I don’t know if I like the idea of worlds of snakes. They just can’t leave those slithery snakes alone. There’s like a bazillion snake-based games out there, and still people make more. And yet the games are fun. Take Atomic Worm for instance. It was a new twist on an old favorite. It was also abstracted enough that it didn’t exactly resemble traditional snake. In any case that didn’t stop Patrick Kooman from making his Snake Worlds. What else can you do with a snake type game. Eat stuff, grow, try not to run into yourself. Well he managed to take it into 3 dimensions. I don’t mean some other 3d ones that are still essentially 2d versions, but actual 6 degrees of freedom. Okay well not really. It takes place on a sphere so technically it could be said that’ it’s also essentially 2D. But at least he does it in a cool an unusual way. In the game you play the role of Snakey, the wonderful devourer of worlds intent on destroying earth! Watch as he grows when he starts eating people. Laugh as he gets ridiculously huge and looks like a giant sock with multiple legs. Cry when you realize that all of earth is gone because one little snake got too big for his britches. Naaaaaahhhhh…. Just kidding. There’s no story and no eating people, although that would be pretty cool. In actuality you’re eating “food” and I use that term loosely, as they look like dog bones or something. It’s pretty much like other snake games, except a globe instead of a flat plane, and you eat and as you eat you get longer.
Posts Tagged ‘Puzzle’
Snake worlds – Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?!?
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Crush the Castle – A catapult you say? Nay, A trebuchet!
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
The morning was cool and still as a thick fog crept over the battle fields. The only sounds that could be heard was the distant sounds of clinking armor, and of cook fires being put out by kicking sand or water buckets. “Prepare the firing line.” said Cunningham to his Bow-master. Bow-master Rowan was also his Arch-Duke Cunningham’s Sergeant-at-Arms. Rowan walked silently to the archers at the ready. The fog was starting to lift as Rowan dropped his arm with his thumb pointing downward. The line of archers dipped their arrows in small braziers which held a curiously blue flame. Rowan raised his hand as the archers raised their bows, with their blue-flamed arrows, and then just as the fog lifted he dropped his arm! There was still no sound except for the sound of hundreds of arrows being loosed into the air.
Bumps – Today’s forecast, catchy with a chance of BUMPS
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
What is the definition of bump? Well I asked Google to define it for me. A note here though, I don’t know where Google comes up with it’s definitions, I assume it’s from various dictionary sources. Or I could have just gone to a dictionary. However Google is easier because all I have to do is type define:bump in a search and it pulls it up. So Google defines the word bump as a) knock against with force or violence, b) find: come upon, as if by accident, c) dance with the pelvis thrust forward, d) a lump on the body caused by a blow, e) to demote (actually I’ve never heard it used in this context, except if someone said bump down, technically speaking bump is upward or outward so I don’t think demote really holds, I guess “you’ve been bumped” would constitute a demotion, but I don’t know, generally speaking we usually like to say the direction of the bump, ie bumped down, bumped up), f) bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from it’s surroundings, g) dislodge: remove or force froma position of dwelling previously occupied, h) blow: an impact (as from a collision). These are your main bump dictionary definitions. Well now that I’ve obviously used some space as filler, what does that have to do with today’s game? Well if you haven’t guessed already, the game is called “Bumps” by Utopian Games.