My second mini-review is for a game called Mind Wall from the 14th Ludum Dare 48 hour compo. Okay so the goal of the mind wall is to remove one block of an advancing, floating “wall” so that the piece in the lower left corner of the screen fits through it. You know that game show where the beautiful women contort themselves into odd positions in order to fill through a human sized hole in a wall being pulled down a line towards them, usually with a pool of water at one end when they happen to fail to fit through? Yep it’s like that, except no beautiful women. Which is rather sad. But the game is rather good. As some have said it’s a bit too short. I have a feeling that if Mr. Robinson added more levels and changed it up a little he could probably sell that thing. Fun to play. You should try it!
Name: Mind Wall
Developer: Seth Robinson
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.
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.