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Ennuigi
The first game to which I will refer you today is called 'Ennuigi.' In which you wander back and forth as Luigi, smoking cigarettes and venting your existential angst. This game is worth a few minutes of your time, if for nothing else than it's fantastic ability to create a mood. Using just minimal mechanics, music, NES sprites and choice lines of text, Ennuigi is a unique gaming experience. Play in your browser. Linked from Boing Boing.
Loss
Loss is similarly minimalistic and effective, as you play a small child who has been given a balloon. There is a reasonably long accompanying background song, which I found was a perfect timer for my patience with this game. Have a look, it's fun. Linked again from Boing Boing.
That's all I've got for In-browser games at the moment. Enjoy!
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Conklederp started reading Luigi's lines like Werner Herzog and it was great and took a bit of the edge off.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I didn't like though was that the screens were randomly generated as I got stuck between two pipes/walls for five screens and thought that the world was closing in around (which at the time was cool), but then I realized they were random and became just a little annoyed.
Oh and I was able to find that screen.
omg, Werner Herzog is the perfect voice for that game! I have to play it now and read it that way. I agree with you on the screens and getting stuck by a pipe. I didn't want to give it away, but it does appear completely random. I had sort of hoped I was exploring something. Though, I guess that would go against the whole 'angsty' thing.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting way to navigate, just going left and right all the time. I wonder how that might work if it was a way to explore. It would be tough, I'm sure.