (Hint: “Play” is “Zaisti” in Lithuanian.) But don’t take my word for it: Here, test it yourself…
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If you ever played any gaming app on any smartphone or any tablet computer ever, chances are high that you’ll recognize at least one of the games in that funny clip.
The Australian indie pop band “Hey Geronimo” shows us ‘Angry Birds’, ‘Fruit Ninja’, ‘Flight Control’, ‘Cut the Rope’ and ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ in real life! It must have been quite an effort and a hell of fun.
I’m sure that’ll be their breakthrough to a huge internet meme at least. And I even like the song!
Rock, Paper, Scissors 101
Nobody knows how old this game is, but probably it’s even older than Pacman or Asteroids. For some centuries. But why not play this two-person-handgame with more than three gestures? What about 101 gestures instead?
Like Sponge, Community, Noise, Laser or Computer? Over 5000 different outcomes give you only a 0,99% chance of a tie, instead of 33% in the stone age version.
I admit the game is not really easy to learn, but the interactive RPS-101-chart helps a lot and is nice to play with. Thanks to David C. Lovelace from umop.com
