Freeware Game Pick: MicroLand (Shoo)
MicroLand is a miniscule platformer consisting of twenty-five levels in total, and comes with a fullscreen option which is activated by pressing the F4 function key. Press the S key to jump or double jump, and tap the A key rapidly to shoot. Special abilities are only accessible once you've acquired their respective power-up items. Certain enemies can be stomped on for points. The game also provides ample save locations and an infinite number of lives. (source: The Poppenkast)
Name: MicroLand
Developer: Shoo
Category: Platformer
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB
Comments
Mediocre at best. It's only gimmicks are the size and "color".
Posted by: ASM | May 20, 2008 3:15 AM
ITS, damn it. Anyway the screenshot is actual size. Maximizing it just blows that image up - it looks blurry and loses whatever coolness it was trying to achieve.
Posted by: ASM | May 20, 2008 3:19 AM
At least it's a bit fun. Its feature set may be lacking but hey they tried right!
Posted by: Zefrem23 | May 20, 2008 12:32 PM
For my part, I actually liked it a lot. Tiny, quick, kind of fun.
Posted by: Eddy | May 21, 2008 4:25 AM
This game ran really buggily for me. Collision detection is often sloppy and off causing you to miss jumps for seemingly no reason or land inside of enemies and die to them rather than crush them.
I also found the double jump mechanism very unintuitive and hard to accomplish.
Also, like was mentioned in a comment before mine, even without these sloppy bugs, the game at its core is really mediocre at best.
Posted by: Geo T. Hermal | May 21, 2008 6:40 PM