Gas Games from the Sect of Homokaasu features elegant, lovely games. Some of them are a bit hard to figure out how to even play (thanks to my husband for helping me figure out Rythm.) There are quite a few that are really fun and neat however. The graphics are minimal and zen-like, and the best of the games have a real mesmerizing feel to them. I reccommend trying them all, but my favorites are definitely:
Gravity — Try to fire an atom and not let it hit gravity sources, fun to watch the little atom swirl around the gravity bodies and cheer for it to survive.
Centrifuge — A really clever and fun game where you click to fire little balls from a whirling centrifuge. It takes some practice to actually hit the targets, but get into rapid fire mode and kill em all!
Backfire — Hard, but quite neat. Your ship sends out little bombs and you must avoid them and try to get the shield so you can take them out. Clickless play.
Constellations — How many games ask you to be as ineffiecient as possible? Connect the stars to make constellations, trying to make the links as long as possible.
If you sign up on their site, it will store your high scores. But you may have to practice enough for it to be worth it (i.e. to get on the list of high scores…some of those scores are pretty crazy).
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2 Responses:
November 29th, 2005 at 9:48 am
These games are fun, but when I play them, I always think to myself: “man, I wish these games were pluggable somehow, so you could build another game out of more than one of them”. So, like, you could have one level of Centrifuge, then some puzzles, and then a level of Gravity, etc. The amalgamated game would be more interesting to me than the sum of its parts.
December 1st, 2005 at 11:13 pm
Yeah, that would be neat. These games strike me as experiments in mechanics. It would be intersting to put them together in some greater context. How do you imagine this working?